Date: 2022-02-24Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: Europe
Decision No 2/2022 of the Joint Committee 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 Communi of 21 February 2022 amending Decision No 7/2020 establishing a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel under the Agreement (2022/292)
**Summary:**
On February 21, 2022, the Joint Committee 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 adopted Decision No 2/2022, amending Decision No 7/2020. This amendment concerns the list of 25 individuals willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel under the Withdrawal Agreement. The decision was made because one of the individuals initially proposed by the Union was appointed to a Union institution, thereby no longer meeting the eligibility requirements for arbitrators as defined in Article 171(2) of the Withdrawal Agreement. Consequently, Ms. Tamara Apeta is replaced by Mr. Ezio Perillo on the list of arbitrators, as outlined in Annex I to Decision No 7/2020. This decision entered into force on February 22, 2022. The decision was co-signed by Maroš Šefčovič and Elizabeth Truss.
Key Entities Referenced
European Union: A political and economic union of member states located primarily in Europe.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: A sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.
European Atomic Energy Community: An international organisation established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 with the purpose of creating a specialist market for nuclear power in Europe.
Joint Committee: The Joint Committee 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.
Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community: Formal agreement outlining the terms of the UK's departure from the EU.
Withdrawal Agreement: Short name for 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
Decision No 7/2020: Decision establishing a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel under the Agreement
Brussels: The de facto capital city of the European Union, located in Belgium.
L 43/86 EN Official Journal of the European Union 24.2.2022
DECISION No 2/2022 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE 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 COMMUNI
of 21 February 2022
amending Decision No 7/2020 establishing a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as
members of an arbitration panel under the Agreement (2022/292)
THE JOINT COMMITTEE,
Having regard to 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(1), and in particular Article 171(1) and (2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant to Article 171(1) of 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 (‘the Withdrawal
Agreement’), the Joint Committee established, by the end of the transition period set under that Agreement, a list of
25 persons who are willing and able to serve as ordinary members of an arbitration panel. The Joint Committee is to
ensure that the list complies with the requirements at any moment in time.
(2) Pursuant to Article 171(2) of the Withdrawal Agreement, the list is not to comprise persons who are members,
officials or other servants of the Union institutions, of the government of a Member State, or of the government of
the United Kingdom.
(3) One of the persons on the list proposed by the Union has been appointed as a member of a Union institution and
therefore no longer fulfils the requirements for being an arbitrator under the Withdrawal Agreement.
(4) It is therefore necessary to replace that person on the list of persons set out in Annex I to Decision No 7/2020 of the
Joint Committee(2),
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The list of 25 persons willing and able to serve as arbitrators under the Withdrawal Agreement as set out in Annex I to
Decision No 7/2020 of the Joint Committee is amended as follows:
Ms Tamara ĆAPETA is replaced by Mr Ezio PERILLO.
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the day of its adoption.
Done at Brussels, 21 February 2022.
For the Joint Committee
The Co-chairs
Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ
Elizabeth TRUSS
(1) OJ L 29, 31.1.2020, p. 7.
(2) OJ L 443, 30.12.2020, p. 22.