Helping the tax authorities with enforcement is a regional agreement signed last year to share tax information.

There is also speculation of a future regional free-trade agreement.

In that shift, a regional free-trade agreement is expected to be critical.

The structure of this committee is established in the regional agreement.

Without regional agreement on how to deal with environmental problems, cleanups have been delayed.

It shows why regional agreements alone are not enough.

Just imagine what would happen without a regional agreement!

We must ensure that the regional agreements genuinely benefit the countries concerned.

But this can only be done in cooperation with the fishermen and through sets of regional agreements.

The regional agreements are like warm-ups for the championship round.