Decision 2023/940 - EU position in the Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation established by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the United Kingdom as regards the establishment of a standard form for requests for mutual assistance referred to in Article 635(1) of that Agreement

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This decision has been published on May 11, 2023 and entered into force on May  4, 2023.

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Council Decision (EU) 2023/940 of 4 May 2023 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation established by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, as regards the establishment of a standard form for requests for mutual assistance referred to in Article 635(1) of that Agreement
 
Legal instrument Decision
Number legal act Decision 2023/940
Regdoc number ST(2023)7745
Original proposal COM(2023)56 EN
CELEX number i 32023D0940

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Key dates

Document 04-05-2023; Date of adoption
Publication in Official Journal 11-05-2023; OJ L 125 p. 23-36
Effect 04-05-2023; Entry into force Date of document See Art 2
End of validity 31-12-9999

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11.5.2023   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 125/23

 

COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2023/940

of 4 May 2023

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation established by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, as regards the establishment of a standard form for requests for mutual assistance referred to in Article 635(1) of that Agreement

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 82(1), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision (EU) 2021/689 of 29 April 2021 on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, and of the Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning security procedures for exchanging and protecting classified information (1),

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

 

(1)

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (2) (‘the Trade and Cooperation Agreement’), was concluded by means of Decision (EU) 2021/689.

 

(2)

Title VIII of Part Three of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement supplements the provisions, and facilitates the application between Member States, on the one side, and the United Kingdom, on the other side, of the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, done at Strasbourg on 20 April 1959, the Additional Protocol to the European Mutual Assistance Convention, done at Strasbourg on 17 March 1978, and the Second Additional Protocol to the European Mutual Assistance Convention, done at Strasbourg on 8 November 2001.

 

(3)

Directive 2014/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters and the Council Act of 29 May 2000 establishing the Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Member States of the European Union (4) apply in accordance with the Treaties.

 

(4)

Pursuant to Article 635(1) of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation is to undertake to establish a standard form for requests for mutual assistance by adopting an annex to that Agreement. In accordance with Article 635(2) of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, if the Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation adopts a decision establishing such a standard form, requests for mutual assistance are to be made using that standard form.

 

(5)

The standard form for requests for mutual assistance will facilitate mutual assistance between competent authorities in the Member States, on the one side, and the United Kingdom, on the other side, by indicating all the necessary information a request for mutual assistance should contain.

 

(6)

It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation.

 

(7)

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is binding on all the Member States by virtue of Decision (EU) 2021/689, which is based on Article 217 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as its substantive legal basis.

 

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