Spain and France join forces to promote mirror clauses in negotiations with third countries

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, and the French Minister of Agriculture and Food, Julien Denormandie, have agreed today in the city of Toulouse (France) to strengthen their lines of work to promote the “mirror clauses” in the negotiations of trade agreements of the European Commission (EC) with third countries. The bilateral meeting between the heads of the Spanish and French branch has taken place after the inauguration by both ministers, together with the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Sustainability of Andorra, Silvia Calvó, of the commemorative act of the 60th Spanish-French meeting of animal health and vegetable, which, since 2002, also has Andorran participation. The French minister has conveyed to Planas that the request to include the “mirror clauses” in the trade agreements that the European Commission negotiates with third countries will be one of the priorities of France, which on January 1 will take over from Slovenia in the ...