Lectures and Trainings

   

Training program on EU-Georgia Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area

On January 11, 2016 the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) hosted an opening lecture of the training course “EU-Georgia Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area” held within the framework of the project “Capacity Building in International Relations in Georgia”. Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for EU Studies at GFSIS, Mr. Kakha Gogolashvili

delivered the opening seminar, discussing with the participants the theory of International Trade  and WTO, comparative advantages, protectionism, trade liberalization and government policies, as well as  trade defence mechanisms, free transit, settlement of disputes and barriers to trade (Tariffs, Quotas, NTBs).

The-two-week long training course entails training sessions in free trade and economic integration models, multiple aspects of EU-Georgia Association Agreement (AA) and DCFTA: tariffs and rules of origin, sanitary/phytosanitary issues (SPS), intellectual property rights, trade related energy provisions of DCFTA, technical barriers to trade (TBT), establishment and trade in services. Over 30 Public servants employed in the ministries of foreign affairs, defence, finance, economy and sustainable development, agriculture, office of the state minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic integration and office of the state minister of Georgia for diaspora issues, Administration of the President of Georgia, Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia attend the training.

The project “Capacity Building in International Relations in Georgia” has been running since 2009 through the  ENPI instrument. The project is designed to assist Levan Mikeladze Diplomatic Training Centre at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the relevant ministries to develop their human capital, enhance their negotiation and communication skills required to be more effective and efficient in the process of EU integration of Georgia. The project is funded by the European Union and implemented by GFSIS together with the College of Europe and the Estonian School of Diplomacy (ESD).