(4)On 14 September 2012, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the Lebanese Republic. The negotiations were successfully concluded. In accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2016/859note, the Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Lebanon, of the other part to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union has been signed on behalf of the Union and its Member States in Brussels on 28 April 2016.
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