Assembly/AU/Dec.289(XV) Page 1 DECISION ON THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE THIRD AFRICA-EUROPEAN UNION SUMMIT Doc. Assembly/AU/16(XV) The Assembly, 1. WELCOMES the progress made in the preparations for the Third AfricaEuropean Union (EU) Summit scheduled to be held in the Great Jamahiriya on 29 and 30 November 2010; 2. REQUESTS the Commission to work closely with the Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC) and its relevant Sub-Committee to elaborate a Second Action Plan, jointly with the EU side on the basis of guidelines endorsed by the14th Africa-EU Ministerial Troika meeting held in Luxembourg on 26 April 2010; 3. REQUESTS the Commission in collaboration with Member States to engage the EU side to discuss the possibility of adopting “Economic Growth, Job Creation and Investment” as the overarching theme of the Summit; 4. ALSO REQUESTS the Commission to report on the implementation of this Decision to the next Ordinary Session of the Assembly through the Executive Council in January 2011. Adopted by the Fifteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on 27 July 2010 in Kampala, Uganda