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Agreement name:	EU - South Africa
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	11-Oct-1999	Date of notification:	02-Nov-2000
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-2000	End of implementation period:	2012
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 311 of 04-Dec-1999. 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; South Africa
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Africa
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission
South Africa, Departement of Trade, Industry and Competition

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	20-Nov-2012

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG113

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG113/N/1	E F S
Agreement	WT/REG113/1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG113/3	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG113/4	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG113/M/1	E F S
Implementation Report	W/REG113/R/I	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)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
	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
	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)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Services


	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investment Promotion
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TRIPS Agreement
		Geographical Indications (GIs)
		Traditional Knowledge
		Enforcement
	Competition
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	Environment
	Labour
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation
	Gender
		Cooperation between the Parties

Document title
EU
South Africa

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