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… of Goods, Competition, Public Procurement, and Intellectual Property 30 Oxfam et altera, The EU’s approach to Free Trade Agreements government procurement, 2008, p.5, available at http://aprodev.eu/files/Trade/EU%20FTA%20Manual%20fta7_procurement.pdf (visited 30 May 2012) 31 http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/international/facilitating-trade/free-trade/index_en.htm 32 citation GPA 33 EU – South Korea Free Trade Agreement: A quick reading guide, October 2010, p.8, available at http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/october/tradoc_145203.pdf (visited 30 May 2012) 34 Peter Holms, Deep Integration in EU FTAs, 14 August 2010, p3, available at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/economics/research/workingpapers (visited 30 May 2012) 35 … first category receives a more integrated relationship due to its geographical proximity. The benefits for the EU are clearly to access markets, which are easily to reach and have great potential as either providing natural resources or as potential buyers of EU technologies. The benefit of concluding PTAs with the second category of countries is improved stability around European boarders. The EU took itself as an example of functioning economic integration preventing all sorts of conflicts. The …