2013/258/EU: Council Decision of 27 May 2013 on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the ACP-EU Council of Ministers concerning the status of the Federal Republic of Somalia in relation to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part

The position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the ACP-EU Council of Ministers concerning the request by the Federal Republic of Somalia for observership with regard to, and subsequent accession to, the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, as amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005, and amended in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010, shall be based on the draft Decision of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers attached to this Decision. Formal and minor changes to the attached draft Decision of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers may be agreed without requiring this Decision to be amended.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

The request made by the Federal Republic of Somalia to accede to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, as amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 and as amended in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010, is hereby approved. The Federal Republic of Somalia shall deposit its Act of Accession with the Depositaries of the ACP-EU Agreement, namely, the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Union and the Secretariat of the ACP States. Pending its accession, the Federal Republic of Somalia may attend Council sessions as an observer.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its adoption.