Adoption by the College of Commissioners and further transmission to the EU Council of the set of documents for the signing of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement is positively assessed in Ukraine.

It was stated Ukraine’s Envoy for external political and integration processes  - Advisor to President Kostiantyn Yelisieiev.

He noted that the documents refer also to provisional application of the Agreement.

According to K.Yelisieiev, this decision marks the completion of the technical procedures in the European Commission on the preparation of the Agreement. At the same time it shall be clear that, he stressed, that it is only one of the stages in the preparation of the document for the signing in the autumn this year.

“Now the Council of the EU has to complete its own technical procedures on the preparation of the text and adopt an unanimous political decision on the signing of the Ukraine-EU Agreement at Eastern Partnership Vilnius Summit in November this year.  Despite its technical nature, today’s EC decision is a recognition of the progress Ukraine has achieved so far in the context of the EU Foreign Affairs Council conclusions of 10 December 2012, Ukraine-EU Summit Joint Statement of 25 February 2013 and follow-up decisions by the President of Ukraine”, Ukraine’s Envoy for external political and integration processes noted.

K.Yelisieiev stressed that the decision is a strong incentive for all Ukrainian authorities for further actions to assure the signature of the Association Agreement in November 2013.