Policy paper

UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Trade Partnership Committee meeting 12 December 2024, agenda

Published 9 December 2024

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Venue: Brussels and hybrid

1. Opening remarks and adoption of the agenda

2. Review of this year’s Trade Specialised Committees

3. Progress in the implementation of the TCA since the previous meeting of the Trade Partnership Committee

  • Competition Cooperation Agreement
  • Cooperation between Environmental Regulators (Article 395 TCA)
  • Administrative arrangement between DG CNECT and OFCOM under Article 211 TCA
  • Adoption of Decision 1/2024 amending Decision 4/2023 on the standard forms for requests for information, for spontaneous exchange of information and feedback 
  • Meeting of the TBT working groups
  • Update to Product Specific Rules Annex due to the 2022 update of the Harmonised System (HS) (Rules of Origin)

4. Discussion of key topics from the Trade Specialised Committees relevant to the scope of the Trade Partnership Committee

  • Green Transition

i. Update on EU and UK ETS

ii. Update on EU and UK CBAM

  • UK Labour policies, including the Plan to Make Work Pay and the Employment Rights Bill
  • UK Sponsorship Scheme
  • Provision of designated legal services by UK lawyers in one Member State
  • UK Border Target Operating Model (BTOM)
  • EU and UK measures on the import seed potatoes and EU measures on live bivalve molluscs from Class B waters intended for depuration
  • Subsidies to offshore wind: UK introduction of Sustainability Industry Rewards in Contracts for Difference and EU approach on inclusion of non-price factors in Contracts for Difference
  • Competitiveness measures including measures announced in the Political Guidelines for the next European Commission

5. Trade Policy developments 

  • Economic Security

6. Look ahead to 2025

7. AOB

8. Closing remarks

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