1.12.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 345/1 II (Non-legislative acts) DECISIONS COUNCIL DECISION of 1 December 2014 concerning the notification of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of its wish to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis which are contained in acts of the Union in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and amending Decisions 2000/365/EC and 2004/926/EC (2014/857[EU) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Protocol No 36 on transitional provisions (hereinafter ‘Protocol No 36’), annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular to Article 10(5) thereof, Having regard the Protocol No 19 on the Schengen acquis integrated into the framework of the European Union (herein- after ‘the Schengen Protocol), annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular to Article 4 thereof, Having regard to the notification, under Article 10(4) of Protocol No 36, by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (hereinafter ‘the United Kingdom'), by its letter to the President of the Council of 24 July 2013, Having regard to the notification, under Article 10(5) of Protocol No 36, by the Government of the United Kingdom, by its letter to the President of the Council and to the President of the Commission taking effect on 1 December 2014, of its wish to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis which are contained in acts of the Union in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, Whereas: (1)  Article 10(4) of Protocol No 36 allowed the United Kingdom, at the latest six months before the expiry of the five year transitional period after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, to notify to the Council that it does not accept, with respect to acts of the Union in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in crim- inal matters which had been adopted before the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the powers of the Commission and of the Court of Justice as referred to in Article 10(1) of Protocol No 36. (2) By letter to the President of the Council of 24 July 2013, the United Kingdom made use of the above possibility by notifying the Council that it did not accept the said powers of the Commission and of the Court of Justice, with the consequence that the relevant acts in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters would cease to apply to the United Kingdom on 1 December 2014. (3)  Article 10(5) of Protocol No 36 allows the United Kingdom to notify the Council of its wish to participate in the above acts, including those acts which are part of the Schengen acquis, in which case the relevant provisions of the Schengen Protocol should apply.