The Treaties do not prohibit the Council from waiting, before adopting the decision concluding the Istanbul Convention on behalf of the European Union, for the ‘common accord’ of the Member States, but the Council cannot alter the procedure for concluding that convention by making that conclusion contingent on the prior establishment of such a ‘common accord’
The Court specifies the appropriate substantive legal basis for the adoption of the Council act concluding the part of the Istanbul Convention covered by the envisaged agreement and holds that the act concluding that convention may be divided into two separate decisions where an objective need to do so is established