Abstract:
This article analyses the Association Agreement (AA) between the
EU and Ukraine. It argues that this agreement constitutes a new
legal framework which has the objective to establish a unique form of
political association and economic integration, characterised by three
specific features: comprehensiveness, complexity and conditionality,
and to promote EU values into the legal systems of Ukraine. The
article studies substantive and procedural means of promotion and
protection of EU values in the AA. The article scrutinises objectives,
institutional framework and mechanisms of enhanced conditionality
and legislative approximation in the AA. In addition, the means to
protect EU values (the EU’s response to security conflicts in Ukraine)
are discussed.
