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Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/59 14.1.2025
DECISION NO 1/2024 OF THE EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL
of 1 October 2024
on the granting of reciprocal market access for supplies for central government authorities in
accordance with Annex XXI-A to Chapter 8 of the Association Agreement between the European
Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and
Ukraine, of the other part [2025/59]
THE EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,
Having regard to the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community
and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (1), and in particular Articles 153, 463 and
Article 475(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their
Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (the ‘Agreement’) was signed on 27 June 2014 and
entered into force on 1 September 2017.
(2) The Preamble to the Agreement recognises the commitment of Ukraine to gradually approximate its legislation with
that of the Union, along the lines set out in the Agreement, and to effectively implement it, thus contributing to the
gradual economic integration and deepening of political association of Ukraine with the Union.
(3) In accordance with Article 154 of the Agreement, the Parties to the Agreement agree that the effective and reciprocal
opening of their respective markets in the area of public procurement is to be attained gradually and simultaneously.
(4) Pursuant to Article 153(1) and (2) of the Agreement, Ukraine is to ensure that its existing and future legislation on
public procurement is gradually made compatible with the Union’s public procurement acquis. Such legislative
approximation is to be carried out in consecutive phases as set out in the schedule in Annex XXI-A (Indicative Time
Schedule for Institutional Reform, Legislative Approximation and Market Access) to Chapter 8 of the Agreement
(‘Annex XXI-A’).
(5) In accordance with Article 153(2) of the Agreement, the implementation of each phase set out in Annex XXI-A is to
be evaluated by the Association Committee in Trade configuration. This evaluation may lead to a positive assessment
of the implementation of a phase by means of a Decision of that committee. Such a positive assessment is to be
linked to the reciprocal granting of market access as set out in Annex XXI-A.
(6) In accordance with Decision No 2/2023 of the EU-Ukraine Association Committee in Trade configuration of
30 November 2023 (2), that committee has given a positive assessment regarding the implementation by Ukraine of
phase 1 as set out in Annex XXI-A.
(7) In accordance with Article 475(5) of the Agreement, the Association Council, under the powers conferred to it by
Article 463 of the Agreement, should agree on the further, reciprocal market opening linked to this positive
assessment.
(8) As set out in Annex XXI-A, this market opening concerns the public procurement of supplies by central government
authorities,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Reciprocal market access is hereby granted for public procurement of supplies by central government authorities in the
European Union to Ukraine and for public procurement of supplies by Ukrainian central government authorities to the
European Union as set out in Annex XXI-A.
Article 2
This Decision has been adopted in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German,
Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish and Ukrainian languages, each of them being equally authentic.
(1) OJ L 161, 29.5.2014, p. 3.
(2) OJ L, 2024/193, 5.1.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/193/oj.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/59/oj 1/2EN
OJ L, 14.1.2025
Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Done at Brussels, 1 October 2024.
For the Council
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES
2/2 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/59/oj