Considerations on COM(2010)647 - EU position on the adaptation of Annex 3 to the Agreement with Switzerland on trade in agricultural products

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dossier COM(2010)647 - EU position on the adaptation of Annex 3 to the Agreement with Switzerland on trade in agricultural products.
document COM(2010)647 EN
date January 18, 2011
 
table>(1)The Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (1) (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’) entered into force on 1 June 2002.
(2)Article 6 of the Agreement sets up a Joint Committee on Agriculture to be responsible for the administration of the Agreement and to ensure its proper functioning.

(3)Article 11 of the Agreement provides that the Joint Committee on Agriculture may decide to amend Annexes to the Agreement.

(4)In order to take into account the full liberalisation in bilateral trade in cheeses, with effect from 1 June 2007 and the protection of geographical indications, to be provided for in a new Annex 12 to the Agreement, which calls for consistency in the specifications in particular those of cheeses, the necessary adaptations of Annex 3 to the Agreement should be made.

(5)The first subparagraph of Article 5(2) of Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of the Council and of the Commission as regards the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, of 4 April 2002 on the conclusion of seven Agreements with the Swiss Confederation (2) provides that the European Union position within the Joint Committee on Agriculture shall be adopted by the Council on a proposal from the Commission.

(6)The Union should therefore take the position set out in the attached draft Decision within the Joint Committee on Agriculture,