Considerations on COM(2021)594 - EU position as regards the amendment of the list of persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel under the Brexit Agreement

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dossier COM(2021)594 - EU position as regards the amendment of the list of persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration ...
document COM(2021)594 EN
date October 15, 2021
 
table>(1)The Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community (the ‘Withdrawal Agreement’) was concluded by means of Council Decision (EU) 2020/135 (1) and entered into force on 1 February 2020.
(2)Pursuant to Article 171(1) of the Withdrawal Agreement, the Joint Committee established by the end of the transition period set under the Withdrawal Agreement, a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel. The Joint Committee is to ensure that the list complies with the requirements at any moment in time.

(3)Pursuant to Article 171(2) of the Withdrawal Agreement, the list is not to comprise persons who are members, officials or other servants of the Union institutions, of the government of a Member State, or of the government of the United Kingdom.

(4)One of the persons on the list that have been proposed by the Union has been appointed an Advocate-General of the Court of Justice and therefore no longer fulfils the requirements for being an arbitrator under the Withdrawal Agreement.

(5)It is therefore necessary to replace that person by a candidate from the reserve list of candidates who are willing and able to serve as Union members of an arbitration panel under the Withdrawal Agreement, as contained in Annex II to Council Decision (EU) 2020/2232 (2).

(6)It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the Joint Committee,