Signature of the Association Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Chile, Brussels, 18 November 2002

On the 18 November 2002, Chile and the European Union signed an Association Agreement incorporating three
areas: political, cooperation and economic/commercial. The negotiating process was completed within a two-year period, by way of ten negotiating rounds which ended in April 2002.

The Agreement included political dialogue at the highest level, covering cooperation in various areas of foreign and security policy, the fight against terrorism, as well as bilateral and international questions of mutual interest. At the same time, it intensifies cooperation in the economic and financial, scientific, technological, social and cultural fields, thus reinforcing the agreements of 1990 and 1996 which serve as a basis for the new Agreement.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: 2002/979/EC. Council Decision of 18 November 2002 on the signature and provisional application of certain provisions of an Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part. Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part. Final act http://www.europeansources.info/record/2002-979-ec-council-decision-of-18-november-2002-on-the-signature-and-provisional-application-of-certain-provisions-of-an-agreement-establishing-an-association-between-the-european-community-and-its/

ESO: Key Source: Relations between Chile and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-chile-and-the-european-union/

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