(1)

On 25 June 2012, the Council authorised the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to open negotiations with New Zealand on a Framework Agreement to replace the Joint Declaration on relations and cooperation between the European Union and New Zealand of 21 September 2007.

(2)

The negotiations on the Partnership Agreement on Relations and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and New Zealand, of the other part (the ‘Agreement’) were successfully concluded on 30 July 2014. The Agreement reflects both the historically close relationship and increasingly strong links developing between the Parties, and their desire to further strengthen and extend their relations in an ambitious and innovative way.

(3)

Article 58 of the Agreement provides that the Union and New Zealand may apply provisionally certain provisions of the Agreement, determined mutually by the two Parties, pending its entry into force.

(4)

The Agreement should therefore be signed on behalf of the Union and some of its provisions should be applied on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion,

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Article 3 (Dialogue),

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Article 4 (Cooperation in regional and international organisations),

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Article 5 (Political dialogue),

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Article 53 (Joint Committee), with the exception of points (g) and (h) of paragraph 3 thereof, and

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Title X (Final provisions), with the exception of Article 57 and Article 58(1) and (3), to the extent necessary for the purpose of ensuring the provisional application of the provisions of the Agreement referred to in this Article.

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in Annex XVI, Part A thereto.

(2)

The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,

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the Union's budget for the financial year 2016 was definitively adopted on 25 November 2015 (2),

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on 30 September 2016, the Commission submitted a proposal containing draft amending budget No 4 to the general budget for the financial year 2016,

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so as to be able to cover urgent funding needs related to migration and security, draft amending budget No 4 to the general budget for 2016 needs to be adopted without delay. Therefore, it is justified to shorten, in accordance with Article 3(3) of the Council's Rules of Procedure, the 8-week period for the information of national Parliaments laid down in Article 4 of Protocol No 1,

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the Union's budget for the financial year 2016 was definitively adopted on 25 November 2015 (2),

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on 7 October 2016, the Commission submitted a proposal containing draft amending budget No 5 to the general budget for the financial year 2016,

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for needs related to national Treasury management, draft amending budget No 5 to the general budget for 2016 needs to be adopted without delay. Therefore, it is justified to shorten, in accordance with Article 3(3) of the Council's Rules of Procedure, the 8-week period for the information of national Parliaments laid down in Article 4 of Protocol No 1,

(1)

On 28 April 2016, in pursuing its price stability mandate and to further ease private sector credit conditions and stimulate credit creation, the Governing Council adopted Decision (EU) 2016/810 of the European Central Bank (ECB/2016/10) (1). This Decision sets out the details for a series of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs-II) to be conducted from June 2016 to March 2017 on a quarterly basis.

(2)

In order to address an inconsistency between the deadline for lead institutions to apply for changes to TLTRO-II group composition as indicated in the indicative calendar for TLTROs-II published on the ECB's website and the period mentioned in Article 3(7)(a) of Decision (EU) 2016/810 (ECB/2016/10), the Governing Council has decided that if changes to the composition of a TLTRO-II group are accepted in accordance with Article 3(5) of Decision (EU) 2016/810 (ECB/2016/10) or take place in accordance with Article 3(6)(b) or (c) of that Decision, the lead institution may participate in a TLTRO-II on the basis of the new composition of its TLTRO-II group after it has obtained confirmation from its national central bank (NCB) that the new composition of the TLTRO-II group has been recognised.

(3)

Therefore, Decision (EU) 2016/810 (ECB/2016/10) should be amended accordingly,

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in Article 3(6)(b), point (i) is replaced by the following:

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in Article 3(7), point (a) is replaced by the following:

(1)

The Executive Board is competent to take all decisions relating to a manufacturer's accreditation under Articles 6, 16 to 18 and 20 of Decision ECB/2013/54 and to sub-delegate the powers to grant a provisional accreditation under Article 6 of that Decision to one or more of its members.

(2)

To further streamline the accreditation procedure, the powers to grant a provisional accreditation should be sub-delegated to the member of the Executive Board to whom the Directorate Banknotes reports.

(3)

To safeguard the Executive Board's collective responsibility, the member of the Executive Board to whom the sub-delegation is granted should provide an annual report on accreditation decisions to the Executive Board unless no accreditations have been granted.

(4)

Decision ECB/2012/15 (2) refers to competences attributed to the Executive Board in accordance with Article 2(3) of Decision ECB/2011/8 (3) and with Article 2(4) of Decision ECB/2010/22 (4). Both Decision ECB/2011/8 and Decision ECB/2010/22 were repealed by Decision ECB/2013/54. In the interests of clarity, Decision ECB/2012/15 should also be repealed.

(5)

Given the need to organise the accreditation procedure efficiently and in view of pending urgent requests for accreditation, the sub-delegation should be effected as soon as possible and enter into force on the day after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,