Temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions for Ukrainian products
Decision
The European Parliament adopted amendments on 13 March 2024 to the Commission proposal (COM(2024)0050) on temporary trade-liberalisation measures, recorded as P9_TA(2024)0154 and linked to procedure 2024/0028(COD). The matter was referred back for interinstitutional negotiations to the committee responsible pursuant to Rule 59(4).
What Changes
Amendments broaden the list of products subject to an automatic safeguard from poultry, eggs and sugar to include cereals and honey, explicitly naming common wheat, wheat flours and pellets, barley, oats, maize, honey, eggs, poultry and sugar. The trigger basis was changed to the arithmetic mean of import volumes in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the Commission’s reaction deadline in the trigger clause was shortened to 14 days and a mechanism for reintroducing or setting tariff-rate quotas from 1 January 2025 was added.
Who Is Affected
The changes affect imports from Ukraine and Union agricultural producers and markets for the listed cereals, honey, eggs, poultry and sugar covered by the Association Agreement's tariff-rate quotas.
Sources
Official Documents
- Wednesday, 13 March 2024 - Strasbourg Parliament adopted amendments to the regulation on temporary trade-liberalisation for Ukrainian products and referred the file back to the responsible committee for interinstitutional negotiations.
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