Article 1: Objectives
The objectives of this Agreement are to:
1. improve working conditions and living standards in
each Party's territory;
2. promote, to the maximum extent possible, the
labor principles set out in Annex 1;
3. encourage cooperation to promote innovation and
rising levels of productivity and quality;
4. encourage publication and exchange of information,
data development and coordination, and joint
studies to enhance mutually beneficial understanding
of the laws and institutions governing labor in
each Party's territory;
5. pursue cooperative labor-related activities on t he
basis of mutual benefit;
6. promote compliance with, and effective enforcement
by each Party of, its labor law; and
7. foster transparency in the administration of labor law.