Has the European Union's Association Accord with Algeria, which was
signed in 2003, been ratified by the individual EU parliaments yet?
(the agreement
does not come into force until all national parliaments have given
their blessing).

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 14 Jun 2004 09:16 PDT

Hi ranger7a!!

I am researching for an "AGREEMENT TRADE BETWEEN THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA" signed in 12
April 2002 (no 2003):
"Subject : Council Decision on the signing, on behalf of the European
Community, of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an
Association between the European Community and its Member States, of
the one part, and the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, of the
other part."
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/cib/tradeagreements/EC-Algeria.pdf

Is this the agreement that you need to know if it was ratified?

Regards.
livioflores-ga

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Clarification of Question by ranger7a-ga on 14 Jun 2004 09:57 PDT

Yes, that's the one

Thanks

Hello ranger7a

This agreement is not expected to be fully ratified before 2005 at the earliest.

Only seven of the older member states had ratified the Algeria-EU
association accord/agreement by the time of EU enlargement in May, and
now the new members must also be involved in the ratification process.
Algeria itself has not yet signed, either.


"DELAY IN RATIFYING THE ALGERIA-EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT
(Quotidien d?Oran 28 Apr)

The Head of the European Commission in Algiers, Lucio Guerrato, said
that only seven countries had ratified the EU-Algeria Association
Agreement (France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium and
Great Britain), and as from 1 May the ten new entrants to the EU
should also ratify it, but is difficult to see how this can be done
rapidly. He was nevertheless optimistic that all 25 countries would
sign by early 2005."

Algeria newsletter - March/April 2004
http://www.amnesty-volunteer.org/uk/algeria/Current.php


On the European Union website it says simply:

"Algeria is in the final stages of ratifying its Association Agreement
with the EU."
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/issues/bilateral/countries/algeria/index_en.htm


It seems that the Algerians are not pressing for this process to
happen quickly, and are believed to be waiting see how similar
agreements with their neighbours work out:
El Watan, May 16, 2004
http://www.algeria-watch.de/fr/article/pol/dz_ue/optimisme_guerrato.htm

A rough machine translation is available here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.algeria-watch.de%2Ffr%2Farticle%2Fpol%2Fdz_ue%2Foptimisme_guerrato.htm&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools


I hope this gives you all the information you need, but if you have
any queries about my answer, please feel free to ask for
clarification.

Best Wishes - Leli


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I also checked the "bilateral trade relations" section of the EU website:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/issues/bilateral/index_en.htm