Government approves plan for implementation of Association Agreement with EU

Members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on Wednesday unanimously voted to approve the plan for the implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU, Ukrinform’s correspondent has reported.
“The Ukrainian government today adopts the decision to approve the plan for the implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU. We have set very ambitious terms: the agreement must be fully implemented by 2017,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
He said that such a short time was due to the desire to quickly adapt national legislation to European standards.
“The sooner we make changes, the sooner the European Union will see that we actually implemented the agreement and the sooner we will have a chance to apply for EU membership and say that we meet the criteria, we signed the agreement, we implemented it, and in accordance with Article 49 of the [EU] Treaty, Ukraine may apply for membership of the European Union,” Yatseniuk said.
As reported, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday signed a law ratifying the Association Agreement with the EU. The simultaneous ratification process took place through a videoconference between Kyiv and Strasbourg.
Following ratification by the legislative bodies of Ukraine and the EU, the provisional application of certain provisions of the political, institutional and sectoral parts of the document will begin from November 1, 2014. The agreement will come into force in full after its ratification by all 28 member states of the EU. The tentative deadline for the implementation of the Association Agreement is ten years.

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