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Smyrnova, K., and O. Sviatun. "EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION COORDINATION MECHANISM." Actual Problems of International Relations, no. 142 (2020): 50–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2020.142.1.50-61.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the legal nature of the implementation mechanism of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in the legal order of Ukraine as well as coordination mechanism of its implementation. It is noted that the principles and provisions enshrined in the Association Agreement become the integral part of the contemporary legal order of Ukraine. Nevertheless, due to the peculiarities of the Agreement, Ukrainian authorities introduced special implementation coordination mechanism. It is pointed out that all major central authorities are included in the implementation mechanism and the Government Office for the Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration being on the forefront of these activities. It is underlined that the amendments introduced to the Constitution of Ukraine in 2019 played the unprecedented significance for the implementation of the Association Agreement. These amendments provided for inevitable foreign policy course of Ukraine for European and EuroAtlantic integration. Special attention is paid to the challenges that authorities are facing in the process of preparation for the implementation of the Agreement. The idea of National Implementation Program’s (NIP) development was supported and the proposals were made regarding the policy issues that need to be included into the NIP.
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Soroka, Svitlana. "Economic Consequences of the Realisation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement." Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, no. 2 (June 15, 2022): 125–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssp.2022.2.7.
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The article focuses on the features of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the economic consequences of its implementation for Ukraine. The impact on foreign trade, export–import component of trade with the EU, problems and prospects for introducing European standards in Ukraine are determined. The study hypothesises that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement has worsened the already weak economic situation in Ukraine and led to a reorientation of Ukraine’s foreign trade with a simultaneous loss of markets to which Ukraine exported high value-added products and their replacement for EU markets where only raw materials are exported. It also led to a loss of more than a quarter of its own industrial production and the gradual transformation of Ukraine into a raw material appendage of Europe.
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Pastore, Gunta. "The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement prior to the Vilnius Eastern Partnership Summit." Baltic Journal of European Studies 4, no. 2 (2014): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2014-0012.
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AbstractThis paper seeks to explore how the EU policy on Ukraine evolved in the run-up to the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius in November 2013. In particular, it looks into the preparations leading to the signature of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Thereby it contributes to better understanding of the EU policy debate related to the associated negotiations with the Eastern Partnership countries. Prior to the Vilnius Summit there were high expectations that signature of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement would become a key deliverable of the summit. After the EU had postponed the signing of the agreement due to Ukraine’s backsliding in democracy for several times, the process gained new momentum in 2013. It is suggested that exogenous factors, such as Russia’s increasing pressure on Ukraine, contributed to consolidating the EU position. However, at the last minute Ukraine suspended its signature of the agreement at the Vilnius Summit. While Ukraine’s domestic developments and Yanukovych’s deals with Russia can be blamed for this fiasco, the EU Member States take a large share of responsibility. Lack of creativity to find a way out of the deadlock, as well as lack of the political will on the part of EU leaders to fight for Ukraine explains why the Association Agreement turned out as a missed opportunity.
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Mushak, Natalia, and Victor Muraviov. "EU Association Agreement with Ukraine and Unrecognized Territories." Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze, no. 3(64)/2024 (September 15, 2024): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/gsp.2024.3.05.
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The focus of this article is a legal analysis of the status of Crimea and the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) that are parts of the Ukrainian territory that was annexed and separated as a result of the Russian invasion. The authors state that Russia brutally violated the principles and norms of international law and that Russia’s military invasion has been condemned strongly by the international community. Moreover, international sanctions have been introduced against Russia and these territories. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the unrecognized status of the so-called DPR and LPR largely determines the effects of the Association Agreement (AA) between the EU and Ukraine regarding these territories. The formation of a free trade area stipulated in the AA cannot cover Crimea or the so-called DPR and LPR. These territories and their populations cannot enjoy to the full extent the preferences obtained by Ukraine after the AA came into force. Ukrainian legislation concerning the legal status of Crimea and the so-called DPR and LPR is also analyzed in detail.
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Petrov, Roman, and Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva. "Resilience in the Context of the Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement." Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, no. 7 (December 29, 2021): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/kmlpj249888.2021-7.1-26.
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This article examines the extent of the practice of resilience in the process of the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA). Also, it analyses the main legislative and institutional tools promoting resilience of Ukraine’s market integration with the EU. Two cases are considered in this study. The first case is the launch of negotiations on the EU-Ukraine Agreement on Conformity and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA). The second case is an EU-Ukraine Trade Dispute on Export Woods Ban. In both cases the EU institutions and Ukraine display a high degree of flexibility to pursue a policy of resilience to achieve a high degree of EU Internal Market rapprochement. In the case of Ukraine, the institutional mechanism of the EU-Ukraine AA remains unused as a forum to discuss effectively and to find solutions for impeding problems in the bilateral cooperation agenda. Therefore, a coherent, transparent, and effective institutional cooperation framework in the bilateral EU-Ukraine relations is still needed.
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Smyrnova, Kseniia. "Dispute Settlement Mechanisms Provided by the Association Agreements Concluded By the European Union with Third Countries." Journal of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine 27, no. 3 (2020): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.37635/jnalsu.27(3).2020.63-79.
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International dispute settlement and international relations both have a long history. All EU association agreements have appropriate dispute settlement mechanisms, which differ to some extent. The main task of this study is to determine the international legal mechanisms for resolving disputes included in the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine. Furthermore, the purpose of the study becomes especially relevant in the context of the process of resolving the Ukraine-EU trade dispute on national restrictions on timber exports, which is the first dispute in Ukrainian practice. A comparison of the various treaty principles of EU cooperation with third countries suggests that the highest level of protection of individuals through the functioning of the dispute settlement mechanism is described by association agreements, and some of them even resemble an "arbitration clause". It was found that the criteria of comparative analysis were the types of dispute resolution mechanisms, consultation procedures and arbitration procedure, mediation procedure and rules of procedure. According to these criteria, it was found that the association agreements contain almost identical provisions on consultation procedures and arbitration, with the exception of some agreements where arbitration is presented on a narrower scale. The provisions on mediation procedures in the submitted agreements are almost identical to the Code of Conduct for Arbitrators and the Rules of Procedure, which serve as template documents duplicated in the various agreements. The association agreements between the EU and Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova are analysed in detail, and common and distinctive features are described. Differences in the details of dispute settlement mechanisms may indicate that the parties have concerns about the likelihood and intensity of disputes. The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU for the settlement of disputes makes provision for the use of various methods: consultations, arbitration, the establishment of an arbitration panel. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the first case of a trade dispute, which is resolved with the use of the arbitration procedure under the Association Agreement with Ukraine on the export of raw wood
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Dragneva, Rilka, and Kataryna Wolczuk. "The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the Challenges of Inter-Regionalism." Review of Central and East European Law 39, no. 3-4 (2014): 213–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15730352-00000019.
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Few agreements have become the focus of such dramatic domestic and international events as the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. This article discusses the evolution of the Agreement against the background of Ukraine’s relations with the EU and post-Soviet regional integration projects. We argue that negotiating a binding and comprehensive agreement on deep integration with the EU has been a long-term priority for Ukraine. This is in contrast with its cautious and selective approach to post-Soviet integration initiatives, prizing above all free trade without exemptions. The desire to achieve and maintain this objective has made Ukraine vulnerable to Russia’s regional integration plans which increasingly have entailed a veto on Ukraine’s engagement with the EU through the Association Agreement. The article discusses Russia’s key objections to the Agreement, arguing that they are driven by regional ambition and the need to assert the precedence of its integration regime over the EU. While the overlap of integration regimes is not a unique phenomenon in the modern world, clearly the Association Agreement has shown the limits of EU’s and Russia’s regional economic integration policies with regard to their shared neighborhood. Postponing the implementation of the Agreement as a result of Russia’s objections, however, does not address the core underlying issues behind these limits and creates significant problems of its own. While the crisis over the Agreement has brought up the need for effective inter-regionalism, finding sustainable solutions remains a considerable challenge.
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Tamburelli, Gianfranco. "NOTES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EU AND UKRAINE AND THE PROGRESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT." Administrative law and process, no. 2(25) (2019): 148–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2227-796x.2019.2.10.
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The 2014 Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine, which replaces the 1994 Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, may be considered the most important result of a cooperation developed since the beginning of 90’s, first in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy, then of the Eastern Partnership. This paper analyses in an essential way the evolving relations between the EU and Ukraine, and the progress made by Ukraine in pursuing the objectives set forth in the Association Agreement. The Author considers the main features of the Agreement, and identifies and assesses the principal legal issues arising from its implementation. The Agreement is aimed at deepening political and economic relations between the EU and Ukraine, and to gradually integrate Ukraine into the EU internal market. It is the first of a new generation of EU agreements characterized by comprehensiveness, and democratic conditionality. It requires a broad and detailed work of approximation of the Ukrainian laws to the EU regulations. Reforms are foreseen in a number of key areas. Ukraine has been developing a complex strategy to reorient its legal system towards the EU. According to the 2018 Report on Implementation of the Association Agreement – prepared by the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, and the Vice Prime Minister’s Office for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, based on the outcome of performance of the objectives scheduled for 2018, the Agreement was implemented by 52%. According to the Author, in evaluating the “results achieved” by Ukraine in the approximation of the national legislation to the EU legislation, it must be taken into account the challenging situation of the country. The Government and the Verkhovna Rada have been acting with the aim to pursue the overall objectives of the Association Agreement notwithstanding the difficult political and administrative situation following the events in Crimea, the Donbass conflict, the worsening of the relations with Russia until the termination of the Treaty of Friendship and the temporary adoption of the Martial Law. He highlights the efforts of the EU in financially supporting the process of reform in Ukraine, and of Ukraine towards constitutional and legislative reforms reinforcing the European choice. Ukraine has finally developed an ad hoc institutional framework, and new legislation, including amendments to the Constitution, for the implementation of the Association Agreement. Relevant progress has been made in various sectors of the cooperation, while in various others the actions taken are not yet effective. For example, in the sector of the rule of law, various actions were taken, but modest results were achieved in the fight against corruption; while in the environment sector, which is not considered among the priorities, the Law on EIA might be considered an important achievement. In the whole, the implementation of the Association Agreement was evaluated positively at the highest level of political dialogue, by the 20th EU-Ukraine Summit (9 July 2018), and the 5th EU-Ukraine Association Council (Brussels, 17 December 2018). In the Аuthor’s opinion, notwithstanding various critical points, the numerous constitutional and legislative acts, the regulations and the plans adopted in the period 2014–2018, represent important steps of a broad process of change. He underlines the importance to proceed focusing not just on the formal harmonization of the Ukrainian legal system to the EU law, but on the effectiveness and efficacy of the new rules, and their real implications on the social, economic, political and cultural heritage and life of people.
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DUMANSKA, I. "CHANGE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS UNDER THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE EU: A RETROSPECTIVE, ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR UKRAINE." Herald of Khmelnytskyi National University. Economic sciences 284, no. 4 (2020): 95–98. https://doi.org/10.31891/2307-5740-2020-284-4-18.
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The article analyzes retrospective preconditions, identifies possible economic consequences and summarizes the possibilities of Ukraine from changing geographical indications due to the ratification of the Association Agreement with the EU. It is established that one-fifth of the profits from the sale of agricultural products and beverages, the names of which are protected in the list of «Geographical Indicators» of the European Union, are the result of exports of these products outside the European Union. According to the study, sales of goods with protected geographical names are on average twice as high as those of similar goods without proper certification. EU experience indicates that geographical indications not only protect intangible assets in the form of intellectual property, but also are carriers of cultural values for nation, which promotes them in the international community and leads to increased sales. Ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU has identified both long-term (10-year) and medium-term (7-year) requirements for banning the use of a number of geographical indications of European products and identifying their production in Ukraine, which requires research to establish retrospective preconditions for such joint expression of will of the EU and Ukraine. Currently, Ukraine has no experience in developing its own geographical indications, their legal protection and competitive positioning in international markets. The advantages of the introduction of geographical indications in Ukraine at the levels of «consumer», «producer», «region» are established. It is proved that the initiated process of harmonization of national legislation with EU standards initiated the adaptation of domestic legislation in the field of intellectual property to EU law and the provisions of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Approximation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU norms on protection of geographical indications allows to harmonize the national system of their protection in the process of foreign economic activity with relevant EU regulations, which will promote competitive domestic geographical indications and their effective entry into the European market in the form of regional brands.
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Petrov, Roman. "EU Common Values in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Anchor to Democracy?" Baltic Journal of European Studies 8, no. 1 (2018): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2018-0004.
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Abstract This article analyses the Association Agreement (AA) between the EU and Ukraine. It argues that this agreement constitutes a new legal framework which has the objective to establish a unique form of political association and economic integration, characterised by three specific features: comprehensiveness, complexity and conditionality, and to promote EU values into the legal systems of Ukraine. The article studies substantive and procedural means of promotion and protection of EU values in the AA. The article scrutinises objectives, institutional framework and mechanisms of enhanced conditionality and legislative approximation in the AA. In addition, the means to protect EU values (the EU’s response to security conflicts in Ukraine) are discussed.
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Petrov, Roman. "EU-Ukraine Association Agreement’s Effective Implementation into the Legal Order of Ukraine. Challenges and Successes." European Studies 6, no. 1 (2019): 157–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0034.
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Summary This article focuses on challenges and successes of the implementation and application of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which triggered unprecedented political, economic and legal reforms in Ukraine. This article focuses on the constitutional challenges that have arisen for Ukraine in the course of implementing the Association Agreement into its legal system. Two issues form the core of the paper. The first issue is effective implementation and application of the Association Agreement within the Ukrainian legal order. The second issue is compatibility between the Association Agreement and the Ukrainian Constitution. The latest political and legal developments in Ukraine are analyzed through the prism of effective implementation of the Association Agreement and the rise of pro-European judicial activism in Ukraine. In conclusion it is argued that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement enhanced the adaptability of the national constitutional order to the European integration project and European common values.
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Petrov, Roman. "The Impact of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement on Constitutional Reform and Judicial Activism in Ukraine." Review of Central and East European Law 43, no. 2 (2018): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15730352-04302001.
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This article looks at the first phase of the implementation and application of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which triggered unprecedented political, economic and legal reforms in Ukraine. In particular, the article focuses on the constitutional challenges that have arisen for Ukraine in the course of implementing the Association Agreement into its legal system. Two issues form the focus of consideration in the article. The first issue is effective implementation and application of the Association Agreement within the Ukrainian legal order. The second issue is compatibility between the Association Agreement and the Ukrainian Constitution. The latest political and legal developments in Ukraine are analyzed through the prism of effective implementation of the Association Agreement and the rise of pro-European judicial activism in Ukraine. In conclusion it is argued that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement enhanced the adaptability of the national constitutional order to the European integration project and European common values.
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Krasiwski, Orest. "Mechanizmy pogłębiania komunikacji politycznej w układzie o stowarzyszeniu między Ukrainą a Unią Europejską." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 19 (June 15, 2019): 215–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/seg.2019.19.11.
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The paper discusses the role of the Association Agreement in deepening political communication between Ukraine and the EU. The author highlights the role of political communication in shaping the political association between Ukraine and the EU, and analyzes instances of such communication within the frame-work of the Ukraine-EU summits, Association Council, Association Committee, Parliamentary Committee of the Association and Civil Society Platform is ana-lyzed. As a result, the chief issues affecting political communication between Ukraine and the EU are revealed.
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Krayevska, Oksana. "Implementation of the EU Horizontal Policies in Ukraine in the Framework of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement." Studia Politologiczne 2020, no. 57 (2020): 169–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.33896/spolit.2020.57.10.
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The EU Horizontal Policies and their impact on the relations with third countries have been investigated based on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The essence and role of the EU common policies and the place of horizontal policies within their structure are analysed here. Special attention is paid to the EU-Ukraine cooperation in the framework of the Association Agreement and responsibilities of Ukraine in the process of the law approximation and policy implementation followed by analyses of the achievements, challenges, and further perspectives for their bilateral cooperation in the conclusion.
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Otenko, P. V. "To the issue of legal enforcement of provisions of legal acts of the Commission of the EU by national courts of Ukraine." Analytical and Comparative Jurisprudence, no. 4 (April 28, 2022): 363–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2788-6018.2021.04.63.
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The scientific article is devoted to the analysis of actual state of legal enforcement of provisions of legal acts of the Commission of the EU by judicial bodies of Ukraine. It is specified that explicit legal obligation conferred on national Ukrainian judicial and other national state bodies to apply provisions of the EU’s acquis is absent at all. Nevertheless, taking into account provisions of the Association agreement between Ukraine and the EU, an effective adaptation of valid and future Ukrainian legislation in line with requirements of the EU’s acquis is impossible without an active legal enforcement activity of Ukrainian courts. Analysis of the relevant practice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and courts of general jurisdiction showed that current legal enforcement level of provisions which are contained in legal acts of the Commission of the EU and Association agreement between Ukraine and the EU is unsatisfied due to the several reasons. The problem of absence of the common approach both on doctrinal and legislative levels regarding the possibility of provisions of the Association agreement between Ukraine and the EU to create direct effect for individuals and legal entities has a negative impact on the legal enforcement level of provisions of legal acts of the Commission of the EU. It is emphasized that one of the main problems of judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and courts of general jurisdiction which causes insufficient legal enforcement level of legal acts of the Commission of the EU and Association agreement between Ukraine and the EU is considered to be the absence of an explicit legal basis that provide judges with an opportunity to freely apply provisions of the EU secondary legislation when legal disputes arise, especially in the event of conflict between provisions of national legislation and valid provisions of the EU secondary legislation. Summarizing, the author believes that it is possible to solve the mentioned-above problems when Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine drafts and enacts legal act that will explicitly specify legal basis and legal mechanisms for courts to apply provisions of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU and the EU secondary legislation.
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Pasternak, Olena. "Evaluation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement’s Impact on the Development of Border Territories." Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, no. 37-38 (December 12, 2018): 140–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2018.37-38.140-150.
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Some of the results of experts’ survey of 288 representatives of 113 authorities on the issues of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement’s impact on social and economic development of Ukrainian border oblasts are outlined. The respondents were the representatives of cities of republican and oblast status (city councils’ employees) and of district state administrations of six border oblasts: Volynska, Lvivska, Zakarpatska, Ivano-Frankivska, Chernivetska and Odeska oblasts. The experts’ understanding of thelevel of impact the signing of Agreement (including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA)) has on the development of their district (city) is presented both in general and by border oblasts as well as district state administrations and city councils. The experts’ evaluation of the spheres most influenced by deepening of European integration processes in the context of the Agreement implementation is shown. Interpretation of border oblasts local authorities’ assessment of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement advantages is conducted. The types of economic activity, which have gained the most advantages from Association Agreement implementation according to experts’ point of view, are outlined. Suggestions on activation of awareness about the Agreement in order to use more of its advantages for border territories’ development are made.
 Keywords: EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, borderterritories,experts’ survey, European integration processes, Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA)
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Durman, Olena, Mykola Durman, Tatyana Mazievich, Oksana Zhiliaieva, and Svitlana Arkhypenko. "European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation." Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) 8, no. 3 (2021): 349–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.15549/jeecar.v8i3.780.
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The purpose was to substantiate the features and determine an effective strategy for Ukraine's Eurointegration. Used a theoretical analysis of reports on the fulfillment of the terms of the European Union (EU)–Ukraine Association Agreement (AA), we identified the problems and destructive factors of the European integration for Ukraine. The graph theory helped to prioritize these problems in the context of implementing the AA's tasks. Constructed neural models and elasticity coefficients provided a quantitative assessment of the adequate performance of strategic functions within the framework of the AA for Ukraine has been carried out. Priority of conduction tasks argued the importance of implementing a strategy of moderate adaptation for Ukraine to increase the positive effect of cooperation with the EU and sustainable development of the country
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Krupa, Larysa. "HOW THE EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT SHAPES UKRAINE'S FINANCIAL SERVICES MARKET REGULATION." Grail of Science, no. 30 (August 15, 2023): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/grail-of-science.04.08.2023.014.
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This article delves into the impact of the European Union (EU) Association Agreement on Ukraine's financial services market regulation. The study examines how the harmonization of Ukrainian legislation with EU norms has shaped the financial services sector's development and integration into the European economic area. Research Objectives: The main objectives of this research are to analyze the extent to which Ukrainian legislation aligns with the acquis EU in the financial services domain and to identify the challenges and opportunities arising from this process. Additionally, the study aims to assess the implications of the EU Association Agreement on Ukraine's financial market stability, transparency, and regulatory oversight. Methodology: To achieve the research objectives, a comprehensive review of relevant literature, EU directives, and regulatory acts concerning financial services was conducted. The study also analyzed official documents related to Ukraine's adaptation to EU norms and the implementation of the Association Agreement. Furthermore, expert opinions and insights from prominent scholars in the field were considered to gain a deeper understanding of the subject. Findings: The analysis reveals that the EU Association Agreement has played a pivotal role in shaping Ukraine's financial services market regulation. The step-by-step adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the acquis EU has fostered a more unified legal environment for market participants in both Ukraine and EU countries. Notably, the transfer of regulatory functions for the non-banking financial services market to the National Bank of Ukraine has enhanced overall financial stability and brought Ukraine's financial practices in line with international standards. However, certain limitations and restrictions in the cross-border provision of services persist, presenting challenges to fair competition and market access. Despite these hurdles, the successful implementation of the Comprehensive Program for the Development of the Financial Sector until 2020 has contributed to resolving economic issues and restoring macroeconomic stability in Ukraine. As Ukraine continues on its path towards deeper integration with the EU, ongoing efforts and reforms in the financial services market are essential to align with EU norms, foster cooperation, and attract more investments.
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Malskyy, Markiyan, Nataliya Antonyuk, Marianna Gladysh, and Oksana Krayevska. "The Ukraine-EU Summits as a mechanism for implementing the Association Agreement." Eastern Journal of European Studies 15, Special Issue (2024): 191–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/ejes-2024-si09.
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This article argues that the Ukraine-EU summits have served as one of the effective political instruments of cooperation, contributing significantly to advancing the shared goals of both sides. By analyzing the evolution of these summits in the 1990s and after signing the Association Agreement, and their impact on both domestic and regional dynamics, this article will shed light on the multifaceted contributions of this institutional mechanism to the Ukraine-EU partnership. These summits serve as platforms for high-level political dialogue, setting the strategic direction for the bilateral relationship and monitoring progress in AA implementation. Examining the effectiveness of Ukraine-EU summits necessitates not only acknowledging their achievements but also critically evaluating their limitations and challenges. This article delves into these complexities, highlighting both the success stories and areas for improvement. Ultimately, it seeks to offer insights into the future of this vital partnership, considering the current geopolitical landscape and the ever-evolving needs of both Ukraine and the EU.
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Shapovalov, Ye B., I. L. Yakymenko, O. M. Salavor, and K. Šebková. "The state of the European Union – Ukraine Association Agreement implementation on the air quality." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1049, no. 1 (2022): 012044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1049/1/012044.
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Abstract The comparative analysis of laws and regulations on air quality, air protection, and its monitoring in the EU and Ukraine has been carried out to analyse the state of the European Union – Ukraine Association Agreement. The main features of the strategic documents “Europe 2020” and “Ukraine 2020” air pollution control are discussed. The analysis of air quality monitoring regulations, air quality control methods, and peculiarities of citizens’ alerts in the EU and Ukrainian legislation is provided. It is proven that the methods approach to limiting pollutant values differs in Ukraine and the EU. EU uses limit value’, ‘target value’, alert threshold’, ‘information threshold’ and ‘critical level’ and Ukraine uses limiting values. The limit values/permissible concentrations of carbon dioxide, sulfur (IV) oxide (average daily value), and lead are stricter in Ukraine. However, the permissible concentrations of PM10, sulfur (IV) oxide (short-term value), Arsenic, Cadmium, and Nickel are much lighter in Ukraine than in the EU. The dioxin content in ambient air is not regulated in Ukrainian legislation. Also, citizens’ monitoring systems and data provision differ and should be harmonised for the EU’s standards. The current state of roadmap implementation is firstly presented. It is demonstrated the necessity to harmonise the Ukrainian law and regulations on air quality control and air protection with the EU law.
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Shnyrkov, O., and O. Chugaiev. "ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE WITH THE EU UNDER DISINTEGRATION WITH RUSSIA." Actual Problems of International Relations, no. 130 (2017): 82–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2017.130.0.82-94.
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The purpose of research is to analyze the reasons and effects of disintegration with Russia for Ukraine and its association with the EU. Expected results of the Association Agreement with the EU and conflict with Russia in previous research are compared with the actual effects. Export losses of the opposing countries from the economic conflict are calculated and compared. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement has marked the choice of Ukraine to follow the European social and economic development model. It aimed at decreasing trade barriers, making reforms and engaging Ukraine in international production networks by foreign investment inflows. But the EU and Ukraine did not foresee the severe economic, political and military reaction of Russia, which is a barrier to efficient implementation of the Association Agreement. Decrease in exports to Russia and other CIS countries has not been offset by better access to the EU market. Severe reaction of Russia is politically motivated and is not substantiated economically. All the conflicting parties faced losses from the economic war. Ukraine and Russia were the most affected countries, while Western countries faced minor losses. Restoring cooperation and integration is not possible without changes in foreign policy of Russia or / and other parties.
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Maryna Kanavets, Maryna Kanavets, and Yuliia Lykhach Yuliia Lykhach. "INCREASING THE LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE CONTEXT OF UKRAINE RECEIVING THE STATUS OF A CANDIDATE FOR EUROPEAN UNION MEMBERSHIP." Socio World-Social Research & Behavioral Sciences 10, no. 04 (2022): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36962/swd10042022-30.
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European integration is the main foreign policy priority of Ukraine, enshrined in the Basic Law of the State - the Constitution of Ukraine. It began with the acquisition of independence by Ukraine, and will end when a key agreement on joining the European Union will be signed (hereinafter - the EU). Today, political and economic relations between Ukraine and the EU are regulated by the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one part, and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other part (hereinafter - the Association Agreement), which was signed in 2014 and entered into force in full in 2017. On June 23, 2022, an event of historic scale took place - the European Council unanimously granted Ukraine the EU candidate status. This decision opens up opportunities for integration into the European political, economic and legal space, provides image, financial and humanitarian advantages, and also confirms the presence of progress in democratic, economic and legal reforms and the readiness of the country for further hard work on their implementation to meet EU standards. Keywords: civil servant, рrofessional сompetence, association agreement, Center for Adaptation of the Civil Service to the Standards of the European Union, High School of Public Government.
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Dolle, Tobias, and Lourdes Medina. "The EU’s Request for Arbitration Under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement." Global Trade and Customs Journal 15, Issue 2 (2020): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/gtcj2020013.
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On 20 June 2019, the European Union’s (EU’s) Delegation to Ukraine submitted a Note Verbale to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine requesting ‘on behalf of the European Union, the establishment of an arbitration panel pursuant to Article 306 of the Association Agreement of 21 March 2014 between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part’. The dispute concerns Ukraine’s export restrictions on timber and unsawn wood of certain species, as well as on unprocessed timber of all species, for a period of ten years. While the restrictions appear to be legally difficult to justify for Ukraine, the more interesting and noteworthy element to this dispute is that it is the first trade dispute that the EU is pursuing under a bilateral preferential trade agreement, even though it relates to disciplines that mirror World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and could as well be pursued in the framework of WTO dispute settlement. The article reviews the case and discusses the significance and the EU’s deliberate choice of dispute settlement within the context of the trade agreement. Trade law, EU trade law, Trade dispute, International trade dispute settlement, Trade Agreements, Dispute Settlement, Arbitration, WTO Dispute Settlement, Export restrictions, Forum clauses
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ARTAMONOVA, H. V., and V. P. ZALIZNIUK. "European direction of international economic integration." Market Relations Development in Ukraine №7-8(266-267)2023 153 (October 9, 2023): 12–27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8420641.
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Subject of study. The article examines the main opportunities and risks of Ukraine on the way to European integration in the modern conditions of full–scale Russian aggression against Ukraine. The status of a candidate member of the EU is the basis of many opportunities and advantages that the country receives from it, in particular, it strengthens the opportunities laid down in the Association Agreement and other sectoral agreements between Ukraine and the EU. The aim of the research is to analyze the structure and dynamics of foreign trade with European countries, the state of demand from the EU for Ukrainian agro–food products, which are currently the leading item of Ukrainian exports to Europe. Work results. The current complex conditions for the development of domestic agricultural potential have been studied and the main external and internal risks of the further development of foreign trade in agricultural products and food with EU countries have been identified, as well as challenges related to the liberalization of trade within the EU pace and nature of economic integration of Ukraine with European markets. Conclusion. European integration creates additional competitive advantages for Ukraine. The institutional instruments of such integration became the Association Agreement and the deepened and comprehensive free trade zone, granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership, which provides for accelerated approximation of Ukrainian legislation to EU norms and attracting funding.
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Berezovska, I. "DYNAMICS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE EU: PROSPECTS AND NEW CHALLENGES." Actual Problems of International Relations, no. 145 (2020): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2020.145.1.17-27.
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The entry into force of the Association Agreement with the European Union was a fateful event for the contemporary history of Ukraine. Currently, both components of the association: political one, which consists in spreading European values to Ukraine, and economic one, which involves Ukraine's integration into the EU internal market in exchange for legislation approximation, are without exaggeration fundamental factors for further development of Ukraine. The results of the previous years of the Association Agreement implementation testify to both significant achievements and a number of problems in Ukraine's fulfillment of its association with the EU “homework”. The article is devoted to the analysis of dynamics and the recent trends in the process of the Agreement implementation. As a result of the political changes that took place in Ukraine in 2019, including the election of a new president, parliament and government, European integration work on the implementation of the Association Agreement began in the new conditions. The improvement of the national institutional mechanism designed to ensure better coordination of work on the implementation of the Agreement between the competent authorities is among the positive trends in the process of its implementation. The fundamental legal principles and basic directions of work on Agreement updating are analyzed. It is proved that the prospect of updating has become an effective impetus to improve implementation processes. By initiating such an update, in order to strengthen its position in the negotiations with the EU, the Ukrainian side is forced to objectively assess the effectiveness of the Agreement implementation in certain areas and to intensify the completion of processes that are significantly behind. A new challenge in the process of implementing the Association Agreement was the emergence of the pandemic factor in 2020. The introduction of national quarantine and the incidence rate have significantly shifted priorities and affected European integration processes, both within Ukraine and at the EU level. At the same time, it was stressed that the situation to ensure the Rule of law, in particular, the fight against corruption is the main challenge not only to obligations fulfillment under the agreement, but also to the entire European integration policy of Ukraine. It is noted that the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to repeal a significant part of anti-corruption legislation threatens the further integration of Ukraine with the EU. It was stressed that the future of not only Ukraine but also the region as a whole depends on whether the Association Agreement with the European Union will continue to serve as a transformational force capable of overcoming the weakness of the Rule of law within the country.
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Nahorniak, Ivan. "Ukrainian Diplomacy and the EU: Going beyond Association." Diplomatic Ukraine, no. XXII (2021): 621–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37837/2707-7683-2021-31.
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In 2019, as a result of election processes, the political leadership of both Ukraine and the EU changed. The first diplomatic contacts of the newly elected leaders augured an ambitious agenda of bilateral relations. On his first visit to Brussels, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the irreversibility of the country’s course towards European and Euro-Atlantic integration and noted the essential role of the EU in supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. In turn, the newly elected European Commission led by Ursula von Der Leyen called itself a ‘geopolitical’ Commission, which gave hope for the intensification of EU integration policy in the region and a more proactive position in the fight against Russian aggression. This article is an attempt to analyse the trend and results of the political dialogue between Ukraine and the EU in the period from June 2019 to April 2021. It also seeks to answer the question of what has been achieved and what agenda the current authorities in Kyiv and Brussels should promote in order to bring stability to Eastern Europe and the socioeconomic development to Ukraine, particularly in the context of renewing the Association Agreement. The author concludes by noting that within the framework of the post-pandemic recovery and the long-term EU budget for 2021–2027, EU member states will receive €1.8 trillion in support of socioeconomic development and ‘green’ transformation. This may lead to the widening of the already significant development gap between our country and the EU, thus making Ukraine’s European integration next to impossible unless its partners provide major assistance or an unexpected economic breakthrough takes place. It is also argued that 2021 and 2022 are going to be decisive, as it is during this period that the EU is expected to promulgate its political and normative documents defining Ukraine’s place in its ‘open strategic autonomy’ and the European Green Deal. Keywords: EU, European integration, Eastern Partnership, Association Agreement, renewal of the Agreement, European Neighbourhood Policy.
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Palagnyuk, Yuliana. "Public Opinion in Ukraine on European Integration During Russia’s War Against Ukraine." Przegląd Politologiczny, no. 1 (June 16, 2025): 115–27. https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2025.30.1.7.
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The 2014 EU-Ukraine Association Agreement marked a new phase in the cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. Concurrently, there have been ongoing hostilities initiated by Russia against Ukraine since 2014, culminating in a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. This study explores the shifts in public opinion regarding Ukraine’s European integration over the decade during Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and, concomitantly, between the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the formal opening of accession negotiations in 2024. The present research draws upon sociological data on public opinion on European integration, summarizing and comparing data from public opinion polls conducted by various Ukrainian and international institutions between 2014 and 2024. The study concludes that public opinion on European integration has become more favorable over the period analyzed. Moreover, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to a further consolidation of pro-EU sentiment across all demographic groups and regions, culminating in a notable increase in public support for EU membership (from around 60% in 2021 to around 80% in 2022–2024).
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Natalii, Malysheva. "Development of the Environmental legislation in Ukraine after coming into force of the Association Agreement." Yearly journal of scientific articles “Pravova derzhava”, no. 31 (2020): 222–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33663/0869-2491-2020-31-222-231.
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After the full entry into force on 01.09.2017 of the EU – Ukraine Association Agreement one of the main tasks of its implementation was to align Ukraine's national legislation with EU law. The Agreement itself, as well as the annexes thereto, set out both the directions of this process and the specific provisions of EU acts (directives and regulations) to align with national legislation of Ukraine and timeframes of these actions. An important area of harmonization in the context of the Association Agreement’s obligations is environmental protection; its main vectors are set out in Chapter 6 "Environment" of Section V "Economic and Sectorial Cooperation" (Art. 360–366) and in Annexes XXX and XXI to the relevant Chapter 6. In total, following the Annex XXX, Ukraine has to adapt its legislation to the provisions of 26 EU directives and 3 regulations. Since that time both successes in Ukraine's implementation of the EU environmental acquis, as well as weaknesses, problems and difficulties in way to bring the legislation into compliance were revealed. Positive impact on implementation of the Agreement’s requirements was, in particular, the creation of bilateral and national mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of the Agreement, both at the institutional, organizational, legal and procedural levels, for analyze the implementation of Ukraine's commitments on a permanent or periodic basis. Among the main problems which arise during bringing to compliance are the following: lack/insufficiency of a systematic approach in the harmonization process, failure to take into account strategic guidelines and perspective development of EU environmental law, on the one hand, and features of the Ukrainian legal system, on the other hand; attempting to formally transpose EU law without proper link to national environmental law. Finally, there are many environmental issues, the regulation of which is inert to the factors of harmonization with EU law, but is important for domestic national regulation. Unfortunately, in recent years, these aspects of the development of environmental legislation of Ukraine have been constantly neglected, and all legislative activity in the environmental field has been fully focused on bringing the legislation in line with the requirements of the Association Agreement.
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Erpolat, Hakan, and Nurtaç Yıldırım. "Before Russo-Ukrainian War: How Did EU-Ukraine Association Agreement of 2014 Transform Ukraine’s Economy?" Theory, Methodology, Practice 20, no. 2 (2024): 33–53. https://doi.org/10.18096/tmp.2024.02.03.
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In this paper is tried to identify, if exists, any degree of qualitative divergence in Ukraine’s economic structure before and after the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and examine whether the agreement fulfilled its promises. The way in which we investigate the issue is by employing ADL modelling, bifurcating the whole model as before agreement model (BAM) and after agreement model (AAM). It’s been observed severe disruptions in the structure of export, import and foreign direct investment, transformed Ukraine’s economy into less favorable position, aggravating the economy’s weak spots. Under these considerations, hypothesis that EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is transformative in the unpromising sense, and it has been of no little effect in building up new and unfavorable economic paradigm for Ukraine is scientifically substantiated.
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Denysenko, V. I. "THE FAILURE TO SIGN THE UKRAINE-EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT (OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2013)." Sums'ka Starovyna (Ancient Sumy Land), no. 55 (2019): 30–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/starovyna.2019.55.3.
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The failure to sign the Association Agreement with the EU in autumn 2013 has been investigated. The role of the Russian factor, which became decisive in the foreign policy reversal of the Yanukovych regime, has been revealed. The importance of Viktor Yanukovych’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 27, 2013, in the dramatic change of Ukraine’s international vector has been emphasized. On the basis of diplomats’ memoirs, the assumption about intimidation of the Ukrainian President by the Russian side has been substantiated. The timeline of the preparation of the 2013 Vilnius Summit, the position of EU structures and the attempts of the fourth President of Ukraine to win time to trade with the Russians have been reproduced. The thesis about the Donetsk clan’s attempts to prepare public opinion for a 180 degree turn in late October - early November 2013 has been presented. For this purpose, demonstration meetings were organized with representatives of Ukrainian business and trade unions, who called for revision of plans for European integration on their own initiative. The main role in manipulating public opinion rested on the government of Mykola Azarov and the Verkhovna Rada, which had a majority coalition led by the Party of Regions. Instead, Viktor Yanukovych continued his European integration rhetoric and reiterated to Western partners his own willingness to sign the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. On November 21, the real position of the ruling elite was made available to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. According to it, the process of preparation for the signing of the Association Agreement was suspended, the proposal was made for the trilateral Ukraine-EU-Russia negotiations, and the ministries were tasked with developing measures to maintain economic ties with the CIS countries. The decision was rejected by European partners and led to Yanukovych’s attempts to find other ways to thwart the signing of the Agreement. It has been proved that this role was played by Yanukovych’s requirements for financial assistance from the EU amounting to about 160 billion euros, which aimed to prevent the signing of the Association Agreement. Key words: Viktor Yanukovych, association of Ukraine with the EU, эYulia Tymoshenko, European integration, Pat Cox, Alexander Kwasniewski, Vladimir Putin.
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Voloshyn, Yuriy, and Olha Strieltsova. "IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS." Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine, no. 4(37) (July 7, 2022): 6–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.37566/2707-6849-2021-4(37)-1.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the constitutional principles of implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. It is determined that the important factors of constitutional support for the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union are, first, the consolidation of the pro-European foreign policy of the state, which is a kind of constitutional guarantee of continuity and consistency in implementation and association activities in Ukraine EU and, secondly, the improvement of constitutional provisions on the interaction of national and international law, in particular those governing the implementation of international treaties into the national legal system. Attention is drawn to the need for more systematic constitutional and legal regulation of international and domestic law, in particular, it is proposed to include in the formation of a «package» of systemic constitutional changes, items on the relationship between international and national law, which will create the basis for: 1) to consolidate the superiority (primacy) of properly implemented international legal norms over the national law of Ukraine (except for the Constitution of Ukraine, which should have supremacy and priority in the national legal system); 2) to regulate the application of other sources of international law in Ukraine (first of all, generally accepted principles and norms of international law, as well as acts of international organizations); 3) specify the forms of expressing consent to the binding nature (methods of implementation) of an international agreement for Ukraine; 4) determine the place of international treaties of Ukraine in the hierarchy of normative legal acts; 5) to expand the range of subjects of implementation of international agreements and to regulate the status and hierarchy of intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements accordingly. The ongoing process of constitutional reform in Ukraine creates a legal basis for the systematic elimination of shortcomings and gaps in the Constitution of Ukraine in the field of interaction between national and international law. Key words: Constitution of Ukraine, Constitutional Reform, Constitutionalization, European Union, Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, Implementation.
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Yatsenko, Olha, Nataliia Reznikova, Nataliia Karasova, Tetiana Musiiets, Olena Lavrinenko, and Vitalii Nitsenko. "Modernization of the Format of Ukraine’s Trade Integration With the EU in the Conditions of Implementation of the DCFTA." Problemy Zarządzania - Management Issues 2020, no. 4(90) (2021): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7172/1644-9584.90.6.
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Purpose: The purpose is to define the efficiency and priorities of modernization of Ukraine’s trade integration with the EU countries in the implementation of DCFTA and to attempt to assess the indirect effects of the free trade agreement between countries. Design/methodology/approach: To this end, a comparative analysis was carried out to assess the effectiveness of the Association Agreement and to identify the asymmetry of trade and economic integration between Ukraine and the EU. The correlation regression method was used to determine the dependence of Ukraine’s exports to the EU countries on GDP changes and to identify the integration impacts on economic growth. In turn, the extrapolation method was employed to calculate forecasts for the economic growth rate and GDP per capita. Findings: Determining the effectiveness and priorities of modernization of the trade integration format of Ukraine-EU in the implementation of the DCFTA, as well as evaluation of the intermediate results of the FTA between the countries. At present, it is necessary to modernize the format of Ukraine’s trade integration with the EU in the context of the implementation of the DCFTA. Three main vectors for updating the Agreement have been identified as priorities: deepening sectoral integration; increasing duty-free export to the EU market; eliminating non-tariff measures restricting trade with the EU along with signing a number of agreements for the above-mentioned purpose. Research limitations/implications: The results of the study will be useful to researchers of relevant issues, students, graduate students, doctoral students and teachers specializing in international relations and other academic disciplines, and the developed initiatives can be used by the government to form a new negotiating position on the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Originality/value: Forecasting and modeling the Ukraine-EU foreign trade turnover based on the use of the gravity model and correlation-regression analysis confirms that the introduction of the DCFTA in 2016–2017 allowed Ukraine to increase exports to the EU and modernization of the trade part of the agreement will positively affect the economic and social development of Ukraine. In this context, it is necessary to take into account the national interests and trade partners, in particular the possibility of Ukraine’s support for the EU initiative “European Green Deal” on the path to the formation of Europe as a carbon-neutral continent.
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Рагуліна, Ксенія. "Association Agreement as a Legal Framework for the European Integration of Ukraine." State Building and Local Government, no. 41 (May 21, 2021): 232–49. https://doi.org/10.31359/1993-0941-2021-41-232.
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International relations serve as a reflection, continuation, and development of inner social relations. They include economic, socio-political, spiritual, and cultural aspects, but represent not an arithmetic sum of the latter, but a qualitatively new system. Today legal reforms in Ukraine are taking place mainly in the light of the implementation of European integration commitments, in particular in the context of the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union (EU). This Agreement defines strategic political and socio-economic priorities for Ukraine, and is a kind of benchmark for the further development of the state. The purpose of this article is to provide a theoretical and legal analysis of the Association Agreement as a legal basis for the adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU legislation in the conditions of strengthening the interdependence of the world countries and European integration.
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Berezovska, I. "IMPACT OF THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE EU ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD LAW IN UKRAINE." ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, no. 131 (2017): 60–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2017.131.0.60-67.
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The article notes that after signing the Association Agreement and launching free trade area between Ukraine and the EU, a new stage in the development of Ukrainian food law has begun. It is characterized by the increased impact of European Union law on the legal regulation of this sphere. The provisions of Chapter 4 “Sanitary and phytosanitary measures” of the basic for the FTA Ukraine-EU Title IV of the Association Agreement ”Trade and Trade-related Matters”, which serve as a legal basis for harmonization of Ukrainian legislation with EU food legislation were analyzed. The ways of Ukrainian food law development are proved to be determined by the Strategy for the implementation of Chapter IV, Section 4 of the Association Agreement. The measures envisaged by the Strategy covering almost all areas of public health, animal health and phytosanitary regulations have been analyzed. The European food and phytosanitary law is found out to cover the territory of Ukraine as a result of the implementation of measures provided for in the Association Agreement and the above Strategy. It was emphasized that the scale of the obligations undertaken by Ukraine to harmonize the food legislation requires prompt and qualified organizational work by the Ukrainian competent authorities.
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Piliaiev, Igor. "Social factors of overcoming the divergence of economies of Ukraine and the EU: trends and challenges for the national governance." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Ekonomìka 10, no. 20 (2020): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-2822-2020-10-20-5-17.
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The article applies synergistic interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of problems of divergence in the economies of Ukraine and the EU, to evaluate the present state and key problems of implementing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU in terms of the socio-economic modernization of this country. The thesis about slow, partial (only in certain segments), unsystematic overcoming of divergent trends by Ukraine, which appeared in the first years after signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, is substantiated. In particular, there are clear trends of divergence between Ukraine and the EU in the areas of social development, personal security, rule of law, some civil and political rights and freedoms, which is primarily due to insufficient effectiveness of European integration reforms, lack of consensus in the political elite and society with regard to "Road map" of modernization, consequences of Russian aggression and the ongoing armed conflict in the east of Ukraine. At the same time, moderate convergence trends in areas such as social inclusion and innovation have been identified. It is proved that Ukraine still has a strong social foundation for economic modernization breakthrough. In terms of social parameters, Ukrainian society is significantly more powerful than the modern Ukrainian economy from the viewpoint of meeting basic human needs, social components of the quality of life and healthy environment. In particular, in terms of the level and dynamics of innovation, Ukraine is ahead of all post-Soviet member states of the Eastern Partnership and even Romania as an EU member state. It is argued that the Ukrainian Government still monitors mainly the formal fulfilment of the Action Plan оn implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and its member states for the years 2018–2024 without analyzing the Action Plan's impact on the institutional effectiveness and indicators of Ukraineʼs socio-economic development. Under such conditions, certain indicators of the Action Plan implementation may give a misconception about the real dynamics of the convergence / divergence process of Ukraine and the EU. This requires improved strategic monitoring of the implementation of the Association Agreement.
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Safarians, Yevhenij. "Russian Influence on the Position of Austria in the Context of the Ukraine – European Union Association Agreement." Mìžnarodnì zv’âzki Ukraïni: naukovì pošuki ì znahìdki, no. 26 (November 27, 2017): 209–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/mzu2017.26.209.
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The paper deals with the Russian influence on the Austrian position in the context of the Ukraine – European Union Association Agreement. The author proves that at start of the Ukrainian – EU relations the Republic of Austria approved Ukraine’s European aspirations and actively supported them. This publication analyzes the reasons why the attitude of Austrian politicians and public society in the context of the Ukraine – EU integration sharply deteriorated after 2004. The article notes that Russian propaganda is the most influenced the change in attitudes of Austrian citizens about Ukraine. Growing euroscepticism is also closely associated with the activities of Russian information resources. Large funds were involved by the Russian Federation to discredit the Association Agreement, both in Ukraine and in other European countries. This process unfolded with new vigor during the aggression of Russia against Ukraine in the 2014-17. Some Austrian businessmen continued to collaborate with the aggressor and concluded new agreements. A significant delaying ratification of the Ukraine – European Union Association Agreement is also closely related to the impact of Russian business on Austrian politics. However, it should be noted that the Austrian side has ratified the Ukraine – European Union Association Agreement. Republic of Austria acceded to the European sanctions regime against the Russian Federation and does not weaken it, despite considerable pressure from the pro-Russian part of Austrian politicians and businessmen. Austria has stood the test, and now Ukrainians have to make reciprocal steps. Ukraine should pursue a deliberate policy aimed at creating a range of partners with which to implement joint integration projects. Future cooperation between the Republic of Austria and Ukraine has an important aspect – the vision of the continuing development of integration processes in Europe.
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Kepych, Taras. "Ukrainian Sanitary and Phytosanitary Laws Approximation to EU Acquis Under Association Agreement Including Agreement on Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA)." EU agrarian Law 3, no. 2 (2015): 79–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eual-2014-0011.
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AbstractThe paper reviews the achievements to date in legal approximation in the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) field in Ukraine. Effective regulatory approximation in the SPS field was critical to anchoring the reform process in Ukraine and to fostering further progress in EU’s relations with this Eastern Partnership (EaP) country. This paper highlights three major problems in Ukraine that were hindering reform in the SPS field: inconsistency between Ukrainian and EU food safety legislation, lack of uniformity between animal health law regimes, absence of a single SPS regulator. Legal implementation of approximated legislation still remains as key challenge. The paper offers recommendations to improve the Ukraine’s approach so that the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) is part of the Association Agreement (AA) between the EU and the Republic of Ukraine could fulfill its potential.
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Чичкало-Кондрацька, Ірина Борисівна, Анастасія Олегівна Власюк, and Дарія Сергіївна Кондрацька. "Deepening relations between Ukraine and EU in the context of DCFTA conditions." ЕКОНОМІКА І РЕГІОН Науковий вісник, no. 1(72) (June 24, 2019): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.26906/eir.2019.1(72).1435.
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The article is devoted to the study of the real state and consequences of deepening of economic cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the conditions of implementation of the Association Agreement. The state of implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union is considered on the basis of the study of official government reports and the results of independent experts' studies. The analysis of the current state, structure, tendencies and peculiarities of trade cooperation of Ukraine with the countries of the European Union is conducted. The influence of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the EU is determined. Particular attention is paid to the problems of Ukrainian companies entering the EU market and the use of duty-free tariff quotas.
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Чичкало-Кондрацька, Ірина Борисівна, Анастасія Олегівна Власюк, and Дарія Сергіївна Кондрацька. "Deepening relations between Ukraine and EU in the context of DCFTA conditions." Економіка і регіон/ Economics and region, no. 1(72) (June 24, 2019): 41–48. https://doi.org/10.26906/eip.2019.1(72).1435.
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The article is devoted to the study of the real state and consequences of deepening of economic cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the conditions of implementation of the Association Agreement. The state of implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union is considered on the basis of the study of official government reports and the results of independent experts' studies. The analysis of the current state, structure, tendencies and peculiarities of trade cooperation of Ukraine with the countries of the European Union is conducted. The influence of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the EU is determined. Particular attention is paid to the problems of Ukrainian companies entering the EU market and the use of duty-free tariff quotas.
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Afanasyeva, Olga, and Armin J. Kammel. "Ukrainian Banking Regulation: Its Challenges and Transition towards European Standards." Brill Research Perspectives in International Banking and Securities Law 2, no. 1 (2017): 1–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056936-12340005.
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AbstractFor the last years, Ukraine and particulalry its financial sector were seeking to gradually apply and comply with EU standards. Latest with the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in 2014 the transition towards EU standards has a formal basis. Since then, Ukraine – with strong support from the EU – is in the process of implementing legislative and regulatory measures in order to comply with this Agreement. Against this background, this contribution wants to shed some light into Ukraine’s efforts as well as to explain some of the complexities of this process by providing an in-depth background of the current Ukrainian banking regulation, its economics and the challenges of complying with new EU standards.
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Rovnov, Yury. "EU-Ukraine Arbitration: Will WTO Law Become More Deferential Outside the WTO?" Journal of World Trade 55, Issue 6 (2021): 969–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/trad2021041.
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The first dispute brought by the EU under its bilateral trade agreements, Ukraine – Export Restrictions on Wood, was in many respects a typical World Trade Organization (WTO) case. A panel of three arbitrators, including two prominent and highly experienced WTO adjudicators, was to rule on consistency of the respondent’s export bans with Articles XI and XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, incorporated by reference into the EUUkraine Association Agreement. The latter, moreover, explicitly requires that arbitrators rely on the WTO jurisprudence – which they, technically, did. Yet, the arbitration panel appears to have shown more deference to the respondent than any WTO panel ever has (or would). By contrasting the reasoning of the arbitration panel with that of WTO panels deciding similar issues, the article questions whether WTO law may take a more deferential path outside the WTO. WTO law, GATT, Article XX(b), EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, wood export ban, dispute settlement, judicial deference
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Yurynets, Oksana, Olga Melnyk, and Solomiia Kira Kira. "Free Movement of Goods: Monitoring and Evaluation of the Implementation of the Agreement «On Association Between Ukraine and the EU." Visnik Nacional’nogo universitetu «Lvivska politehnika». Seria: Uridicni nauki 11, no. 44 (2024): 362–69. https://doi.org/10.23939/law2024.44.362.
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Abstract. The article analyses and assesses the current state of Ukraine's implementation of the EU acquis under the Association Agreement in the sector ‘Trade and Trade-related Matters’ on free movement of goods. The legislative and institutional framework for free movement of goods, albeit partially, already exists, in particular for the sectors that the ACAA may cover, thanks to the DCFTA commitments. Currently, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is considering several draft laws on state market surveillance and standardisation to enable Ukraine to become a full member of the EU customs union in the near future. It is noted that the rapid elimination of systemic problems and further adoption of horizontal and vertical legislation of Ukraine harmonised with the EU law on free movement of goods will allow to move the issue of signing the Agreement on Joint Recognition of Certificates of Conformity for Industrial Products by Ukraine and the European Union (ACAA) into the practical plane. Monitoring of the fulfilment of obligations in this area made it possible to conclude that the level of preparation for bringing domestic trade legislation in key sectors in line with the European acquis communautaireis average . The articleidentifies the measures used to formulate and implement the policy of free movement of goods to ensure the fulfilment of Ukraine's obligations under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. It is concluded that our country demonstrates a moderate level of preparation in the field of free movement of goods, which, on the basis of common rules and procedures, guarantees the possibility of free trade in goods to the Common Market member states in the European Union. At the same time, Ukraine still needs to analyse its legislation, especially in terms of its practical application in this area, and do its homework, in particular, on technical regulations, standards, conformity assessment, accreditation, metrology and market surveillance. Keywords: free movement of goods; Association Agreement; ACAA Agreement; EU acquis; EU internal market; Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA); customs union.
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Posokhov, Ihor, Andrii Ovcharenko, and Darya Husarova. "PROSPECTS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE EU." Energy saving. Power engineering. Energy audit., no. 6(196) (August 25, 2024): 86–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.20998/2313-8890.2024.06.07.
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The article examines the prospects of economic integration within the framework of the association agreement with the EU. It is noted that modern studies on the integration of Ukraine into the EU most often consider the problems of the Ukrainian dimension of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, Ukraine's acquisition of the status of a candidate for EU membership in the conditions of the war in Ukraine , the state European integration policy of Ukraine: theory, methodology, mechanisms, reengineering in international business. The main prospects for further economic integration of Ukraine into the EU are offered: strengthen responsibility for corruption schemes in the economy and in the field of intellectual property rights; implement the Tax Policy Strategy, which should take into account all sectoral aspects of the Association Agreement with the EU; strengthen control over public procurement; apply real tools to stimulate energy efficiency and innovative development (tax credit or tax discount), environmentally safe production (emission limits, correction factors, etc.), establish a tax-free minimum income of citizens and apply real control over persons receiving tax benefits. It is justified that the level of innovative activity should be stimulated primarily by tax benefits. It is shown that in foreign countries, the emphasis is primarily on the financing of innovative research by private companies, which allows them to obtain an innovative product, which can then be sold both inside the country and outside its borders. In Ukraine, for the most part, the state is not interested in such processes and does not create certain preferences for persons developing innovative products. It is proposed to introduce an innovative tax credit, which will allow subjects of innovative activity to reduce the tax burden from corporate income tax or postpone its payment. Thanks to this approach, Ukraine can obtain innovative products that will be in demand on the world market.
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Antoniuk, Valentyna, Liashenko Liashenko, Olga Novikova, Iryna Pidorycheva, Myroslava Soldak, and Danylo Cherevatskyi. "Proposals for Possible Amendments to the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other hand." Herald of the Economic Sciences of Ukraine, no. 2(39) (2020): 201–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.37405/1729-7206.2020.2(39).201-205.
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An analysis of the achievements of Ukraine as a result of the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, as well as the limitations that indicate the need to update it in accordance with new challenges and challenges. The article contains proposals of experts of the Institute of Industrial Economics on appropriate amendments to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, concerning Chapter V “Economic and sectoral cooperation”, namely Ukraine’s integration into the European Research Area (Chapter 9 “Cooperation in Science and Technology”) and integration of Ukraine’s environmental policy in the field of industrial and regional policy of the state (Chapter 6 “Environment”). In particular, proposals were made to include in Chapter 9 the following provisions: approval of research institutions of Ukraine as important subjects of the European Research Area; coordination of Ukraine’s scientific policy with EU scientific policy; active participation of universities, National and branch academies of sciences of Ukraine in European scientific and technical cooperation; joint use and development of the European research infrastructure, integration into the European cloud of open science. The expediency of supplementing Chapter 6 with provisions on the development and deepening of cooperation in the field of revitalization of abandoned and abandoned industrial facilities has been substantiated in the framework of the improvement of the Association Agreement signed with the EU. Recommendations are also provided for Section III “Justice, Freedom and Security” to increase the level of social protection of workers in the context of Ukraine’s integration into the EU digital market (Article 17 “Treatment of employees”).
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Muraviov, Victor. "THE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE LEGAL ORDER OF UKRAINE: MECHANISM OF INTERACTION." ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1, no. 127 (2016): 68–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2016.127.1.68-78.
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The signing of the Association Agreement by Ukraine with the European Union and its member-states provides for the country a perspective of its integration in the Union with possible membership in it upon the creation of the free trade area between both partners. The realization of the Association Agreement is carried out on the international and national levels and is exercised by various means-accessions by Ukraine to international treaties, making national laws consistent with legal acts of EU institutions, recognition by Ukraine of national standards of EU Member States, mutual recognition of rules of the other side etc. The effective using of implementation legal tools requires from Ukraine establishing the proper and relevant legal background. Certain prerequisites for the application of the EU law into the Ukrainian legal framework have been existed. Nevertheless, they require be improving and reforming. The legal mechanism for implementing acts of association is still unsettled. It is related to the Council and the Committee of the association decisions. The corresponding mechanism in Ukraine has not been set up. It has the same concern with the European standards. Ukraine has to transpose the array of technical regulations as national standards with the conformity with EU legislation. However, it is not clear how this will be achieved. The article is focused on the analysis of the legal bases of the interaction of the European Union law and the Law of Ukraine. Specially elucidated the questions of the correlation of the EU law and the law of Ukraine, as well as the actual means of the implementation of the EU law in the legal order of Ukraine. The ways of the improvement of the legal mechanism of the realization of the EU law in the internal legal order of Ukraine are determined. There is emphasized that integration of Ukraine into the European Union will require important amendments into Ukrainian Constitution and other national legislation to provide the legal prerequisites for the realization of the EU law in the internal legal order of Ukraine. Special attention is paid to the means of implementation of international legal obligations in Ukraine.
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Mytsenko, I., M. Sukhomlyn, and O. Yurchenko. "Foreign Trade Relations of Ukraine with the EU Countries: State, Trends and Development Priorities." Economic Herald of the Donbas, no. 3 (65) (2021): 81–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/1817-3772-2021-3(65)-81-91.
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In modern conditions, the involvement degree of any country in the international economic relations is determined to a significant extent by the state of its foreign trade activities. For Ukraine, the European Union is a key trading partner. The signing of the Association Agreement with the EU provided Ukrainian producers with the opportunity to increase their presence in European markets, but at the same time it was accompanied by a number of problems and risks. The main ones are tariff quotas and high technical barriers to entry into the EU market. This study aims to analyze the state and development trends of foreign trade relations between Ukraine and the EU under the conditions of the Association Agreement and the resulting benefits and risks for domestic producers and, on this basis, substantiate the priorities of deepening these relations, taking into account national interests as a prerequisite for increasing the competitive economy of Ukraine. It was found that Ukraine has the potential to enhance export opportunities in general and with the European Union in particular. Amendments to the Association Agreement, the signing of the ACAA Agreement is a necessary institutional framework, a driver that will allow Ukraine to intensify, deepen and diversify its trade activities with the EU countries. It was revealed that raw materials prevail in the structure of Ukraine's merchandise exports to the EU, however, compared to 2013, its share has significantly decreased - by 14.3%. The structure of Ukraine's merchandise imports from the EU is more diversified, it is based on engineering and pharmaceutical products, as well as mineral products, polymer materials and plastics. The share of these products in the total volume of Ukraine's merchandise imports during 2013-2020 remains high and ranges from 54-56 %. Such trends testify to the import dependence of the Ukrainian economy and require an urgent solution. Based on the results of the analysis, it was determined that machinery-producing industries are promising from the point of view of further increasing the export opportunities of Ukraine to the EU. To support and develop them, it is proposed to carry out systematic and systematic measures, taking into account the obligations that Ukraine assumed by signing the Association Agreement with the EU. Special economic zones, science parks, technology parks and clusters are considered as tools to support the export potential of domestic engineering and the economic potential of the national economy. The effectiveness of these structures has been confirmed by numerous studies and successful international experience.
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Konovchuk, V. S. "International legal dimension of military cooperation within the framework of international regional organizations on the example of the European Union." Uzhhorod National University Herald. Series: Law 4, no. 87 (2025): 265–70. https://doi.org/10.24144/2307-3322.2025.87.4.41.
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The article is devoted to examining issues related to international military cooperation within the framework of the European Union. Special attention is given to aspects of military cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. The article also highlights specific aspects of military collaboration between Ukraine and the EU. Through specific examples, it reveals the significance of Euro-Atlantic integration processes for Ukraine in the context of international defence cooperation, emphasizing their role as one of the key conditions for ensuring the country’s military security. The full-scale war that erupted in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has become the most compelling evidence that the integration of our state into NATO and the EU is one of the fundamental prerequisites for ensuring Ukraine’s military security. The strategic course aimed at Ukraine’s integration into the EU is the basis of our state’s foreign policy. It is enshrined in a number of Ukrainian domestic legal acts, such as the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine «On the Principles of Domestic and Foreign Policy», «Strategy of Foreign Policy of Ukraine», «Strategy of Military Security of Ukraine». Ukraine has a number of achievements on its way to implementing the abovementioned course, the key ones are the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU (2014) and obtaining the status of a candidate for EU membership (2022). In the context of the defence sector, the implementation of European integration processes is carried out through mechanisms of international military cooperation. The events of 2022–2025 have proven that the EU is a reliable partner for Ukraine not only in economic and political dimensions but also in matters of security and defence. As demonstrated by the events of 2022–2025, the EU can serve as a trustworthy partner for Ukraine not only in economic and political spheres but also in the field of security and defence. Taking into account the abovementioned, this article is aimed at analysing the legal framework of military cooperation mechanisms within the European Union as well as researching certain aspects of military cooperation between Ukraine and the EU within the framework of the Association Agreement. In this regard, the article deals with the fundamental principles of military cooperation between Ukraine and the EU (laid down in the provisions of the Association Agreement). It also defines the importance to intensify and strengthen such cooperation. Also, the features of cooperation between the EU member states within the framework of the common foreign and security policy, the common security and defence policy and the European Defence Agency were studied.
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Moskalenko, O., and V. Solovych. "Nornative Power Europe and the reality of the Ukrainian events." Problems of Legality, no. 150 (October 2, 2020): 266–76. https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.150.205697.
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The article is dedicated to the study of the concept of Normative Power Europe as well as to the critical analysis of this concept against the background of the negotiation process as for the conclusion of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine. Normative Power Europe has been often offered as a major explanatory tool for understanding EU’s foreign policy, particularly with regards to its relations with the countries included in the Neighborhood Policy. The article offers analysis of the transformation of the internal political situation in Ukraine against the background of the continuation of these negotiations as well as of the initiatives and priorities that the EU had in this process. The article provides insight into the dramatic period of the negotiation process within years 2010–2014 and explains different aspects of the bargaining instruments utilized for the negotiation process. Separately, EU relations with Russia are analyzed against the background of the mentioned negotiations. The major conclusion of the offered analysis is the thesis that the concept of Normative Power Europe was not the basis of the EU policies towards Ukraine during the negotiation process as for the conclusion of the Association Agreement. Furthermore, the EU relations with Russia in the context of the development of the “Ukrainian crisis” reinforce the limitations of the use of the concept of Normative Power Europe both due to the absence of asymmetry in EU relations with other global actors and due to the priority of EU’s own interests over the moral and philosophical principles put at the foundations of the concept of Normative Power Europe.
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Slyusarenko, Kateryna, Irina Maksymova, and Anastasiia Beskrovna. "INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF UKRAINE AND THE EU." Scientific Journal of Polonia University 30, no. 5 (2018): 76–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.23856/3007.
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Foreign trade relations between Ukraine and the EU are developing under the terms of the Association Agreement coming into force. The article presents both positive and negative sides. The dynamics of foreign trade between Ukraine and the EU countries is analyzed, Ukraine's export and import structure is represented, as well as the proposed priorities of the development of foreign economic relations between Ukraine and the European Union
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Lewandowska, Anna, and Elżbieta Inglot-Brzęk. "European Integration of Ukraine: the Perspective of Ukrainians and Poles." Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i Prognozy 13, no. 3 (2015): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.56583/br.731.
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Despite the fact that discussions have focused on the Association Agreement and resolving the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine as a turning point in EU-Ukraine relations, we look at the European integration of Ukraine from the perspective of public opinion. This is important because public opinion is one of the most important EU factors that may affect European integration and Europeanization processes in the EU countries. This article provides among other aspects the answer to the question: What are the positive and negative effects of the integration of Ukraine into the EU, in the opinion of Polish entrepreneurs?