Decision No 1/2019 of the EU-Georgia Association Committee in Trade Configuration of 18 October 2019 updating Annex III-A to the Association Agreement [2019/1913]

THE ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE IN TRADE CONFIGURATION,

Having regard to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part, and in particular Article 47 thereof,

Whereas:

1. In accordance with Article 431 of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part (‘the Agreement’), the Agreement entered into force on 1 July 2016.

2. Article 47 of the Agreement provides that Georgia is to gradually achieve approximation with the relevant Union acquis in accordance with the provisions of Annex III-A and Annex III-B to the Agreement and that Annex III-A to the Agreement may be amended by a decision of the Association Committee in Trade configuration.

3. Several Union acts listed in Annex III-A to the Agreement have been recast or repealed and replaced by new Union acts since the initialling of the Agreement on 29 November 2013 and new Union acts have been notified to Georgia.

4. It is necessary to update Annex III-A to the Agreement in order to reflect the evolution of the Union acquis listed in that Annex.

5. In the interest of clarity, Annex III-A to the Agreement should be updated in its entirety and replaced.

6. It is appropriate to provide for a period for Georgia to implement the new Union acts in its domestic legislation. Accordingly, new deadlines for approximation of Georgia to the Union acts listed in Annex III-A should be indicated therein,

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