RECOMMENDATION No 1/2018 OF THE EU-MOROCCO ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

of 9 November 2018

approving the extension by one year of the EU-Morocco Action Plan implementing the advanced status (2013-2017) [2018/1783]

THE EU-MOROCCO ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part (1),

Whereas:

(1) The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Agreement’) entered into force on 1 March 2000.

(2) In accordance with Article 80 of the Agreement, the Association Council has the power to issue recommendations it considers necessary to attain the objectives of the Agreement.

(3) Under Article 90 of the Agreement, the parties are to take any general or specific measures necessary to fulfil their obligations under the Agreement and to ensure that the objectives set out in the Agreement are attained.

(4) Article 10 of the rules of procedure of the Association Council provides for the possibility of issuing recommendations between sessions by written procedure.

(5) The extension of the EU-Morocco Action Plan implementing the advanced status (2013-2017) will constitute the basis of EU-Morocco relations for the current year and will enable negotiations to begin in order to establish new priority thematic areas of EU-Morocco relations in the years ahead,

RECOMMENDS:

Sole Article

The Association Council, by written procedure, recommends that the EU-Morocco Action Plan implementing the advanced status (2013-2017) be extended by one year.

Done at Brussels, 9 November 2018.

For the EU-Morocco Association Council

The President

F. MOGHERINI

(1)  

OJ L 70, 18.3.2000, p. 2

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