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Document 32009D0502
Scientific and technological cooperation between the EU and New Zealand
The agreement establishes a formal framework for cooperation, aiming at encouraging, developing and facilitating activities in the areas of science and technology for peaceful purposes.
By its decision, the Council approved the conclusion of the agreement on behalf of the European Community (now the EU).
Activities conducted under the agreement are based on the following principles:
Cooperation
The agreement covers two forms of cooperative activities:
The agreement entered into force on 30 January 2009 for an initial period of 5 years. It shall continue in force unless one of the parties terminates the agreement by giving notice in writing to the other party.
Relations between the EU and New Zealand are governed by a series of agreements.
The first political statement of cooperation between the EU and New Zealand dates back to 1999, with the signing of the ‘Joint Declaration on Relations between the European Union and New Zealand’.
This was replaced in 2007 by the ‘Joint Declaration on Relations and Cooperation’, an updated political declaration which set out a detailed action programme for the EU and New Zealand in areas such as global and regional security, counter-terrorism and human rights, development and economic cooperation, trade, climate change and science and technology. The Joint Declaration also underlined the importance of closer cooperation to further facilitate people-to-people links and to encourage exchanges in higher education.
In June 2018, the European Commission and the New Zealand Government officially launched negotiations for a trade agreement between the EU and New Zealand.
For more information, see:
For further information about Research and Innovation (R&I) cooperation with New Zealand, see:
Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the Government of New Zealand (OJ L 171, 1.7.2009, pp. 28-35)
Council Decision 2009/502/EC of 19 January 2009 on the conclusion on behalf of the Community of the Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the Government of New Zealand (OJ L 171, 1.7.2009, p. 27)
Partnership Agreement on Relations and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and New Zealand, of the other part (OJ L 321, 29.11.2016, pp. 3-30)
last update 30.08.2019