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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 352, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,Whereas:
(1)The Luxembourg European Council of December 1997 made participation in Union agencies a way of stepping up the pre-accession strategy. The conclusions of that European Council state that the Union ‘agencies in which applicant countries will be able to participate will be determined on a case-by-case basis’.
(2)Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007note provides that the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (the ‘Agency’) is to be open to the participation of candidate countries as observers.
(3)Serbia shares the aims and objectives of the Agency and subscribes to the scope and description of the tasks of the Agency, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 168/2007.
(4)Serbia's ultimate objective is to become a member of the Union, and its participation in the Agency will help it to achieve that objective,
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The position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Council on the participation of Serbia as an observer in the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' work and the respective modalities thereof, within the framework of Regulation (EC) No 168/2007, shall be based on the draft Decision of the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Council attached to this Decision.
Financial contribution of serbia to the european union agency for fundamental rights
1.The financial contribution to be paid by Serbia to the general budget of the European Union to participate in the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (the ‘Agency’), as laid down in point 2, represents the full cost of its participation therein for the first three years. As of year four, the amounts will be determined in accordance with point 6.
2.The financial contribution to be paid by Serbia to the general budget of the Union for the first three years shall be as follows:Year 1: | EUR 180000Year 2: | EUR 183000Year 3: | EUR 186000
3.The possible financial support from Union assistance programmes will be agreed separately in accordance with the relevant Union programme.
4.The contribution of Serbia will be managed in accordance with the Financial Regulationnote applicable to the general budget of the Union.
5.Travel costs and subsistence costs incurred by representatives and experts of Serbia for the purposes of taking part in the Agency's work or in meetings related to the implemention of the Agency's work programme shall be reimbursed by the Agency on the same basis as, and in accordance with the procedures currently in force, for the Member States of the Union.
6.After the entry into force of this Decision and at the beginning of each following year, the Commission will send to Serbia a call for funds corresponding to its contribution to the Agency under this Decision. For the first calendar year of its participation, Serbia will pay a contribution calculated from the date of participation to the end of the year on a pro rata basis. For the following years, the contribution will be in accordance with the table under point 2 of this Annex. As from year four, the contribution will be adapted in the light of any increase or decrease of the Agency's subsidy in order to maintain the analogy between the contribution for Serbia and the Agency's budget for the EU-28. The contribution may also be reviewed in the following financial years on the basis of the latest statistical data published by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat).
7.This contribution shall be expressed in EUR and paid into a EUR bank account of the Commission.
8.Serbia will pay its contribution according to the call for funds for its own part within 30 days after the call for funds is sent by the Commission.
9.Any delay in the payment of the contribution shall give rise to the payment of interest by Serbia on the outstanding amount as from the due date. The interest rate corresponds to the rate applied by the European Central Bank on the due date for its operations in EUR, increased by 1,5 percentage points.
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