The new EU rules on trade defence – the fruit of a long process of inter-institutional talks that started in 2013 and that were for a long time delayed by a blockage in discussions between the member states – will finally enter into force on Friday 8 June.
After the EU Council's adoption, on 16 April, of the definitive version of the regulation proposed by the Commission in April 2013 and re-shaped by the Council and European Parliament via an inter-institutional agreement on 5...