Considerations on COM(2020)374 - EU position in the Trade Committee established under the Interim Partnership Agreement between EC & Pacific States as regard establishment Rules of Procedure of the Committee

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dossier COM(2020)374 - EU position in the Trade Committee established under the Interim Partnership Agreement between EC & Pacific States as regard ...
document COM(2020)374 EN
date December  7, 2020
 
table>(1)On 30 July 2009 the Union signed an Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part (1), (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Agreement’), which establishes a framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement. The Agreement has been provisionally applied by Papua New Guinea since 20 December 2009, Fiji since 28 July 2014, Samoa since 31 December 2018 and Solomon Islands since 17 May 2020.
(2)Article 68 of the Agreement establishes a Trade Committee (hereinafter referred to as the ‘EU-Pacific Trade Committee’) which is to deal with all matters necessary for the implementation of the Agreement.

(3)Pursuant to Article 68 of the Agreement, the EU-Pacific Trade Committee is to establish its rules of procedure and it may set up Special Committees to which it will delegate specific implementing decision-making powers as provided for in the relevant provisions of the Agreement.

(4)The EU-Pacific Trade Committee, during its eighth meeting, will adopt its rules of procedure and those of the Special Committees.

(5)The Union should determine the position to be taken within the EU Pacific Trade Committee with regard to the adoption of such rules of procedure,