Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council. Annual report on the implementation of Part IV of the EU-Central America Association Agreement

The EU signed the Association Agreement with Central America on 29 June 2012. Part IV of the Agreement, covering Trade, has been provisionally applied as from 1 August 2013 with Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama, 1 October 2013 with El Salvador and Costa Rica and finally as from 1 December 2013 with Guatemala.

The Commission regularly informs and updates the Parliament and the Council as regards the implementation of the Agreement. As a complement, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 20/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Agreement, the Commission shall present an annual report to the European Parliament and the Council. This report responds to this requirement.

In line with Article 13 of the Regulation, the report contains three sections:
- A summary of the statistics and an overall assessment of trade flows;
- Information on the activities of various bodies responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Agreement, including on fulfilment of obligations under the Title on Trade and Sustainable Development;
- Information on the monitoring activities referred to in the Regulation.

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)131: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:131:FIN

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