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Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

INTA-PR-757170 → A-9-2024-0078

From: INTA-PR-757170 report parliamentary committee draft of 5 Dec 2023
To: A-9-2024-0078 Plenary report of 8 Mar 2024
Changes: 1 change to the text
Paragraphs: +14 added · −0 removed · 5 changed

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Title (from): on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Arab Republic of Egypt pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 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
Title (to): on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Arab Republic of Egypt pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 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

Title (from): on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Arab Republic of Egypt pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 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
Title (to): on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Arab Republic of Egypt pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 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

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Part 2 of 3: EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

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In 2018, the EU formally launched the negotiations process under Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) of 1994 with a number of WTO Members in Geneva.

The underlying principle of the negotiations is a ‘joint approach’ developed between the EU and the UK back in 2017 on how to ‘apportion’ the quantitative commitments contained in the EU28 WTO schedule for the 143 EU agricultural, fish and industrial WTO tariff rate quotas (TRQ).The basis of this approach was that the existing volume of each TRQ would be fully maintained in the future, but split across two separate customs territories: the EU27 and the UK.

The principle of the applied methodology was based on the trade flows into the EU27 and the UK during a representative reference period of 3 years, from 2013 to 2015, for all WTO TRQ.

The methodology is described in detail in Regulation (EU) 2019/216 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Article 2(b) of Regulation (EU) 2019/216 empowers the Commission to amend the apportionment shares taking into account pertinent information that it may receive either in the context of negotiations under Article XXVIII of GATT 1994 or from other sources with an interest in a specific TRQ.

The Arab Republic of Egypt has negotiating rights for one erga omnes TRQ on cucumbers. A change in volume has been agreed for this TRQ. The EU27 share had been revised to 647 tonnes, taking into account the reference period from 2013 to 2016.

Negotiations with Egypt resulted in an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters that was initialled on 22 May 2023 in Geneva.

In accordance with Article 218(6) TFEU, the consent of the European Parliament is needed in order for the Council to adopt a Decision concluding the Agreement and for the latter to come into force in due time.

In the light of the above, the Rapporteur recommends that the Parliament give its consent to the conclusion of the Agreement, without prejudice to its democratic right of continuous scrutiny.

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European Parliament (2024). “Changes between INTA-PR-757170 and A-9-2024-0078”. Text, 8 March 2024. from INTA-PR-757170, to A-9-2024-0078. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/INTA-PR-757170/compare/A-9-2024-0078?all=1&part=2 (retrieved 27 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).

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@misc{epw-text-2024-03-08,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Changes between INTA-PR-757170 and A-9-2024-0078}},
  year = {2024},
  date = {2024-03-08},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/INTA-PR-757170/compare/A-9-2024-0078?all=1&part=2}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/INTA-PR-757170/compare/A-9-2024-0078?all=1&part=2},
  urldate = {2026-09-27},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Text. from INTA-PR-757170, to A-9-2024-0078. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}