Within forming a new legal basis for relations between the European Union and Armenia, EU-Armenia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement’s first phase was launched in Brussels.

According to the Ministry of Economy of Armenia, negotiations are underway around previously defined fields and directions with the EU: particularly, goods and services trade, trade protection measures, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, intellectual property rights, competition, public procurement, sustainable development, transparency, current payments and movement of capital, investment cooperation, etc.

In addition to plenary sessions, more than 12 meetings of negotiation subgroups are expected.