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12 Sep 2017

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European Parliament

The impact of international trade and the EU’s trade policies on global value chains (2016/2301(INI))

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...38.  Calls on the EU to work towards adequate and efficient solutions for the introduction of a transparent and functioning mandatory ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system along the entire production chain, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement, while in parallel promoting similar action at international level;                                                                             

39.  Calls on the Commission to consider introducing legislation for labelling rules regarding the origin of products entering the EU market, or to propose rules that guarantee effective traceability; 

40.  Calls on the Commission and encourages Member States to seek ways to enable parties having a public interest stake to access, subject to appropriate justification and upon a request made on the grounds of public interest, the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;...

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