On Tuesday 20 December, the Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper II) approved the negotiating mandate for the regulation reforming the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP).
The GSP is a facility granted to developing countries to allow them to export to the EU without tariffs.
Contrary to the European Parliament (see EUROPE B12944A25), the EU Council wishes to maintain the Commission proposal to make GSP aid to beneficiary countries conditional on the...