Annexes to COM(2023)230 - Authorisation of the opening of negotiations for digital trade disciplines with Korea and with Singapore

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dossier COM(2023)230 - Authorisation of the opening of negotiations for digital trade disciplines with Korea and with Singapore.
document COM(2023)230 EN
date April 14, 2023
Agreement (DEPA) with Chile and New Zealand. Korea requested to participate in DEPA in September 2021, China requested to participate in October 2021 and Canada in May 2022. See for instance also the Singapore-Australia Digital Economy Agreement (entered into force in December 2020), the Singapore-UK Digital Economy Agreement (entered into force in June 2022) and the Singapore-Korea Digital Partnership Agreement (signed on 21 November 2022).
(5) Trade and cooperation agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, OJ L 149, 30.4.2021, p 10–2539; European Commission, EU-Chile: Text of the Agreement, https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu , European Commission, EU-New-Zealand: Text of the Agreement, https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/
(6) Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part, OJ L 127, 14.5.2011, p. 1–1426; Free trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore, OJ L 294, 14.11.2019, p. 3–755.
(7) Framework Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, on the one part, and the Republic of Korea, on the other part, OJ L 020, 13.1.2013, p. 2-24.
(8) World Economic Forum (WEF), The Global Competitiveness Report, 2020, www.weforum.org  
(9) Ibid.
(10) JOIN(2021) 24 final (16.9.2021).
(11) COM(2021) 66 final (18.2.2021).
(12) European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade 2023/C 23/01, OJ C 23, 23.1.2023, p. 1-7.
(13) European Commission, EU trade meetings with Civil Society, http://trade.ec.europa.eu/