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The European Parliament is rewarding Israel's human rights violations
On 18 September 2012, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) passed the Protocol on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) by a slim margin.
En mon nom, ne le ratifiez pas!
Signe et envoie une lettre à tes député(e)s européen(ne)s pour exprimer ton refus face à la ratification des Accords de Libre Echange et des Accords d΄Association entre l΄Union européenne et la Colombie, le Pérou et l΄Amérique centrale.
In my name, don't ratify!
Sign and send a letter to your MEPs to reject the ratification of the Free Trade Agreements and Association Agreements between the European Union and Colombia, Perú and Central America.
Barroso says EU, Moldova may sign association agreement by September 2013
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso believes Moldova and the EU could sign an association agreement within a year, before an Eastern Partnership summit scheduled for September 2013, the Moldovan government reported citing Barroso as saying in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Vlad Filat.
European chamber to release study on potential EU-Taiwan trade pact
A study on a potential trade agreement between the European Union and Taiwan will be released on Sept. 20 in Taipei, according to the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT).
Batting for $100-billion BPO industry: India links free trade agreement with EU to data-secure tag
India has upped the ante in its bid to get data-secure status from the European Union by linking it with free trade agreement.
Algeria delays implementation of FTA with EU
Algeria has won a trade concession from the European Union, according to which the EU-Algeria free trade agreement should be fully phased-in by 2020, and not by 2017.
Study to consider free trade agreement
The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has finished a study that will look into potential industries that will benefit from a potential free trade agreement with Europe and recommend a scope of such an agreement.
FTA between Ukraine and the EU: Effective only after 2015?
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (Minekonomiky) is initiating Ukraine’s accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). This will provide Ukrainian manufacturers simplified access to WTO procurement tenders involving 43 countries, including 27 EU members and the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland whose legislation is very close to that of the European Union).
Civic groups voice FTA worries
Civil society organisations have expressed concerns about Thai-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations to the European Parliament, which has expressed full support for the pact.