DECISION No 2/2012 OF THE EU-KOREA COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

of 27 June 2012

on the establishment of a Panel of Experts referred to in Article 13.15 of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part

(2012/742/EU)

THE COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

Having regard to the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part, signed in Brussels on 6 October 2010 (‘the Parties’ and ‘the Agreement’), and in particular Article 13.15 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) A Party may request that a Panel of Experts be convened to examine a matter that has not been satisfactorily addressed through government consultations.

(2) The implementation of the recommendations of the Panel of Experts shall be monitored by the Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development.

(3) The Parties have developed a list of 18 names, as specified in the Annex.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The list of experts who may serve as panellists for the purposes of Article 13.15 of the Agreement is set out in the Annex to this Decision, and is hereby agreed.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption and shall be reported to the Korea-EU Trade Committee.

Done at Brussels, 27 June 2012.

For the Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development

Co-chair of the Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Korea

Kyungduck AN

Sanghoon KIM

Co-chair of the Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development of the European Union

Peter THOMPSON

ANNEX

LIST OF EXPERTS

Experts proposed by Korea

Kee-whahn CHAH

Young Gil CHO

Weon Jung KIM

Suh-Yong CHUNG

Taek-Whan HAN

Won-Mog CHOI

Experts proposed by the EU

Eddy LAURIJSSEN

Jorge CARDONA

Karin LUKAS

Hélène RUIZ FABRI

Laurence BOISSON DE CHAZOURNES

Geert VAN CALSTER

Chairpersons

Thomas P. PINANSKY

Nguyen Van TAI

Le HA THANH

Jill MURRAY

Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ

Nathalie BERNASCONI-OSTERWALDER