Council Decision (EU) 2018/14
of 18 December 2017
on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Council on the participation of Albania 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
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:
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’.
Albania shares the aims and objectives of the Agency and subscribes to the scope and descripion of the tasks of the Agency, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 168/2007.
Albania's ultimate objective is to become a member of the Union, and its participation in the Agency will help it to achieve that objective,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: