The EU has a regime in favor of the Least Developed Countries, thanks to which important rice, like Cambodia and Myanmar, can export unlimited quantities of the product duty-free to the European Union. The Belgian Presidency proposed a new compromise text which obtained a qualified majority at the COREPER II meeting on 13 March, but which does not include the automatic safeguard clause.
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In recent weeks the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union has attempted to reopen the trialogue relating to the revision of the regulation establishing a System of Generalized Tariff Preferences which includes the regime in favor of the Least Developed Countries, thanks to which important rice, like Cambodia and Myanmar, can export unlimited quantities of the product duty-free to the European Union. The Belgian Presidency proposed a new compromise text which obtained a qualified majority at the COREPER II meeting on 13 March, thanks to some changes relating to immigration, but which does not include the automatic safeguard clause for rice imports from countries Least Advanced upon exceeding a certain percentage threshold of import into the Union which, however, results in the position expressed by the European Parliament in May 2022. Strengthened by the approval of COREPER II, the Belgian Presidency would have liked to organize a trialogue the following day to ...
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