Council Decision (EU) 2020/1517 of 19 October 2020 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Council of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation established by the Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean as regards the application for accession to that Convention submitted by the United Kingdom and repealing Decision (EU) 2019/937

1 The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the Council of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (the ‘NASCO Council’) established by the Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean (the ‘NASCO Convention’) shall be to approve the application for accession of the United Kingdom to the NASCO Convention.

2 The Commission shall be authorised to vote in the NASCO Council on the accession of the United Kingdom to the NASCO Convention and on the United Kingdom’s membership of the West Greenland Commission and of the North‐East Atlantic Commission.

Decision (EU) 2019/937 is repealed.

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