Council Decision (EU) 2023/1796 of 18 September 2023 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

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to conclude, on behalf of the Union, 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. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Council may adopt the act only if Parliament has given its consent to the act. BACKGROUND: on 15 June 2018, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 on the apportionment of the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union. Negotiations with the Republic of Chile have been concluded and 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 was initialled on 1 December 2022. The Committee on International Trade adopted the report by Samira RAFAELA (Renew Europe, NL) 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 committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament give its consent to the conclusion of the agreement. As a reminder, in October 2018, in the run-up to the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the EU formally launched negotiations under Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 with a number of Members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the Republic of Chile. The underlying principle of the negotiations is a “joint approach” developed between the EU and the UK in 2017 on how to “apportion” the quantitative commitments contained in the EU28 WTO schedule for the 143 EU agricultural, fish and industrial WTO tariff rate quotas (TRQs). 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. 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…