Translation of "Zwischenstaatliche abkommen" in English

The Commission should assess the compatibility with Union law of intergovernmental agreements that are in force or apply provisionally on the date of entry into force of this Decision, and inform the Member States accordingly.

Where a Member State has not identified the information as confidential in accordance with paragraph 1, the Commission shall make that information accessible in secure electronic form to all other Member States.

The Commission shall assess intergovernmental agreements notified in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2.

Following the 2012 decision, 124 IGAs were notified to the Commission.

What are intergovernmental agreements in energy?

Intergovernmental agreements should comply fully with EU legislation and be more transparent.

Such data is transferred based on intergovernmental agreements or national laws.

The intergovernmental agreement would include specific provisions on the single resolution fund.

In any case the mutual agreement was of no help in the dean's office either.

In particular, 11 intergovernmental agreements were signed and 16 large-scale inter-agency arrangements were reached.

A permanent exchange of information on intergovernmental agreements at Union level should enable best practices to be developed.

Only IGAs concerning matters within the purview of the Euratom Treaty are not covered.

IGAs are usually negotiated bilaterally and are often the basis for more detailed commercial contracts.

Since the adoption of the IGA Decision, 124 IGAs have been notified by Member States to the Commission.

Social security rights from periods of employment in EU countries and Switzerland may be transferred to Germany through inter-governmental agreements.

What is the Intergovernmental Agreement?

In fact, Romania signed the Intergovernmental Agreement for the Nabucco project in July, along with Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria.

This renders superfluous the fundamental dilemma of whether the European Union should be based on intergovernmental agreements or whether it should become some sort of a supranational state.

Although it is possible that the Pact is good, the single internal market cannot be regulated by non-contractual intergovernmental agreements.

This process of police cooperation has proved its worth through the intergovernmental Schengen agreement, which has acted as a genuine test-bed.

Eventually, after the dust has settled, it may be possible to reach inter-governmental agreements to tidy up some of the institutional arrangements that would have been settled if the new constitution had been approved.

On the other hand, additional direct and indirect costs result from an IGA being assessed ex-post as incompatible with EU law.

Existing or provisionally applied intergovernmental agreements which have already been communicated in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 to the Commission at the date of entry into force of this Decision, which are fulfilling the requirements of this paragraph, shall be considered as communicated for the purposes of this Decision.

The Committee stresses the importance of ensuring that LNG-related Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs) are fully compliant with EU law and that investment projects (e.g. gas pipelines) should not contradict the aim of boosting LNG and gas storage capacity in Europe.

In order to benefit fully from the Commission's support, Member States should refrain from concluding an intergovernmental agreement relating to gas or oil, or an intergovernmental agreement relating to electricity where a Member State has chosen to request ex-ante assessment by the Commission, until the Commission has informed the Member State of its assessment.