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2024-02 Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance 1 (2024)

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Reports of Cases

OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL
KOKOTT
delivered on 13 July 20231
Case C-551/21
European Commission
V
Council of the European Union

(Action for annulment - Decision (EU) 2021/1117 - Implementing Protocol to the Fisheries
Partnership Agreement between the Gabonese Republic and the European Community
(2021-2026) - Signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application - Power to
sign - Authorisation by the President of the Council - Signing by the Permanent Representative
of the Portuguese Republic and Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the
Governments of the Member States (Coreper) - Article 13(2) and sixth sentence of Article 17(1)
TEU - Article 218(2) and (5), Articles 220 and 221 TFEU - Commission's power to ensure the
Union's external representation - Council's competence to conclude international treaties -
Principle of sincere cooperation between the EU institutions - Articles 296 and 297 TFEU -
Duty to state reasons - Publication of the authorisation decision)
Table of contents

I.  Introduction  ................................................................
II.  Legal fram ework  .............................................................
A.  The two  Vienna Conventions  ...............................................
B. EUlaw .................................................................
1. TEU................................................................
2. TFEU...............................................................
III.  Background  to  the  dispute  .....................................................

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1 Original language: German.
ECLI:EU:C:2023:579

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