2010/669/EU: Council Decision of 27 September 2010 on 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 by incorporating the commitments of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas

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.