COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2022/1994

of 17 October 2022

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications established by the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Armenia, of the other part, as regards the adoption of its rules of procedure

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207(4), first subparagraph, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1) The Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Armenia, of the other part (1) (the ‘Agreement’) was concluded by the Union by means of Council Decision (EU) 2018/104 (2), applied provisionally from 1 June 2018 and entered into force on 1 March 2021.

(2) Pursuant to Article 240(2) of the Agreement, the Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications (the ‘Sub-Committee’) is to determine its own rules of procedure.

(3) It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the Sub-Committee, as regards its rules of procedure, as those rules will be binding on the Union.

(4) In order to ensure the effective implementation of the Agreement, the rules of procedure of the Sub-Committee should be adopted.

(5) The position of the Union within the Sub-Committee should therefore be based on the draft Decision of that Sub-Committee attached to this Decision,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications as regards the adoption of its rules of procedure shall be based on the draft Decision of that Sub-Committee attached to this Decision.

Article 2

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

Done at Luxembourg, 17 October 2022.

For the Council

The President

J. BORRELL FONTELLES

(1)  

OJ L 23, 26.1.2018, p. 4

.

(2)  Council Decision (EU) 2018/104 of 20 November 2017 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Armenia, of the other part (

OJ L 23, 26.1.2018, p. 1

).