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Agreement name:	EU - Türkiye
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Customs Union
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	06-Mar-1995	Date of notification:	22-Dec-1995
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-1996	End of implementation period:	1996
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union, L 35, 13 February 1996. The United Kingdom was a Member State of the European Union until 31 January 2020. The European Union and the United Kingdom have agreed a Withdrawal Agreement pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which provides for a time-limited transition period during which European Union law, with limited exceptions as provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement will apply to and in the United Kingdom. Further details are available in the communication from the United Kingdom (WT/GC/206) dated 1 February 2020 and the note verbal from the European Union (WT/LET/1462) dated 27 January 2020 notifying WTO members that the United Kingdom is treated as a member State of the European Union for the purposes of relevant international agreements for the duration of the transition period.
Current signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Türkiye
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; Türkiye; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

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EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission
Türkiye, Ministry of Trade

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F S

Consideration status:	Factual Abstract issued

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG22

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG22/N/1	E F S
Notification / Addendum	WT/REG22/N/1/Add.1	E F S
Agreement	WT/REG22/1	E F S
Agreement / Addendum	WT/REG22/1/Add.1	E F S
Factual Abstract		E
Standard Format for information on RTAs	WT/REG22/5	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG22/6	E F S
Questions and Replies / Addendum	WT/REG22/6/Add.1	E F S
Questions and Replies / Addendum	WT/REG22/6/Add.2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG22/M/1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG22/M/2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG22/M/3	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG22/M/4	E F S
General incidence	WT/REG22/11	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/10	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Abstract (G)	E

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 01/03/2021

Topics
	Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ)
	All quantitative import restrictions prohibited
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Change of Tariff Classification Criteria (CTC)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Other Criteria(s)
		De minimis rules
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
		Cumulation with non-Parties permitted
	All Export Duties and Charges prohibited
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
		Mandatory recognition of conformity assessment results
		Mandatory recognition of technical regulations
		Harmonization/alignement of TBT measures at the bilateral/regional level
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures


	Countervailing measures
	Subsidies (Goods)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TRIPS Agreement
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
		Industrial Designs
		Geographical Indications (GIs)
		Enforcement
	Competition
		Adopts or maintains competition law
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)

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