Common commercial policy: repeal of certain obsolete Council acts

The Committee on International Trade adopted the report drafted by Vital MOREIRA (S&D, PT) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain obsolete Council acts.

It recommended that the European Parliament’s position at first reading, under the ordinary legislative procedure, should be to amend the Commission proposal in order to establish more clarity and legal certainty for the European Union's citizens and institutions.

Members propose to establish a distinction, in the recitals, between the acts in the area of the Union Common Commercial Policy which were adopted over the last decades and have exhausted all their effects, but remain technically into force, and the measures concerning certain States which have become obsolete following accession to the European Union.

The repeal of the acts shall be without prejudice to: (a) the maintenance in force of Union acts adopted on the basis of those acts; and (b) the continuing validity of amendments made by the acts to other acts of Union law that are not repealed by this Regulation.