2000 e-ASEAN Framework Agreement

e-ASEAN Agreement

• ASEAN Documents
  • ASEAN Summit Documents
  • ASEAN Economic Community
    • ASEAN Free Trade Area
    • Investment
    • Science and Technology
    • Telecommunications and IT

Article 10 ‘Dispute Settlement’:

“1. Any differences between Member States concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall, as far as possible, be settled by consultation between the Member States concerned.

2. If a settlement cannot be reached, the dispute shall be dealt with in accordance with the Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism for ASEAN signed on 20 November 1996 in Manila, the Philippines.”

This Agreement is one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2004 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement, read together with its Appendix I.

Secretary-General of ASEAN

ASEAN Legal Instruments

Article 15.1 ‘Final Provisions’: “This Agreement shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification or acceptance by all signatory governments with the Secretary-General of ASEAN.”

2009 ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement

2004 ASEAN Framework Agreement for the Integration of Priority Sectors

2004 ASEAN Sectoral Integration Protocol for e-ASEAN

1998 Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area

1995 ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services

1992 Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area

ASEAN Secretariat accessed on 22/08/2022

Note Article 12 ‘Protocols’:

“Member States may negotiate and conclude separate protocols to implement this Agreement which shall form an integral part of this Agreement.”

Note Article 14 ‘Relationship With Other ASEAN Agreements’:

“Except as otherwise provided specifically in this Agreement, the provisions of the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area and its Protocols, the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services and its Protocols, and the Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area, including but not limited to the provisions relating to safeguard measures and exceptions, shall not be prejudiced by, and shall apply to, this Agreement.”

Dates of ratification given above were obtained from the ASEAN Secretariat’s Legal Instruments website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. Some of the dates given appear to be the dates of execution of the instruments of ratification, rather than their date of receipt by the depository.