EU-Tunisia Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area: Documents

The EU and Tunisia are jointly making public the initial texts of the future Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.

• Tunisia

• Negotiations and agreements

The European Union and Tunisia are jointly making public the initial texts of the future Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) as proposed by the European Union (EU) and presented to Tunisian experts during the preliminary discussions in Tunis in October 2015 and during the first round of negotiations from 18-21 April 2016.

Texts in the following areas are made available to the public. The texts are only French, because it is the language of the negotiations. Texts will be translated at the end of the negotiations and after lawyers have checked them.

Each of them is accompanied by an explanatory note which aims to make them easier to understand. The texts are in French, and the factsheets are in English:

Texts published on 31 January 2019

• Goods - Factsheet
• Digital trade - Factsheet
• Services and investment - Factsheet
• Motor vehicles and parts thereof - Factsheet
• Investment protection agreement - Factsheet

Texts published on 31 July 2018

• Energy and raw materials - Factsheet
• Investment court system - Factsheet
• Small and medium-sized enterprises - Factsheet
• Customs procedures
  • Administrative error
  • Antifraud clause

  Texts published on 29 April 2016 and/or updated on 31 July 2018

  • Trade in agricultural and fishery products - Factsheet
  • Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures - Factsheet
  • Technical barriers to trade (updated) - Factsheet
  • Trade and Sustainable Development (updated) - Factsheet
  • Trade in services and investment - Factsheet
  • Protection of intellectual property (updated) - Factsheet (updated)
  • Trade defence instruments (updated) - Factsheet (updated)
  • Public procurement (updated) - Factsheet
  • Rules on competition and state aid (updated) - Factsheet
  • Customs procedures - Factsheet
  • Transparency rules (updated) - Factsheet (updated)

  Negotiating rounds (+ date of publication)

  • Third round, January 2019
  • Second round, May 2018
  • First round, April 2016