Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council. Annual report on the implementation of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement

1 July 2013 marked the second anniversary of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and its Member States and the Republic of Korea (‘Korea’), which has been provisionally applied since July 2011. It is the first of a new generation FTA, characterised by its far-reaching and comprehensive nature. It is also the EU's first trade deal with an Asian country.

This is the second Annual Report on the implementation of the FTA, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 511/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2011 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Korea.

According to Article 13(1) of the said Regulation, the Commission shall make public an annual report on the application and implementation of the Agreement. Furthermore, Article 3(3) stipulates that the Commission shall present an annual monitoring report to the European Parliament and the Council on updated statistics on imports from Korea of products in the sensitive sectors and those sectors to which monitoring has been extended. This report therefore combines these two reporting requirements.

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