At the Agriculture Council on Monday 30 March, Italy, supported notably by Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary, called for a tightening of the automatic safeguard mechanism within the revision of the European scheme of generalised tariff preferences (GSP).
In a note, Italy suggests: amending Article 29c of the regulation in order to better protect European agricultural sectors, particularly rice, but also undenatured ethyl alcohol and sugar; and rejecting the current principle of a ‘double...