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REGULATION (EU) 2025/13 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 19 December 2024
on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/818
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union and, in particular, Articles 28, 31(2) and 33 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Whereas:
(1) On 19 April 2007, the Council adopted Decision 2007/238/CFSP (1) appointing Mr Torben BRYLLE European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for Sudan.
(2) On 16 February 2009, the Council adopted Joint Action 2009/134/CFSP (2) amending and extending the mandate of the EUSR until 28 February 2010.
(3) The mandate of the EUSR should be extended until 31 August 2010. However, the mandate of the EUSR may be terminated earlier, if the Council so decides, on a recommendation of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR) following the entry into force of the decision establishing the European External Action Service.
(4) The EUSR will implement his mandate in the context of a situation which may deteriorate and could harm the Common Foreign and Security Policy objectives set out in Article 21 of the Treaty,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
(a) liaise with the AU, the Government of Sudan, the Government of Southern Sudan, the Darfur armed movements and other Sudanese parties as well as Darfur civil society and non-governmental organisations and maintain close collaboration with the UN and other relevant international actors, with the aim of pursuing the Union's policy objectives;
(b) represent the Union at the Darfur-Darfur dialogue, at high-level meetings of the Joint Commission, as well as other relevant meetings as requested;
(c) represent the Union, whenever possible, at the CPA and DPA Assessment and Evaluation Commissions;
(d) follow developments regarding the implementation of the ESPA;
(e) ensure coherence between the Union's contribution to crisis management in Darfur and the overall political relationship of the Union with Sudan;
(f) with regard to human rights, including the rights of children and women, and the fight against impunity in Sudan, follow the situation and maintain regular contacts with the Sudanese authorities, the AU and the UN, in particular with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the human rights observers active in the region and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
2. For the purpose of the fulfilment of his mandate, the EUSR shall, inter alia:
(a) maintain an overview of all activities of the Union;
(b) support the political process and activities relating to the implementation of the CPA, the DPA and the ESPA; and
(c) follow up and report on compliance by the Sudanese parties with the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, notably 1556 (2004), 1564 (2004), 1591 (2005), 1593 (2005), 1672 (2006), 1679 (2006), 1706 (2006), 1769 (2007) and 1778 (2007).
2. The Political and Security Committee (PSC) shall maintain a privileged link with the EUSR and shall be the EUSR's primary point of contact with the Council. The PSC shall provide the EUSR with strategic guidance and political direction within the framework of the mandate, without prejudice to the powers of the HR.
2. The expenditure financed by the amount stipulated in paragraph 1 shall be eligible as from 1 March 2010. The expenditure shall be managed in accordance with the procedures and rules applicable to the general budget of the Union.
3. The management of the expenditure shall be subject to a contract between the EUSR and the Commission. The EUSR shall be accountable to the Commission for all expenditure.
2. Member States and institutions of the Union may propose the secondment of staff to work with the EUSR. The salary of personnel who are seconded by a Member State or an institution of the Union to the EUSR shall be covered by the Member State or the institution of the Union concerned respectively. Experts seconded by Member States to the General Secretariat of the Council may also be posted to the EUSR. International contracted staff shall have the nationality of a Member State.
3. All seconded personnel shall remain under the administrative authority of the sending Member State or Union institution and shall carry out their duties and act in the interest of the mandate of the EUSR.
4. Offices of the EUSR shall be maintained in Khartoum and in Juba, comprising a Political Advisor and the necessary administrative and logistic support staff. In accordance with the EUSR's mandate as described in Article 3, a sub-office in Darfur may also be established if the existing Offices in Khartoum and Juba cannot provide all necessary support to EUSR staff deployed in the Darfur region.
2. The Union delegation and/or Member States, as appropriate, shall provide logistical support in the region.
(a) establishing a mission-specific security plan based on guidance from the General Secretariat of the Council, including mission-specific physical, organisational and procedural security measures, governing management of the secure movement of personnel to, and within, the mission area, as well as management of security incidents and including a mission contingency and evacuation plan;
(b) ensuring that all personnel deployed outside the Union are covered by high risk insurance as required by the conditions in the mission area;
(c) ensuring that all members of his team to be deployed outside the Union, including locally contracted personnel, have received appropriate security training before or upon arriving in the mission area, based on the risk ratings assigned to the mission area by the General Secretariat of the Council;
(d) ensuring that all agreed recommendations made following regular security assessments are implemented and providing the HR, the Council and the Commission with written reports on their implementation and on other security issues within the framework of the mid-term and mandate implementation reports.
2. The EUSR shall regularly report to the PSC on the situation in Darfur and on the situation in Sudan as a whole.
2. In the field, close liaison shall be maintained with the Head of the Union delegation and Member States' Heads of Mission. They shall make best efforts to assist the EUSR in the implementation of the mandate. The EUSR shall also liaise with other international and regional actors in the field.
It shall apply from 1 March 2010.
(1) OJ L 103, 20.4.2007, p. 52.
(2) OJ L 46, 17.2.2009, p. 57.
(3) OJ L 101, 11.4.2001, p. 1.
(1) OJ L 103, 20.4.2007, p. 52.
(2) OJ L 46, 17.2.2009, p. 57.
(3) OJ L 101, 11.4.2001, p. 1.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2010/110(1)/oj