The first meeting of the EU–Armenia Partnership Committee in Trade Configuration was held in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on 25 September.
The first meeting of the committee, which comes under the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), was co-chaired by Mane Adamian, Armenia’s Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments, and Petros Sourmelis of the European Commission. The co-chairs presented the recent trends in the field of trade and investment.
During the meeting, the parties discussed trade and other trade-related matters of CEPA, including trade in goods and services, customs, intellectual property rights, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, competition and public procurement.
They also looked at the draft roadmaps for the implementation of the trade-related chapters of CEPA.