Decision 2022/568 - EU position within the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation established by the Economic Partnership Agreement with the SADC EPA States as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation

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Current status

This decision has been published on December  1, -1 and entered into force on April  4, 2022.

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Key information

official title

Council Decision (EU) 2022/568 of 4 April 2022 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation established by the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation
 
Legal instrument Decision
Number legal act Decision 2022/568
Regdoc number ST(2022)7222
Original proposal COM(2021)637 EN
CELEX number i 32022D0568

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Key dates

Document 04-04-2022; Date of adoption
Publication in Official Journal 01-12--1; OJ L 109, p. 52–57
Effect 04-04-2022; Entry into force Date of document See Art 2
End of validity 31-12-9999

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Legislative text

8.4.2022   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 109/52

 

COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2022/568

of 4 April 2022

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation established by the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207(4), first subparagraph, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

 

(1)

The Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part (1) (‘the Agreement’) was signed by the Union and its Member States on 10 June 2016. It is provisionally applied between the Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini and South Africa, of the other part, from 10 October 2016, and between the Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Mozambique, of the other part, from 4 February 2018.

 

(2)

The Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation was established by Article 50(1) of the Agreement.

 

(3)

Pursuant to Article 50(2), point (f), of the Agreement, the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation is to determine its own rules of procedure.

 

(4)

It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation, as the decision on the adoption of its rules of procedure will have legal effects on the Union.

 

(5)

The position of the Union within the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation as regards the adoption of its rules of procedure should be based on the draft Decision of that committee attached to this Decision,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation, established by Article 50 of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of its rules of procedure shall be based on the draft Decision of that committee attached to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Done at Luxembourg, 4 April 2022.

For the Council

The President

  • R. 
    BACHELOT-NARQUIN
 

 

Draft

DECISION No [...] OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS AND TRADE FACILITATION

of …

regarding its Rules of Procedure

THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS AND TRADE FACILITATION,

Having regard to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part (‘the Agreement’), signed in Kasane on 10 June 2016, and in particular Article 50(2)(f) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

The Rules of Procedure of the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation are established as set out in the Annex.

This Decision shall enter into force on...

Done at ...

 

ANNEX

RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS AND TRADE FACILITATION

CHAPTER I

Organisation

Article 1

Composition and Chair

  • 1. 
    The Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation established in accordance with Article 50 of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the SADC EPA States, of the other part (‘the...

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