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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10078

16 February 2010
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Sri Lanka is temporarily suspended from GSP+ for failure to comply with human rights commitments

Brussels, 15/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - EU member states decided on Monday 15 February to suspend the country's preferential access to the Community market for six months. This came in the wake of an investigation carried out between October 2008 and 2009 by the European Commission, which concluded that Sri Lanka had violated its commitments with regard to sustainable development and good governance and in particular with regard to human rights, in the context of the EU's generalised system...

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