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Document 12016E208
Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union#PART FIVE - THE UNION'S EXTERNAL ACTION#TITLE III - COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES AND HUMANITARIAN AID#CHAPTER 1 - DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION#Article 208 (ex Article 177 TEC)
Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
PART FIVE - THE UNION'S EXTERNAL ACTION
TITLE III - COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES AND HUMANITARIAN AID
CHAPTER 1 - DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
Article 208 (ex Article 177 TEC)
Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
PART FIVE - THE UNION'S EXTERNAL ACTION
TITLE III - COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES AND HUMANITARIAN AID
CHAPTER 1 - DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
Article 208 (ex Article 177 TEC)
OJ C 202, 7.6.2016, p. 141–141
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
In force
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tfeu_2016/art_208/oj
7.6.2016 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 202/141 |
Article 208
(ex Article 177 TEC)
1. Union policy in the field of development cooperation shall be conducted within the framework of the principles and objectives of the Union's external action. The Union's development cooperation policy and that of the Member States complement and reinforce each other.
Union development cooperation policy shall have as its primary objective the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty. The Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries.
2. The Union and the Member States shall comply with the commitments and take account of the objectives they have approved in the context of the United Nations and other competent international organisations.