EX.CL/Dec.1039(XXXIV) Page 1 DECISION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISION ASSEMBLY/AU/Dec.710(XXXI) ON HOSTING THE AFRICAN UNION CENTRE FOR POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (AUCPCRD) Doc. EX.CL/1119(XXXIV) The Executive Council, 1. TAKES NOTE of the Progress Report of the Commission on the Implementation of Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.710(XXXI) of July 2018 on the African Union Centre for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development; 2. REQUESTS the Commission to: i) prepare the governing legal instrument of AUCPCRD through the established procedures; ii) submit the structural, financial and legal implications to the relevant SubCommittees for assessment, prior to submission of same to the Executive Council for consideration and decision; and iii) finalize the Host Agreement of the AUCPCRD with the Arab Republic of Egypt, expedite the implementation of Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.710(XXXI) and report on the implementation of this Decision to the 35th Ordinary Session of Executive Council in Niamey, Niger, in July 2019. 34th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council, 7- 8 February 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia