The Moldova-EU Association Council will have a meeting in Brussels on March 16. The governmental commission for European integration was convoked within the preparations for the meeting, IPN reports.

According to the Government’s press service, the participants discussed the implementation of the Association Agreement and the short-term priorities of the agenda of the national institutions involved given that Moldova’s Parliament started work.

“Trade with the EU has increased. The European Union is the largest importer of Moldovan products. Moreover, this is an upward trend. Total exports to the EU last year rose by 9.6% on 2013, while imports by 3.9%. Thus, the myths that the country will be invalidated by cheap products of a poor quality, spread before the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU, didn’t come true,” said Deputy Minister of Economy Octavian Calmac.

The Moldova-EU Association Council is an institutional platform created to set the tasks that Moldova is to carry out as an associate state of the EU. The first meeting of the Council was to take place in January, but was postponed because the new Government of Moldova wasn’t yet installed.