Decision 2019/1748 on the position to be taken within the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Management Sub-Committee established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine

Summary:

Council Decision of 7 October 2019 establishing the position to be taken on behalf of the Union regarding the adoption by the SPS Sub-Committee of a decision on the modification of Annex V of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

Further information:

The Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part aims to establish conditions for enhanced economic and trade relations leading towards Ukraine's gradual integration in the EU Internal Market. The Agreement entered into force on 1 September 2017.

The Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Management Sub-Committee is to adopt a decision on the modification of Annex V to Chapter 4 of the Agreement, which lists the Union acquis to which Ukraine intends to approximate its legislation in the area of sanitary, phytosanitary and animal welfare measures.

A list was presented by Ukraine in June 2016. Based on this list Decision (EU) 2017/1391 was adopted. However, the decision by the SPS Sub-Committee was never taken because Ukraine announced shortly thereafter that a number of clarifications and changes to the list was necessary. Ukraine submitted the revised list in October 2018.

This Decision establishes the Union's position to be adopted in the SPS Sub-Committee, and will also repeal Decision (EU) 2017/1391 as the list adopted by that Decision has been amended.

EUR-Lex: COM(2019)344: Proposal for a Decision on the position to be taken in the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Management Sub-Committee established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2019:344:FIN

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