Treaty of Lisbon/Article 1 - Treaty on European Union/Article 14

31) Article 14 shall be amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph 1, the first two sentences shall be replaced by the following sentence: "Where the international situation requires operational action by the Union, the Council shall adopt the necessary decisions.";

(b) in paragraph 2, first sentence, the words "to joint action," shall be replaced by "to a decision as referred to in paragraph 1," and the words "that action" shall be replaced by "that decision". The last sentence shall be deleted;

(c) in paragraph 3, the words "Joint actions" shall be replaced by "Decisions referred to in paragraph 1";

(d) paragraph 4 shall be deleted and the remaining paragraphs shall be renumbered accordingly;

(e) in the first sentence of paragraph 5, renumbered 4, the words "pursuant to a joint action, information shall be provided in time to allow," shall be replaced by "pursuant to a decision as referred to in paragraph 1, information shall be provided by the Member State concerned in time to allow,";

(f) in the first sentence of paragraph 6, renumbered 5, the words "failing a Council decision," shall be replaced by "failing a review of the Council decision as referred to in paragraph 1," and the words "of the joint action" shall be replaced by "of that decision";

(g) in paragraph 7, renumbered 6, the words "joint action" in the first sentence shall be replaced by "decision as referred to in this Article" and in the second sentence by "decision referred to in paragraph 1".