Andean community Finals Flashcards
Objectives
Facilitate their participation in the regional integration process with a view to the gradual formation of a latin america common market
Promote the members’ balanced and harmonious development through integration and economic and social cooperation
Reduce their external vulnerability and improve their position in the international economy
Reinforce subregional solidarity and reduce differences in development among the member countries
Step up their growth and job creation
Seek the continuing improvement of the living standards of the subregion’’ inhabitants
Background
The Andean Community was established last 1969 when 5 South American Countries signed the Cartagena Agreement in order to improve the standard of living of the people through integration and economic and social cooperation.
Members
Bolivia
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Associate members
Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Chile
Observer country
Spain
Areas of action
Social and political area
Environment area
External relations
Economic and trade area
Social and political area
Contribute to national efforts to overcome poverty, exclusion, inequality and asymmetries by promoting civil society participation and boosting actions to deepen political cooperation
Environment area
Promote sustainable development as a way of responding effectively to global threats to the environment
External relations
Framework of common foreign policy reinforces the members negotiating capacity and is conducive within the dynamic international context
Economic and trade area
Consolidate the enlarged market in order to guarantee the unhampered flow of goods and services within the subregion and to contribute to a job creation
Free flow of people and andean passport
No visa requirement just the presentation of national card
Passport based on standard model which contains harmonized features of nomenclature and security
Relationship with MERCOSUR
Andean Community and Mercosur complete the two main trading blocs of South America
1999 - they negotiating to create “South American Free Trade Area”
Dec 2004 - andean community signed a cooperation agreement with MERCOSUR for future negotiations towards integrating all of South America in a Union of South American Nations (USAN) patterned after the EU.
May 2008 - USAN formally established with the signing of the constitutive treaty in Brasilia
Andean Community and PHL
Both adopted the convention on biological diversity
The protection of knowledge, innovation and practices of indigenous and local communities
