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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 17 October 2005, the Council adopted Joint Action 2005/724/CFSP (1) appointing Mr Erwan FOUÉRÉ European Union Special Representative (EUSR) in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
(2) On 15 September 2009, the Council adopted Joint Action 2009/706/CFSP (2) extending the mandate of the EUSR until 31 March 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,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
The EUSR shall support the work of the HR in the region.
(a) maintain close contact with the Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and with the parties involved in the political process;
(b) offer the Union’s advice and facilitation in the political process;
(c) ensure coordination of the international community’s efforts to help in the implementation and sustainability of the provisions of the Framework Agreement of 13 August 2001, as set out in the Agreement and the Annexes thereto;
(d) follow closely, and report on, security and inter-ethnic issues and liaise with all relevant bodies to that end;
(e) contribute to the development and consolidation of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in accordance with EU human rights policy and EU guidelines on human rights.
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 April 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. 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.
2. The Union delegations 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. In the field, close liaison shall be maintained with the Heads of the Union delegations 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.
(1) OJ L 272, 18.10.2005, p. 26.
(2) OJ L 244, 16.9.2009, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 101, 11.4.2001, p. 1.
(1) OJ L 272, 18.10.2005, p. 26.
(2) OJ L 244, 16.9.2009, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 101, 11.4.2001, p. 1.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2010/156/oj