Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations
Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations
What, why and how?
2nd edition
Edited by
Michael Emerson
and
Veronika Movchan
CEPS Contributors Steven Blockmans Michael Emerson Hrant Kostanyan Guillaume Van Der Loo | IER Contributors Yevhen Anhel Oleksandra Betliy Kateryna Furmanets Iryna Kosse Olha Krasovska Kostyantyn Kravchuk Vitaliy Kravchuk Veronika Movchan Yuliia Oharenko Mykola Ryzhenkov Oleksa Stepanyuk |
One of a trilogy of Handbooks explaining the EUs Association Agreements and DCFTAs with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
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CONTENTS
List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
Table S 1. Political principles, the rule of law and foreign policy
Table S 2. Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
Table S 3. Economic Cooperation
Table 4.1 Merchandise trade turnover between Ukraine and the EU, 2008-17 ($ bn)
Table 9.1 National treatment or MFN reservations to establishment
Table 9.2 Market access and national treatment reservations for cross-border services
Table 9.3 EU trade in services with Ukraine, 2013-17 (million $)
Table 10.1 Thresholds for application of public procurement rules
Table 10.2 Updated indicative time schedule for approximation of public procurement rules (still to be approved by the Trade Committee)
Table 11.1 Evolution of Ukraines status under the USTR Report 301
Table 14.1 Ukraine: Main economic indicators
Table 14.2 EU support for Ukraine, indicative package for 2014-20
Table 15.1 Deadlines for implementation of EU legislation in the 2020 Programme (amended as of January 2017)
Table 21.1 EU Directives on company law in the EU-Ukraine Agreement
Table 23.1 Implementation plans of EU directives on labour issues
Table 25.1 Main thematic priorities of Horizon 2020
Table 26.1 EU agencies open to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia*
Table 26.2 EU programmes open to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
Figure 4.1 Ukraines actual exports to the EU compared to amount of TRQs, 2014 and 2017
Figure 8.1 Schedule for approximating SPS legislation of the EU (based on the Comprehensive Strategy for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures)
Figure 14.1 Economic trends in Ukraine since independence
Figure 15.1 Ownership structure of Ukrainian banks (by assets*)
Figure 22.1 Schedule for Implementation of the EU-Ukraine AA in the agricultural sector and development of the rural areas (based on the Action Plan for Implementation of the EU-Ukraine AA)
Box 7.1 New sectoral product legislation for approximation by Ukraine
Box 9.1 Summary of commitments and reservations of the EU and Ukraine for service sectors
Box 11.1 Technical assistance projects
Box 18.1 Costs of environmental upgrading of large combustion plants
Box 22.1 Summary of EU agricultural policy laws referred to in the Agreement
Box 23.1 Relationships between EU employment and social directives and ILO conventions
Box 25.1 Examples of collaborative EU-Ukraine research projects
Box 27.1 Regional beneficiaries of cross-border cooperation in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus
Box 27.2 Joint Operational Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine, 2014-20