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ECSC - 1951 |
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EEC - 1957 |
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EURATOM - 1957 |
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Merger - 1965 |
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SEA - 1986 |
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TEU - 1992 |
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Amsterdam - 1997 |
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Nice - 2001 |
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Constitution - 2004 |
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Berlin Declaration - 2007 |
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The New Reform Treaty - 2007 |
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Enlargement process |
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• The Zagreb Summit |
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• Candidate countries |
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• The Western Balkan countries on the road to the European Union |
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Primary law, (the Treaties establishing the Communities and the European Union). |
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Secondary law (based on the Treaties and include unilateral secondary law and conventions and agreements). |
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Supplementary law. (Besides the case-law of the Court of Justice, this category includes international law and general principles of law). |
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The European Parliament |
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The Council of the European Union |
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The European Commission |
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The Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities |
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The European Court of Auditors |
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The European Economic and Social Committee |
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The Committee of the Regions |
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European Central Bank |
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Foundations of European customs law |
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The legal sources of European customs law |
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The CUSTOMS UNION AND FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS |
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Establishing the Community Customs Code, Implementation by the Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code & Amended
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Modernisation of the EU Customs Code (2007-2009) |
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Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 establishing an action programme for customs in the Community (Customs 2013)
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The structure of the Customs Code |
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on the tariff classification of certain poultry cuts and amending Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
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The Common Customs Tariff (CCT) & The Tarif Intégré de la Communauté (TARIC) |
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 The CE marking is a symbol that indicates that a particular product complies with European product safety, health and environmental requirements. The CE marking system promotes free trade with Europe by providing a single set of safety and environmental requirements a product must meet. Products complying with CE marking are currently accepted in 32 European countries. This is a market of 400 million people with a GNP over $8 trillion. CE marking is accelerating as the “globally accepted system” for ensuring product safety and environmental requirements. Possible extensions to other areas of the world are being negotiated at this time. |
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CE marking participating countries |
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CE Marking Directives Covered |
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Testing/Certifying Labs |
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Technical File Procedures |
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Declaration of Conformity (Supplier's declarations EC) |
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The CE Marking affixed |
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The European Union standard for accreditation developed |
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• European Committee for Standardization (CEN) |
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• European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) |
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• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) |
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European Standards Institutions |
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• British Standards Institution (BSI) |
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• Deutsches Institut fur Normung (DIN) |
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• Association Francaise de Normalisation (AFNOR) |
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• Denmark - Dansk Standard (DS) |
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• Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione (UNI) |
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The Agricultural and Fisheries Regulations & Directives |
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The Foodstuff Regulations & Directives. |
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The Medical Sector Directives. |
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The Environment Sector Directives . |
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The Electrical Safety: Low Voltage Directive (LVD) |
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The Quality and health of Vegetables& reform |
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Packing and Labeling |
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New Wood Packaging Regulations |
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The Products Safety of Quality |
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RoHS & WEEE |
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The inspection of a certification programme covers agricultural production, processing, Accreditation |
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The European Union has concluded trade arrangements with certain non-EU countries that allow exports from the EU to enter the markets of these countries at a reduced or nil rate of duty. They also allow imports from these countries into the EU at a reduced or nil rate of duty. These arrangements are known as Preferential Trade Agreements and the duties involved are referred to as preferential rates of duty. |
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 980/2005 of 27 June 2005 applying a Scheme of generalised tariff preferences. |
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Amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004 so as to include Timor-Leste in the list of countries enjoying the special arrangements for the least developed countries
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Agreements with third countries |
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Preference Utilisation and Tariff Reduction in EU |
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Chronology : 1968 : 2007 |
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Structure of the EU GSP |
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EU - ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific countries) Relations |
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Latin America – Chile, Mexico |
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JAR – South Africa |
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Unilateral preferential tariff – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia & Montenegro. |
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OCT – Overseas Countries and Territories |
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PANEUROPEAN – EEA (the European Economic Area), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, |
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Euro-Mediterranean Partnership |
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The General Arrangements |
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Rules of origin |
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• Certificate of origin FORM A |
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• Invoice declaration |
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• The Movement Certificates EUR1/EUR-MED |
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• The standard EUR1 Movement Certificate (C1299) and EUR-MED Certificate (C1300) |
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Information for Traders on Preferential Imports/Exports |
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concerning the date of application of the protocols on rules of origin providing for diagonal cumulation between the Community, Algeria, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Israel,Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Norway, Switzerland (including Liechtenstein), Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and West Bank and Gaza Strip
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The function of the Community’s generalised system of preferences (GSP) for the ten-year period from 2006 to 2015 |
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Scheme of preferences from 2006 to 2015 Simplified Procedure for the issue of origin documentation |
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The EU is one of the key players in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This is because the EU has a common trade policy, where the European Commission negotiates on behalf of the Union's 27 Member States. As such, the EU is one of the driving forces behind the current round of multilateral trade negotiations in the WTO, Agenda . |
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Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) |
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Technical Barriers to Trade(TBT) |
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In addition to the WTO's multilateral negotiations, the EU concludes bilateral agreements with third (non-EU) countries. |
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The EU's relations with the United States of America |
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The EU's relations with the People's Republic of China |
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The EU's relations with Canada |
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The EU's relations with EFTA Countries |
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The EU's relations with South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) |
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The EU's relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) |
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The EU's relations with Japan |
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The EU's relations with Australia |
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The EU's relations with Russian Federation |
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The EU's relations with Ukraine |
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The EU's relations with The Republic of South Korea |
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The EU's relations with India |
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The EU's relations with Pakistan |
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The EU & the Assoc. of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
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The EU's relations with Hong-Kong SAR |
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The EU's relations with Taiwan |
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The EU's relations with New Zealand |
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The EU's relations with Central Asia Countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tadjkistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. |
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The EU's Mediterranean & Middle East Policy |
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(the Rio Group - was created in 1986 in Rio de Janeiro. Today the members are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM, represented by Guyana), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.)
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Supplies data for the European Union and its member States. The data expressed in US dollar are obtained applying the average annual exchange rate from ECU/Euro and national currencies to US dollar.
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EU, euro area and Member States' trade with the rest of the world |
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Extra-EU27 trade by main trading partners for each product group |
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Member States' extra-EU27 trade by product group |
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Member States' extra-EU25 trade by product group |
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