Council Decision (EU) 2023/701 of 21 March 2023 on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union in the Joint Consultative Working Group established by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community as regards the amendment of its rules of procedure

Article 1

The position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf within the Joint Consultative Working Group established by Article 15(1) of the Protocol (‘the working group’), on a decision amending the rules of procedure of the working group, is set out in the draft Decision of the working group attached to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

DRAFT

DECISION No …/2023 OF THE JOINT CONSULTATIVE WORKING GROUP ESTABLISHED BY THE AGREEMENT ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY

of …

amending its rules of procedure

Article 1

The Rules of Procedure of the Joint Consultative Working Group shall be amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the date of its adoption.

ANNEX

Rule 3 of the Rules of Procedure of the Joint Consultative Working Group (Participation in meetings) is amended as follows:

• (1) the title is replaced by the following: ‘Participation in meetings and structured sub-groups’;

• (2) the following points 3, 4 and 5 are added:
• ‘3. Where appropriate, the working group shall be supported by structured sub-groups, composed of officials of the European Commission and of the Government of the United Kingdom, which will assist the working group in carrying out its functions as an effective forum for the exchange of information and mutual consultation.
• 1. Meetings in the structured sub-groups shall be held, as necessary, to ensure that the United Kingdom’s views on planned Union acts for which information exchange shall take place under Article 15(3) of the Protocol are considered by the Union in a timely manner.
• 1. All rules provided in these Rules of Procedure as regards meetings shall apply mutatis mutandis to the meetings of the structured sub-groups.’

OJ L 29, 31.1.2020, p.7.