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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/turkey

Metin Kazak report advocates more functional customs union without barriers

Brussels, 15/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - Adopted by 23 votes in favour, with 2 votes against at the International Trade Committee on Wednesday 14 July, the report by Metin Kazak (ALDE, Bulgaria) underlines progress made in EU-Turkey trade relations but states that the customs union mechanism needs to be made fully functional, bureaucracy simplified, and remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers removed. The report also calls on Ankara to implement the additional protocol to the EC-Turkey...

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