Traduction de «Accord d'Ankara » (Français → Anglais) :

The finance agreement was signed today in Ankara in a public ceremony.

The European Investment Bank is providing EUR 200 million to the Turkish State Railways, as a further contribution to upgrading the country’s main transport corridor between Ankara and Istanbul.

The European Investment Bank provided EUR 400 million in favour of the Turkish State Railways TCDD as a further contribution to the country’s main transport corridor between Ankara and Istanbul.

AA. whereas Turkey has signed, but not ratified or implemented, the Additional Protocol extending the Ankara Agreement to the new Member States and whereas this results, inter alia, in a continued embargo against vessels flying the Cypriot flag as well as vessels approaching from harbours in the Republic of Cyprus, denying them access to Turkish ports, and an embargo against Cypriot aircraft, denying them flying rights over Turkey and landing rights at Turkish airports, AB. whereas, as stated in the above-mentioned declaration of the ...[+++]European Community and its Member States of 21 September 2005 and in the Presidency conclusions of the Brussels European Council of 15 and 16 June 2006, the EU will closely monitor and evaluate full, non-discriminatory implementation of the Ankara Agreement and its Additional Protocol by Turkey in 2006, and whereas the European Community and its Member States have declared that failure on the part of Turkey to implement its contractual obligations in full will affect overall progress in the negotiations, AC. whereas Turkey continues to exert an unjustifiable blockade against Armenia; whereas this blockade threatens the stability of the region, hampers good-neighbourly regional development and breaches the priorities of the revised Accession Partnership and the requirements of the Negotiation Framework, Democracy and the rule of law

4. Insists that the Council of the European Union will ensure, together with the Turkish authorities, that all provisions of the Protocol extending the Ankara Agreement are fully implemented with regard to trade and trading possibilities and facilities for all the Union’s Member States; calls on the Commission to make, by the end of 2006, a full assessment of the implementation of the extended Ankara Agreement, and stresses that failure in the implementation of this agreement will have serious implications for the negotiation process and could even lead to a halting of the negotiation process; demands, therefore, that the implementatio ...[+++]n of the Customs Union be amongst the first chapters to be dealt with in the accession negotiations;

Despite the economic and social context, in which there is large- scale unemployment in the Community (16.75 million, i.e. 12.4 % of the Community of Twelve's labour force) and an improvement in Turkey's economic situation, with an average growth of 4.4 % in 1980-1985, resulting in unemployment figures which are no longer very different from the Community's, the Commission proposes the following : - 2 - * the consolidation and imporvement of the status of Turkish workers and their families legally resident in the Community, mainly by eliminating the discrimination which still exists as regards living and working conditions. * the establishment of conditions governing access to the labour market of a Member State for Turkish workers provided ...[+++] there are jobs available and with priority being given to the employment of nationals of the Member States. * measures to ensure that families can be reunited, in order to protect family life and enable parents to meet their obligations as regards education. These measures also take into account the situation of Greek, Spanish and Portuguese workers in the Community. The exercise of their right to freedom of movement will be limited until 1987 in the case of Greek workers and 1992 (*) in the case of workers from the two new Member States. Under the Additional Protocol to the Association Agreement, Turkish workers may not enjoy more favourable treatment thant the workers from the Member States (*) 31 December 1995 for Luxembourg - 3 - AIDE-MEMOIRE Present status of Turkish workers in the Community On the basis of the Ankara Agreement, the Association Council decided in 1976 that, for an initial period of four years, the Member States would give priority to Turkish workers if Community labour was not available. In June 198O, the Association Council decided to imporve on thses arrangements : after three years of legal employment in a Member State, the Turkish worker may apply for a job in the same trade or profession and enjoy free ...