Considerations on COM(2012)288 - Extension of the period of application of the appropriate measures laid down for Guinea by Decision 2011/465/EU and amending that Decision

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dossier COM(2012)288 - Extension of the period of application of the appropriate measures laid down for Guinea by Decision 2011/465/EU and amending ...
document COM(2012)288 EN
date July 16, 2012
 
table>(1)Council Decision 2011/465/EU (4) lays down appropriate measures for the Republic of Guinea under Article 96 of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement.
(2)Decision 2011/465/EU requires that two benchmarks be achieved before cooperation with the Republic of Guinea under the 10th European Development Fund can be resumed; namely that a detailed timetable including preliminary dates and stages/preparatory operations be drawn up and adopted by the competent authorities for the holding of parliamentary elections by the end of 2011, and that free and transparent parliamentary elections be held.

(3)To date, neither of these benchmarks has been met.

(4)It is therefore necessary to extend the period of application of the appropriate measures laid down in Decision 2011/465/EU and to extend the time-limit set in those measures for the holding of parliamentary elections in the Republic of Guinea until the end of 2012,