Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine: practical lessons from the implementation and its impact on Ukrainian customs legislation

Customs Compliance & Risk Management, Issue 3, June / July 2020
Borys Kormych
Borys Kormych
Head of Maritime and Customs Law Department, Odessa Law Academy, Ukraine
Gediminas Valantiejus
Gediminas Valantiejus
Attorney at Law, Dr. Gediminas Valantiejus Law-Firm GVLEX, Lithuania
Published 25 Jul 2020
Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine: practical lessons from the implementation and its impact on Ukrainian customs legislation

Photo by VisionPic .net from Pexels

Overviews and comments
law
other
The article reviews one of the recent Association Agreements with the third countries which were concluded by the EU, namely, EU – Ukraine Association Agreement (2017), and, in particular, presents the experience and practice of Ukraine while implementing its commitments to harmonize national customs legislation with the EU customs law. The article describes efforts of the Republic of Ukraine to modernize its national sources of customs law and presents the summary of legal acts adopted in Ukraine while implementing the Association Agreement with the EU. The information provided in the article describes the conditions faced by all businesses engaged in trade between Ukraine and the EU as well as importing goods from the EU to the Republic of Ukraine.