
Article 1 
The position to be taken on behalf of the Union in the Trade Committee at its seventh meeting as regards the recommendation for certain amendments to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Samoa and of the future accessions of other Pacific Island States shall be based on the draft Recommendation of the Trade Committee attached to this Decision.
Article 2 
After its adoption, the Recommendation of the Trade Committee shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Done at Luxembourg, 17 June 2019.
For the Council
The President
F. MOGHERINI
The Trade Committee recommends that the Parties:

1.. replace paragraph 1 of Article 70 of the Agreement by the following:
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1. For the purposes of this Agreement the “Contracting Parties” shall be the European Community, referred to as the “EC Party”, on the one part, and Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Fiji Islands and the Independent State of Samoa, referred to as the “Pacific States”, on the other part.'.
2.. add the following paragraph 3 in Article 80 of the Agreement:
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3. The Trade Committee may decide on any technical modification to the Agreement that might be necessary following the accession of another Pacific Island State.'.
3.. in Annex II to the Agreement, add the text of the agreed market access offer of the Independent State of Samoa, set out in the Annex to this Recommendation.
4.. in Annex X to Protocol II to the Agreement, remove the reference to Samoa from the list of ‘other ACP States’.

Done at …,
For the Trade Committee
On behalf of the Union
On behalf of the Pacific States