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EU - Faeroe Islands

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Agreement name:	EU - Faeroe Islands
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	06-Dec-1996	Date of notification:	17-Feb-1997
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-1997	End of implementation period:	1997
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 53 of 22-Feb-1997. 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; Faeroe Islands
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Faeroe Islands; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe
All Parties WTO members?	No	Cross-Regional:	No

Related agreements

EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission
Faroe Islands, Ministry of Environment, Industry and Trade

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F S

Consideration status:	Factual Presentation to be done

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG21

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG21/N/1	E F S
Notification / new agreement	WT/REG21/N/2	E F S
Agreement / Revision	WT/REG21/1/Rev.1	E F S
Standard Format for information on RTAs	WT/REG21/3	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG21/M/1	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/10	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)
	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
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping


	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Political Settlement / Consultations only
	Competition

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