Europe Agreement

This Europe Agreement is the first step in doing so.

The Europe Agreements, however, say nothing about free trade in agriculture.

The Europe Agreement is a good first step.

The implementing provisions must be completed within three years of the date on which the Europe Agreement comes into force.

The basic rules have already been agreed under the Europe Agreements, what we are now discussing is their implementation.

The entry into force of the Europe Agreement may now provide a solid basis for the ongoing negotiations.

The direct criteria for accession are clearly stated in the Europe Agreements.

The Europe Agreements cover talk as well as trade.

The Europe Agreement can give a new impulse to the Slovenian economy.

At the moment, the preamble to the Europe Agreements contains an obligation to protect minorities.

The Europe Agreement is an important first step on the road to EU membership.

Above all, we need to agree that the next stage, that is an association agreement and Europe agreement, should follow as quickly as possible.

The Europe Agreement with Estonia states that competition legislation must be completed no later than the end of 1997.

Treaties known as Europe Agreements offer 'associate membership' to the Community's eastern neighbours.

Since the Europe Agreements are still in force, governments are naturally free to go on concluding bilateral accords.

For this to be possible, a package of implementing provisions under Article 64 of the Europe Agreement will have to come into force.

It is in the front rank of the countries which have concluded Europe Agreements, when it comes to the preconditions for accession.

The Commission has always followed developments affecting minorities in all applicant countries closely for the pre-accession strategies and the Europe agreements.

Ratification of the Europe agreements with other countries in Central and Eastern Europe have also taken a while, two years.

Two years have passed since the Europe Agreements with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were signed.

But one should not have the impression that the procedures to ratify the Europe agreements with the three Baltic states are not progressing satisfactorily.

A Council of Europe agreement that the Romanians signed in 1990 forbids cross-border trade in untested blood, the officials said.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Slovenia too has now entered into a Europe agreement - late, but certainly not too late.

The presidency worked on developing a strategy for relations with all the countries of former Yugoslavia, except for Slovenia, which has a Europe Agreement.

We developed the ‘Accession Partnerships’ as an instrument for implementing those Europe Agreements, and I will tell you in a moment why that was a good thing.