Considerations on COM(2015)182 - Approval of the conclusion on behalf of Euratom of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with of Kosovo

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dossier COM(2015)182 - Approval of the conclusion on behalf of Euratom of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with of Kosovo.
document COM(2015)182 EN
date October 22, 2015
 
table>(1)On 21 June 2013 the Council authorised the European Commission to open negotiations with Kosovo for a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (‘the Agreement’). The negotiations were successfully concluded by the initialling of the Agreement on 25 July 2014.
(2)The Agreement also covers matters falling under competences of the European Atomic Energy Community (the ‘Community’).

(3)The Agreement should therefore also be concluded on behalf of the Community as regards matters falling under the Euratom Treaty.

(4)The signing and conclusion of the Agreement is subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling under the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

(5)The Agreement is without prejudice to Member States' position on the status of Kosovo, which will be decided in accordance with their national practice and international law.

(6)In addition, none of the terms, wording or definitions used in this Decision and the text of the Agreement, nor any recourse to the necessary legal base for the conclusion of the Agreement, constitute recognition of Kosovo by the Community as an independent State nor does it constitute recognition by individual Member States of Kosovo in that capacity where they have not taken such a step.

(7)The conclusion by the Commission, acting on behalf of the Community, of the Agreement should therefore be approved as regards matters falling within the competence of the Community,