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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/40",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 10 May 2010 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Framework Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, on the one part, and the Republic of Korea, on the other part (2013/40/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-40",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Aims of cooperation",
  "text": "1. With a view to enhancing their cooperation, the Parties undertake to intensify their political dialogue and to boost further their economic relations. Their efforts will in particular be aimed at:\n(a) agreeing on a future vision for strengthening their partnership and developing joint projects to implement this vision;\n(b) conducting regular political dialogues;\n(c) promoting collective efforts in all relevant regional and international fora and organisations to respond to global issues;\n(d) fostering economic cooperation in areas of mutual interest, including scientific and technological cooperation, with a view to diversifying trade to their mutual advantage;\n(e) encouraging cooperation between businesses by facilitating investment on both sides and by promoting better mutual understanding;\n(f) strengthening respective participation in each other’s cooperation programmes open to the other Party;\n(g) raising the roles and profiles of both Parties in each other’s regions, through various means including cultural exchanges, the use of information technology, and education;\n(h) promoting people-to-people contacts and understanding.\n2. Building on their well-established partnership and shared values, the Parties agree to develop their cooperation and dialogue on all issues of common interest. Their efforts will in particular be aimed at:\n(a) strengthening political dialogue and cooperation, notably on human rights; non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; small arms and light weapons; the most serious crimes of concern to the international community; and counter-terrorism;\n(b) strengthening cooperation in all trade and investment-related areas of mutual interest and securing the conditions for the sustainable increase of trade and investment between the Parties to their mutual advantage;\n(c) strengthening cooperation in the area of economic cooperation, notably economic policy dialogue; business cooperation; taxation; customs; competition policy; information society; science and technology; energy; transport; maritime transport policy; and consumer policy;\n(d) strengthening cooperation in the area of sustainable development, notably health; employment and social affairs; environment and natural resources; climate change; agriculture, rural development and forestry; marine and fisheries; and development assistance;\n(e) strengthening cooperation in the area of culture, information, communication, audiovisual and media; and education;\n(f) strengthening cooperation in the field of justice, freedom and security, notably the rule of law; legal cooperation; personal data protection; migration; combating illicit drugs; combating organised crime and corruption; combating money laundering and terrorism financing; combating cyber crime; and law enforcement;\n(g) strengthening cooperation in other areas of common interest, notably tourism; civil society; public administration; and statistics.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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