Considerations on COM(2023)379 - Conclusion of a Protocol on a Framework Agreement with Egypt on the participation of Egypt in Union programmes

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dossier COM(2023)379 - Conclusion of a Protocol on a Framework Agreement with Egypt on the participation of Egypt in Union programmes.
document COM(2023)379
date July  6, 2023
 
(1) The Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part, on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Arab Republic of Egypt on the general principles for the participation of the Arab Republic of Egypt 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 Arab Republic of Egypt to participate in certain EU programmes. The horizontal framework established by the Protocol sets out principles for economic, financial and technical cooperation measures and allows the Arab Republic of Egypt to receive assistance, in particular financial assistance, from the European Union pursuant to the programmes.

(3) The framework set up by this Protocol applies only to those programmes for which the relevant constitutive legal acts provide for the possibility of the participation of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The signing and provisional application of the Protocol does not therefore entail the exercise of powers under the various sectoral policies, which are exercised when establishing the programmes.

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