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.