Ukraine fulfilled 72% of its obligations under the association agreement with the European Union.

 This is reported by the government portal.

 The annual report on the implementation of the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU for 2022 was published. The overall progress of the agreement has increased by 9%.

 It is noted that the greatest progress has been achieved in the following areas:

 statistics and information exchange - 96%,

 intellectual property - 94%,

 justice, freedom, security, human rights - 91%,

 humanitarian policy - 91%,

 management of public finances - 90%.

 Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna noted that despite the full-scale war, Ukraine continued the active process of adapting Ukrainian legislation to EU law.

 "We are completing the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission, which we received together with the candidacy, we have launched a self-screening procedure for compliance of Ukrainian legislation with EU law, all these parallel processes are designed to speed up the next stage - negotiations on EU membership," she said.

 Thus, for the years 2014-2022, the main executors of obligations under the agreement demonstrate the following indicators:

 The Cabinet implemented 70% of measures,

 Verkhovna Rada - 61% of events,

 other state authorities - 59% of measures.

 It will be recalled that President Volodymyr Zelenskyі stated that Ukraine is ready to start negotiations on EU membership already this year. Now readiness is needed on the part of the EU.