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Agreement name:	Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) 2006
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	19-Dec-2006	Date of notification:	26-Jul-2007
Date of entry into force:	01-May-2007	End of implementation period:	2015
Remarks:	Please note that Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania memberships in the CEFTA have terminated as a consequence of their accessions to the EU. See documents WT/REG/GEN/N/4 and WT/REG/GEN/N/6 for further details.
Current signatories:	Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Moldova, Republic of; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Serbia; UNMIK/Kosovo
Original signatories:	Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Moldova, Republic of; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Romania; Serbia; UNMIK/Kosovo
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral
Region:	Europe
All Parties WTO members?	No	Cross-Regional:	No

Official Web Address

Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) Secretariat

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:	Factual Presentation issued
Date of Consideration

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG233

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG233/N/1/Rev.1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG233/1/Rev.1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG233/2	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/4	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/5	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/6	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Presentation (G)	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 14/02/2023

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)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO SPS Agreement
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TBT Agreement
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
	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


	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		MFN provision (Investment)
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investment Promotion
	Rendez-Vous clause (Investment)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to all third parties
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TRIPS Agreement
	Competition
		Adopts or maintains competition law
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	E-Commerce
		Customs duty exemption for Digital Products Transmitted Electronically
		Consumer protection provisions
		Paperless trading or e-signatures