Considerations on COM(2019)362 - Signing and provisional application of a Protocol to the Association Agreement with the Palestinian Authority on a Framework Agreement on participation in Union programmes

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dossier COM(2019)362 - Signing and provisional application of a Protocol to the Association Agreement with the Palestinian Authority on a Framework ...
document COM(2019)362 EN
date October 24, 2019
 
table>(1)On 18 June 2007 the Council authorised the Commission to negotiate a 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’).
(2)The negotiations have been concluded.

(3)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 (‘the Palestinian Authority’) to participate in certain Union programmes. The horizontal framework established by the Protocol sets out principles for economic, financial and technical cooperation measures and allows the Palestinian Authority to receive technical assistance, in particular financial assistance, from the Union under those programmes. The framework applies only to those Union programmes for which the relevant constitutive legal acts provide for the possibility of the participation of the Palestinian Authority. The signing and provisional application of the Protocol therefore does not entail the exercise of powers, under the various sectoral policies pursued by the programmes, which are exercised when establishing the programmes.

(4)The Protocol should be signed and applied on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its entry into force,