Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion on behalf of the European Union and its Member States of the Additional Protocol to the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the European Union

On 24 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with Colombia and Peru in order to conclude an Additional Protocol to the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the European Union ("the Protocol"). This negotiation process was successfully completed on 22 July 2014.

The Commission proposes that the Council adopts two decisions:
(a) on the signature and provisional application of the Protocol on behalf of the European Union and its Member States; and
(b) on the conclusion of the Protocol on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.

The attached proposal is for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol. A parallel decision is proposed for the signature and the provisional application of the Protocol on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)503: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:503:FIN

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)504: Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, and provisional application of the Additional Protocol to the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the European Union http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2014:504:FIN

ESO: Background information: Relations between Peru and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-peru-and-the-european-union/

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