Sentence examples for joint instruments from inspiring English sources

As a first step for a more consolidated policy approach, the White Paper consequently suggests the elaboration of a medium-term joint roadmap for enhanced science, technology and innovation (STI) cooperation between the EU, its member states and the EECA countries to be built on common goals for mutual benefit and to be implemented in partnership through joint instruments.

Following the adoption of the joint instrument, and a UK unilateral Declaration, the attorney general's additional advice confirmed his earlier view.

The UK's unilateral declaration goes beyond the joint instrument only in suggesting that the UK might seek to disapply the backstop as a whole if negotiations had failed because of bad faith on the part of the EU.

Whether or not the UK's understanding of the withdrawal agreement is correct will be a matter for the Court of Justice of the EU, which is likely to be sceptical not least because the UK's declaration goes beyond the terms of the joint instrument.

He says the withdrawal agreement and the joint instrument have to be read alongside each other.

In fact, the joint instrument will have the same legal standing as the withdrawal agreement.

It says the joint instrument reduces the risk that the UK could be held in the backstop in Ireland indefinitely - it doesn't say that it removes that risk altogether.

Alongside the joint instrument, two other documents have been agreed: a joint statement that commits both sides to try to develop technological solutions for the Irish border by the end of 2020; and a unilateral UK statement which sets out the government's interpretation of how it could eventually exit the backstop if the EU acts in bad faith.

In return, she has since been pushing for immediate structural economic reforms in the recipient countries, combined with medium- to long-term projects such as fiscal union and joint oversight instruments like the European Stability Mechanism.

The first is a joint interpretative instrument, designed to give legally binding assurances to the letter written by Juncker and the chief EU negotiator, Michel Barnier, in January that the backstop cannot be a permanent solution to the Northern Ireland border issue.

Their focus has been on turning a series of pledges made in a letter in January by Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, and his European council counterpart, Donald Tusk, into legally binding commitments through a joint interpretative instrument, a legal add-on to the withdrawal agreement.