Committee on International Trade (INTA) - Main contents

Committee responsible for matters relating to the establishment, implementation and monitoring of the Union’s common commercial policy and its external economic relations, in particular:

• 1. 

  financial, economic and trade relations with third countries and regional organisations;

• 2. 

  the common external tariff and trade facilitation as well as the external aspects of customs provisions and management;

• 3. 

  the opening, monitoring, conclusion and follow-up of bilateral, multilateral and plurilateral trade agreements governing economic, trade and investment relations with third countries and regional organisations;

• 4. 

  measures of technical harmonisation or standardisation in fields covered by instruments of international law;

• 5. 

  relations with the relevant international organisations and international fora on trade-related matters, and with organisations promoting regional economic and commercial integration outside the Union;

• 6. 

  relations with the WTO, including its parliamentary dimension.

The committee liaises with the relevant interparliamentary and ad hoc delegations for the economic and trade aspects of relations with third countries.