title: 2011/888/EU: Council Decision of 13 December 2011 on the launch of automated data exchange with regard to dactyloscopic data in Lithuania

text:
               28.12.2011

               EN

               Official Journal of the European Union

               L 344/38

         COUNCIL DECISION
   of 13 December 2011
   on the launch of automated data exchange with regard to dactyloscopic data in Lithuania
   (2011/888/EU)
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to Council Decision 2008/615/JHA of 23 June 2008 on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime (1), in particular Article 25 thereof,
   Having regard to Council Decision 2008/616/JHA of 23 June 2008 on the implementation of Decision 2008/615/JHA (2), in particular Article 20 and Chapter 4 of the Annex thereto,
   Whereas:

               (1)

               According to the Protocol on Transitional Provisions annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, the legal effects of the acts of the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union adopted prior to the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon are preserved until those acts are repealed, annulled or amended in implementation of the Treaties.

               (2)

               Accordingly, Article 25 of Decision 2008/615/JHA is applicable and the Council must unanimously decide whether the Member States have implemented the provisions of Chapter 6 of that Decision.

               (3)

               Article 20 of Decision 2008/616/JHA provides that decisions referred to in Article 25(2) of Decision 2008/615/JHA are to be taken on the basis of an evaluation report based on a questionnaire. With respect to automated data exchange in accordance with Chapter 2 of Decision 2008/615/JHA, the evaluation report is to be based on an evaluation visit and a pilot run.

               (4)

               According to Chapter 4, point 1.1, of the Annex to Decision 2008/616/JHA, the questionnaire drawn up by the relevant Council Working Group concerns each of the automated data exchanges and has to be answered by a Member State as soon as it believes it fulfils the prerequisites for sharing data in the relevant data category.

               (5)

               Lithuania has completed the questionnaire on data protection and the questionnaire on dactyloscopic data exchange.

               (6)

               A successful pilot run has been carried out by Lithuania with Austria.

               (7)

               An evaluation visit has taken place in Lithuania and a report on the evaluation visit has been produced by the Austrian evaluation team and forwarded to the relevant Council Working Group.

               (8)

               An overall evaluation report, summarising the results of the questionnaire, the evaluation visit and the pilot run concerning dactyloscopic data exchange has been presented to the Council,

         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   For the purposes of automated searching of dactyloscopic data, Lithuania has fully implemented the general provisions on data protection of Chapter 6 of Decision 2008/615/JHA and is entitled to receive and supply personal data pursuant to Article 9 of that Decision as from the day of the entry into force of this Decision.
   Article 2
   This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.

      Done at Brussels, 13 December 2011.

            For the Council

            The President

         M. CICHOCKI

      (1)  OJ L 210, 6.8.2008, p. 1.

      (2)  OJ L 210, 6.8.2008, p. 12.


title: Council Decision (EU) 2015/1211 of 20 July 2015 establishing the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the General Council of the World Trade Organization on the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Organization

text:
               24.7.2015

               EN

               Official Journal of the European Union

               L 196/16

         COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2015/1211
   of 20 July 2015
   establishing the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the General Council of the World Trade Organization on the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Organization
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91, Article 100(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 207(4), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,
   Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
   Whereas:

               (1)

               On 29 January 1996, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan applied for accession to the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (‘the Marrakesh Agreement’), pursuant to Article XII of that Agreement.

               (2)

               On 6 February 1996, a Working Party on the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan was established in order to reach agreement on the terms of accession acceptable to the Republic of Kazakhstan and all Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

               (3)

               The Commission, on behalf of the Union, has negotiated a comprehensive series of market opening commitments on the part of the Republic of Kazakhstan which satisfy the Union's requests on tariffs, on export duties and on trade in services.

               (4)

               Those commitments are now embodied in the Protocol of Accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the WTO (‘the Protocol of Accession’).

               (5)

               Accession to the WTO is expected to make a positive and lasting contribution to the process of economic reform and sustainable development in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

               (6)

               The Protocol of Accession should therefore be approved.

               (7)

               Article XII of the Marrakesh Agreement provides that the terms of accession are to be agreed between the acceding State and the WTO, and that the Ministerial Conference of the WTO approves the terms of accession on the WTO side. Article IV.2 of that Agreement provides that in the intervals between meetings of the Ministerial Conference, its functions are to be conducted by the General Council of the WTO.

               (8)

               It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on behalf of the Union within the General Council of the WTO on the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the WTO,

         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the General Council of the World Trade Organization on the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Organization is to approve the accession.
   Article 2
   This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

      Done at Brussels, 20 July 2015.

            For the Council

            The President

         F. MOGHERINI