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[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Interesting move by the @EP_Trade in these negotiations that are time-bound by the expiry of the #GSP which expires at the end of the year.

[INTA Committee Press @EP_Trade]

MEPs pause #GSP negotiations as @EUCouncil hijacks scheme for #migration agenda - read the statements by Rapporteur @HeidiHautala and @EP_Trade Chair @berndlange: https://t.co/Q7OsHeWOWu @sweden2023eu

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

EP INTA
▶️ECT modernisation
▶️ WTO MC13
🗳️ Brazil & Northern Ireland TRQs as well as trade liberalisation measures for Ukraine

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

*Customs Reform Package will not be adopted today

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ Adoption of IPR Package (compulsory licensing too) and Customs Reform

EP INTA
▶️ Rana Plaza tragedy
▶️ INTA delegation to South Africa
▶️ Anti-Coercion & GSP
▶️ Hearing: EU-Latin America relations

Joint EP IMCO / INTA
▶️ Forced Labour Ban

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

EP JURI
🗳️ Due Diligence, GIs & Geneva Act

EP ITRE
▶️ Chips Act
▶️ 🇬🇧 TCA

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ EU-Australia FTA negotiation round (until Friday)

Foreign Affairs Council
▶️ Implementation of the EU action plan on the geopolitical consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine

EP DROI
▶️ Forced Labour Ban

EP JURI
▶️ GIs & Geneva Act

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ President VDL participates (via videoconference) in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, hosted by President Biden

▶️ VP Dombrovskis meets via videonconference with Tengku Zafrul, Malaysian Trade Minister

EP AGRI
🗳️ Geographical Indications

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

EP Plenary
🗳️ Deforestation Regulation

Council
🗳️ CBAM

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

CBAM was adopted today in Plenary. Council still needs to approve it and then it would just need to be published in the Official Journal.

Here's what the final outcome looks like 👇

On OPP: https://t.co/wDxtIND2ZU

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ @VDombrovskis in Washington 🇺🇸 meets US Trade Representative. Many topics on the agenda: TTC, IRA, Steel & Aluminium, China...

EP LIBE
🗳️ EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ @Vdombrovskis is in Washington until Friday. He will meet US officials and stakeholders. He will also participate in the event 'Transatlantic Trade and Cooperation in Times of Global Turmoil' by @AEI 👇

https://t.co/2ibTnmsVyE

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

At @Eurometaux & @EU_Aluminium event on all things raw materials and net-zero

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺🇨🇳

▶️ @vonderleyen in China with @EmmanuelMacron: participate in trilateral meeting with President Xi

It's the first visit to China of President von der Leyen during her mandate.

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

Council
▶️ Adoption of US TRQs modification due to Brexit
▶️ Final compromise text on TRQs from Northern Ireland (Windsor Agreement)
▶️ Debriefing on the trilogue of the Chips Act

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ EU-US Energy Ministerial Meeting

▶️ Council delegates will discuss the implementation of the Deforestation Regulation (outcome of trilogue to be voted in Plenary on 17 April), Kenya EPA & Energy Charter Treaty.

[Valdis Dombrovskis @VDombrovskis]

CONFIRMED: next EU-U.S. Trade & Technology Council will be in Luleå, Sweden🇸🇪 May 30-31.

My focus for #TTC is growing transatlantic marketplace & trade.

We'll also discuss 🇪🇺-🇺🇸cooperation on #Ukraine, tech, economic security, resilient supply chains + other global challenges.

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

▶️ Council delegations will discuss the state of play of GSP trilogues and the Swedish Presidency compromise text on the Single Market Emergency Instrument

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

Long day for EU Sanctions Envoy @D0Sullivan. First he will meet @dombrovskis and then he will participate in:

EP AFET
▶️ (Not public) Debate on the impact of third countries' behaviour on the effectiveness of EU sanctions against Russia 🇷🇺

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Forced labour ban 🚨

Last week was a busy one and maybe you missed the first debate in the Parliament on the forced labour ban! @ilandebasso

We can already see some key issues: SMEs, scope, enforceability, impacts on third countries...

Read our notes 👇 https://t.co/jfdMIc5MMb

[OPP EU Trade @OPPEUTrade]

Happening today 🇪🇺

@vestager is in Washington to meet @secraimondo on all things IRA and competition.

▶️ Council delegations will discuss the EU-India FTA 🇮🇳, Raw Materials and Net-Zero Acts