Council Decision (EU) 2024/1876 of 20 June 2024 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road of 29 June 2022

The signing of the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road of 29 June 2022 (the ‘amending Agreement’) is hereby approved on behalf of the European Union, subject to the conclusion of the amending Agreement .

1 The exercise of Union competence pursuant to this Decision and the Agreement shall be limited to the period of application of the Agreement. Without prejudice to other Union measures, and subject to compliance with those Union measures, after the end of that period of application the Union shall immediately cease to exercise that competence and the Member States shall again exercise their competence in accordance with Article 2(2) TFEU.

2 The exercise of Union competence pursuant to this Decision and the Agreement shall be without prejudice to the competence of the Member States concerning any ongoing or future negotiations for, or signature or conclusion of, international agreements related to the carriage of goods by road with any other third country, and with Ukraine with respect to the period after the Agreement has ceased to apply.

3 The exercise of the competence by the Union referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article covers only the elements governed by this Decision and the Agreement.

4 This Decision and the Agreement are without prejudice to the respective competences of the Union and the Member States in the area of carriage of goods by road, with regard to elements other than those governed by this Decision and the Agreement.

The ad hoc working group on the practical implementation of the Agreement working under the authority of the Joint Committee, to be established under Article 7a of the Agreement, shall be composed, on the Union side, by one representative for the Commission, one representative of each Member State bordering Ukraine (Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia) and three representatives of other Member States. A rotating system shall apply between those three other Member States, every six months.

The amending Agreement shall be applied provisionally, in accordance with its Article 2(2), as from the day of its signature , pending its entry into force.

The Commission shall ensure the signing of the Agreement, subject to its conclusion.

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