Apart from development cooperation, what kind of cooperation the Union has with third countries?
According to the Lisbon Treaty, the Union has three different legal frameworks for the cooperation with third countries: one for all developing countries (Chapter 1 of Title III TFEU – Development Cooperation), one for non developing countries (Chapter 2 of Title III TFEU – Economic, Financial and Technical Cooperation with Third Countries) and a third one for Humanitarian Aid (Chapter 3 of Title III TFEU – Humanitarian Aid). The measures taken with non developing countries relate to the economic, financial or technical cooperation. They should be consistent with the Union’s development policy. The economic, financial and technical cooperation is subject to co-decision procedure between the Council and the European Parliament, which is not the case under the Nice Treaty. The same procedure applies for humanitarian aid. This clarification is very important since it ensures that the EU defines its relations with developing countries under the development legal basis (Chapter 1). The fram
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