VRU eurointegration committee ingathers for discussions over urgent issues of EU-Ukraine association
06 December 2019, 12:58
Dmytro Kuleba, the vice premier for Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, participated in a meeting of the VRU Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into EU. The committee meeting was headed by the chairwoman of the committee MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsyntsadze.
During the sitting, debaters discussed the state of implementation of the Association Agreement, the road map of first priority eurointegration bills jointly elaborated by the government and the parliament, as well as a number of other pressing issues in the context of the Association Agreement, bilateral topical issues and priorities in the VRU-Cabinet team work.
They also talked over the progress with the Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) with the EU ("industrial visa-free regime" as it were), the need for having the Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration’s findings on draft laws’ being in line with Ukraine's international legal obligations in the field of European integration, on updating the national institutional mechanism for the implementation of the Association Agreement, as well as on ways of improving the system of monitoring the implementation of the said agreement.
In addition, members of the committee considered a draft law on the ratification of the Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Union and Ukraine amending the trade preferences for poultry meat and poultry meat preparations provided for by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part. Upon thorough consideration, the committee recommended that the parliament take the bill as a whole.
Also, the committeemen verified if a number of draft laws are compliant with EU legislation and/or Ukraine's international legal obligations under the Association Agreement, in particular – some draft laws amending certain legislative acts of Ukraine on reducing pressure upon businesses by market surveillance authorities (the bill No.2172) and amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine governing grafting anatomic material in humans (the bill No.2457). The consideration resulted in a number of comments and emendations.