WTO | Regional trade agreements

EU - Montenegro

Basic InformationWTO Consideration ProcessRTA ProvisionsTrade-related data

Agreement name:	EU - Montenegro
Coverage:	Goods & Services	Type:	Free Trade Agreement & Economic Integration Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV & GATS Art. V
Date of signature:	15-Oct-2007	Date of notification (G):	16-Jan-2008
		Date of notification (S):	18-Jun-2010
Date of entry into force (G):	01-Jan-2008	End of implementation period:	2013
Date of entry into force (S):	01-May-2010
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 345 of 28-Dec-2007. 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; Montenegro
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Montenegro; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

Related agreements

EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission
Montenegro, Ministry of Economy

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F S

Consideration status (G):	Factual Presentation issued	Consideration status (S):	Factual Presentation issued
Date of Consideration (G):	28-Jun-2011	Date of Consideration (S):	28-Jun-2011

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG236

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification (G)	WT/REG236/N/1	E F S
Notification (S)	S/C/N/557	E F S
Factual Presentation (G&S)	WT/REG236/1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG236/2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG236/M/1	E F S
Implementation Report	WT/REG236/R/I	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/10	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Presentation (G & S)	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 01/12/2017

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)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Harmonization/alignement of TBT measures at the bilateral/regional level
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Services
		Negative list (Services)
		Standstill provision (Services)
		MFN provision (Services)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
		Investment liberalization


	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investment Promotion
	Provisions on capital transfers
	Mutual Recognition
	Balance-of-payments measures (Services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		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)
	Environment
	Labour
	Gender
		Cooperation between the Parties

Document title
EC-Montenegro (Services)
European Union
Montenegro

Report a broken link