PROTOCOL III – on a framework agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the general principles for the participation of Ukraine in Union programmes Essential elements of the agreement shall apply provisionally from 1 September 2014. The provisional application of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area began on 1 January 2016. The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, added that “we must not give in to external pressures, at least not Russian”. [77] Barroso reiterated that the EU`s offer to Ukraine to sign an association agreement remains on the table. [79] [c] At the same time, President Yanukovych stated that he intended to continue signing the Association Agreement at a later stage “as soon as we get to work and find solutions to economic problems, if we have the opportunity to sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Russia and everything we need to do to establish normal relations between the European Union. Russia and Ukraine. It`s our responsibility.” [82] On a proposal from the EU and the agreement of its Ukrainian counterparts, the agreement was given its final and official title “Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part”. The full Association Agreement was ratified by the Ukrainian and European parliaments on 16 September.
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