RECOMMENDATION No 1/2013 OF THE EU-MOROCCO ASSOCATION COUNCIL

of 16 December 2013

on the implementation of the EU-Morocco ENP Action Plan implementing the advanced status (2013-2017)

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, and in particular Article 80 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Article 80 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement gives the Association Council the power to make appropriate recommendations for the purpose of attaining the objectives of the Agreement.

(2) Pursuant to Article 90 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement, the Parties are to take any general or specific measures required to fulfil their obligations under the Agreement and are to see to it that the objectives set out in the Agreement are attained.

(3) The Parties to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement have agreed on the text of the EU-Morocco European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Action Plan implementing the advanced status (2013-2017).

(4) The EU-Morocco ENP Action Plan will support the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement through the formulation and adoption, by agreement between the Parties, of specific measures which will provide practical guidance for the implementation of the Agreement.

(5) The EU-Morocco ENP Action Plan serves the dual purpose of setting out specific measures for the fulfilment of the Parties' obligations set out in the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement, and of providing a broader framework for further strengthening EU-Morocco relations to achieve a significant measure of economic integration and to deepen political cooperation, in accordance with the overall objectives of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement,

HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATION:

Sole Article

The Association Council recommends that the Parties implement the EU-Morocco ENP Action Plan implementing the advanced status (2013-2017)(1), in so far as implementation is directed towards attainment of the objectives of 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.

Done at Brussels, 16 December 2013.

For the Association Council

The President

S. MEZOUAR

(1)  See document ST 17584/13 on http://register.consilium.europa.eu