Activites

• 2011/04/04 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2011/306
  • OJ L 088 04.04.2011, p. 0044
• 2011/03/09 Final act signed
• 2011/03/09 End of procedure in Parliament
• #3073
• 2011/03/07 Council Meeting
• 2011/03/07 Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
• 2011/02/03 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T7-0036/2011 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 501 votes to 113, with 18 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 on the tariff rates for bananas.Parliament adopted its position at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure taking over the Commission proposal.This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of entry into force of the Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas, signed on 31 May 2010, between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela regarding the structure and operation of the Union's trading regime for bananas of CN code 0803 00 19.

• 2011/02/02 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2011/01/20 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A7-0003/2011
• 2011/01/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2010/03/24 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2010/03/17 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2010)0096 summary

    PURPOSE: to repeal Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 on the tariff rates for bananas.PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was carried out.LEGAL BASIS:  Article 207(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. CONTENT: the European Union concluded the deal with Latin American countries (Geneva Convention) and the US in December 2009 which settles 15 years of banana disputes. It also cuts the tariff which the EU applies to bananas imported from Latin American countries. With those two agreements, years of lengthy and complex negotiations where put to an end.With the Geneva Agreement entering into force, it is necessary to abolish the existing applied EU Most Favoured Nation (MFN) tariff rate for the importation of bananas by repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1964/2005 on the tariff rates for bananas which established the currently applied rate of EUR 176/tonne.In accordance with the Geneva Agreement, the Union will gradually reduce its banana tariff from EUR 176/tonne to EUR 114/tonne. A first cut, which was applied retroactively as of 15 December 2009, the date of initialling of the Agreement, reduced the tariff to EUR 148/tonne. The subsequent cuts are to apply in seven annual instalments with a possible delay of a maximum of two years if agreement on agriculture modalities in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is delayed. The final tariff of EUR 114/tonne is to be reached on 1 January 2019 at the latest. The tariff reductions will be bound in the WTO at the moment of the certification of the EU banana schedule.BUDGETARY IMPLICATION:  the Agreements reduce progressively the tariff rates for bananas. It can be estimated that these measures will lead to smaller own resources as follows: -EUR 3.5 million in 2009, -EUR 74.8million in 2010, - EUR 88.1 million in 2011, and -EUR 106.8 million in 2012. These are net amounts after deduction of collecting costs by Member States. An estimate of own resources for 2009 was included because of the retroactive validity of these Agreements to 15/12/2009.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/agriculture/', 'title': 'Agriculture and Rural Development'}, CIOLOŞ Dacian

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2010)0096
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A7-0003/2011
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0036/2011
• : Regulation 2011/306
• : OJ L 088 04.04.2011, p. 0044

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)