- OBJECTIVE: interim agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, the ECSC and EURATOM, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, pending the entry into force of the EC-Moldova partnership agreement.
- SUBSTANCE: pending ratification of the partnership and cooperation agreement concluded between the EC and Moldova, and signed in Brussels on 28.11.1994, an interim agreement is approved with a view to applying, on a temporary basis, that section of the general partnership agreement which deals with trade and trade-related measures. The present agreement, which was initialled in Brussels on 07.04.1995, will apply until the entry into force of the main partnership and cooperation agreement.
The interim agreement suspends the trade-related provisions of the trade and economic cooperation agreement concluded in 1989 between the Community and the URSS, insofar as they relate specifically to Moldova.
The present agreement is concluded by the Council on behalf of the European Community, after consultation of the European Parliament (in accordance with Article 113, in conjunction with Article 228(2, first sentence), of the Treaty on European Union).
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