
Article 1 
The signing of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin is hereby approved on behalf of the European Union, subject to the conclusion of the said Convention.
Article 2 
The Declaration set out in the Annex to this Decision is hereby approved on behalf of the European Union.
Article 3 
The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Convention on behalf of the European Union subject to its conclusion and to make the Declaration set out in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 4 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
Done at Luxembourg, 14 April 2011.
For the Council
The President
FAZEKAS S.
ANNEX
The European Union states that the reference to Kosovo prejudges neither the European Union Member States’ position nor any European Union position on the status of Kosovo nor the European Union Member States’ right to determine their relations with Kosovo.
