Azerbaijani press: Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on establishing the RA-EU interdepartmental commission

On December 25, the President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, signed a decree on the establishment of an interdepartmental commission to coordinate measures to ensure the implementation of the Comprehensive and Extended Partnership Agreement between the Republic of Armenia, on the one hand, and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their member states, on the other hand, and the “Priorities of Partnership” document between the Republic of Armenia and the European Union.

This was reported by the Department of Relations with the Public and Information Media of the RA President’s Office.

“Guided by the 2005 amendments to Article 55, Clause 6 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, signed on November 24, 2017, between the Republic of Armenia, on the one hand, and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their member states, on the other, the Comprehensive and Extended Partnership Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) and the “Partnership Agreement” between the Republic of Armenia and the European Union, approved on November 20, 2017 In order to ensure the implementation of the “priorities” document (hereinafter referred to as the document), I decide:

1. To establish an interdepartmental committee coordinating the measures ensuring the implementation of the agreement and the document (hereinafter referred to as the committee) and to approve its individual composition in accordance with the annex.

2. Determine that the commission:

1) coordinates the work of the competent authorities of the Republic of Armenia with the European Union and its member states within the framework of the trade-economic and sectoral cooperation defined by the agreement and document;

2) approves the programs of measures to ensure the implementation of the agreements and documents developed by the state administration bodies of the Republic of Armenia, including those aimed at the implementation of reforms and approximation processes, and monitors their implementation;

3) preliminarily discusses the issues of trade, economic and sectoral cooperation included in the agendas of the RA-EU Partnership Council and the Partnership Committee, provided for by the agreement, and adopts decisions.

3. The work of the commission is organized through sessions, which are convened as needed, but not less than once a quarter.

4. State administration bodies of the Republic of Armenia to discuss with the commission in advance the programs, meetings, events, documents to be signed and approved related to the issues subject to the coordination of the latter,” the decree says.