Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing and provisional application of the Third Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and Chile

The Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, on the one hand, and the Republic of Chile, on the other, was signed on 18 November 2002 in Brussels and entered into force on 1 March 2005. The attached proposal constitutes the legal instrument for the signing and provisional application of the Third Additional Protocol to the Agreement, to take account of Croatia’s accession to the European Union.

Under its Act of Accession, Croatia undertakes to accede to the international agreements signed or concluded by the EU and its Member States through protocols to those agreements. Council Decision of 14 September 2012 authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the third countries concerned in order to conclude the relevant protocols. The negotiations with Chile were successfully concluded by the initialling of the Protocol on 9 July 2015.

The Commission considers the outcome of the negotiations satisfactory and requests the Council to authorise the signing of the Protocol, on behalf of the EU and its Member States, and its provisional application.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2017)89: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:089:FIN

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)95: Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, of the Third Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2017:095:FIN

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