Vision Group Report: Invigorating the Indonesia-EU Partnership

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82 1. INTRODUCTION Indonesia and the EU signed a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) in November 2009. The PCA was the first of its kind between the EU and ASEAN countries. It is now in the process of ratification by both the 27 EU Member States and Indonesia, which should be completed by the end of the year. It opened a new era in bilateral relations of Indonesia and the EU, based on shared principles such as equality, mutual respect, mutual benefit, democracy and rule of law. The Agreement aims at strengthening political, economic and sectoral cooperation across a wide range of policy fields, including trade, environment, energy, science and technology, and good governance, as well as tourism and culture, migration, counter terrorism and the fight against corruption and organised crime. The Parties of the Agreement undertook to hold a comprehensive dialogue and promote further cooperation between them on all sectors of mutual interest. Their efforts will in particular be aimed at: a) establishing cooperation bilaterally and in all relevant regional and international fora and organisations; b) developing trade and investment between the Parties to their mutual advantage; c) establishing cooperation in all trade and investment-related areas of mutual interest, in order to facilitate trade and investment flows and to prevent and remove obstacles to trade and investment; d) establishing cooperation in other sectors of mutual interest, notably tourism, financial services; taxation and customs; macro-economic policy; industrial policy and SMEs; information society; science and technology; energy; transport and transport safety; education and culture; human rights; environment and natural resources, including marine environment; forestry; agriculture and rural development; cooperation on marine and fisheries; health; food safety; animal health; statistics; personal data protection; cooperation on the modernisation of the state and public administration; and intellectual property rights; e) establishing cooperation on migration issues, including legal and illegal migration, smuggling and trafficking in human beings, f) establishing cooperation on human rights and legal affairs; g) establishing cooperation on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; h) establishing cooperation on combating terrorism and transnational crimes, such as the manufacturing and trafficking of illicit drugs and their precursors and money laundering; i) enhance existing and encourage possible participation of both Parties within relevant sub-regional and regional cooperation programmes; j) raising the profiles of both Parties in each others’ regions; XV INDONESIA – EU PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT k) promoting people-to-people understanding through cooperation of various non-governmental entities such as think-tanks, academics, civil society, and the media, in the form of seminars, conferences, youth interaction and other activities.
Through the establishment of a Joint Committee and a number of sectoral working groups, the PCA will steer cooperation and ensure a comprehensive and more intensive dialogue between Indonesia and the EU. Findings and recommendations from the Joint Committee will feed in the meetings at Ministerial level. 2. COOPERATION ON TRADE AND INVESTMENT General principles of the cooperation on trade and investment between Indonesia and the EU, laid down in the Agreement include the following: • The Parties shall engage in a dialogue on bilateral and multilateral trade and trade-related issues with a view to strengthening bilateral trade relations and advancing the multilateral trade system. • The Parties undertake to promote the development and diversification of their reciprocal commercial exchanges to the highest possible level and to their mutual benefit. They undertake to achieve improved market access conditions by working towards the elimination of barriers to trade, in particular through the timely removal of non-tariff barriers and by taking measures to improve transparency, having regard to the work carried out by international organisations in this field. • Recognizing that trade plays an indispensable role in development, and that assistance in the form of trade preferences schemes have proven beneficial to developing countries, the Parties endeavour to strengthen their consultation on such assistance in full WTO compliance. • The Parties shall keep each other informed concerning the development of trade and trade-related policies such as agricultural policy, food safety policy, animal health policy, consumer policy, hazardous chemical substances, and waste management policy. • The Parties shall encourage dialogue and cooperation to develop their trade and investment relations, including the provision of technical capacity. 3. LINK TO BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS The EU is of the view that any bilateral trade agreement forms part of the political relationship with third countries and should be integrated in a broader Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. Therefore an appropriate link to the PCA would need to be made in any future trade agreement. 4. FOR MORE INFORMATION http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/indonesia/documents/eu_indonesia/eu_idnpca_en.pdf 83
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