Activites

• 2009/06/23 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2009/484
  • OJ L 160 23.06.2009, p. 0009
• #2936
• 2009/04/06 Council Meeting
• 2009/04/06 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2009/04/06 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2009/03/10 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0084/2009 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 643 votes to 7, with 10 abstention, a legislative resolution and gave its assent to the conclusion of the additional protocol to the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union.

• 2009/02/24 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0073/2009
• 2009/02/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2009/01/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2008/12/15 Legislative proposal published
  • 16447/2008 summary

    This proposal concerns the final act of the draft Council Decision concerning the conclusion of the additional protocol to the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union.The content of the Agreement has not been amended. It is in line with that of the Commission’s initial proposal (please refer to the previous initial proposal of 17/11/2008).The final Agreement can be found in Council document 13038/07 of 02/10/2007.

  • DG Development, MICHEL Louis
• 2008/11/17 Initial legislative proposal published
  • COM(2008)0749 summary

    PURPOSE: to conclude the additional protocol to the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the EC and its Member States, and South Africa, to take account of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. PROPOSED ACT: Council Decision.CONTENT: Bulgaria and Romania acceded to the EU on 1 January 2007. Under the Act of Accession, the accession of new Member States to the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation (TDCA) with South Africa must be approved by concluding a protocol to that Agreement. Article 6(2) provides for a simplified procedure whereby such protocols are to be concluded by the Council, acting unanimously on behalf of the Member States, and the third country concerned. This procedure is without prejudice to the European Community’s own competences.Consequently, the Commission has negotiated this Additional Protocol, for the EC part on behalf of the European Community, and for the national competence part on behalf of the Member States, on the basis of the negotiating directives adopted by the Council on 23 October 2006, and in consultation with a committee of representatives of the Member States.The Additional Protocol provides for the necessary technical adaptations of the TDCA ensuing from the accession of the new contracting parties, in particular regarding:institutional provisions: the protocol includes a number of adjustments brought about by the accession of the new Member States to this mixed agreement and an increase in the number of official languages;rules of origin: the multilingual provisions in Protocol 1 to the TDCA concerning the definition of the concept of “originating products” and methods of administrative cooperation have been amended to include the languages of the new Member States.The TDCA provides for trade liberalisation between the European Community and South Africa , which in some cases is limited to tariff quotas. These tariff quotas have been reviewed on the basis of traditional trade between the new Member States, on the one hand, and South Africa, on the other. Trade flows were found to be insignificant and no adjustments to the tariff quotas were required.On 9 October 2007 the Council adopted a decision on the signing and provisional application of the protocol. This proposal is for a Council Decision concluding the protocol.

  • DG Development, MICHEL Louis

Documents

• Initial legislative proposal published: COM(2008)0749
• Legislative proposal published: 16447/2008
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0073/2009
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0084/2009
• : Decision 2009/484
• : OJ L 160 23.06.2009, p. 0009

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)