Proposal for a Council Decision amending Council Decision 2001/822/EC on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Community

In accordance with the decision by the European Council on 29 October 2010 amending the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the French collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy, formerly an outermost region of the European Union, became an overseas country or territory associated with the European Union on 1 January 2012.

Pursuant to Article 203 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the provisions applicable to the overseas countries or territories associated with the European Union must be adopted by the Council of the European Union, acting unanimously. In this connection, Council Decision 2001/822/EC of 27 November 2001 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Community (hereinafter the Overseas Association Decision) came into force on 2 December 2001 and will expire at the end of 2013.

This Council Decision must be amended to take account of the amendment of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union by the European Council Decision of 29 October 2010 amending the status with regard to the European Union of the island of Saint-Barthélemy and providing for a change of status of this French collectivity to an overseas country or territory associated with the EU from 1 January 2012.

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