Traduction de «Regional trade agreement » (Anglais → Français) :

The G7 leaders reaffirmed their commitment to open and fair global trade and a rules-based global trade system and called for swift progress on various regional trade agreements, including the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation as regards exports and certain general provisions, implementing powers should also be conferred on the Commission in respect of measures on the treatment of refund certificates by the Member States and the exchange of information and the specific administrative assistance between the Member States as regards the refund certificates, measures on the fixing of the global amount allocated to small exporters and the individual threshold of exemption from the presentation of refund certificates, measures on the issuing of replacement refund certificates and duplicate refund certificates, measures limiting the amounts for which refund certificates may be issued, rejec ...[+++]ting amounts applied for in respect of those certificates and suspending the lodging of applications for refund certificates where amounts that exceed available amounts fixed on the basis of the commitments resulting from international agreements, are applied for, necessary procedural rules and technical criteria for the application of other measures with regard of exports, measures on fixing the applicable duty in case of direct offsetting in preferential trade and the related amounts payable on exports to the country or region concerned, measures ensuring that processed agricultural products declared for export under a preferential trade agreement are not in fact exported under a non-preferential agreement or vice versa, measures concerning the methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of processed agricultural products and non-Annex I goods, the technical provisions necessary for their identification and the procedures for the purpose of their classification in the Combined Nomenclature.

whereas the EU is convinced that developing and strengthening the multilateral system is the crucial objective; whereas, however, that does not preclude bilateral agreements going beyond WTO commitments and being complementary to multilateral rules, since both regional agreements and free trade agreements lead to increasing harmonisation of standards and broader liberalisation favourable to the multilateral trading system;

Notes that the EU has negotiated or is negotiating free trade agreements with the other two members of NAFTA, Mexico and Canada; asks, therefore, the Commission and its US counterparts to consider formulating a provision in the potential EU-US free trade agreement allowing for a future harmonisation of these agreements to form a region-to-region EU-NAFTA agreement;

- supporting regional partners’ capacity to own and lead Aid for Trade efforts , in particular by building regional organisations' capacity to assess the implications of trade or regional integration and/or trade agreements with third countries and strengthening their capacity to monitor and implement commitments, including for issues such as fiscal reforms;

Regional Trade: To reap the full benefits of trade liberalisation in the region the free trade agreements (FTAs) concluded between countries in the region (as well as with Bulgaria and Romania) at the beginning of 2003 need to be ratified swiftly and implemented.