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EU - Eastern and Southern Africa States

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Agreement name:	EU - Eastern and Southern Africa States
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	29-Aug-2009	Date of notification:	09-Feb-2012
Date of entry into force:	14-May-2012	End of implementation period:	2022
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 111 of 24-Apr-2012. Provisional application of the Agreement by all signatory parties is since 14-May-2012. 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; Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles; Zimbabwe
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Madagascar; Malta; Mauritius; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Seychelles; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom; Zimbabwe
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Africa
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

EU - Eastern and Southern Africa States - Accession of Comoros
EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission
Madagascar, Ministère de l'Industrie, du Commerce et de l'Artisanat
Mauritius, Trade Portal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade
Seychelles Trade Portal
Zimbabwe, Trade Information Portal

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F S

Consideration status:	Factual Presentation issued
Date of Consideration	09-Nov-2017

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG307

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG307/N/1	E F S
Notification / Addendum	WT/REG307/N/1/Add.1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG307/1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG307/2/Rev.1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	W/REG307/M/1	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/10	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: 13/01/2023

Topics
	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
		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
		Other Special safeguards
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Anti-Dumping measures)
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Countervailing measures)
	Subsidies (Goods)
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)


	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Promotion
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
	Competition
	Environment
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation
	Gender
		Cooperation between the Parties

Document title
EU-Madagascar
EU-Mauritius
EU-Seychelles
EU-Zimbabwe
Madagascar
Mauritius
Seychelles
Zimbabwe

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