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Chile-European Union |
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Background and Negotiations |
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Chile and the European Union signed a Framework Cooperation
Agreement on 21 June 1996, in Florence, Italy, with the objective of establishing a political and
economic association. This agreement entered into force on 1 February 1999.
On 24 November 1999 the first meeting of the European Union-Chile Joint Council, established
in the Framework Agreement, met in Brussels, Belgium.
The Joint Council set out the structure, methodology and calendar for negotiations on a political
and economic association agreement between Chile and the European Community and its member states.
Negotiations towards a Chile-EU Association Agreement began in 2000.
Ten rounds of negotiations were held, concluding on 26 April 2002. The agreement was signed on
18 November 2002. The agreement includes a political dialogue, a section on cooperation and a section
on trade. The fifth round of negotiations took place in Brussels, Belgium on July 15-19, 2019.
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Entry into Force |
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To enter into force, the Agreement has to be adopted by the EU
Commission and the Council and ratified by the Chilean Congress. In order for the remaining provisions
to enter into force, assent must be obtained from the European Parliament and the Agreement must be
ratified by the Parliaments of the EU Member States.
The trade provisions of the Chile-EU Association Agreement entered into force on a provisional
basis on 01 February 2003. An additional protocol to the Agreement was added in May 2004 to take
into account the enlargement of the European Union.
The full agreement entered into force on 1 March 2005.
Documents relating to entry
into force |
| 05 March 2005 |
Revised explanatory notes concerning
Annex III — Definition of the concept of originating products and methods of administrative
cooperation |
| 01 March 2005 |
Entry into force of the Agreement
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| 28 February 2005 |
Council Decision on the conclusion of the
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
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| 16 December 2004 |
Additional Protocol to the Agreement
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| 22 November 2004 |
On the signing and provisional application
of an Additional Protocol to the 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,
to take account of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic
of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the
Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic
to the European Union
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| 31 December 2003 |
Explanatory notes concerning Annex III -
Definition of the concept of originating products and methods of administrative cooperation
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| 12 February 2003 |
European Parliament approves
Association agreement with Chile |
| 31 January 2003 |
Notification of the completion
of procedures necessary for the provisional application of certain articles of the Agreement
as of 1 February 2003 |
| 18 November 2002 |
Council Decision on the signature and
provisional application of certain provisions of an Agreement establishing and association between
the European Community and its Member Staets, on the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the
other part (2002/979/EC) |
| 18 November 2002 |
Final Act adopting annexes and joint declarations
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| 03 October 2002 |
EU Commission adopts EU-Chile Association
Agreement |
| Source: European Union;
Official Journal of the European Union |
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Implementation of the Agreement |
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In January 2006, the EU council decided to amend Annex
I of the Agreement to include some items for which Chile had benefited from GSP preferences but that had not
been included in the Agreement.
In November 2010, The VIII meeting of the Association Committee and the Joint Management
Committee on Sanitary Matters was held in Santiago, Chile.
Article 3 of the Agreement establishes an Association
Council to supervise the implementation of the Agreement. The Association Council is to meet at regular
intervals of at least two years.
The first meeting of the EU-Chile Association Council took place in Athens on 27 March 2003. Ministers
approved the rules and procedures of the Association Council, the Association Committees and the special
committees established by the Agreement.
Article 6 of the Association Agreement provides for
the establishment of an Association Committee . The Association Committee is responsible for the
coordination and implementation of the Agreement , meets annually and is composed of representatives of
members of the Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities, on the one hand,
and representatives of the Government Chile , on the other, normally at senior officials.
The Association Committee has the power to take decisions in the cases provided for in the Association
Agreement or where such power has been delegated to it by the Association Council. In this event the
Association Committee shall take its decisions in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 5.
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Modernization of the Agreement |
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In the context of the Sixth Council of the Chile-European Union
Association Agreement, held in April 2015, Chile and the European Union discussed options to modernize
their current association agreement.
At the beginning of 2016, Chilean delegations held meetings with senior officials of the European
Union and the European Free Trade Association to advance towards modernization of the trade agreements
that Chile has with both blocks.
Chile and the European Union launched the negotiations to modernize the existing Chile-EU Association
Agreement on November 16, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
A round of negotiations to modernize the agreement took place from 15 to 19 January 2018 in
Santiago, Chile. The European Council published the negotiating directives for the new modernized agreement
on 22 January 2018. On February 6, 2018, the European Commission published 18 initial textual proposals
setting out its position in specific areas of the negotiation for a new, modernized agreement with Chile.
The seventh round of negotiations of the trade pillar for the modernization of the agreement, which took
place virtually, ended on May 29, 2020. The eighth round of negotiations of the trade pillar for the modernization
of the Agreement began on September 28, 2020 virtually.
The ninth and penultimate round of negotiations for the modernization of the Chile-European Union Association
Agreement began on January 11, 2021. The tenth round of negotiations was held virtually on May 12, 2021.
The negotiations for the modernization of the Chile-European Union ended on November 15, 2021.
On December 9, 2022, Chile and the European Union announced that they had reached an agreement in principle for the new Advanced Framework Agreement between Chile and the European Union. Thus, the political closure of the process of modernization of the Association Agreement - signed in November 2002 and which entered into force in 2003, in which the terms of reference were negotiated and agreed upon, and whose negotiations were officially launched in 2017 - is completed.
During the week of January 26, 2023, the legal teams of Chile and the European Union met virtually in order to advance the legal review process of the Advanced Framework Agreement between Chile and the EU.
On April 21, 2023, in Santiago, the legal team of the Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations (SUBREI) and the legal team of the European Union advanced in the last stage of the legal review process of the Advanced Framework Agreement between Chile and the EU.
On July 23, 2024, the Advanced Framework Agreement and Interim Trade Agreement Chile-EU was approved in the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.
On September 2, 2024, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile approved the Advanced Framework Agreement (AMA) - and the Interim Trade Agreement (ACI) - between Chile and the European Union (EU), an initiative signed in December last year and which modernizes the current Association Agreement between both economies in force since 2003.
On November 5, 2024, the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chilean Senate approved the Advanced Framework Agreement (AMA) - and the Interim Trade Agreement (ACI) - between Chile and the European Union (EU).
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Related Articles and Studies |
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| November 2018 |
European Parliamentary Research Service.
Modernisation of the trade pillar of the EU-Chile Association Agreement
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| February 2018 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales
entre Chile y la Unión Europea a 15 años de la entrada en vigencia del Acuerdo de Asociación
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| April 2014 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones
comerciales entre Chile y la Unión Europea a once años de la entrada en vigencia del
Acuerdo de Asociación
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| June 2013 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales
entre Chile y la Unión Europea a diez años de la entrada en vigencia del Acuerdo de
Asociación
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| February 2012 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales
entre Chile y la Unión Europea a nueve a ños de vigencia del Acuerdo de Asociación
Estratégica
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| February 2011 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales
entre Chile y la Unión Europea a ocho a ños de vigencia del Acuerdo de Asociación
Estratégica
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| February 2010 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones romerciales entre
Chile y los Países de la Unión Europea a siete a ños de vigencia del Acuerdo de
Asociación
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| October 2007 |
DIRECON. Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales
Chile-Unión Europea a cuatro a ños de vigencia del Acuerdo de Asociación
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| May 2006 |
DIRECON. Evaluación comercial Acuerdo Chile-Unión
Europea
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| December 2004 |
DIRECON. Evaluación comercial Acuerdo Chile-Unión
Europea
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| January 2004 |
DIRECON. Aspectos destacados del primer año de vigencia
del Acuerdo de Asociación Chile-Unión Europea
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