Considerations on COM(2023)701 - EU position in the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community (Vienna, Austria, 14 December 2023)

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table>(1)The Energy Community Treaty was concluded by the Union by means of Council Decision 2006/500/EC (1) and entered into force on 1 July 2006.
(2)Pursuant to Article 47 of the Energy Community Treaty, the Ministerial Council is to take Measures, which, pursuant to Article 76 of that Treaty, may take the form of a Decision or of a Recommendation.

(3)The Ministerial Council, during its 21st session on 14 December 2023, will adopt a number of acts, attached to this Decision, which fall under the scope of Article 218(9) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and on which representatives of the Union will vote.

(4)The purpose of the envisaged acts is to facilitate the achievement of the objectives of the Energy Community Treaty.

(5)It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union's behalf in the Ministerial Council regarding the acts attached to this Decision, as those acts will have legal effects for the Union,