European Union (Approvals) Bill (HC Bill 2)
A
BILL
TO
Make provision approving for the purposes of section 8 of the European
Union Act 2011 draft decisions under Article 352 of the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union on the participation of the Republic of
Albania and the Republic of Serbia in the work of the European Union Agency
for Fundamental Rights and on the signing and conclusion of an agreement
between the European Union and Canada regarding the application of their
competition laws.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Approval of draft decisions under Article 352 of TFEU
(1)
This section has effect for the purposes of section 8 of the European Union Act
2011 (decisions under Article 352 of TFEU).
(2)
The following draft decisions of the Council of the European Union under
5Article 352 of TFEU are approved—
(a) the draft decisions on the participation of—
(i) the Republic of Albania, and
(ii) the Republic of Serbia,
as observers in the work of the European Union Agency for
10Fundamental Rights (document numbers 9877/16 and 9876/16), and
(b)
the draft decisions on the signing and conclusion of an agreement
between the European Union and the Government of Canada
regarding the application of their competition laws (document
numbers 10819/16 and 10821/16).
(3)
15In this section “TFEU” means the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union.
2 Extent, commencement and short title
(1) This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
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(2) This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.
(3) This Act may be cited as the European Union (Approvals) Act 2017.