Ex-post evaluation of the Trade Agreement between the EU and Central America

Legal Text

• Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Central America, of the other part

Analyses of the Trade Agreement

Studies by the European Commission

• Assessing the Economic Impact of the Trade Pillar of the Association Agreement between the European Union and its Member States and Central America, July 2012
• Annual implementation reports: First report (March 2015), Second Report (February 2016), Third Report (April 2017), Fourth Report (October 2018), Fifth Report (October 2019), Sixth Report (November 2020)

Other studies

• Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Association Agreement to be negotiated between the EU and Central America, prepared by Ecorys, Corporate Solutions and Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Rural, commissioned by the European Commission, September 2009
• European Implementation Assessment by the European Parliamentary Research Service, October 2018
• Review of the Agreement's Implementation by the European Parliament, 2018-19

Documents on the evaluation and methodological issues

• Evaluation Roadmap, February 2019
• European Commission (2017): Better Regulation Guidelines and Better Regulation “Toolbox” (scroll down to Chapter VI)
• European Commission (2015), Guidelines on the analysis of human rights impacts in impact assessments for trade-related policy initiatives

Links

• European Commission's webpage on trade with the Central American countries: Provides information about the Agreement, trade statistics, downloads of the Agreement and annual implementation reports, etc.
• Trade Committee (and Sub-Committees) of the Trade Agreement: Meeting minutes etc.
• EU Delegations: Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• Website of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, on the Trade Agreement
• Ministry of Economic Affairs of Guatemala, on the Trade Agreement
• Website of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of El Salvador, on the Trade Agreement
• Website of the Secretary of Economic Development of Honduras, on the Trade Agreement
• Website of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade of Nicaragua, on the Trade Agreement
• Website of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Panama, on the Trade Agreement: provides detailed information about the negotiations and implementation of the Agreement

Newsletters

• First Newsletter, May 2021
• Second Newsletter, July 2021
• Third Newsletter, December 2021