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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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular 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) The Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part (1) (the Agreement), was signed on 15 October 2008, and has been provisionally applied since 29 December 2008.
(2) Article 63 of the Agreement provides that the negotiation of the schedule of commitments in services and investment for the Commonwealth of The Bahamas be finalised no later than six months after the signature of the Agreement.
(3) Such negotiations were succesfully concluded on 25 January 2010.
(4) The results of such negotiations should be set out in a Decision of the Joint CARIFORUM-EU Council established by the Agreement.
(5) The Union should therefore take the position in the Joint CARIFORUM-EU Council as set out in the draft decision attached to this Decision,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:


The position to be taken by the European Union in the Joint CARIFORUM-EU Council established by the Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, with regard to the amendment of Annex IV to the Agreement shall be based on the draft decision of the Joint CARIFORUM-EU Council attached to this Decision. However, formal changes to that draft decision not affecting its substance may be agreed without requiring this Decision to be amended.
1. Annex IV of the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Annex IV E is amended as follows:
(i) point 3 is replaced by the following:
‘3. This Schedule includes all CARIFORUM States, except Haiti, unless otherwise stated. Subject to reservations, limitations or exclusions applying to all sectors, sub-sectors of A, B, C and D that are not listed are open in all Signatory CARIFORUM States without limitations on market access or national treatment. CARIFORUM States that are not listed in sub-sectors included in this list are, subject to reservations, limitations or exclusions otherwise applying to all sectors, open without limitations on market access or national treatment in these sub-sectors. All reservations, limitations or exclusions included in this Annex applicable to the CARIFORUM States and indicated as “CAF” therein are not applicable to The Bahamas.’;
(ii) after the Schedule, the Appendix to Annex IV E — The Bahamas, as set out in Annex I to this Decision, is hereby added;
(b) Annex IV F is amended as follows:
(i) point 6 is replaced by the following:
‘6. This Schedule includes all CARIFORUM States, except Haiti, unless otherwise stated.’;
(ii) after the Schedule, the Appendix to Annex IV F — The Bahamas, as set out in Annex II to this Decision, is hereby added.

2. All other provisions contained in points 1 to 9 of Annex IV E, and in points 1 to 11 of Annex IV F are applicable to The Bahamas.
1. This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.

2. From the entry into force of this Decision and until the entry into force of the Agreement, the amendments to Annex IV E and IV F shall be provisionally applicable.



(1)   OJ L 289, 30.10.2008, p. 3.

(1)   OJ L 289, 30.10.2008, p. 3.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2010/669/oj