Member States’ ambassadors to the European Union (Coreper II) were asked to approve their negotiating mandate on the Regulation revising the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) on 30 November, but in the end they did not support the text proposed by the Czech Presidency of the EU Council. The current GSP expires at the end of 2023.
The GSP is a facility granted to developing countries to help them export to the EU, i.e. without tariffs. The Commission presented its proposal for...