ATTACHMENTS DECISION No 1/2015 OF THE EU-REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUB-COMMITTEE of … 2015 adopting the rules of procedure of the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee DECISION No 2/2015 OF THE EU-REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUB-COMMITTEE of … 2015 adopting the list of experts on trade and sustainable development in accordance with Article 379(3) of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and theirMember States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part

Council Decision (EU) 2015/989

of 15 June 2015

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, as regards the adoption of the rules of procedure of the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee and the list of individuals to serve as experts in panel procedures on trade and sustainable development

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first paragraph of Article 207(4), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 464(3) and (4) of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part1 (‘the Agreement’) provides for the provisional application of the Agreement in part.

(2)

Article 3 of Council Decision 2014/492/EU2 specifies the provisions of the Agreement to be applied provisionally, including the provisions on the establishment and functioning of the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee and on trade and sustainable development.

(3)

Under Article 376(3) of the Agreement, the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee is to establish its own rules of procedure.

(4)

Under Article 379(3) of the Agreement, the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee is to agree at its first meeting on the list of individuals who are willing and able to serve as experts in panel procedures on trade and sustainable development.

(5)

It is appropriate to establish the position to be adopted on the Union's behalf as regards the rules of procedure of the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee and the list of individuals who are willing and able to serve as experts in panel procedures on trade and sustainable development.

(6)

The position of the Union within the Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft Decisions,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: