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2020/0230(NLE) EU/Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead INTA WARBORN Jörgen (icon: EPP EPP) BELKA Marek (icon: S&D S&D), PAET Urmas (icon: Renew Renew), BÜTIKOFER Reinhard (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), CAMPOMENOSI Marco (icon: ID ID), BOURGEOIS Geert (icon: ECR ECR), MAUREL Emmanuel (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion PECH
Committee Opinion ITRE
Committee Opinion AGRI
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
TFEU 207-p4, TFEU 218-p6a

Events

2021/05/21
   Final act published in Official Journal
2021/05/12
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
2021/04/27
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 686 votes to 2, with 5 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Union and Norway relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

Following the recommendation of the International Trade Committee, Parliament gave its consent to the conclusion of the agreement.

On 15 June 2018, the Council authorised the Commission to launch GATT Article XXVIII negotiations with the relevant WTO members with a view to apportioning the Union's WTO concessions on tariff quota concessions.

The aim is to maintain the full existing volume of each tariff rate quota in the future, but to split it across two separate customs territories: the EU-27 and the UK.

Negotiations with Norway resulted in an agreement in the form of an exchange of letters which was initialled in Geneva on 7-8 July 2020.

Documents
2021/03/04
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Details

The Committee on International Trade adopted the report by Jörgen WARBORN (EPP, SE) on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Union and Norway relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament give its consent to the conclusion of the agreement.

As a reminder, the EU formally launched the negotiation process (under Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994) with several WTO members in Geneva in October 2018.

The negotiations are based on a ‘joint approach’ developed in 2017 by the EU and the UK on how to ‘apportion’ the quantitative commitments contained in the EU-28's WTO schedule for the 143 EU agricultural, fish and industrial WTO tariff-rate quotas.

The aim is to maintain the full existing volume of each tariff quota in the future, but to divide it between two separate customs territories: the EU-27 and the UK.

The principle behind the applied methodology is based on trade flows to the EU-27 and the UK during a representative reference period (of three years between 2013 and 2015) for all WTO tariff-rate quotas.

On 15 June 2018, the Council authorised the Commission to launch negotiations under Article XXVIII GATT with the relevant WTO Members with a view to apportioning the Union's WTO concessions on tariff-rate quotas.

The negotiations with Norway resulted in an agreement in the form of an exchange of letters which was initialled in Geneva on 7-8 July 2020.

Documents
2021/02/25
   EP - Vote in committee
2021/01/18
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2020/10/16
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2020/10/01
   EP - WARBORN Jörgen (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in INTA
2020/09/29
   CSL - Legislative proposal
Documents
2020/09/29
   CSL - Document attached to the procedure
Documents
2020/09/28
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Documents
2020/09/07
   EC - Preparatory document
Documents
2020/09/07
   EP - Preparatory document
Documents

Documents

Votes

Accord Union/Norvège: modification des concessions pour l’ensemble des contingents tarifaires de la liste CLXXV de l’UE après le retrait du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne - EU/Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union - Abkommen EU/Norwegen: Änderung der Zugeständnisse für alle in der EU-Liste CLXXV aufgeführten Zollkontingente infolge des Austritts des Vereinigten Königreichs aus der Europäischen Union - A9-0035/2021 - Jörgen Warborn - Procédure d'approbation #

2021/04/26 Outcome: +: 686, 0: 5, -: 2
DE FR IT ES PL RO NL SE HU PT BE CZ AT BG EL SK DK FI IE LT HR LV SI EE MT CY LU
Total
95
77
73
58
51
33
29
21
21
21
20
21
19
17
21
14
14
13
13
11
10
8
8
7
6
6
6
icon: PPE PPE
172

Hungary PPE

1

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Latvia PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1

Malta PPE

2
2

Luxembourg PPE

2
icon: S&D S&D
145

Czechia S&D

For (1)

1

Greece S&D

2

Lithuania S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

2

Estonia S&D

2

Cyprus S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1
icon: Renew Renew
96

Italy Renew

2
3

Hungary Renew

2

Austria Renew

For (1)

1

Slovakia Renew

2

Finland Renew

3

Ireland Renew

2

Lithuania Renew

1

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Latvia Renew

For (1)

1

Slovenia Renew

2

Estonia Renew

3

Luxembourg Renew

2
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
71

Spain Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Denmark Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

3

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Lithuania Verts/ALE

2

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1
icon: ID ID
71

Netherlands ID

Against (1)

1

Czechia ID

For (1)

Abstain (1)

2
3

Denmark ID

For (1)

1

Finland ID

1

Estonia ID

For (1)

1
icon: ECR ECR
62

Germany ECR

For (1)

1

Romania ECR

1

Belgium ECR

2

Bulgaria ECR

2

Greece ECR

1

Lithuania ECR

1

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Latvia ECR

2
icon: The Left The Left
39

Netherlands The Left

Abstain (1)

1

Sweden The Left

For (1)

1

Belgium The Left

For (1)

1

Czechia The Left

1

Denmark The Left

1

Finland The Left

For (1)

1

Cyprus The Left

2
icon: NI NI
37

Germany NI

2

Netherlands NI

1

Slovakia NI

2

Lithuania NI

1

Croatia NI

Abstain (1)

1

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  • The aim is to maintain the full existing volume of each tariff rate quota in the future, but to split it across two separate customs territories: the EU-27 and the UK.
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  • The negotiations are based on a ‘joint approach’ developed in 2017 by the EU and the UK on how to ‘apportion’ the quantitative commitments contained in the EU-28's WTO schedule for the 143 EU agricultural, fish and industrial WTO tariff-rate quotas.
  • The aim is to maintain the full existing volume of each tariff quota in the future, but to divide it between two separate customs territories: the EU-27 and the UK.
  • The principle behind the applied methodology is based on trade flows to the EU-27 and the UK during a representative reference period (of three years between 2013 and 2015) for all WTO tariff-rate quotas.
  • On 15 June 2018, the Council authorised the Commission to launch negotiations under Article XXVIII GATT with the relevant WTO Members with a view to apportioning the Union's WTO concessions on tariff-rate quotas.
  • The negotiations with Norway resulted in an agreement in the form of an exchange of letters which was initialled in Geneva on 7-8 July 2020.
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