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Council Decision (EU) 2022/1158 of 27 June 2022 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by roadLegal instrument | Decision |
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Number legal act | Decision 2022/1158 |
Regdoc number | ST(2022)10407 |
Original proposal | COM(2022)307 |
CELEX number i | 32022D1158 |
Document | 27-06-2022; Date of adoption |
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Publication in Official Journal | 06-07-2022; OJ L 179 p. 1-3 |
Effect | 27-06-2022; Entry into force Date of document See Art 5 |
End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
6.7.2022 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 179/1 |
COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2022/1158
of 27 June 2022
on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91, in conjunction with Article 218(5), thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1) |
On 2 June 2022, the Council authorised the opening of negotiations with Ukraine on an Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road (hereinafter, the ‘Agreement’). |
(2) |
The negotiations were successfully concluded on 14 June 2022. |
(3) |
In view of the important disruptions in the transport sector in Ukraine caused by the war of aggression undertaken by Russia, it is necessary to find alternative routes by road for Ukraine to export its stocks of grain, fuel, foodstuffs and other relevant goods. |
(4) |
Given that permits granted in the framework of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport multilateral quota system within the International Transport Forum and existing bilateral agreements with Ukraine do not allow for the necessary flexibility for Ukrainian road haulage operators to increase and plan ahead their operations through and with the European Union, it is crucial to liberalise the transport of freight by road for bilateral operations as well as for transit. |
(5) |
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has compromised the possibility for many Ukrainian drivers to follow the administrative procedures related to driver documents such as international driving permit applications or the issuance of new documents in the event of lost or stolen documents. It is thus important to address these exceptional circumstances by providing for specific measures that exempt drivers from the requirement to present an international driving permit, recognising decisions taken by Ukraine to extend the administrative validity of driver documents and facilitating the exchange of information between the competent authorities of the two Parties with the aim of combatting fraud and the forgery of driver documents. |
(6) |
In view of the exceptional and unique circumstances that necessitate the signature and provisional application of the Agreement and in accordance with the Treaties, it is appropriate for the Union to exercise temporarily the relevant shared competence conferred upon it by the Treaties. Any effect of this Decision on the division of competences between the Union and the Member States should be strictly limited in time. The competence exercised by the Union on the basis of this Decision and of the Agreement should therefore be exercised only during the period of application of the Agreement. Accordingly, the shared competence thus exercised will cease to be exercised by the Union as soon as the Agreement ceases to apply. Without prejudice to other Union measures, and subject to compliance with those Union measures, that competence will, in accordance with Article 2(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), again be exercised by the Member States thereafter. Furthermore, it is recalled that, as set out in Protocol No 25 on the exercise of shared competence annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the TFEU, the scope of the exercise of the competence of the Union in this Decision covers only those elements governed by this Decision and the Agreement and does not cover the whole area. The exercise of Union competence by this Decision is without prejudice to the respective competences of the Union and of the Member States in relation to any ongoing or future... |
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