Parliament voted with 347 votes in favour, 117 against and 99 abstentions to amend the Commission’s प्रस्ताव to suspend import duties and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural exports to the EU for another year, from 6 June 2024 to 5 June 2025. MEPs referred the report back to the Committee on International Trade to start negotiations with the Council
The legislation gives the Commission the power to take swift action and impose any necessary measures should there be significant disruptions to the EU market, or to the markets of one or more EU countries due to Ukrainian imports, including an emergency brake for particularly sensitive agricultural products MEPs voted to amend the Commission’s proposal to include more sensitive products and a wider reference date for calculating average volumes.
उदारीकरणका उपायहरू युक्रेनको लोकतान्त्रिक सिद्धान्तहरू, मानवअधिकार, कानूनको शासन, र भ्रष्टाचार र संगठित अपराध विरुद्ध लड्ने निरन्तर प्रयासहरूमा सशर्त छन्।
Supporting Moldova
In a separate vote on Wednesday, Parliament agreed with 459 votes in favour, 65 against and 57 abstentions that all remaining duties on imports from Moldova should be suspended for another year.
Russia’s illegal military aggression against Ukraine has also hit the Republic of Moldova hard as it relies heavily on Ukrainian transit routes and infrastructure for its own exports. The trade liberalisation measures allowed Moldova to redirect some of its trade with the rest of the world via the EU. Most Moldovan exports already benefit from duty-free access to the EU market under the Association Agreement.
अर्को चरणहरू
On Moldova, the measures will now have to be formally approved by EU governments. The new regulation should enter into force immediately when the current regulation expires. The current suspension expires on 5 June 2024 for Ukraine and on 24 July 2024 for Moldova. On Ukraine, the MEPs will start negotiations with the Council.
पृष्ठभूमि
EU-युक्रेन संघ सम्झौता सहित गहिरो र व्यापक मुक्त व्यापार क्षेत्र, has ensured that Ukrainian businesses have preferential access to the EU market since 2016. In the immediate aftermath of the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU put in place autonomous trade measures (ATMs) in June 2022, which allow duty-free access for all Ukrainian products to the EU. These measures were extended by one year in 2023. In January, the EU Commission प्रस्तावित युक्रेनी र मोल्डोभन निर्यातमा आयात शुल्क र कोटा अर्को वर्षको लागि निलम्बन गर्नुपर्छ। रसियाले जानाजानी युक्रेनी खाद्यान्न उत्पादन र काला सागर निर्यात सुविधालाई लक्षित गरी देशको अर्थतन्त्रलाई कमजोर बनाउन र विश्वव्यापी खाद्य सुरक्षालाई खतरामा पारेको छ।
