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Agreement name:	EU - Pacific States
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	30-Jul-2009	Date of notification:	18-Oct-2011
Date of entry into force:	20-Dec-2009	End of implementation period:	2039
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 272 of 16-Oct-2009. Papua New Guinea and the European Union signed on 30-Jul-2009, Fiji on 11-Dec-2009. The Agreement's provisional application started on 20 -Dec-2009 for Papua New Guinea and the European Union, on 28-Jul-2014 for Fiji and the European Union, on 31-Dec-18 for Samoa and the European Union and on 17-May-2020 for Solomon Islands and the European Union. 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; Fiji; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Solomon Islands
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Fiji; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Netherlands; Papua New Guinea; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Oceania
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

EU - Pacific States - Accession of Samoa
EU - Pacific States - Accession of Solomon Islands
EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission

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	08-Apr-2024

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG302

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG302/N/1	E F S
Notification / Addendum	WT/REG302/N/1/Add.1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG302/1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG302/2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG302/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: 14/05/2019

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 restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO SPS Agreement
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	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
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	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)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Document title
European Union - Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea - European Union
European Union - Fiji
Fiji - European Union

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