Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting

3 septembre 2026

INTA opens the GSP agenda point, the Commission and EEAS present the new GSP regulation, monitoring approach and foreign‑policy relevance, and MEPs question them on safeguards, migration conditionality, Pakistan, graduation, Bangladesh and Indonesia before the Chair closes the item.

Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting

Name: Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-09-03T07:00:00+00:00

11:49 - 14:43

Intervenant 4

So, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, let's start our third part of our inter-meeting of September. And we are starting with a legislation which was really controversial and heavy discussed here in the Parliament, in the Council and wherever, the GSP. As you know, we had the active GSP to prolong because we couldn't find a compromise on the renew of the GSP regulation. And therefore we have now also the report, the presentation by the Commission for the GSP covering the period from 2023 until 2025. And luckily we managed then to get an understanding about the revision of the GSP and the renew of the GSP.

You remember the question of readmission and the question of what was it? So, some agriculture goods. And at the end of the day we managed it. And I'm really happy that now on the 1st of January next year the new GSP regulation will come into force. And the DG Trade is also really busy to prepare the secondary legislation so that everything is fixed to the 1st of January.

And this will also mark the 25th anniversary of the Everything But Arms regulation. And this is for the European Union of course a landmark that we are a specific, reliable partner to the Global South. And therefore I'm happy that Dora Correia is now here with us, the acting Deputy Director General of DG Trade, and also Oronzo Console, Head of Division from the EEAS, and give us a hint about the situation in the last two years, specifically also regarding countries which are really, let's say, at the border between GSP, GSP+ and switching to a developed country. And one of them is Pakistan, of course. So, yeah, with this I will give Dora the floor.

Please.

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