EU-Japan agreement chapter-by-chapter

Text of the agreement

• Full agreement (body text). Also in other EU languages.

Preamble

Chapter 1    General provisions

Chapter 2    Trade in goods

Chapter 3    Rules of origin and origin procedures

Chapter 4    Customs matters and trade facilitation

Chapter 5    Trade remedies

Chapter 6    Sanitary and phytosanitary measures

Chapter 7    Technical barriers to trade

Chapter 8    Trade in services, investment liberalisation and electronic commerce

Chapter 9    Capital movements, payments and transfers and temporary safeguard measures

Chapter 10  Government procurement

Chapter 11  Competition policy

Chapter 12  Subsidies

Chapter 13  State-owned enterprises, enterprises granted special rights or privileges and designated monopolies

Chapter 14  Intellectual property

Chapter 15  Corporate governance

Chapter 16  Trade and sustainable development

Chapter 17  Transparency

Chapter 18  Good regulatory practices and regulatory cooperation

Chapter 19  Cooperation in the field of agriculture

Chapter 20  Small and medium-sized enterprises

Chapter 21  Dispute settlement

Chapter 22  Institutional provisions

Chapter 23  Final provisions
 

Annexes:

Annex 2-A Tariff elimination and reduction

(NB: This part contains in particular the description of the 25 TRQs (tariff rate quotas) conceded by Japan to the EU on agricultural and processed agricultural products. All tariff lines not specifically mentioned in the EU and in the Japanese schedules will be duty-free at the entry into force of the agreement.)

Annex 2-B to E

• Annex 2-B  List of goods referred to in articles 2.15 and 2.17
• Annex 2-C  Motor vehicles and parts
  • Appendix 2-C-1  UN Regulations applied by both Parties
  • Appendix 2-C-2  UN Regulations applied by one of the Parties and not yet considered by the other Party
• Annex 2-D  Facilitation of shochu export
• Annex 2-E  Facilitation of wine product export

Annex 3

• Annex 3-A  Introductory notes to product specific rules of origin
• Annex 3-B  Product specific rules of origin
  • Appendix 3-B-1 Provisions related to certain vehicles and parts of vehicles
• Annex 3-C  Information referred to in Article 3.5
• Annex 3-D  Text of the statement on origin
• Annex 3-E  On the Principality of Andorra
• Annex 3-F  On the Republic of San Marino

Annex 6 Food additives

Annex 8

• Annex 8-A  Regulatory cooperation on financial regulation
• Annex 8-B  Schedules for chapter 8
  • Annex 8-B I   Reservations for existing measures
  • Annex 8-B II  Reservations for future measures
  • Annex 8-B III Business visitors for establishment purposes, intra-corporate transferees, investors and short-term business visitors
  • Annex 8-B IV Contractual service suppliers and independent professionals
    • Appendix IV  Limitations of business activities of contractual service suppliers and independent professionals in Japan
• Annex 8-C  Understanding on movement of natural persons for business purposes

Annex 10  Government procurement

Annex 14

• Annex 14-A  Laws and regulations of the parties related to geographical indications
• Annex 14-B  List of geographical indications

Annex 23  Joint declaration

IMPORTANT: 

• The amendments to Appendices 2-C-1 and 2-C-2 of the Agreement (on motor vehicles and parts) entered into force on 1 February 2021.
• The amendments to  Annexes 14-A and 14-B (on geographical indications), entered into force on 1 February 2021.
• The amendment to Annex 14-B (on geographical indications) entered into force on 1 February 2022.