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Towards a new Generalised Scheme of Preferences regulation for developing countries
The European Commission is proposing a new General Scheme of Preferences regulation to replace the current one that expires at the end of 2023. This initial appraisal of the Commission’s impact assessment (IA) on the proposal finds that the IA logically links the problems, their drivers, the objectives and the policy interventions under consideration. However, the IA remains evasive on the impacts of crucial aims of the regulation -- poverty eradication and advancing sustainable development and good ...
Ways and Means towards a Future EU-US Trade and Investment Agreement
The High-Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth (HLWG), established following the EU-US Summit in November 2011, has taken up its task of identifying synergies that could result from reducing or dismantling tariff and non-tariff barriers in transatlantic trade and investments. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Trade and the US Trade Representative (USTR) have also launched consultations amongst public and private stakeholder groups, with the aim of obtaining detailed information on ...