Written by Stephen C. Tupper

Last year, the European Commission (the “Commission”) announced in its first annual report on trade and investment barriers that one of the items on its “to-do” list was to find a way to eradicate trading obstacles faced by EU exporters in certain markets outside the EU, where the same obstacles were not faced by exporters located in such jurisdictions seeking access to their counterpart markets within the EU. The Commission stated at the time that it intended to take action which was “assertive” in order to have a real impact on behaviour. These “assertive” measures have now been laid out in a proposal for a Regulation which aims to encourage bilateral agreements of cooperation and reciprocity in the procurement markets between the EU and non-EU countries.
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