| Author (Corporate) | European Commission |
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| Series Title | COM |
| Series Details | (2013) 290 final (15.5.13) |
| Publication Date | 15/05/2013 |
| Content Type | Policy-making |
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The attached proposal constitutes the legal instrument for authorising the conclusion of the Association Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part. The Commission proposal for the Council approval of the parts of the Agreement which fall under the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community will be made separately. Relations between the EU and Ukraine are currently based on the Partnership and Co-operation Agreement which entered into force in 1998. At the 13th EU-Ukraine Summit in Paris in 2008, the leaders of the EU and Ukraine agreed that the Partnership and Co-operation Agreement should be succeeded by an Association Agreement. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is the first of a new generation of Association Agreements with Eastern Partnership countries. Negotiations of this comprehensive and ambitious Agreement between the EU and Ukraine were launched in March 2007. In February 2008, following the decision of accession of Ukraine to the WTO, the EU and Ukraine launched negotiations on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) as a core element of the Association Agreement. The Association Agreement aims to accelerate the deepening of political and economic relations between Ukraine and the EU, as well as Ukraine's gradual access to parts of the EU Internal Market including by setting up a DCFTA. It is a concrete way to exploit the dynamics in EU-Ukraine relations, focusing on support to core reforms, on economic recovery and growth, governance and sector co-operation. The Agreement also constitutes a reform agenda for Ukraine, based on a comprehensive programme of approximation of Ukraine’s legislation to EU norms, around which all partners of Ukraine can align themselves and focus their assistance. EU assistance to Ukraine is linked with the reform agenda as it emerges from the Agreement. The Comprehensive Institutional Building Programme is particularly important in this regard. At the 15th Ukraine-EU Summit of 19 December 2011, the EU and the President of Ukraine noted that a common understanding on the text of the Association Agreement was reached. On 30 March 2012, the chief negotiators of the European Union and Ukraine initialled the text of the Association Agreement. The trade negotiators from both sides initialled the DCFTA part of the Agreement on 19 July 2012. |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2013:290:FIN |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe, Ukraine |
