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Opinion on the EU/Switzerland agreements to consolidate, deepen and expand bilateral relations

Document AGRI-AL-786793 · 2025/0162(NLE)

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Opinion letter parliamentary committee AGRI-AL-786793
Date
13 April 2026
Committee
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Dossier
2025-0162
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8.4.2026

Mr David McAllister

Chair

Committee on Foreign Affairs

BRUSSELS

Subject: Opinion on the EU/Switzerland agreements to consolidate, deepen and expand bilateral relations (2025/0162(NLE))

Dear Mr McAllister,

Under the procedure referred to above, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) has been asked to submit an opinion to your committee. The AGRI Coordinators considered the matter at their meeting of 18 March 2026. They endorsed the Commission’s proposal and asked me to convey their opinion to you pursuant to Rule 57. This recommendation was approved by the AGRI Committee at its meeting of 8 April 2026.

Yours sincerely,

Veronika Vrecionová

Conclusion of a broad package of agreements to consolidate, deepen and expand the bilateral relations with the Swiss Confederation

44 · For

ECR
Waldemar Buda, Carlo Fidanza, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Jessika Van Leeuwen, Veronika Vrecionová
ESN
Tomasz Froelich
No group
Katarína Roth Neveďalová
EPP
Daniel Buda, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Salvatore De Meo, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Herbert Dorfmann, Esther Herranz García, Krzysztof Hetman, Céline Imart, Stefan Köhler, Willemien Koning, Norbert Lins, Pekka Toveri, Maria Walsh
Patriots
Mireia Borrás Pabón, Valérie Deloge, Tomáš Kubín, Julien Leonardelli, Gilles Pennelle, Raffaele Stancanelli
Renew
Asger Christensen, Barry Cowen, Jérémy Decerle, Elsi Katainen, Christine Singer
S&D
Dragoş Benea, Stefano Bonaccini, Claire Fita, Maria Grapini, Cristina Maestre, Maria Noichl, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo
The Left
Luke Ming Flanagan
Greens
Cristina Guarda, Martin Häusling, Tilly Metz, Anna Strolenberg

0 · Against

1 · Abstained

ESN
Ivan David

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Parts that accompany the text rather than belong to it: explanatory statement, annexes, opinions appended by other committees. Collapsed.

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Pursuant to Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure, the rapporteur for opinion declares that he included in his opinion input on matters pertaining to the subject of the file that he received, in the preparation of the opinion, prior to the adoption thereof in committee, from the following interest representatives falling within the scope of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory transparency register, or from the following representatives of public authorities of third countries, including their diplomatic missions and embassies:

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European Parliament (2026). “Opinion on the EU/Switzerland agreements to consolidate, deepen and expand bilateral relations”. Text, 13 April 2026. docId AGRI-AL-786793. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/AGRI-AL-786793 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/AGRI-AL-786793 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-agri-al-786793,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Opinion on the EU/Switzerland agreements to consolidate, deepen and expand bilateral relations}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-04-13},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/AGRI-AL-786793}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/AGRI-AL-786793},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Text. docId AGRI-AL-786793. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}