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Decision No 1/2017 of the EU-Ukraine Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee of 30 May 2017 adopting its Rules of Procedure [2018/235]

OJ L 45, 17.2.2018, p. 44–45 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2018/235/oj

17.2.2018   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 45/44


DECISION No 1/2017 OF THE EU-UKRAINE TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUB-COMMITTEE

of 30 May 2017

adopting its Rules of Procedure [2018/235]

THE EU-UKRAINE TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUB-COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (1), and in particular Article 300 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

In accordance with Article 486 of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (‘the Agreement’), parts of the Agreement, including Chapter 13 (Trade and sustainable development) of Title IV (Trade and trade-related matters), are applied provisionally as of 1 January 2016.

(2)

Article 300 of the Agreement provides that the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee (‘the TSD Sub-Committee’) is to oversee the implementation of Chapter 13 of Title IV of the Agreement.

(3)

Article 300(1) of the Agreement provides that the TSD Sub-Committee is to establish its own rules of procedure,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Rules of Procedure of the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee, as set out in the Annex to this Decision, are hereby adopted.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 30 May 2017.

For the EU-Ukraine Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee

The Chair

M. TUININGA

Secretaries

M. VADIS

D. KRAMER


(1)  OJ L 161, 29.5.2014, p. 3.


ANNEX

Rules of Procedure of the EU-Ukraine Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee

Article 1

General provisions

1.   The Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee (‘the TSD Sub-Committee’), established pursuant to Article 300 of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (1) (‘the Agreement’), shall assist the Association Committee in its Trade configuration, as referred to in Article 465(4) of the Agreement, in the performance of its duties.

2.   The TSD Sub-Committee shall perform the functions set out in Chapter 13 (Trade and sustainable development) of Title IV (Trade and trade-related matters) of the Agreement.

3.   The TSD Sub-Committee shall be composed of representatives from within the administration of each Party, responsible for trade and sustainable development matters.

4.   A representative of the European Commission or of Ukraine responsible for trade and sustainable development matters shall act as Chair of the TSD Sub-Committee.

5.   For the purposes of these Rules of Procedure, the definition of the term ‘Parties’ set out in Article 482 of the Agreement applies.

Article 2

Specific provisions

1.   Articles 2 to 14 of the Rules of Procedure of the EU-Ukraine Association Committee shall apply mutatis mutandis, unless otherwise provided for in these Rules of Procedure.

2.   The references to the Association Council shall be read as references to the Association Committee in its Trade configuration. The references to the Association Committee or the Association Committee in its Trade configuration shall be read as references to the TSD Sub-Committee.

Article 3

Meetings

The TSD Sub-Committee shall meet as necessary. The Parties shall aim to meet once per year.

Article 4

Amendment

These Rules of Procedure may be amended by a decision of the TSD Sub-Committee in accordance with Article 300(1) of the Agreement.


(1)  OJ L 161, 29.5.2014, p. 3.


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