In 1995, Tunisia was the first Mediterranean country to sign a partnership agreement with the European Union. However, even if doing move goods, capital and services easily between the two parties, but the issue of freedom of movement of people is still controversial.
Samira clamshell - Tunisia, life
Tunisian economy was able to devote its openness to the outside world, especially Europe, since the early period after the policy canceled Tunisians cooperatives late sixties of the last century, and adopted an economy based on competition. However, the weak capitalization and limited local industrial experience have made use of European partners the need for economic and technical. Tunisia has started a policy of cooperation and partnership with the European Union since the seventies of last century, and was the first Arab country and middle reach a partnership agreement in 1995. And occupied the European support to update the local factories prominently among such assistance, it helped the Union more than a thousand Tunisian factory in obtaining certification to international standards. He also contributed to help the State to restructure the financial system and liberalization of foreign trade tariff barriers, particularly in the area of import.
Industry Modernization Plan
He was the first project financed by the European name of «modernization plan industry», said in charge of the file support the private sector in the EU Embassy Ooodwardo Como's «life»: Through its project, to provide aid to the success of the three plans is the plan to Tunisia supervision and training, and plan to improve quality and plan for the establishment of new units ». He stated that the Union has helped more than a thousand local factory to obtain certificates of conformity with international standards, also contributed to the development of plans for growth until 2016.
In the same vein resulted in the creation of instruments to help the European banking and finance new active investment, notably in the bank for the financing of small and medium enterprises and the Tunisian company for the guarantees. The Central Bank started to grant loans to entrepreneurs, industrial and services projects, allowing the establishment of projects, in turn, enabled the employment of college graduates and skilled professional. Como and commented that the Union sought to know the needs of the private sector to identify successful means to give appropriate support.
Public sector projects
In the area of relations with the public sector, encompassing four European aid projects, some still under implementation, called «structural adjustment facilities». And threw the first of the four facilities to assist the country to re-structuring of the financial sector, while the second to support the plan allocation of public enterprises were sold from the private sector, in particular the third private institutions to facilitate transactions with the public administrative services, while the fourth objective of the release of the abolition of customs duties for the liberalization of foreign trade, and in particular the dismantling of tariff barriers in the field of import.
This allowed the path to improve the local industrial fabric and the development of performance has allowed him to withstand competitive European products in the wake of trade liberalization between Tunisia and the EU countries as of early last year, the implementation of the partnership agreement reached by the parties in the past decade. And provided assistance to the institutions to update their methods of work and improve its performance in particular through twinning between Tunisian and European institutions, such as the Tunisian Organization for Standardization and Industrial Property, which benefited from twinning with its French counterpart. Twinning operations and make the European party take care finance the training of staff and cadres of the Tunisian institution in the country concerned and the Union to send experts to the institution of Tunisia to determine the needs for human resource training and updating of equipment and work tools.
The two sides sought Tunisian Union to accelerate the implementation of this path because they are committed to serving a specific date to complete the negotiations between Tunisia and the European Union to liberalize trade by the end of the current year. And depends on the commitment of this select another date but no less important, is directly the free exchange of services beginning next year. And Tunisia was launched March 27 (March 2008) the exchange of services liberalization negotiations, only months after its accession to the Euro-Mediterranean free-trade industry.
Divergence of views on the free movement of people
However, the industrial and services businesses have criticized the process of partnership with the European Union at a seminar held by the Embassy of Tunisia in late May (May) marking the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the embassy. He urged Tunisians spoke at the symposium on the liberalization of movement of persons between the shores of the Mediterranean as «a necessary step to establish a balanced partnership», but the European side linked to strict conditions. According to the Union Ambassador in Tunisia, Adrianus Couttsnroyjtr that accelerate the negotiations on the liberalization of trade in services and to reach agreement on time, stirring the Tunisian side privileges compared to other southern partners of the European Union in the framework of the Euromed region for the establishment of free trade in the services sector. The Tunisians have expressed the wish that the agreement covers the sperm between the parties, all types of services, including natural persons, «a privilege not been included in similar agreements between the EU and other partners». Under this concession, if granted, recognizes the mutual recognition of certificates, work permits, facilitate the movement of experts for the implementation of the contracts that say so with partners at the other party. But the Europeans have expressed fear of this activity overlaps with the phenomenon of migration and considered that the desire to meet the Tunisian difficult under current economic crisis and the escalating rate of unemployment in the EU countries.
In the light of reservations, view the European side to conduct negotiations on the practical suggestions and by sector are not public. Europeans believe that the potential of the domestic services sector is not fully invested, as have the features on both the quality and cost needed for the European institutions. They pointed in particular, the tourism sector, health, accounting and financial engineering and consultancy legal and communication technologies and media. On this basis is expected that this sector accounts for a share outstanding in the «new cooperation plan» between Tunisia and the European Union (2011 - 2013) and will focus on strengthening the competitiveness of Tunisian enterprises and facilitate their access to European markets. But the Europeans are committed to what seems to include negotiations on the liberalization of services in all dimensions, including economic institutions, local small and middle and civil society organizations and independent oversight bodies and the pricing system and the legal framework and others.
Samira clamshell - Tunisia, life
Tunisian economy was able to devote its openness to the outside world, especially Europe, since the early period after the policy canceled Tunisians cooperatives late sixties of the last century, and adopted an economy based on competition. However, the weak capitalization and limited local industrial experience have made use of European partners the need for economic and technical. Tunisia has started a policy of cooperation and partnership with the European Union since the seventies of last century, and was the first Arab country and middle reach a partnership agreement in 1995. And occupied the European support to update the local factories prominently among such assistance, it helped the Union more than a thousand Tunisian factory in obtaining certification to international standards. He also contributed to help the State to restructure the financial system and liberalization of foreign trade tariff barriers, particularly in the area of import.
Industry Modernization Plan
He was the first project financed by the European name of «modernization plan industry», said in charge of the file support the private sector in the EU Embassy Ooodwardo Como's «life»: Through its project, to provide aid to the success of the three plans is the plan to Tunisia supervision and training, and plan to improve quality and plan for the establishment of new units ». He stated that the Union has helped more than a thousand local factory to obtain certificates of conformity with international standards, also contributed to the development of plans for growth until 2016.
In the same vein resulted in the creation of instruments to help the European banking and finance new active investment, notably in the bank for the financing of small and medium enterprises and the Tunisian company for the guarantees. The Central Bank started to grant loans to entrepreneurs, industrial and services projects, allowing the establishment of projects, in turn, enabled the employment of college graduates and skilled professional. Como and commented that the Union sought to know the needs of the private sector to identify successful means to give appropriate support.
Public sector projects
In the area of relations with the public sector, encompassing four European aid projects, some still under implementation, called «structural adjustment facilities». And threw the first of the four facilities to assist the country to re-structuring of the financial sector, while the second to support the plan allocation of public enterprises were sold from the private sector, in particular the third private institutions to facilitate transactions with the public administrative services, while the fourth objective of the release of the abolition of customs duties for the liberalization of foreign trade, and in particular the dismantling of tariff barriers in the field of import.
This allowed the path to improve the local industrial fabric and the development of performance has allowed him to withstand competitive European products in the wake of trade liberalization between Tunisia and the EU countries as of early last year, the implementation of the partnership agreement reached by the parties in the past decade. And provided assistance to the institutions to update their methods of work and improve its performance in particular through twinning between Tunisian and European institutions, such as the Tunisian Organization for Standardization and Industrial Property, which benefited from twinning with its French counterpart. Twinning operations and make the European party take care finance the training of staff and cadres of the Tunisian institution in the country concerned and the Union to send experts to the institution of Tunisia to determine the needs for human resource training and updating of equipment and work tools.
The two sides sought Tunisian Union to accelerate the implementation of this path because they are committed to serving a specific date to complete the negotiations between Tunisia and the European Union to liberalize trade by the end of the current year. And depends on the commitment of this select another date but no less important, is directly the free exchange of services beginning next year. And Tunisia was launched March 27 (March 2008) the exchange of services liberalization negotiations, only months after its accession to the Euro-Mediterranean free-trade industry.
Divergence of views on the free movement of people
However, the industrial and services businesses have criticized the process of partnership with the European Union at a seminar held by the Embassy of Tunisia in late May (May) marking the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the embassy. He urged Tunisians spoke at the symposium on the liberalization of movement of persons between the shores of the Mediterranean as «a necessary step to establish a balanced partnership», but the European side linked to strict conditions. According to the Union Ambassador in Tunisia, Adrianus Couttsnroyjtr that accelerate the negotiations on the liberalization of trade in services and to reach agreement on time, stirring the Tunisian side privileges compared to other southern partners of the European Union in the framework of the Euromed region for the establishment of free trade in the services sector. The Tunisians have expressed the wish that the agreement covers the sperm between the parties, all types of services, including natural persons, «a privilege not been included in similar agreements between the EU and other partners». Under this concession, if granted, recognizes the mutual recognition of certificates, work permits, facilitate the movement of experts for the implementation of the contracts that say so with partners at the other party. But the Europeans have expressed fear of this activity overlaps with the phenomenon of migration and considered that the desire to meet the Tunisian difficult under current economic crisis and the escalating rate of unemployment in the EU countries.
In the light of reservations, view the European side to conduct negotiations on the practical suggestions and by sector are not public. Europeans believe that the potential of the domestic services sector is not fully invested, as have the features on both the quality and cost needed for the European institutions. They pointed in particular, the tourism sector, health, accounting and financial engineering and consultancy legal and communication technologies and media. On this basis is expected that this sector accounts for a share outstanding in the «new cooperation plan» between Tunisia and the European Union (2011 - 2013) and will focus on strengthening the competitiveness of Tunisian enterprises and facilitate their access to European markets. But the Europeans are committed to what seems to include negotiations on the liberalization of services in all dimensions, including economic institutions, local small and middle and civil society organizations and independent oversight bodies and the pricing system and the legal framework and others.
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