Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken within the Association Council established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine

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 was signed on 21 March and 27 June 2014, and is provisionally applied in part. Title IV on Trade and Trade-Related Matters is provisionally applied since 1 January 2016.

The Association Council is a body established by the Agreement which meets at regular intervals at least once a year at ministerial level to hold political and policy dialogue. It supervises and monitors the application and implementation of the Agreement and periodically reviews the functioning of the Agreement in the light of its objectives. The Association Committee in Trade configuration is a body which has the power to adopt decisions in the cases provided for in the Agreement and in areas in which the Association Council has delegated powers to it.

The Association Council is to adopt a decision regarding the modification of Annex I-A. The addition of Appendix C to Annex I-A, while not implying any substantive change is nonetheless considered necessary to provide the maximum clarity as regards the implementation of the Agreement.

The Association Committee in Trade configuration is to adopt a decision on the recalculation of the schedule of export duty elimination set out in Annex I-C and Annex I-D to the Agreement. The recalculation of export duties for Annexes I-C and I-D is mandated in the Agreement itself, and is instrumental to maintaining the relative preference (same proportion) compared to the WTO-bound export duty rates applicable during the period of export duties dismantlement.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)663: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:663:FIN

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