EUROPEAN UNION: Request for inputs from interested stakeholders on EU-Mexico trade relations&nbsp

Thursday November 10 2016

In 2015, the EU carried out a Public Consultation giving stakeholders an opportunity to comment on relevant aspects of the Impact Assessment accompanying the Commission’s recommendation to launch negotiations for updating the EU-Mexico FTA (under the existing EU-Mexico Global Agreement). Following this authorisation of the Council to proceed, negotiations to implement the recommendations of the consultation were launched in June 2016.

As part of the negotiation process, the Commission has invited stakeholders to share their views on what they consider key aspects to be addressed through the modernisation in a questionnaire published on their website.

The technical questions of the online questionnaire are structured in accordance with EU FTAs. The EU Commission recommends that respondents are selective as regards the areas in which they would like to provide comments. In case of doubts, select “Other issues”.

The technical inputs areas which are available to respond to are listed below:

• Trade in Goods (i.e. rules of origin, import restrictions, export restrictions, customs procedures, discrimination, trade defence, TBT, SPS);
• Trade in Services and Investment;
• Rules (i.e. Intellectual Property Rights, Competition, Government Procurement, SMEs, Transparency, trade and sustainable development); and
• Other issues

Please click the link at the top of the page for the Commission announcement and online questionnaire.