EU-Tunisia Association Agreement

EENI- School of International Business

Sub-subject: The Association Agreement between the European Union and Tunisia. Syllabus:

  1. Introduction to the European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement
  2. Key features of the Tunisia-European Union Association Agreement
  3. The future Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Tunisia-EU
The sub-subject “The European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement” is studied...
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  3. Courses: Africa's International Relations, EU's International Relations, Maghreb

Languages of study English or Spanish UE-Tunez French EU Portuguese EU.

Sample of the Sub-subject - The European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement:
European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement

Description of the sub-subject - The European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement

Tunisia has in force an Association Agreement with the European Union within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) framework.

One of the objectives of the EU-Tunisia Association Agreement is to achieve the liberalisation of bilateral trade in goods, services and capitals as well as the creation of a Free-Trade Area between Tunisia and the EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Sweden)

The European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement allows Tunisia to:

  1. Preferential treatment for agricultural products (including processed agricultural export products) and fisheries
  2. Free access to the European Union market for all Tunisian manufactured goods

The Duty drawback under the EU-Tunisia Association Agreement is prohibited.

Tolerance: 10% of the product price

Type of accumulation: complete, diagonal and bilateral.

Tolerance: 10 % of the product price

Required Documents:

  1. Movement Certificate EUR-MED or EUR.1 certificate (issued by Tunisian Customs authorities)
  2. Invoice declaration (by the exporter) or Invoice declaration EUR-MED

Tunisia is also part of:

  1. European Neighbourhood Policy
  2. Agadir Agreement
  3. Pan-Euro-Mediterranean system of cumulation of rules of origin

Tunisia has furthermore a Dispute settlement mechanism with the European Union.

The European Union-Tunisia Association Agreement belongs to the European Economic Area of the Western Civilisation and the Islamic Civilisation.



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