EU/Chile Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union

The European Parliament adopted by 577 votes to 4, with 58 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Chile pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

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

The purpose of the agreement is to agree on the modification of concessions as notified to WTO Members and the resulting quantitative commitments on the part of the EU, which no longer includes the UK, in respect of tariff quotas for which Chile has negotiating rights under Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994.

The Republic of Chile has negotiating rights for two TRQs. They are both sub-allocations of tariff rate quota 020, concerning meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen. One of them applies to all contracting parties (erga omnes) and the other one is a country-specific TRQ for the Republic of Chile. While Chile accepted the volumes proposed by the EU for the former, the agreement provides for a minor downward adjustment of the country-specific TRQ, based on a different reference period.

As regards tariff quota 020 (meat of sheep and goats, fresh, chilled or frozen), Chile and the Union agree to modify the commitments as follows: the volume for the Union of this specific Chilean quota is adjusted to 2527 tonnes.