Annexes to COM(2023)791 - Conclusion of the Partnership Agreement with the Members of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

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dossier COM(2023)791 - Conclusion of the Partnership Agreement with the Members of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
document COM(2023)791
date December 19, 2023
agreements are only translated in Irish from 1 January 2022.

2The negotiating directives build on prior evaluations, impact assessment, communication and recommendation:

o Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on a Partnership Agreement between the European Union and countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States. COM (2017) 763 final.

o JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL. A renewed partnership with the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. JOIN 2016 (52) final.

o JOINT STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT. Evaluation of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. SWD (2016) 250 final.

o JOINT STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT accompanying the document JOINT COMMUNICATION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL A renewed partnership with the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. SWD (2016) 380 final. JOIN (2016) 52 final. SWD (2016) 381 final.

o JOINT CONSULTATION PAPER Towards a new partnership between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries after 2020. JOIN (2015) 33 final.

3Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy

4European Consensus on Development

5European Green Deal

6New Pact on Migration and Asylum

7Council Decision authorising the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to open negotiations on, and to negotiate, on behalf of the European Union, the provisions that fall within the competence of the Union, of a Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the other part, ST 9426 2018 INIT.

8Decision of the representatives of the governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council authorising the European Commission to negotiate, on behalf of the Member States, the provisions that fall within the competences of the Member States, of a Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the other part, ST 9426 2018 INIT.

9Council Decision [as set out in Council document 8371/23 DCL 1] of 20 July 2023 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Partnership Agreement between the European Union, of the one part, and the members of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific (OACPS) States, of the other part.

10Council Decision [as set out in Council document 8371/23 DCL 1] of 20 July 2023 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Partnership Agreement between the European Union, of the one part, and the members of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific (OACPS) States, of the other part.

11The date of entry into force of the Agreement will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the General Secretariat of the Council.

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