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Common commercial policy: repeal of certain obsolete Council acts

2010/0369(COD)

PURPOSE: to repeal certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the common commercial policy.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) No 1230/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the common commercial policy.

CONTENT: the Council adopted a regulation on repealing certain obsolete acts in the field of the common agricultural policy (CAP), following a first-reading agreement with the European Parliament.

A number of regulations relating to the CAP have become obsolete, even though they are formally still in force. The repeal process also concerns other acts which no longer a have real effect (see COD/2010/0367 and COD/2010/0368).

It should be noted that this Regulation granting the continuing validity of legal acts that derive from the repealed legal acts.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 11/12/2011.