Brussels, 16.7.2021

COM(2021) 317 final

ANNEX

to the

Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Association Council set up by the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, of the other part, as regards the extension of the EU-Algeria Partnership Priorities until new updated joint documents are adopted by the EU and Algeria






ANNEX

DECISION No xx/2021 OF THE EU-Algeria ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

of [dd/mm/yyy]

agreeing on the extension of the EU-Algeria Partnership Priorities

THE EU-ALGERIA ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Algeria, of the other part ("the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement"),

Whereas:

(1)The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, of the other part, was signed on 22 April 2002 and entered into force on 1 September 2005 1 .

(2)Article 94 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement gives the Association Council the power to take appropriate decisions for the purpose of attaining the objectives of the Agreement.

(3)By Decision No. 1/2017 of the Association Council of 13 March 2017, the EU and Algeria have agreed on Partnership Priorities to guide the partnership for the period 2016-20. 

(4)In an exchange of letters, both parties agreed on the continued validity of the EU-Algeria Partnership Priorities as a guiding document to consolidate the partnership pending the adoption of new updated Partnership Priorities.

(5)Article 10 of the Rules of Procedures of the Association Council provides for the possibility of taking decisions by written procedure between sessions, if the Parties so agree;

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Association Council, acting by written procedure, decides that the EU-Algeria Partnership Priorities annexed to its Decision No. 1/2017 of 13 March 2017, are extended until new updated joint documents are adopted by the EU and Algeria.

Article 2

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

Done at xx, [day month year].

   For the Association Council

(1)    Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, of the other part; OJ L 265, 10.10.2005, p. 2–228