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Ukraine-EU Free Trade Area as an instrument of European integration and internal reforms |
Ukrainian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre (UEPLAC) facilitated a conference organized jointly with the European Integration Committee and Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovan Rada of Ukraine entitled Ukraine-EU Free Trade Area as an instrument of European integration and internal reforms. Two other EU technical assistance projects, namely, Accession to and Implementation by Ukraine of International Agreements and Conventions on Transport and EU technical assistance project Implementation of Ukraine’s commitments under WTO and ENP frameworks in the Rural Sector (Sector Wide Approach) made a contribution too .
This event continued the Ukrainian debate about the new contractual relationship with the European Union, which began in other fora, for example, by the initiative of the Yalta-European Strategy (YES) and the World Bank in 2008. It was however different as it had a much more focused target audience (namely, the Members of the Parliament and the staff of the Secretariats of parliamentary committee (-ies)) and it focused not so much on the overall benefits and costs of the future new agreement between the EU and Ukraine but on its implications for domestic policy in concrete legal and institutional terms. In addition to the presentations of the experts of UEPLAC and other EU technical assistance projects, the case studies of Bosnia and Herzegovina (recent signatory of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU) and Lithuania were explored.
The conference speakers, both from Ukrainian line ministries and EU experts, analyzed the implications of the future Association Treaty and deep free trade area as its core component for Ukraine in the areas of internal market, energy, environment, transport policy and agriculture (food safety). For that purpose UEPLAC written briefing document (Aide memoire) with contribution of the above mentioned EU technical assistance projects in structured way presented both the background issues and possible implications in various policy areas.
UEPLAC is funded by the European Union and implemented by the European Consultants Organisation (ECO) in consortium with THALES Services SAS, STELLA Consulting, ESTEP and EFICOM. The project will continue until 16 July 2009 .
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Presentations:
- Association, Europeanization and Policy Blueprints: overview and lessons learned, Klaudijus Maniokas, UEPLAC short tem expert, former deputy Chief Negotiator of Lithuania for EU membership and deputy Director General of the European Committee under the Government of Lithuania
- Stabilization and Association Agreements
with the Western Balkan countries
as a new type of European Union contractual relationship:
negotiation experiences and implementation issues
for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Osman Topčagić, Ambassador, Head of Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Communities, former Director of the Directorate for European Integration of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (secretariat for negotiations on the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU)
- Ukraine - EU free trade area, energy, Juris Ozolins, UEPLAC Legal Adviser in Energy, Environment, Transports and Telecommunications
- Implications of the future Ukraine – EU Association Agreement and deep FTA as its core to environmental policy of Ukraine, Arūnas Kundrotas, UEPLAC expert in Environment, former Minister of Environment of Lithuania (2001-2008)
- Implications of the future Ukraine – EU Association Agreement and deep FTA as its core to food safety, sanitary and phytosanitary policy, Tony Wheale, Food safety expert, EU technical assistance project Implementation of Ukraine’s commitments under WTO and ENP frameworks in the Rural Sector (Sector Wide Approach)
- Implications of the future Ukraine – EU Association Agreement and deep FTA as its core to road haulage sector, Oleh Myroshnichenko, UEPLAC expert in Regulatory Impact Assessment
- The role of the parliament during implementation of Association Agreement and Accession Treaty: the case of Lithuania, Petras Auštrevičius, Deputy Chairman of the Deputy Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania and former Chief Negotiator of Lithuania for EU Membership
- Trade and trade-related issues in the new contractual relationships between the EU and Ukraine – elements of continuity and novelties, Jacques Tallineau, UEPLAC Legal Adviser in Internal Market Issues and Economic and Trade-related Reforms
- Conference Ukraine-EU Free Trade Area as an instrument of European integration and internal reforms, Marc Graille, Team leader, Tacis project Accession to and Implementation by Ukraine
of International Agreements and Conventions on Transport
- Ukraine–EU Association Agreement and its free trade component as a step in the European integration process: the future agreement in comparative perspective, Darius Žeruolis, Senior Legal Approximation Advisor, UEPLAC
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