Association agreement between the EU and Georgia: European Implementation Assessment (update)

Michael Emerson, Tinatin Akhvlediani

In November 2019, the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) requested to draw up an own-initiative annual report on the implementation of the association agreement between the EU and Georgia (2019/2200(INI)). 

Sven Mikser (S&D, Estonia) has been appointed rapporteur. 

This European implementation assessment (EIA) has been prepared by the Ex-Post Evaluation Unit (EVAL) within the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) to accompany the scrutiny work of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

This EIA is an update of the report on Association agreements between EU and Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. European Implementation Assessment prepared by the EPRS in July 2018 to accompany the AFET committee in its work on three implementation reports. 

In November 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the association agreement between the EU and Georgia (2017/2282(INI)). 

Part I: The in-house opening analysis was written by Dr Anna Zygierewicz from the Ex-Post Evaluation Unit, EPRS. To contact the author, please email: EPRS-ExPostEvaluation@ep.europa.eu 

Part II: The analysis of the progress in the implementation of the association agreement between the EU and Georgia was written by Mr Michael Emerson and Dr Tinatin Akhvlediani from the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS