Agreements and Conventions
Cooperation relations between Ireland and Cote d’Ivoire are part of political and economic cooperation between the countries of the European Union and the ACP countries, governed by the Cotonou Agreement, whose trade component has evolved from a unilateral preferential regime to an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which establishes reciprocal free trade between the European Union and the ACP countries.
To this end, Cote d’Ivoire and the European Union signed an Interim Economic Partnership Agreement on November 26, 2008, pending progress in the negotiations of the Regional Partnership Agreement (EPA) between West Africa and the EU. Cote d’Ivoire's interim EPA was ratified by the National Assembly on August 12, 2016 and entered into provisional application on September 3, 2016.
