Activites

• 2016/02/03 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T8-0036/2016
• 2015/12/14 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A8-0365/2015 summary

    The Committee on International Trade adopted the report by Gabrielius LANDSBERGIS (EPP, LT) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the anti-circumvention mechanism providing for the temporary suspension of tariff preferences of the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part. The committee recommended that the European Parliament’s position, adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure, should amend the Commission proposal so as to state that the report which is presented annually, shall, inter alia, include information about the application of the anti-circumvention mechanism.

• 2015/12/10 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2015/04/27 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2015/04/14 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2015)0155 summary

    PURPOSE: to incorporate the anti-circumvention mechanism foreseen in the EU-Georgia Association Agreement into European Union law. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: the EU-Georgia Association Agreement was signed on 27 June 2014 and has been provisionally applied from 1 September 2014. The Agreement includes a so-called anti-circumvention mechanism, which provides for the possibility to reintroduce the most favoured nation customs duty rate when imports of certain agricultural goods from Georgia exceed a given threshold without due justification of their exact origin. The Commission considered it necessary to lay down the procedures to guarantee the effective application of the anti-circumvention mechanism for the temporary suspension of tariff preferences contained in the Agreement. CONTENT: this proposed Regulation constitutes the legal instrument for the implementation of the anti-circumvention mechanism of the Agreement already concluded with Georgia. It provides for the possibility to suspend the preferential customs duties for a maximum period of six months when the imports of certain agricultural products and processed agricultural products reach the defined annual import volumes.   In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission. In order to prevent a negative impact on the Union market as a result of an increase in imports, the Commission should adopt immediately applicable implementing acts where, in duly justified cases relating to the temporary suspension of the preferential tariffs under the anti-circumvention mechanism provided in the Agreement, imperative grounds of urgency so require. For reasons of transparency, the Commission should submit an annual report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the implementation of the Agreement and the application of the anti-circumvention mechanism.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/trade/', 'title': 'Trade'}, MALMSTRÖM Cecilia

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2015)0155
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A8-0365/2015
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0036/2016

Amendments

Dossier

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2015/0080(COD) 2015/09/07 AGRI 2 amendments... Amendment 1 # Stanislav POLČÁK Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 (8) In order to prevent a negative impact on the Union market as a result of an increase in imports from Georgia of the products in excess of the volume indicated in Annex II-C to the Agreement, the Commission should adopt immediately applicable implementing acts where, in duly justified cases relating to the temporary suspension of the preferential tariffs under the anti-circumvention mechanism provided in the Agreement, imperative grounds of urgency so require, Amendment 2 # Daniel BUDA Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 1. An average annual import volume is set for imports of the products listed in Annex II-C to the Agreement, which are subject to the anti-circumvention mechanism set out in Article 27 of the Agreement. On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency relating to the import volume of one or more categories of products that reach the volume indicated in Annex II-C to the Agreement in any given year starting on 1 January, and unless it has received a sound justification from Georgia, the Commission shall adopt an immediately applicable implementing act in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 4(2) of this Regulation. The Commission may either decide to temporarily suspend the preferential duty applied to the product(s) concerned or that such suspension is not appropriate. The Commission may request detailed information regarding the traceability of imported products covered by the agreement. source: 567.485 2015/11/24 INTA 1 amendments... Amendment 1 # Gabrielius LANDSBERGIS Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. The report shall inter alia include information about the application of the anti-circumvention mechanism. source: 572.844

History

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