Resilience in the Context of the Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Roman Petrov,Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva

doi:10.18523/kmlpj249888.2021-7.1-26

Roman Petrov, Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva

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https://doi.org/10.18523/kmlpj249888.2021-7.1-26

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Abstract

This article examines the extent of the practice of resilience in the process of the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA). Also, it analyses the main legislative and institutional tools promoting resilience of Ukraine’s market integration with the EU. Two cases are considered in this study. The first case is the launch of negotiations on the EU-Ukraine Agreement on Conformity and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA). The second case is an EU-Ukraine Trade Dispute on Export Woods Ban. In both cases the EU institutions and Ukraine display a high degree of flexibility to pursue a policy of resilience to achieve a high degree of EU Internal Market rapprochement. In the case of Ukraine, the institutional mechanism of the EU-Ukraine AA remains unused as a forum to discuss effectively and to find solutions for impeding problems in the bilateral cooperation agenda. Therefore, a coherent, transparent, and effective institutional cooperation framework in the bilateral EU-Ukraine relations is still needed.

Highlights

The first case is the launch of negotiations on the EU-U kraine Agreement on Conformity and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA)
Cooperation with the EU; whereas Armenia concluded a Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU in 2017; Azerbaijan and the EU are currently negotiating the new partnership agreement, and their relations are based on the outdated Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1999; in the case of Belarus, the EU follows the policy of critical engagement since 2016, and, no framework contractual document is in place (Council Conclusions on Belarus, 2016)
The first case study looks at the launch of negotiations on the EU-Ukraine Agreement on Conformity and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) through the EU’s resilience toolbox

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Introduction

EU relations with the countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) are not homogeneous, thereby necessitating an individualized resilience approach and unique bilateral contractual relations of each EaP country with the EU. In the case of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the ambitious framework association agreements form the legal basis for. It further focuses on the AA’s implementation and approximation issues as key aspects of legal and policy resilience. Resilience in the Context of the Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Conceptualizing Resilience in Context of the Eastern Partnership

Single Market and Trade Dimension in Relations between the EU and Ukraine

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