Lousineh Hakobyan attended the Meeting of the Interagency Commission Coordinating Measures to Ensure CEPA Implementation

On July 17, Lousineh Hakobyan attended the meeting of the interagency commission tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Armenia – EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement, held at the government headquarters and chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan.

The meeting was attended by the representatives of state institutions, including the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on European Integration, and civil society representatives.

  1. Hakobyan highlighted that the Platform will initiate a series of meetings with the members of the government to gain an insight into the priorities of government members and separate institutions. She also added that while the Platform had its own priorities, it also sought to ensure that its advisory support was needs-based.
  2. Hakobyan also noted that the Platform would focus on monitoring the priorities identified by the members of the Platform the year before, while also adding new priorities to them. However, to provide advisory support, the Platform planned to listen to government members to complete the list of its priorities and act in accordance with the Platform’s current mandate.

During the interagency commission meeting, the implementation process of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was presented, along with the steps initiated and the necessary mechanisms introduced by the Government. The representatives of the agencies, responsible for the implementation of the measures, reported on the implementation process of the measures, outlined in the CEPA implementation roadmap.

Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan underscored the importance of full implementation of the CEPA as part of the Government’s reform agenda and issued instructions to commission members to effectively organize the approximation of legal acts outlined in the roadmap and ensure their successful implementation in the future.