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What Valeria MICELI has said (2)
“Thank you, Mr. Chair. Honourable members. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to sit in this meeting. I'm Valeria micheli of Unit International custom unit in digital. Isabel Garcia Catalan, head of unit rules of origin in Sud, and Florian Ermacora, head of unit DG Mena. I will start presenting the process. We follow the European Commission for this file and my colleagues will follow presenting the content of the agreement and of the declaration. So let's start with process. On 4th October 2024, as we all know, the European Court of Justice, with their rulings annulled, the Council decision on the conclusion of the agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco of 2018, but maintained its effect for another year. So during this year the agreement continued to apply, and during this year the European Commission undertook a thorough legal analysis of the implications of the court rulings and studied potential options to comply with those rulings. In July 2025, we got the political signal that Morocco was open for negotiations, and therefore, on 22nd July 2025, the Commission adopted a recommendation for a council decision to open negotiations with Morocco, and the European Commission transmitted this recommendation to both co-legislators in line with the interinstitutional framework.”
Trade relations with Morocco · EU policy on custom fee on non-EU imports
“On 10th September 2025, the Council adopted a decision to open negotiations with Morocco and starting then immediately after the European Commission negotiated with Morocco the new agreement. On 18th September, the European Commission was able to adopt a proposal for several proposals uh one on Council decision for the signature, a provision and provisional application of this agreement, and another one for the conclusion of the agreement. And all those proposals were again transmitted to both co-legislators to the European Parliament and Council. On 23rd September, the Commission uh, held an information meeting with the monitoring Group for Maghreb, and on 25th September the Commission did the same and information meeting with uh Council, the mama and cog groups on the 2nd of October. The council adopted the decision on provisional application and signature of this agreement, and on 3rd October, uh, the signature took place and the agreement started to apply on a provisional basis. We now understand that the proposal on the conclusion of the agreement is still with council. I now give the floor to my colleague, Isabelle Garcia Catalan. Thank you very much, honourable members. So we would like now to.”