Considerations on COM(2024)239 - EU position within the Partnership Committee established by the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement with Armenia regarding the adoption of the Mediation Mechanism, Rules of Procedure and Code of Conduct for dispute settlement procedures on trade and trade related matters

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dossier COM(2024)239 - EU position within the Partnership Committee established by the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement with ...
document COM(2024)239
date September 23, 2024
 
(1) The Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Armenia, of the other part2 (‘the Agreement’), has been provisionally applied since 1 June 2018 and entered into force on 1 March 2021.

(2) Articles 319(3) and 335(2) of the Agreement require the Partnership Committee, meeting in trade configuration as set out in Article 363(7) of the Agreement, to adopt at its first meeting after the entry into force of the Agreement the Mediation Mechanism, the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct for the dispute settlement procedures under Chapter 13 of Title VI of the Agreement.

(3) The Mediation Mechanism, the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct have not been adopted since the first meeting of the Partnership Committee on 25 September 2018.

(4) A revised draft proposal of the Mediation Mechanism, the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct for dispute settlement has been prepared between the Parties and should be adopted by the Partnership Committee.

(5) It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union's behalf in the Partnership Committee regarding the adoption of the Mediation Mechanism, the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct to dispute settlement.

(6) The Mediation Mechanism, the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct complement the Agreement and should be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.