Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations
Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations
What, why and how?
2nd edition
Edited by
Michael Emerson
and
Denis Cenua
CEPS Contributors Steven Blockmans Michael Emerson Hrant Kostanyan Guillaume Van Der Loo | Expert-Grup Contributors Denis Cenua Vadim Gumene Iurie Morcotylo Dumitru Pntea Tatiana Savva |
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 and Boxes
Table S 1. Overview of Political principles, rule of law and foreign policy
Table S 2. Overview of DCFTA in Moldova
Table S 3. Overview of EU-Moldovan economic cooperation
Table 4.1 Moldovan products subject to annual duty-free TRQs for import into the EU
Table 4.2 Trade turnover between Moldova and the EU ($ mn)
Table 4.3 Exports of Moldova to the EU that increased ($ mn)
Table 4.4 Moldovas trade structure by country or region, 2013 and 2017
Table 4.5 Main EU imports from, and exports to, Moldova, 2017
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 Moldova, 2014-15 ( mn)
Table 10.1 Adjusted thresholds for the application of public procurement rules
Table 10.2 Adjusted indicative time schedule for approximation of public procurement rules
Table 14.1 Main economic indicators of Moldova
Table 14.2 EU budgetary assistance to Moldova, by sector, 201420
Table 19.1 Aspects of ICT development in Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine and Romania
Table 21.1 Overview of EU company law directives for approximation
Table 21.2 Progress with implementation of EU company law directives
Table 25.1 Main thematic priorities of Horizon 2020
Table 25.2 Horizon 2020 data on proposals for Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia
Box 9.1 Summary of commitments and reservations of the EU and Moldova for services sectors
Box 11.1 Timeline of steps taken by Moldova in acceding to IPR conventions and organisations
Box 15.1 The 2014 bank fraud
Box 18.1 Basic features of the Moldovan environment
Box 22.1 Summary of EU agricultural policy laws referred to in the Agreement
Box 23.1 Relationship between EU employment and social directives and ILO conventions
Box 26.1 EU agencies open to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia*
Box 26.2 EU programmes open to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia*
Box 27.1 Regions of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine participating in cross-border cooperation
Box 27.2 RomaniaUkraineMoldova cross-border projects, 200713
ABBREVIATIONS
AA Association Agreement
ATM Autonomous trade measures
ACAA Agreement on Conformity and Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products
AEO Authorised Economic Operator
ANRE National Agency for Energy Regulation
ANSA National Agency for Food Safety
ATP Autonomous trade preferences
CAA Common Aviation Agreement
CE Conformit Europenne
CEN European Committee for Standardisation
CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CJEU Court of Justice of the European Union
COSME Competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises
CRS Computer reservation system
CSDP Common Security and Defence Policy
DCFTA Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
DG Directorate-General
DO Designation of origin
DSM Dispute settlement mechanism
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ECtHR European Court of Human Rights
EESC European Economic and Social Committee
EIB European Investment Bank
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU European Union
EUBAM EU Border Assistance Mission
GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GI Geographical indication
GMO Genetically modified organism
GOST Gosudarstvenny Standart (State Standard)
GPA Government Procurement Agreement
GSP Generalised System of Preferences
ICT Information and communication technology
ILO International Labour Organization
IMF International Monetary Fund
IPR Intellectual property right
MAFI Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry
MFN Most favoured nation
MOLDAC National Institute of Metrology and the National Centre of Accreditation
NBM National Bank of Moldova
NBS National Bureau of Statistics
NCFM National Commission for Financial Markets
NCIP National Commission on Intellectual Property
NCTS New Computerised Transit System
NGO Non-governmental organisation
NIPS National Intellectual Property Strategy
OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OGP Open Government Partnership
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
PEM Pan-Euro-Mediterranean system of rules of origin
PLLC Public limited liability company
SPS Sanitary and phytosanitary (food safety) regulations
TBT Technical barriers to trade (industrial product standards)
TRIPS Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights