Armenia and EU intend to sign an agreement on free trade regime creation, the leader of Armenian-European AEPLAC advice center Alexei Sekarev told the journalists. According to him, this procedure will take 5 years.

AEPLAC is interested in giving Armenian businessmen an idea of the new regime, Sekarev stated, adding that the accord on opening the talks is already reached.

He underlined that it particularly concerns the fields of standardization, protection of rights on intellectual property, technical obstacles in trade and sanitary control. “Armenian businessman should first of all be aware of existing regimes and criteria to conform to while exporting products to Europe,” Sekarev said. He pointed out that generally Armenian businessmen are narrow-minded in business planning. “They do not plan for 3-5 years, hence to get a higher level in relations with EU further, we have to start thinking over this now,” he concluded.