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Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations with the Republic of Korea for an agreement on mutual recognition in relation to conformity assessments, certificates and markings

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on the conditions for the Union’s membership in the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol amending the Council of Europe Convention on the prevention of terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol amending the Council of Europe Convention on the prevention of terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of the negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement and its Implementing Protocol between the European Union and the Republic of Mauritius

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on individual agreements between the European Union and Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, KosovoFMT:Style_footnote reference,Superscript,Style>* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence., Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Serbia on roaming on public mobile communications networks

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, of the Agreement in respect of Gibraltar between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the participation of the United Kingdom in the internal electricity market of the Union and on the financial contribution of the United Kingdom towards reducing economic and social disparities between the regions of the Union

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, of the Agreement between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations with a view to modifying the Union’s concessions made in the World Trade Organization on import tariffs applicable to certain steel products

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the negotiations at the United Nations for an agreement on the second Early Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation and on any provision of the Framework Convention related to or affecting that Protocol

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Korea on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data from the European Union to the Republic of Korea for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations to amend the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, 2015

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for a digital trade agreement with Canada

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union on a sustainable fisheries partnership agreement, and an implementing protocol thereto, with the Gabonese Republic

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations, in the interest of the European Union, on a revision of the International Agreement and Organic Statutes, the Organic Rules, the Financial Rules and the General Rules and other texts of the World Organisation for Animal Health

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION amending Council Decision (EU) 2020/2059 of 7 December 2020 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Trade Committee established under the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part, as regards the amendment of certain provisions of Protocol II concerning the definition of the concept of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation, as regards cumulation with neighbouring developing countries

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations of a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Ecuador

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on a framework agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the exchange of information for security screenings and identity verifications relating to border procedures and applications for visa

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the opening of negotiations on the amendment of the 2018 Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on a common sanitary and phytosanitary area between the European Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Great Britain and to link the United Kingdom and the Union’s greenhouse emissions trading systems

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway in the field of administrative cooperation in direct tax matters

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on the revision of the Transport Community Treaty

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of the negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of an Implementing Protocol to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Seychelles

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION establishing that no effective action has been taken by Romania in response to the Council Recommendation of 21 January 2025

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an amendment of Article 1(a) of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning new negotiating directives for a regional Free Trade Agreement and bilateral Free Trade Agreements with the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf and respectively the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the State of the United Arab Emirates

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations of a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, of the Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other part, on the participation of the Swiss Confederation in Union Programmes

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the European Commission to participate, on behalf of the European Union, in the negotiations of the international instrument setting up the International Claims Commission for Ukraine

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION amending the Decision of 30 November 2017 authorising the opening of negotiations with the CARIFORUM States for an agreement on the protection of geographic indications based on Article 145 of the CARIFORUM Agreement, as regards craft and industrial products

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION issuing directives to the Commission to negotiate renewals of the Agreement between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for a new Implementing Protocol to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement with the Government of the Cook Islands

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the Commission to negotiate, on behalf of the European Union, the revision of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, as amended in 2012 (Gothenburg Protocol)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union on a new implementing protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement with the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, and possible amendments to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement or a new text of a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION establishing that no effective action has been taken by Romania in response to the Council Recommendation of 18 June 2021

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on the Design Law Treaty

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of the negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of an Implementing Protocol to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union, of the one part, and the Government of Greenland and the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark, of the other part

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on youth mobility

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the European Commission to participate, on behalf of the European Union, in negotiations on an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (CETS No. 198)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION on the amendment to the Monetary Agreement with the Principality of Andorra and to the Monetary Agreement with the Republic of San Marino

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement between the European Union and the Republic of San Marino on several aspects in the field of border management

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement between the European Union and the Principality of Andorra on several aspects in the field of border management

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for a new implementing protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement with the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION to authorise the Commission to open negotiations for the amendment of the five agreements on the automatic exchange of financial account information to improve international tax compliance between the European Union and, respectively, the Swiss Confederation, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Principality of Andorra, the Principality of Monaco and the Republic of San Marino

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of the negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of an Implementing Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an international legal instrument relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation on institutional solutions for EU-Switzerland agreements related to the internal market, on agreements that form the basis for Switzerland’s permanent contribution to the Union’s cohesion and for Switzerland’s association to Union programmes

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of the negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of an Implementing Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cabo Verde

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, of the Agreement between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and Iceland on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data from the EU to Iceland for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data from the EU to the Kingdom of Norway for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data from the EU to the Swiss Confederation for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION on the approval of the withdrawal of the European Atomic Energy Community from the Energy Charter Treaty

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the European Commission to participate, on behalf of the European Union, in negotiations on a Council of Europe Convention superseding and replacing the 1998 Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law (ETS No. 172), as well as a draft Explanatory Report thereto.

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations of an agreement with the United States of America on strengthening international supply chains of critical minerals

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for digital trade disciplines with the Republic of Korea and with Singapore

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the European Commission to participate, on behalf of the European Union, in negotiations on the amendment of the Council of Europe Convention on the prevention of terrorism (CETS No. 196) or an additional protocol thereto regarding the revision of the definition of terrorist offences

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Federative Republic of Brazil on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the Brazilian authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the Bolivian authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the United Mexican States on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the Mexican authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Peru on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the Peruvian authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Ecuador on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the Ecuadorian authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism

Proposal for a ANNEX to the Recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confereration establishing a basis for the exchange of information on persons benefitting from temporary protection

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision (EU) 2021/1345 as regards the opening of negotiations with Colombia and Mexico with a view to concluding agreements on trade in organic products

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for a Council of Europe convention on artificial intelligence, human rights, democracy and the rule of law

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for an international agreement on plastic pollution

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for the inclusion of provisions on cross-border data flows in the Agreement between the European Union and Japan for an Economic Partnership

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION to authorise the Commission to open negotiations for the amendment of the Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway on administrative cooperation, fight against fraud and recovery of claims in the area of value added tax

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION Authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement on the carriage of goods by road between the European Union and Ukraine

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION Authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement on the carriage of goods by road between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the negotiations for a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of an Implementing Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Mauritius

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, in respect of Gibraltar

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations to amend the International Coffee Agreement 2007

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on agreements on trade in organic products between the European Union and Argentina, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Tunisia and the United States of America

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of an Agreement between the European Union and the Faroe Islands on the general principles for the participation of the Faroe Islands in Union programmes and the association of the Faroe Islands to Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for a cooperation agreement between the European Union and the International Criminal Police Organisation (ICPO-INTERPOL)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the Commission to negotiate, on behalf of the Union, amendments to the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations with Angola for an agreement on investment facilitation

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations to amend the International Cocoa Agreement 2010

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement between the European Union and Panama under Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 regarding the withdrawal of its WTO tariff rate quotas on liquid milk and evaporated milk

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on an agreement between the European Union and Mongolia on geographical indications

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, of the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Atomic Energy Community for Cooperation on the Safe and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the conclusion, by the European Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for Agreements between the European Union and Algeria, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey on cooperation between the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) and the competent authorities for judicial cooperation in criminal matters of those third States

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION amending the Council Decision of 23 November 1998 concerning exchange rate matters relating to the CFA franc and the Comorian franc (98/683/EC)

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION to authorise the Commission to open negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of the Fisheries Agreement with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Norway

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of a protocol to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement with the Government of the Republic of Liberia

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of a protocol to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement with the Government of Cook Islands

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION amending the Council Decision of 7 June 2016 authorising the Commission to open negotiations on a comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Union and its Member States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States as regards matters falling within the exclusive Union competence

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for a new partnership with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on amending the Protocol to the Agreement on the international occasional carriage of passengers by coach and bus (Interbus Agreement) regarding the international regular and special regular carriage of passengers by coach and bus and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the international occasional carriage of passengers by coach and bus (Interbus Agreement) by extending the possibility of accession to the Kingdom of Morocco

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION updating the negotiating directives for the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and regions

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION establishing that no effective action has been taken by Romania in response to the Council Recommendation of 14 June 2019

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION establishing that no effective action has been taken by Hungary in response to the Council Recommendation of 14 June 2019

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations to amend the International Sugar Agreement 1992

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION to authorise the European Commission to open negotiations for a Customs Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Assistance Agreement (CCMAA) with the Republic of Belarus

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and New Zealand on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the New Zealand authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising the opening of negotiations on behalf of the European Union for the conclusion of a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement and a Protocol with the Government of Denmark and the Home Rule Government of Greenland

Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION to authorise the opening of negotiations for an Agreement between the European Union and Japan for the transfer and use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to prevent and combat terrorism and other serious transnational crime