Imports: indication of the country of origin of certain products

The Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, amended the EU's two core treaties, the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty establishing the European Community (EC Treaty). The latter was renamed the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

These changes had various consequences for many proposals presented by the Commission, on the basis of the "old" treaties, before that date. For more information, see COM (2009)0665. In some cases, a new legal framework was conferred on certain proposals that had not previously been subject to the interinstitutional decision-making process. The European Parliament would now be involved in any decision on those proposals.

The proposal in this procedure file is one such case. It was previously based on Article 133 of the EC Treaty, under which the Commission submitted proposals to the Council for implementing the common commercial policy. It now falls under Article 207(2) of the TFEU, under which the European Parliament and the Council adopt measures, under the ordinary legislative procedure (formerly known as the "codecision" procedure), defining the framework for implementing this policy.