Legal provisions of COM(2015)417 - EU position in the EU-EFTA Joint Committee on simplification of formalities in trade in goods and on the accession of Serbia to the Conventions on common transit procedures

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Article 1

The position of the Union within the EU-EFTA Joint Committee on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods as regards an invitation to the Republic of Serbia to accede to the Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods shall be based on the draft Decision of that Joint Committee attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The position of the Union within the EU-EFTA Joint Committee on common transit as regards an invitation to the Republic of Serbia to accede to the Convention on a common transit procedure shall be based on the draft Decision of that Joint Committee attached to this Decision.

Article 3

Once the technical conditions for accession have been fulfilled by the Republic of Serbia, the Union representative in the Joint Committees referred to in Articles 1 and 2 respectively shall propose the decisions to invite the Republic of Serbia to accede to the Conventions and vote on those decisions in line with Article 1 and 2 of this Decision.

Article 4

After its adoption, the Decision of the EU-EFTA Joint Committee on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods and the Decision of the EU-EFTA Joint Committee on common transit shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 5

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