Considerations on COM(2021)157 - Signing and provisional application of the Agreement on Air Transport with Qatar

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dossier COM(2021)157 - Signing and provisional application of the Agreement on Air Transport with Qatar.
document COM(2021)157 EN
date June 28, 2021
 
table>(1)On 7 June 2016 the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the State of Qatar for an agreement on air transport. The negotiations were successfully concluded with the initialling of the Agreement on air transport between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the State of Qatar, of the other part (‘the Agreement’) on 4 March 2019.
(2)The signing of the Agreement on behalf of the Union and its provisional application do not affect the allocation of competences between the Union and its Member States. This Decision should not be interpreted as making use of the possibility for the Union to exercise its external competence with regard to areas covered by the Agreement falling within shared competence to the extent that such competence has not yet been exercised internally by the Union.

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