22001D0206(01)

Decision No 1/2001 of the EU-Romania Association Council

of 4 January 2001

extending the double-checking system established by Decision No 3/97 of the Association Council for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2001

(2001/92/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Whereas:

(1) The contact group referred to in Article 11 of Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 February 1995, met on 22 September 2000 and agreed to recommend to the Association Council established under Article 106 of the Agreement that the double-checking system introduced in 1998 by Decision No 3/97 of the Association Council(1), as last extended for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2000 by Decision No 1/2000(2) thereof, should be extended for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2001.

(2) The Association Council, having been supplied with all relevant information, has agreed with this recommendation,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The double-checking system established by Decision No 3/97 shall continue to apply for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2001. In the preamble and Article 1(1) and (3) of the Decision, references to the period 1 January to 31 December 2000 shall be replaced by references to 1 January to 31 December 2001.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

It shall apply with effect from 1 January 2001.

Done at Brussels, 4 January 2001.

For the Association Council

The President

A. Lindh

(1) OJ L 13, 19.1.1998, p. 57.

(2) OJ L 67, 15.3.2000, p. 35.