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(**) The Single Market Programme is the Commission programme that funds the EU-Japan Centre. The following non-EU countries are associated to this programme and therefore eligible for support from the EU-Japan Centre: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine. Please refer to the list of Participating Countries in the Single Market Programme (SMP) here.
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Joint venture established in 1987 by the European Commission (DG GROW) and the Japanese Government (METI) for promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan.
