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In particular, the French authorities asked the Commission to extend the scope of the Council Decision so as to apply also to the “cotisation sur les boissons alcooliques” (also known as the “Vignette Sécurité Sociale (VSS)), a contribution levied for the National Sickness Insurance Fund on alcoholic beverages to counter the health risks involved in immoderate use of this product, and to amend Council Decision 2007/695/EC retroactively, i.e. as of 1 January 2012 by extending it to cover the VSS so that a lower rate can be applied to ‘traditional’ rum produced in the four French outermost regions listed in Council Decision 2007/659/EC.

Following a referendum in 2009, the then French overseas community Mayotte, located north of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, became an overseas department of France as from 31 March 2011, and by letter of 26 October 2011, the President of France therefore asked the President of the European Council to initiate the procedure in accordance with Article 355(6) TFEU to adopt a decision amending the status of Mayotte under the EU Treaties from an overseas country or territory to an outermost region.

French Republic v People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 62009CJ0027 - EN - Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 December 2011. French Republic v People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. Appeal - Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism - Common Position 2001/931/CFSC - Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 - Freezing of funds applicable to a group included in a list drawn up, revised and amended by the Council of the European Union - Rights of the defence. Case C-27/09 P.

24. Believes that the violence which recently erupted in Abidjan - after the Ivorian defence forces had bombarded a French base and French forces had destroyed almost the entire airforce of France's former colony - cannot be attributed to the ethnic factor alone, but has complex and multidimensional origins, including in particular poverty, unequal distribution of wealth, social injustice, human rights violations, the oppression of minorities, religious discrimination and the dysfunctional state; calls on all belligerents to resume negotiations with a view to ending a conflict that threatens to destabilise the entire region; condemns a ...[+++]ll aggression against foreigners living in Côte d'Ivoire; recommends, considering the breakdown in mutual trust between Côte d'Ivoire and France, the phased replacement of the French peace-keeping force under UN auspices by other, neutral forces;

As a French overseas member of this Parliament my attention is naturally drawn to the fate of the French territories and administrative authorities concerned, which are, and I am pleased to list them here, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.