Rådet vedtager på forslag af Kommissionen eller EU-udenrigsministeren en europæisk afgørelse om suspension af anvendelsen af en aftale og om fastlæggelse af, hvilke holdninger der skal indtages på Unionens vegne i et organ nedsat ved en aftale, når dette organ skal vedtage retsakter, der har retsvirkninger, bortset fra retsakter, der supplerer eller ændrer den institutionelle ramme for aftalen.10.  
The Council, on a proposal from the Commission or the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs, shall adopt a European decision suspending application of an agreement and establishing the positions to be adopted on the Union's behalf in a body set up by an agreement, when that body is called upon to adopt acts having legal effects, with the exception of acts supplementing or amending the institutional framework of the agreement.10.  