EU releases texts proposed for DCFTA with Tunisia

On 29 April 2016, the European Commission announced that the European Union and Tunisia are jointly making public the initial texts of the future Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) as proposed by the European Union (EU) and presented to Tunisian experts during the preliminary discussions in Tunis in October 2015 and during the first round of negotiations from 18 to 21 April 2016.

Texts in the following 11 areas are made available to the public. The texts are only French, because it is the language of the negotiations. Texts will be translated at the end of the negotiations and after lawyers will have checked them.
Each of them is accompanied by an explanatory note which aims to make them easier to understand:

• Trade in agricultural and fishery products – Factsheet
• Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures – Factsheet
• Technical barriers to trade – Factsheet
• Trade and Sustainable development – Factsheet
• Trade in services and investment – Factsheet
• Protection of intellectual property – Factsheet
• Trade defence instruments – Factsheet
• Public procurement – Factsheet
• Rules on competition and state aid – Factsheet
• Customs procedures – Factsheet
• Transparency rules – Factsheet

For the context of the negotiations and the objective of the DCFTA, please see the full announcement.