Sustainability Impact Assessment in support of the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

Analyses of the EU-Australia Trade Agreement

• European Commission (2017), Commission Staff Working Document. Impact Assessment. Accompanying the document Recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with Australia, SWD(2017) 293 final, Brussels, 13 September 2017
• Ex-ante study of the EU-Australia and EU-New Zealand trade and investment agreements, Final Report (2017)

Information related to the negotiation of the Trade Agreement

• Information on the EU - Australia Trade Negotiations provided by the European Commission: factsheets, textual proposals, etc.
• Information on the FTA negotiations provided by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• European Parliament's Legislative Train Schedule page on the FTA negotiations

Documents on methodological issues

• European Commission (2017), Better Regulation “Toolbox”
• European Commission (2016), Handbook for Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment, 2nd edition
• European Commission (2015), Guidelines on the analysis of human rights impacts in impact assessments for trade-related policy initiatives
• European Commission (2018), Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Chapters in the EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), non-paper of the Commission services

Further links

• European Commission's EU-Australia trade website: Provides information about the ongoing negotiations, trade statistics, etc.