Accord association UE Ukraine

EU-Ukraine Associaton Agreement “Guide to the Associaton Agreement” ++++ Background: Relatons between the EU and Ukraine are currently based on the Partnership and Co-operaton Agreement (PCA) which entered into force in 1998. At the Paris Summit in 2008 the leaders of the EU and Ukraine agreed that an Associaton Agreement should be the successor agreement to the Partnership and Co-operaton Agreement. The EU-Ukraine Associaton Agreement (AA) is the frst of a new generaton of Associaton Agreements with Eastern Partnership countries. Negotatons on this comprehensive, ambitous and innovatve Agreement between the EU and Ukraine were launched in March 2007. In February 2008, following confrmaton of Ukraine’s WTO membership, the EU and Ukraine launched negotatons on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) as a core element of the Associaton Agreement. At the 15th Ukraine-EU Summit of 19 December 2011, the EU leaders and President Yanukovych noted that a common understanding on the text of the Associaton Agreement was reached. On 30 March 2012 the chief negotators of the European Union and Ukraine initalled the text of the Associaton Agree - ment, which included provisions on the establishment of a DCFTA as an integral part. In this context, chief trade ne- gotators from both sides initalled the DCFTA part of the Agreement on 19 July 2012.