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An Act to make provision approving for the purposes of section 8 of the European Union Act 2011 draft decisions under Article 352 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union on the participation of the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Serbia in the work of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and on the signing and conclusion of an agreement between the European Union and Canada regarding the application of their competition laws.
[7th December 2017]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
(1)This section has effect for the purposes of section 8 of the European Union Act 2011 (decisions under Article 352 of TFEU).
(2)The following draft decisions of the Council of the European Union under Article 352 of TFEU are approved—
(a)the draft decisions on the participation of—
(i)the Republic of Albania, and
(ii)the Republic of Serbia,
as observers in the work of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (document numbers 9877/16 and 9876/16), and
(b)the draft decisions on the signing and conclusion of an agreement between the European Union and the Government of Canada regarding the application of their competition laws (document numbers 10819/16 and 10821/16).
(3)In this section “TFEU” means the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
(1)This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(2)This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.
(3)This Act may be cited as the European Union (Approvals) Act 2017.
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