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The EU urges States parties to ratify the amended Convention at the earliest opportunity.

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According to the EU law, article 7 of the convention would appear to be a simple disconnection clause.

The latest development is the implementation of the Protocol to the EU Mutual Legal Assistance Convention in June 2004.

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The EU acknowledges the progress made towards the universalization of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a unique disarmament and non proliferation instrument.

Most industrial exports from LDCs to the EU are duty free, as most of these countries are members of the Lomé Convention.

Mr. Carvell (United Kingdom), speaking as a representative of the current holder of the presidency of the European Union (EU), said that the delegations of EU member States had held informal consultations on the queries that had been raised at the previous meeting regarding possible EU ratification of the draft convention.

As we set out in our general statement, the EU supports and promotes the universal ratification of and adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).

The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

Even if, in the case of the EU, individual member States were also likely to adopt their own legislation to give full effect to the convention, the benefits of article 16 bis would be undermined because businesses outside the EU would still have to consider on a country by country basis whether the convention applied.

In this regard, the meetingparticipants wereas informed that in the European Union (EU), the PIC provision of the Rotterdam Convention has been implemented through EU regulation 304 2003, and that this regulation includes two ODSs carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform.

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In EU member States, exports of Table I substances needed individual authorizations for each transaction in accordance with the obligations set out in the 1988 Convention.

Mr. D'Allaire (Canada) requested the representatives of EU States to provide an example of a matter governed by the draft convention in respect of which competence lay with individual member States and of a matter in respect of which competence lay with the EU.

And all EU member States will commit to early ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption and to the enactment of laws to return stolen assets.

The disconnection clause would apply only to relations between EU member States and would not affect the applicability of the draft convention to relations with third countries.

He reassured the Commission that every effort would be made to avoid inconsistencies in the ratification of the draft convention by the EU and its member States.

The EU also recognized the importance of meeting obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and other multilateral environmental agreements, including the Kyoto Protocol.

The EU Council of Ministers recently decided to extend the preferential tariff treatment under the Lomé Convention to the other least developed countries by the year 2000.

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The EU supports and encourages States to participate in the Proliferation Security Initiative, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and the Global Threat Reduction Initiative.

These losses will arise mainly because of the erosion of preferential treatment of African exports in EU markets under the Lomé Convention and more generally under the GSP.

161. The process to harmonize policies in the field of asylum and refugees by members countries of the EU seems to have lost some momentum in 1996, after the position reached by the EU in November 1995 on the harmonization of Article 1A of the 1951 Geneva Convention.

review of the country apos s policies relevant to the Framework Convention on Climate Change cannot be undertaken without an understanding of the complex process of integration of the Portuguese economy into the EU and the Government apos s commitment to raise living standards towards the EU average.

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In the EU, deadlines for the application of HACCP depend on national endorsement of the EU regulations.

Furthermore, the Directive on electronic commerce was consistent with the draft convention inasmuch as it allowed companies in EU member States to choose third country law for contractual purposes.

The EU calls on all States which are members of the IAEA and have not yet signed and ratified the CPPNM Convention to do so in its amended version.

The proposed disconnection clause should be seen as a flexible link between the draft convention and Community rules that would facilitate EU member States' position vis à vis third countries.

Mr. Mitrović (Serbia and Montenegro) asked what would happen if the EU ratified the draft convention and one member State made a declaration under draft article 18, paragraph 1 (a).

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