Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Ukraine in relation to export duties
Date: 2008-04-01
Institutions: European Community, Ukraine
Subjects: Ukraine, World Trade Organisation, cooperation agreement (EU), export, export policy, free-trade agreement, negotiation of an agreement (EU), originating product, suspension of customs duties, trade agreement (EU)

16.4.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

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in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Ukraine in relation to
export duties

AGREEMENT

A. Letter from the Government of Ukraine

Your Excellency,

Kiev, 11 December 2007

In the context of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their
Member States, and Ukraine of 14 June 1994, and pursuant to negotiations on the accession of Ukraine to
the World Trade Organisation, the purpose of this letter is to confirm that duties applied by Ukraine to
goods originating therein and exported to the European Community shall be eliminated upon the entry into
force of an EU-Ukraine Free Trade Area agreement, to be negotiated after finalisation of Ukraine’s WTO
accession process, in the framework of a new Enhanced Agreement.

I propose that this letter and your reply to it will establish a formal agreement between us.

This Agreement will enter into force as from the date on which the European Community receives a written
notification from Ukraine to the effect that it has completed the necessary internal procedures.

I confirm that this letter and your reply establish a formal agreement between us.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.

On behalf of Ukraine

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B. Letter from the European Community

Your Excellency,

Brussels, 1 April 2008

I confirm the receipt of the letter from the Government of Ukraine dated 11 December 2007 for which
I thank you, and which reads as follows:

‘In the context of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and
their Member States, and Ukraine of 14 June 1994, and pursuant to negotiations on the accession of
Ukraine to the World Trade Organisation, the purpose of this letter is to confirm that duties applied by
Ukraine to goods originating therein and exported to the European Community shall be eliminated
upon the entry into force of an EU-Ukraine Free Trade Area agreement, to be negotiated after
finalisation of Ukraine’s WTO accession process, in the framework of a new Enhanced Agreement.

I propose that this letter and your reply to it will establish a formal agreement between us.

This agreement will enter into force as from the date on which the European Community receives a
written notification from Ukraine to the effect that it has completed the necessary internal procedures.

I confirm that this letter and your reply establish a formal agreement between us.’

I confirm that the above-quoted letter and my reply will establish a formal agreement between us.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the European Community