EU/Euratom/Ukraine Association Agreement: trade preferences for poultry meat and poultry meat preparations

The European Parliament adopted by 444 votes to 128, with 74 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Union and Ukraine amending the trade preferences for poultry meat and poultry meat preparations provided for by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part.

The European Parliament gave its consent to the conclusion of the Agreement.

The purpose of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters is to amend the trade preferences provided for in the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in respect of poultrymeat and poultrymeat preparations. It aims to find a solution to the rapid increase in duty free imports of this particular poultry cut, which was neither existent nor foreseeable during the negotiations of the Association Agreement.