Considerations on COM(2014)201 - Conclusion of a Protocol on a Framework Agreement with Lebanon on the participation of Lebanon in Union programmes

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dossier COM(2014)201 - Conclusion of a Protocol on a Framework Agreement with Lebanon on the participation of Lebanon in Union programmes.
document COM(2014)201 EN
date July 18, 2016
 
table>(1)In accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2015/268 (2), the Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Lebanon, of the other part (3), on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Lebanon on the general principles for the participation of the Republic of Lebanon in Union programmes (‘the Protocol’) was signed on behalf of the Union on 9 February 2015.
(2)The objective of the Protocol is to lay down the financial and technical rules enabling the Republic of Lebanon to participate in certain Union programmes. The horizontal framework established by the Protocol sets out principles for economic, financial and technical cooperation and allows the Republic of Lebanon to receive assistance, in particular financial assistance, from the Union pursuant to those programmes. That framework applies only to those Union programmes for which the relevant constitutive legal acts provide for the possibility of the participation of the Republic of Lebanon. The conclusion of the Protocol does not therefore entail the exercise of powers under the various sectoral policies pursued by the programmes, which are exercised when establishing the programmes.

(3)The Protocol should be approved on behalf of the Union,