Considerations on COM(2021)230 - EU position within the Association Council established by the Agreement of 22 April 2002 establishing an Association between the EC and Algeria

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dossier COM(2021)230 - EU position within the Association Council established by the Agreement of 22 April 2002 establishing an Association between ...
document COM(2021)230 EN
date May 10, 2021
 
(1) The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement of 22 April 2002 establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States of the one part, and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, of the other part (‘the Agreement’), was concluded by the Union by Council Decision 2005/690/EC 1 of 18 July 2005 and entered into force on 1 September 2005.

(2) The Association Council is established by Article 92(1) of the Association Agreement.

(3) Pursuant to Article 100(2) of the Agreement, the Association Council may adopt a decision with a view to settling a dispute referred to it by a party to the agreement.

(4) On 24 June 2020, by note verbale the European Union referred a dispute concerning the interpretation and application of the Agreement to the Association Council.

(5) The dispute concerns several trade measures applied by Algeria since 2015, in particular, a ban on imports of cars, the adoption of additional provisional safeguard duties applicable to 992 tariff lines, the adoption of additional customs duties applicable to 129 tariff lines, the introduction of a system for the granting of import or export licences, the establishment of a compulsory nine-month deferral period for the payment of imports and other instructions concerning the contractual clauses to be applied to imports.

(6) During the consultations of 29 September 2020 and 7 December 2020, the parties began working on a draft decision of the Association Council to settle the dispute in question.

(7) It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union's behalf in the Council Association, as the planned decision will be binding on the Union.