The European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture is expected to adopt, on 5 November, a favourable opinion on the draft agreement between the EU and Ukraine amending the trade preferences for poultry meat and poultry meat preparations provided for in the Association Agreement between the Parties (see EUROPE 12215/30).
This opinion, which was discussed on 7 October, will be submitted to the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, which will decide on this agreement on 3 December, in accordance with the planned timetable.
The solution negotiated between the EU and Ukraine is to increase the current quota for poultry meat and poultry meat products by an additional 50,000 tonnes, including 'other cuts' tariff lines, within the scope of the current tariff quota, and to reintroduce the most-favoured-nation rate of 100.8 EUR/100 kg/net for imports under the two relevant 'other cuts' tariff lines concerned in excess of the volume of the tariff rate quota (see EUROPE 12273/15).
The objective of this agreement is to put an end to potential unlimited duty-free imports of poultry meat, which could undermine the conditions under which traditional poultry breast cuts may be imported into the EU, explains the rapporteur, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (ECR, Poland). (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)