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The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is the most ambitious document the EU has ever signed with a third country.
The implementation of the AA should allow Ukraine political association and economic integration with the European Union. In order to gain access to the EU internal market, Ukraine must unilaterally approximate its legislation to that of the European Union within 10 years from the date of entry into force (for those provisions which have a fixed deadline).
The five-year period since the start of AA implementation in November 2014 have clearly demonstrated the challenges it faces in Ukraine, since in addition to the implementation of the AA, there has been a root-and-branch reform of the state.
Experts of the Ukrainian Center for European Policy (UCEP) think tank in collaboration with professor Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham) have analyzed the challenges associated with the implementation of AA in Ukraine and propose to change the approach to its implementation.
Ways to overcome these challenges are:
• To introduce practices for cost-benefit analysis and implementation;
• prioritizing the implementation of the AA based on the impact assessment of regulations;
• clear planning of the resources needed to work within the identified priorities;
• increasing the institutional capacity of the EU Delegation to monitor the implementation of the AA more effectively;
• strengthening of coordination processes in the field of European integration in Ukraine at the both political and administrative level.
This policy paper is addressed to policy makers, government officials, and experts responsible for implementing the AA or studying this process, both from the European and Ukrainian sides.
The publication is available in English and Ukrainian.
