2012/352/EU: Council Decision of 7 June 2012 on the position to be taken by the European Union within the ACP-EU Council of Ministers concerning the status of the Republic of South Sudan 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

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Article 1

The position to be taken by the European Union within the ACP-EU Council of Ministers, on the matter of the Republic of South Sudan’s requests for accession and observer status, is to accept these requests under the terms of the draft Decision of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers attached to this Decision. The observer status shall be valid until 20 November 2012. South Sudan shall deposit the Act of Accession with the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Union and the Secretariat of the ACP States no later than that date. Formal and minor changes to the draft Decision of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers may be agreed without requiring that Decision to be amended.

Approval of requests for accession and observer status

Article 1

The request of the Republic of South Sudan 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 first amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 and as amended for the second time in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010, is hereby approved. South Sudan shall have observer status until 20 November 2012 under the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement. South Sudan shall deposit its Act of Accession with the Depositaries of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, namely, the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Union and the Secretariat of the ACP States, no later than that date.

Article 2

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

Entry into force

Article 2

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

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