Joint Proposal for a Council Decision on the Union position with regard to the adoption of the EU-Georgia Association Agenda

Relations between the EU and Georgia are currently based on the Association Agreement and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) framework reviewed in 2015. The key principles guiding bilateral relations in this context are more differentiation between partner countries and greater ownership by these countries.

The EU-Georgia Association Agreement was signed on 27 June 2014 and provisionally applied from 1 September 2014 until completion of the ratification process. The Association Agreement entered into force and became fully applicable on 1 July 2016.

With a view to preparing and facilitating the implementation of the Association Agreement, the Parties agreed on an Association Agenda at a meeting of the Cooperation Council on 26 June 2014. The Association Agenda provided a practical framework for drawing up a list of priorities for joint work in 2014-2016. These priorities were based on the structure of the Association Agreement, in the spirit of the overall objective of political association and economic integration.

Given that the Association Agreement has applied since 1 July 2016, the Association Agenda needs to be updated. This is a matter of political priority and has to reflect the current relations between the EU and Georgia. This document therefore updates and refocuses the 2014-2016 Association Agenda, setting new priorities for joint work in 2017-2020. It distinguishes between short-term priorities (where significant progress should be achieved by the end of 2018) and medium-term priorities (where significant progress should be achieved by 2019-2020).

EUR-Lex: JOIN(2017)012: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=JOIN:2017:012:FIN

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