EC/Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Stabilisation and Association Agreement: application. Codification

The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report by DUDA (ECR, PL) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part (codified text).

The parliamentary committee recommends that the European Parliament adopts its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal as adapted to the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission.

The draft proposal is accompanied by an opinion of a Consultative Working Party of the respective legal services. This stated, by common accord, that in the first paragraph of Article 7 of the draft codified text the words "as provided for in Articles 38 and 39 of the SAA" should be adapted so as to read "as provided for in Articles 37 and 38 of the SAA".

As a result, the Consultative Working Party concluded that the proposal is a straightforward codification of existing texts, without any change in their substance.