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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 114 read in conjunction with Article 218(5) thereof,Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,Whereas:
(1)On 21 April 2015, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the United States of America for an Agreement on reinsurance. The negotiations were successfully concluded by an exchange of letters between the lead negotiators on 12 January 2017.
(2)The Agreement should be signed on behalf of the European Union in English, subject to its conclusion at a later date. For this purpose, Decision (EU) 2017/1792note should be amended accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1#
Decision (EU) 2017/1792 is amended as follows:
(1)Article 2 is replaced by the following:‘Article 2The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Agreement on behalf of the Union as well as the exchange of letters between the European Union and the United States of America concerning language arrangements. The signature of the Agreement shall take place together with the signature of the exchange of letters.’;
(2)the following article is inserted:‘Article 3aThe Agreement shall be signed in English. Pursuant to Union law, the Agreement is also drawn up by the Union in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages. These additional language versions should be authenticated by an exchange of diplomatic notes between the European Union and the United States of America. All authenticated versions shall be of equal value.’.
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