3 Amendments of Michela GIUFFRIDA related to 2018/0158(COD)
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) It should be recalled that, in matters relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed in Geneva in 1947, and the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation (WTO), signed in Marrakesh in 1994, the EU and its Member States act under Articles 207 (common commercial policy), 217 and 218 (international agreements) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (5.2.2).
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) However, given the time limits imposed on this process by the negotiations on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union, it is possible that agreements may not be concluded with all WTO Members concerned in relation to all of the tariff rate quotas on the date Union's WTO schedule of concessions and commitments on trade in goods cease to apply to the United Kingdom. In view of the need to ensure legal certainty and the continuous smooth operation of imports under the tariff rate quotas to the Union and the United Kingdom it is necessary for the Union to be able to proceed unilaterally to the apportionment of the tariff rate quotas. The methodology used should be in line with the requirements of Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994. In particular, for the part relating to the common agricultural policy (CAP), should a dispute arise in relation to the apportionment decided upon, the measure in question will be submitted for examination by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), ensuring that the signatory States comply with the new multilateral rules, but without this preventing application of the tariff quota established unilaterally by the Union in the meantime.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) For the agricultural TRQs concerned, Articles 184-188 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/20131 provides the necessary legal basis for administration of the TRQs once apportioned by the present Regulation. This administration must therefore be carried out in accordance with the European agricultural model, based on the multi-functionality of agricultural activity, with emphasis also on explicit recognition of non-commercial considerations and catering for the needs of the public in the field of food safety, environmental protection, food quality and animal welfare. For the TRQs covering fisheries, industrial and certain processed agricultural products, administration is carried out pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 32/20002 . The TRQ quantities concerned are set out in Annex I to that Regulation, which should therefore be replaced by the quantities set out in Part B of the Annex to the present Regulation. _________________ 1 Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671). 2 Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 (OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1).