EC/Mexico agreement: interim agreement on trade, implementing economic partnership and cooperation agreement

In a supplementary basic document the Council proposes the text of the Final Act of the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters signed by the parties on 8 December 1997 in Brussels, as finalized by the legal linguistic experts. This text also includes all the joint and unilateral declarations of the parties on: - the interpretation of Article 2 of the agreement (setting a timetable and the arrangements for the gradual bilateral reduction of obstacles to trade in goods and services), - the gradual establishment of the general liberalization of trade, - the interpretation of Article 5 of the agreement on the application of Community rules on fair competition.