Traduction de «accordo di libero scambio » (Italien → Anglais) :

Welcomes the agreement of 22 December 2015 to open negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement with the Philippines; considers it appropriate that the Commission and the Philippine authorities ensure high standards on human rights, labour and the environment; underscores that such an FTA should serve as a building block towards a region-to-region EU-ASEAN agreement on trade and investment which can be restarted in parallel.

B. whereas the Commission’s negotiating directives for the EU-Vietnam FTA are attached to the Council’s authorisation of 23 April 2007 to enter into negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and follow on the endorsement by the Council of the scoping paper which outlines the common objectives of both negotiating parties, namely to intensify existing bilateral trade relations; recalls that the initial objective was to negotiate an FTA with the ASEAN region; supports therefore the possibility of negotiating fully comprehensive agreements with countries of the ASEAN regio ...[+++]n (as building blocks towards the ultimate objective of negotiating a region-to-region FTA in the future);

7. Welcomes the decision of the European Council to sign the political chapters of the Association Agreement before the presidential elections in Ukraine; welcomes the European Council’s commitment to ensuring that the EU unilaterally adopts measures that will allow Ukraine to benefit substantially from the advantages offered in the Deep and Comprehensive Trade Area, such as the application of provisions related to the import of goods by reducing tariffs and opening tariff rate quotas; reiterates that the outstanding parts of the AA/DCFTA should be signed as soon as possible; insists on the need for clear signals demonstrating to Russ ...[+++]ia that nothing in this agreement endangers or harms future cooperative bilateral political and economic relations between Ukraine and Russia; welcomes the recent recognition by the Council that the Association Agreement, including a DCFTA, does not constitute a final goal in EU-Ukraine cooperation; stresses, furthermore, that Article 49 TEU refers to all European states, including Ukraine, which has a European perspective, and may apply to become a Member of the Union, provided that it adheres to the principles of democracy, respects fundamental freedoms and human and minority rights, and ensures the rule of law;

I. whereas the signing of an EU-ASEAN FTA has been a priority objective for the EU since 2007, with the hope of including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam; whereas the lack of progress in the negotiations on this regional agreement has led to the opening of bilateral negotiations with ASEAN member countries, including Thailand, with a political commitment to conclude the FTA within two years;

H. whereas the FTA between the EU and India should by no means prevent parties from taking full advantage of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health adopted by the WTO on November 14, 200; Whereas all countries should be free to use all relevant safeguards and flexibilities under the TRIPS Agreement to promote access to affordable medicines and should not, as an obligation of a free trade agreement, be obliged to introduce stricter levels of intellectual property protection than is available under TRIPS, which can delay generic competition and undermine the use of TRIPS safeguards and flexibilities,

If free trade agreements are to be concluded, then certain conditions need to apply: for a start, the choice of free trade agreements needs to be limited to the states or economic regions with which our competitors have already concluded an agreement or are in the process of negotiating one; secondly, the scope of such a free trade agreement should go well beyond the WTO topics, and we in the European Union should also, additionally, endeavour to entrench in this free trade agreement standards agreed plurilaterally on the broadest possible basis.