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THE NEW CEFTA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS INFLUENCE ON ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ON THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Marta Krizmanić
Sažetak
In 1992 Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary signed the Central European
Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). In time, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic
and Slovakia, while Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia joined
CEFTA. However, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia left
CEFTA on entering the European Union, which Bulgaria and Romania also joined later.
The latter two, however, signed, along with 8 other parties (Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and UNMIK
Kosovo), the Agreement on Amendment of and Accession to the Central European Free
Trade Agreement (CEFTA 2006) on 19 December 2006. This new CEFTA will replace
over thirty bilateral free trade agreements concluded among them.
After a short introduction, this paper argues that the purpose of CEFTA is to enable its
members to enter the EU more easily, and thus serves as an instrument of EU accession.
Reference is made to the most important benefit of the old CEFTA, which was the
common preparation for integration to the EU’s market. By analysing the impact of the
old CEFTA as a pre-accession instrument, an analogy is made with the new CEFTA,
where emphasis is placed on its role as a regional cooperation instrument.
The paper aims to compare the provisions of CEFTA 2006, the Treaty establishing the
European Community, and the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, mainly from the
perspective of Croatia. Particular provisions of the Consolidated Version of CEFTA
2006 are discussed separately in the fourth part of this paper.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
28573
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Datum izdavanja:
2.11.2007.
Posjeta: 1.974 *