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Third round of Armenia-EU talks on deep and comprehensive trade
scheduled for December 3-5 in Brussels
YEREVAN, October 5. / ARKA /. The third round of Armenian-EU
negotiations on deep and comprehensive free trade area are scheduled
for December 3-5 in Brussels, the Armenian ministry of economy said
today.
It said the second round was held in Yerevan on October 2-4 October.
The Armenian delegation was led by deputy economy minister Garegin
Melkonyan, the EU delegation was led by the head of Europe and Central
Asia department of the trade directorate of the European Commission
Luc Pierre Devin.
The sides were said to have discussed the legal texts of the agreement
in ten different areas - trade in goods, competition, technical
barriers to trade, customs issues, sustainable development,
intellectual property rights, rules of origin, transparency,
protection of trade, sanitary and phyto-sanitary facilities.
The sides were said to have registered propgress in all areas. They
have also reconciled legal texts in two directions. Upon the
completion of this round of negotiations they signed a document that
sets out the obligations and agreements of the parties in preparation
for the next round.
In the third round the sides will continue talks on all these areas
and will discuss also four draft texts covering trade in services,
government procurement, and energy.
On February 27 the EU's Trade Commission decided to launch
negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free trade area with Armenia
to boost economic growth and investment. The launch of the trade
negotiations was conditioned upon Armenia fulfilling a set of `key
recommendations'. These were issued in June 2009 and covered necessary
reforms in key regulatory areas related to trade, in order to prepare
Armenia for the upcoming negotiations. -0-
scheduled for December 3-5 in Brussels
YEREVAN, October 5. / ARKA /. The third round of Armenian-EU
negotiations on deep and comprehensive free trade area are scheduled
for December 3-5 in Brussels, the Armenian ministry of economy said
today.
It said the second round was held in Yerevan on October 2-4 October.
The Armenian delegation was led by deputy economy minister Garegin
Melkonyan, the EU delegation was led by the head of Europe and Central
Asia department of the trade directorate of the European Commission
Luc Pierre Devin.
The sides were said to have discussed the legal texts of the agreement
in ten different areas - trade in goods, competition, technical
barriers to trade, customs issues, sustainable development,
intellectual property rights, rules of origin, transparency,
protection of trade, sanitary and phyto-sanitary facilities.
The sides were said to have registered propgress in all areas. They
have also reconciled legal texts in two directions. Upon the
completion of this round of negotiations they signed a document that
sets out the obligations and agreements of the parties in preparation
for the next round.
In the third round the sides will continue talks on all these areas
and will discuss also four draft texts covering trade in services,
government procurement, and energy.
On February 27 the EU's Trade Commission decided to launch
negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free trade area with Armenia
to boost economic growth and investment. The launch of the trade
negotiations was conditioned upon Armenia fulfilling a set of `key
recommendations'. These were issued in June 2009 and covered necessary
reforms in key regulatory areas related to trade, in order to prepare
Armenia for the upcoming negotiations. -0-