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The chair shifts the focus from industrial capacity to demand creation, introducing Panel 2 on lead markets where battery, steel, chemicals and hydrogen representatives outline their decarbonisation projects, required investments and requests for stronger low‑carbon demand targets, origin rules and workable timelines.
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Co‑rapporteurs, shadows and MEPs question experts on preventing circumvention, defining EU origin and trusted partners, fleet and component thresholds, social standards and FDI conditions, followed by expert replies on China-focused risks, unified methodologies, treatment of R&D and corporate fleets, and generalized social conditionalities.
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Four experts from CER, Volkswagen, CLEPA and IndustriAll present macroeconomic, industry, supplier and trade union perspectives on the IAA, detailing proposals on local-content thresholds, geographic scope, FDI screening, fleet rules, batteries, competitiveness and social and employment conditionalities.
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Chairs open the joint INTA–ITRE–IMCO hearing, clarify agenda, procedures and interpretation, and frame the Industrial Accelerator Act’s strategic trade and industrial context and the format of the first expert panel.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The committee hears the OECD’s presentation of its new MAGIC firm‑level database on industrial subsidies, highlighting China’s subsidisation and risks of a ‘second China shock’, with MEPs probing methodology, underestimation and policy lessons, followed by OECD replies stressing conservative estimates, the link to overcapacity and the need for stronger WTO subsidy disciplines, before the Commission reacts and the morning session is closed.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
New DG Trade Director‑General Ditte Jørgensen presents DG Trade’s strategic priorities on FTAs, WTO reform, trade defence, economic security, China and the US, followed by extensive group interventions on the Industrial Accelerator Act, agriculture, Mercosur, Ukraine, Western Sahara, climate and labour clauses, to which she responds on implementation, country ‘equivalence’, China rebalancing, CETA, India FTA, Russia sanctions and the link between trade, climate and child labour tools.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
DG TRADE briefs members on the multiple tracks of WTO reform, including foundational rules, decision‑making, SOEs and development, as well as plurilateral initiatives on e‑commerce and investment facilitation, followed by MEP questions on alliances, Global South positions, US tariffs and climate integration, and Commission replies on partners, process and the Industrial Accelerator Act.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Chair reopens the INTA committee, adopts the agenda and minutes, and then holds a structured exchange with the Commission and political groups on the planned Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement with Côte d’Ivoire, focusing on cocoa, sustainability, SME access, dispute settlement, civil‑society involvement and a possible parallel track with Ghana.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
Chair and Commission launch the Article 52 evaluation of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, presenting planned threshold and procedure adjustments via delegated acts, followed by DG GROW on the public procurement pillar and MEPs’ scrutiny of legal basis, enforcement practice, and broader geopolitical and social implications.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
Minister outlines Council support for an EU‑Canada digital trade agreement and confirms Ireland’s plan to ratify and actively promote CETA during its Council Presidency, framing both as part of modernising EU trade rules without weakening digital enforcement.
Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Minister details WTO‑compatibility work on the Industrial Accelerator Act, Council debates on implementing the ICJ opinion on occupied territories including a possible EU‑wide ban on settlement goods, and national versus EU‑level approaches. She then outlines the FTA agenda (UAE and Gulf, EU‑UK SPS and mobility, Mercosur safeguards and implementation tracks) and explains plans to streamline agreement implementation, link trade to economic security and industrial policy, and manage sensitive files with the US such as steel, aluminium, new investigations and the pharma‑related Section 301 case.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
Coordinators and MEPs press the Presidency on WTO‑compatibility of the Industrial Accelerator Act, cumulative FTA impacts on agriculture, EU‑UK and Asian trade priorities, and legal options on trade with Israeli settlements after the ICJ opinion. They also question how an envisaged FTA with the UAE can embed enforceable TSD and climate conditionality despite human rights, labour and civil society constraints, and how these choices interact with wider EU trade and foreign policy tools.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Irish Minister presents the Council Presidency mandate in the current EU trade context, detailing priorities on competitiveness, FTAs and diversification, relations with the US on steel, aluminium and digital issues, and the approach to China de‑risking, trade defence tools, WTO reform and implementation of the EU economic security package.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The committee first examines the temporary autonomous trade measures for Armenia, clarifying legal basis, scope, safeguards and fast‑track adoption, then reviews outcomes of trade monitoring groups on Asia, Mercosur and Ukraine, focusing on implementation issues, conditionality, SPS and market access barriers and follow‑up items for the committee agenda.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the agenda point on EU–US trade relations, MEPs question the Commission on tariffs, MFN cuts, China-related risks, ICC blocking statute, digital dialogue and US trade investigations, and the Commission details the state of play on tariffs, TRQs, regulatory autonomy and the institutional design of the new EU–US digital dialogue.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
Introduction of the new steel safeguard Regulation by the Chair and Commission, followed by political group statements on WTO‑compatibility, industrial strategy, employment, SMEs and decarbonisation implications.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The dual‑use item is opened with the Commission outlining the EU framework, the 2021 recast and its evaluation, Russia‑related measures and licensing data, followed by MEPs’ questions on circumvention, China‑related controls, human‑rights criteria and transparency and the Commission’s replies on enforcement, hub countries and its targeted approach versus China’s regime.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
From the Commission’s initial assessment of EU–China trade imbalances and the new Trade and Investment Consultations to successive rounds of MEP scrutiny on leverage, human‑rights conditionality, critical dependencies and the deployment of trade defence and anti‑coercion tools, including how Parliament will be informed and involved.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the MFA item and the Commission details ongoing and planned MFA operations, especially for Ukraine, Egypt, Jordan and North Macedonia, then answers MEPs’ questions on debt risks, geopolitical alignment and human‑rights conditionality, with a particular focus on benchmarks and leverage in Egypt before the meeting is closed.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Committee turns to outbound investment under the EU Economic Security Strategy, with the Commission presenting its recommendation and initial monitoring, followed by MEPs’ questions on possible future legislation, links to FDI screening and third‑country regimes, and Commission replies on options, constraints and international comparisons.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
Bernd Lange and 6 others
The Chair opens the INTA meeting, adopts the agenda and formalities, then introduces the study on EU textile trade, followed by the author’s presentation of key findings and recommendations and an exchange with MEPs and the Commission before closing the textile item.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the ESA EPA’s scope, safeguards, asymmetries and social impacts, including TSD enforcement and accession issues, before the Chair formally closes examination of the file, announces the consent vote timetable and adjourns the sitting.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the ESA EPA agenda item and the Commission outlines the negotiation outcome, trade context, scope and key disciplines, followed by clarification of the TSD chapter, development orientation, AfCFTA‑compatibility and political support for a modernised, partnership‑oriented agreement.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
MEPs scrutinise the Commission on phase‑2 modernisation of the OECD export credits arrangement and its EU implementation, then assess the first use of the International Procurement Instrument in the China medical devices case, focusing on competitiveness, climate conditionality, enforcement capacity and leverage in third‑country markets.
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Monitoring group coordinators brief INTA on trade files with Israel, Indonesia, the US and forced labour regulation, then on Andean, Canada, Ukraine and critical raw materials cooperation, and finally on Russia fisheries imports and the state of play in EU–Philippines FTA negotiations, highlighting sustainability, enforcement, and geopolitical trade dimensions.
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INTA’s separate sitting on the CBAM extension to downstream goods and anti‑circumvention measures covers opening and voting setup, then proceeds through compromise packages and key amendments defining the mechanism’s scope and operation, and ends with the final amendment block and roll‑call adoption of the opinion.
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Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
The committee finalises the CBAM opinion through a full amendment and roll‑call vote sequence, then turns to an overview of INTA monitoring groups on key trade agreements, sectoral files and WTO issues requiring follow‑up from the Commission and EEAS.
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Joint AFET–INTA meeting opens, completes procedural business, then moves to the consent recommendation on the modernised EU–Mexico Global Agreement, including a minority stance critical of ISDS, and concludes with detailed voting on amendments and adoption of the interim report on EU–Mexico relations.
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The Commission answers on rule‑of‑law conditionality, 2026–2027 financing gaps, legal treatment and use of revenues from immobilised Russian assets, and defence‑pillar flexibility, before final member interventions on historical memory and values and the chair’s concluding remarks on oversight and meeting closure.
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Rapporteurs and political groups express broad support while pressing for maximum flexibility, transparency and anti‑corruption controls, stronger reliance on Russian assets and reparations, clarity on EU budget exposure and risk‑sharing, and practical questions on cascade, third‑country procurement, legal constraints and values.
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