What trade negotiations are SIAs being applied to?
The EU applies SIA systematically when entering into multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations. The initial work on methodology was applied to the WTO Doha Development Round negotiations. Then the methodology was refined and applied to other negotiations, regional and bilateral, including those with Chile, Mercosur, African Caribbean Pacific countries, the Mediterranean, and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. In 2007 the European Commission will also launch SIAs on other regional and bilateral negotiations including, inter alia, those with Ukraine, Korea, India, China, and the Andean Community.
