“We have taken note of the judgments handed down through the General Court of the European Union on the decisions of the Council of the European Union concerning the Association Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco on agricultural products and sustainable fisheries,” the Moroccan General Confederation of Enterprises said in a statement.
“The decision of the European Court is for the purposes of the agricultural agreement between Morocco and the EU until the final judgment of the European Court of Last Instance.
We remain mobilised to continue cooperation between the European Union and Morocco. Our business communities have connections to publicize and foster a sustainable post-pandemic economic recovery.
The stability of industry between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco, as the main economic partners, is also the guarantee of a win-win partnership. We remain convinced that solidarity and sustainable industry between the EU and Morocco guarantee the security of the region and its inhabitants.
We will continue to paint to broaden the dimensions of this EU-Morocco strategic partnership, in terms of economic, social and environmental growth.
Morocco has included Western Sahara as a territory since 1975, but this is not recognized worldwide, which has made it a politically sensitive confrontation for many years. import into the EU, as well as a fisheries agreement. The European Court has already ruled that lax industrial agreements between the EU and Morocco do not apply to Western Sahara.
Earlier this month, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski spoke, who refuted allegations of “fraudulent labelling of tomatoes grown in Western Sahara and sold as a ‘Moroccan product’. He noted that so-called “third countries,” Morocco adding, were allowed to conduct their own checks on fruit and vegetables before exporting to the EU.
This summer, the European parties, adding the Dutch Producers Association, also suggested to the European Commission to more strictly monitor Moroccan tomato imports and sent a letter about it.
The European parties believe that regulations are being damaged lately and that some other way of calculating the import price of Moroccan tomatoes is needed. The costs of ‘normal tomatoes’ deserve not to be used as an indication in this regard. If the UK leaves the EU, the quota will have to be reduced by about 50,000 tonnes, according to the letter’s authors, and it will have to be transparent which tomatoes come from Western Sahara. On the latter one was made.
The judgments can be found here: https://curia. europa. eu/juris/documents. jsf?num=T-279/19 https://curia. europa. eu/juris/documents. jsf?num= T -344/19
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