OBJECTIVE: interim agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European
Community and Uzbekistan.
COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Decision 98/138/EC on the conclusion by the European
Community of the interim agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European
Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community
of the one part and the Republic of Uzbekistan of the other part.
SUBSTANCE: the decision seeks to adopt an interim agreement concerning the provisional
application of the section of the partnership and cooperation agreement initialed on 21 June 1996
between the European Community and Uzbekistan concerning trade and trade-related matters. This
agreement has been adopted pending the definitive entry into force of the partnership agreement and
will cease to apply once the principal agreement enters into force.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 01.06.1998.�