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EC/Indonesia Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation: accession of Croatia to the EU. Protocol

2014/0220(NLE)

PURPOSE: to conclude, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, the Accession Protocol to the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Indonesia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the European Union.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Decision.

ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Council may adopt the act only if Parliament has given its consent to the act. 

BACKGROUND: according to its Act of Accession, Croatia undertakes to accede to the international agreements signed or concluded by the European Union and its Member States by means of a protocol to those agreements.

The Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Indonesia, of the other part, was signed on 9 November 2009 in Jakarta and entered into force on 1 May 2014.

Following a Council Decision on the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, of the Accession Protocol to the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Indonesia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the European Union, the Protocol was signed.

It is now necessary to approve the Protocol on behalf of the Union and its Member States.

The Protocol will apply provisionally as of the date of its signature.

CONTENT: under this proposal, the Council is called upon to adopt a decision aiming to approve the Accession Protocol to the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Indonesia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the European Union.

The proposed Protocol incorporates Croatia as contracting party to the Agreement. The texts of the Agreement and the Final Act in the Croatian language are annexed to the Protocol and will become authentic under the same conditions as other language versions of the Agreement.