Assembly/AU/Dec.263 (XIII) Page 1 DECISION ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION INTO THE AFRICAN UNION AUTHORITY DOC. ASSEMBLY/ AU/4(XIII) The Assembly, 1. TAKES NOTE of the Conclusions of the Twelfth Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council on the Modalities for the Implementation of Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.233 (XIII) on the transformation of the African Union Commission into the African Union Authority; 2. ENDORSES the said recommendations as amended and adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; 3. REQUESTS the Commission to take all necessary measures to prepare the following: 4. i.) the legal instruments for amendments to the Constitutive Act, the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, the Executive Council, the Peace and Security Council, the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), and the Statutes of the Commission related to the Creation of the African Union (AU) Authority, and in this regard, REQUESTS the Commission to convene a meeting of Government Experts to consider them; ii.) the structure of the new AU Authority, taking into account the mandate given to the Authority, in collaboration with the PRC; iii.) the financial implications of the transformation of the Commission into the AU Authority, in collaboration with the PRC. FURTHER REQUESTS the Commission to report on the implementation of this Decision and to submit the necessary legal instruments to the Assembly through the Executive Council at its Ordinary Session in June/July 2010 for consideration, adoption and subsequent ratification by Member States, and in this regard AUTHORIZES the expenditures for the necessary actions from arrears of contributions. Adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 3 July 2009