On Wednesday 6 December, the European Commission proposed to the Council of the European Union a specific one-off three-year extension, until 31 December 2026, of the current rules of origin applicable to electric vehicles and batteries under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the EU and the United Kingdom.
This decision “means that we avoid an intermediate phase of slightly stricter rules of origin, which would have been applied from 2024 to the end of 2026. This...