Legal provisions of COM(2020)743 - Negotiations for Agreements with various third States on cooperation between Eurojust & the competent authorities for judicial cooperation in criminal matters of those States

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Article 1

(1) The Commission is hereby authorised to open negotiations for Agreements between the European Union and Algeria, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey on cooperation between the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) and the competent authorities for judicial cooperation in criminal matters of those third States.

(2) The negotiations shall be conducted on the basis of the negotiation directives of the Council set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

The Commission is hereby nominated as the Union negotiator.

Article 3

The negotiations shall be conducted in consultation with the relevant Council Working Party and in accordance with the directives contained in the Annex, subject to any directives which the Council may subsequently issue to the Commission.

The Commission shall regularly report to the Council Working Party on the progress of the negotiations and shall forward all negotiating documents to it without delay.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Commission.