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词条 European Union–Singapore Free Trade Agreement
释义

  1. Content of the Agreement

  2. Ratification

  3. External links

  4. See also

  5. Sources

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The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, acronym EUSFTA, is a signed and ratified free trade and bilateral investment treaty between the European Union and Singapore. EUSFTA has been negotiated since March 2010 and its text has been publicly accessible since June 2015.[1] The negotiations on goods and services were completed in 2012, on investment protection on October 17, 2014.[2]

The agreement is expected to be the first free trade agreement with a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the third agreement with an Asian country after South Korea and Japan from an EU perspective.

In October 19, 2018, three agreements were signed between the parties, the EU-Singapore Trade Agreement, the EU-Singapore Investment Protection Agreement and the Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation.[3]

Content of the Agreement

The EUSFTA covers the following key areas:

  • Elimination of import duties and taxes 
  • Improved market access for trade in services 
  • More government procurement opportunities 
  • Strengthened cooperation in customs and trade facilitation matters
  • Removal of technical and non-tariff barriers to trade 
  • Cooperation in the implementation of sanitary and phytosanitary measures 
  • Enhanced protection of intellectual property rights 
  • Robust disciplines on competition policy 
  • Renewed commitment to sustainable development

Ratification

According to an opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in Luxembourg, EUSFTA is a so-called mixed agreement. This prompted the European Commission to split the agreement in a free trade agreement and an investment protection agreement. In order for the latter to come into force, all 28 individual EU countries would, therefore, have to ratify the agreement. In February 13, 2019, the European Union approved both the free trade agreement and investment protection agreement and is expected to come into force as soon as possible. [4]

The opinion was requested by the European Commission, which wanted to confirm whether the EU institutions alone were entitled to conclude the agreement, without the individual member states being parties.[5]

External links

  • Portal of the European Commission on the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
  • Treaty text of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement

See also

  • Singapore–European Union relations
  • European Union free trade agreements

Sources

1. ^{{cite web|title=EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Authentic text as of May 2015|trans-title=|periodical=|publisher=|url=http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=961|deadurl=|format=|accessdate=2017-07-10|archiveurl=|archivedate=|last=|date=2015-06-29|year=|month=|day=|language=|pages=|quote=}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Singapore - Trade - European Commission|trans-title=|periodical=|publisher=|url=http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/singapore/|deadurl=|format=|accessdate=2017-07-10|archiveurl=|archivedate=|last=|date=2017-02-22|year=|month=|day=|language=|pages=|quote=}}
3. ^http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1926
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.mti.gov.sg/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2019/02/European-Parliament-approves-EUSFTA-and-EUSIPA|title=European Parliament approves EUSFTA and EUSIPA|website=www.mti.gov.sg|access-date=2019-04-02}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=EuGH bremst Freihandelsabkommen EUSFTA|trans-title=|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/EuGH-bremst-Freihandelsabkommen-EUSFTA-3723106.html|deadurl=|accessdate=2017-07-10|archiveurl=|archivedate=|last=|date=2017-05-25|year=|month=|day=|language=German|pages=|quote=}}
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