Rządowy projekt ustawy o ratyfikacji Umowy o partnerstwie i współpracy ustanawiającej partnerstwo między Wspólnotami Europejskimi i ich Państwami Członkowskimi, z jednej strony, a Republiką Tadżykistanu, z drugiej strony, sporządzonej w Luksemburgu dnia 11 października 2004 r.

2.
The cooperation shall focus in particular on the following areas:

–
updating higher education and training systems in the Republic of Tajikistan, including the
system of certification of higher education establishments and higher education diplomas;

–
training public and private sector executives and civil servants in priority areas to be
determined;

– cooperation
between
educational
establishments and between educational establishments and
firms;

–
mobility for teachers, graduates, administrators, young scientists and researchers, and young
people;

–
promoting teaching in the field of European studies within the appropriate institutions;

–
teaching Community languages;

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post-graduate training of conference interpreters;

–
training of journalists;

–
training of trainers.
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3.
The possible participation of one Party in the other Party's programmes in the field of
education and training may be considered in accordance with their respective procedures; where
appropriate, institutional frameworks and plans of cooperation will then be established through the
participation of the Republic of Tajikistan in the Community's TEMPUS programme.


ARTICLE 50

Agriculture and the agro-industrial sector

The purpose of cooperation in this area shall be the pursuit of agrarian reform and the reform of
agricultural structures, the modernisation, privatisation and restructuring of agriculture, stock
farming and the agro-industrial and services sectors in the Republic of Tajikistan, and the
development of domestic and foreign markets for Tajik products, in conditions that ensure the
protection of the environment, taking into account the necessity to improve security of food supply
and to develop agri-business and the processing and distribution of agricultural products. The
Parties shall also pursue the gradual approximation of Tajik standards to Community technical
regulations concerning industrial and agricultural food products, including sanitary and
phytosanitary standards.
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ARTICLE 51

Energy

1.
Cooperation shall be governed by the principles of the market economy and the European
Energy Charter, against a background of the progressive integration of the energy markets in
Europe.

2.
Cooperation shall concentrate, inter alia, upon the formulation and development of energy
policy. It shall include the following areas:

–
the improvement of the management and regulation of the energy sector in line with a market
economy;

–
the improvement of energy supply, including security of supply, in an economically and
environmentally sound manner;

–
the promotion of energy saving and energy efficiency and implementation of the Energy
Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and related environmental aspects;

–
the modernisation of energy infrastructure;

–
the improvement of energy supply and use technologies across the range of energy types;
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–
management and technical training in the energy sector;

–
the transportation and transit of energy materials and products;

–
the introduction of the range of institutional, legal, fiscal and other conditions necessary to
encourage increased energy trade and investment;

–
the development of hydro-electric and other renewable energy resources.

3.
The Parties shall exchange relevant information on investment projects in the energy sector,
in particular concerning the production of energy resources and the construction and refurbishing of
oil and gas pipelines or other means of transporting energy products. The Parties attach particular
importance to cooperation regarding investments in the energy sector and the manner in which these
are regulated. They shall cooperate with a view to implementing the provisions of Title IV and of
Article 44 as efficaciously as possible in respect of investments in the energy sector.
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ARTICLE 52

Environment and health

1.
Bearing in mind the European Energy Charter, the Declarations of the Lucerne Conference of
April 1993 and of the Sofia Conference of October 1995, and taking into account the Energy
Charter Treaty, and especially Article 19 thereof, and the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy
Efficiency and related environmental aspects, the Parties shall develop and strengthen their
cooperation on environment and human health.

2.
Cooperation shall aim at protecting the environment, combating all kinds of pollution and in
particular cover:

–
effective monitoring of pollution levels and assessment of the environment; a system of
information on the state of the environment;

–
combating local, regional and transboundary air and water pollution;

– environmental
rehabilitation;

–
sustainable, efficient and environmentally sound production and use of energy;

–
the safety of industrial plants;
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