Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jan 27 (EFE) .- The Canarian PP MEP, Gabriel Mato, has alerted the European Commission of the risk that the United Kingdom may establish future trade agreements with third countries without respecting the safeguard mechanisms.
“If this happens, it could cause serious damage to the European agricultural sector,” he warns in a statement stating that for now, once the provisional application of the Trade Agreement that regulates relations with the EU has come into force, the United Kingdom It has already signed trade agreements with Morocco and Turkey, among others.
“Until now, the United Kingdom respects the framework similar to those previously signed between the EU and those third countries, a framework that includes safeguard clauses that help protect sensitive agricultural sectors such as fruit and vegetables,” he reports in the note
However, in a written question that he has sent to the European Commission, Mato warns of the possibility that the United Kingdom, in exercise of its sovereignty, eliminates these safeguard clauses in its future trade agreements with third countries.
In his opinion, the fact that the British country enters a future dynamic of eliminating safeguard clauses and liberalizing access of third countries to its market, would undermine the competitiveness of European productions and would endanger its future.
In his question, Gabriel Mato requests information from the Commission on how and when the content of the UK’s agreements with third countries will be evaluated, as well as the procedure that will be carried out to monitor these markets once they start trading. their products to the United Kingdom.
He has also asked the agricultural sector to benefit from the aid contemplated within the Brexit adjustment reserve endowed with five billion euros. EFE
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