Explanatory Memorandum to COM(2012)463 - EU position on the establishment and adoption of the rules of procedures of the Committee on Cultural Cooperation set up by the Free Trade Agreement with Korea

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dossier COM(2012)463 - EU position on the establishment and adoption of the rules of procedures of the Committee on Cultural Cooperation set up by ...
source COM(2012)463 EN
date 23-08-2012
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 (hereinafter referred to as 'Agreement') was signed on 6 October 2010, and it is provisionally applied as of 1 July 2011.

Article 3 of the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation ("the Protocol") foresees the creation of a Committee on Cultural Cooperation ("the Committee") and sets out the Committee's main tasks and functions. In the light of the need to swiftly initiate the implementation of the Protocol, the Committee is to be created and its Rules of Procedure are to be adopted at the Committee's first meeting. In accordance with Article 3.2 of the Protocol, the first such meeting shall take place within the first year of application of the Protocol.

The attached proposal constitutes the proposal for a legal instrument approving the position that the European Union will be taking in the Committee on the above mentioned issue.