Ukraine's Government Announced That It Fulfilled 72% Of All Obligations under the Ukraine-Eu Association Agreement

Friday, 24 March 2023

The government has published a report on the Implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union for 2022, which states that Ukraine has fulfilled 72% of its obligations.

According to the report, Ukraine has currently fulfilled 72% of all obligations under the Agreement, which is a critical element of Ukraine's integration into the EU internal market.

The overall progress of implementation of the Agreement for 2022 has increased by 9%.

For 2014-2022, the main executors of the Agreement's obligations demonstrate the following indicators: The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has fulfilled 70% of the measures, and 1% is in the process of implementation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has fulfilled 61% of the measures, and other government agencies have fulfilled 59% of the criteria.

According to the report, Ukraine has achieved the greatest progress in intellectual property - 94%, public finance management - 90%, statistics and information exchange - 96%, justice, freedom, security, human rights - 91%, and humanitarian policy - 91 %.

The worst implementation progress is in consumer rights protection (48%) and financial cooperation and fight against fraud (24%).

"Despite the full-scale war, we have continued the active process of adapting Ukrainian legislation to EU law. This report is the result of a great teamwork of ministries, the Parliament and other authorities, and we plan to continue to maintain the high dynamics of European integration processes," said Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.

She added that the authorities "are completing the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission that we received with the candidacy, launched the self-screening procedure for compliance of Ukrainian legislation with EU law."

"All these parallel processes are intended to speed up the next stage - negotiations on the EU membership," Stefanishyna assured.

In July 2022, the European Union published its annual report on Ukraine's implementation of the Association Agreement, in which it positively assessed Kyiv's steps (Ukr) toward European integration before the war.

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