Considerations on COM(2019)361 - Conclusion of a Protocol to the Association Agreement with the Palestinian Authority on a Framework Agreement on the general principles for participation in Union programmes

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dossier COM(2019)361 - Conclusion of a Protocol to the Association Agreement with the Palestinian Authority on a Framework Agreement on the general ...
document COM(2019)361 EN
date January 16, 2024
 
(1) The Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Interim Association Agreement on trade and cooperation between the European Community, of the one part, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, of the other part, on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on the general principles for its participation in Union programmes (‘the Protocol’) was signed on behalf of the Union on …

(2) The objective of the Protocol is to lay down the financial and technical rules enabling the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to participate in certain EU programmes. The horizontal framework established by the Protocol sets out principles for economic, financial and technical cooperation measure and allows the Palestinian Authority to receive technical assistance, in particular financial assistance, from the European Union pursuant to the programmes. This framework applies only to these Union programmes for which the relevant constitutive legal acts provide for the possibility of the participation of the Palestinian Authority. The conclusion of the Protocol does not therefore entail the exercise of powers under the various sectoral policies pursued by the programmes, which are exercised when establishing the programmes.

(3) The Protocol should be approved on behalf of the Union.