Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting

4 November 2026

INTA European Parliament

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11:24 - 14:00
Speaker 1
So, good morning dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen.  Welcome to our INTA meeting of November.  Unfortunately we are a little bit late, ten minutes, because LIBE was so slow, ah, this morning.  So there is a proposal for agenda.  Any objections? 

It's not the case.  On announcement, of course this meeting is webstreamed, so welcome from Lüneburg to Ljubljana, from Tallinn to Thessaloniki, and perhaps even on the other side of the Atlantic, nobody knows.  So, we have also interpretation and speak in a moderate way so that interpretation can work properly.  We had point three, the decision by the coordinators on the meeting on the 1st of October will be included in the minutes of this meeting, and if there is no objection until the end of this meeting, it is adopted.  And similar, point four, the draft minutes of the meeting of the INTA committee on the 2nd and 3rd of September and on the 1st of October will be also approved until unless there are no objections until the end of this meeting. 

And then we switch immediately to point five, the annual report on the implementation and enforcement of EU trade and economic security policy. 

It's the sixth annual report and it was published on the 28th of September.  And I welcome Sofia Muñoz Albarrán the director responsible for resources, information, policy coordination of DG TRADE who will present the findings.  And of course this is an important document.  We have at the moment 44 FTAs with 76 partners and we are generating really a respectful economic development for both sides and therefore it's really important to see how we need additional protectionist measures or not and how the trade environment is going on and how a rule-based approach has a perspective.  And I give now immediately Sofia Muñoz the floor for 10 until 12 minutes. 

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