Common Commercial Policy

As you know, investment is a new frontier for the common commercial policy.

Obviously, this strategy must not put the objectives of the common commercial policy at risk.

European Economic Community is established with a common commercial policy in 1958.

This sensitivity is taken into consideration in the implementation of the common commercial policy.

The common commercial policy - rather than matching aid - is the proper tool to address this.

In the era of the globalised economy, the European Union's common commercial policy seems quite natural to us.

The common commercial policy cannot therefore be reduced to a set of measures designed to serve only the immediate interests of a few economic actors.

The "Article 133" committee was set up in the area of the Common Commercial Policy.

Thus investment policy, an area which falls under the common commercial policy, must also be coordinated at EU level.

The common commercial policy must be consistent with the European Union's overall objectives and not merely serve the short-term interests of major economic operators.

In this respect, it has various instruments available: the common commercial policy, the policy on public aid for development and the CFSP.

Co-operation in international trade negotiations, under the Common Commercial Policy, dates back to the establishment of the Community in 1957.

Allow me a final comment on what was the last obstacle to the negotiations: the inclusion of the common commercial policy within the scope of the future Regulation.

Following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, foreign direct investment is included in the list of matters falling under the common commercial policy.

(IT) Madam President, the Treaty of Lisbon lists foreign direct investment among the matters pertaining to common commercial policy.

The right of states and of the EU to take the measures necessary to achieve legitimate public policy objectives is a standing rule of the common commercial policy.

For 2011, the topic was "The New Common Commercial Policy: Who has the power to conclude investment protection treaties post-Lisbon?

Furthermore, it is very important for Europe to ensure that its common commercial policy does not undermine, but rather helps to safeguard, its social model and its environmental policy.

(RO) Madam President, Member States' investment policies must be harmonised at EU level as part of a common commercial policy.

I hope Mr Blair crowns his Presidency by pulling Britain out of the common commercial policy and going in next month himself to speak at the WTO.

What is proposed is not a policy of solidarity, because the real economic policies - the internal market policies and the common commercial policy - are not reflected in the budget.

On the other hand, the June List sees free-trade agreements between the EU and other regions as a natural consequence of having a single market and a common commercial policy.

European Community law (European intellectual property law, European competition law, free movement of goods, Free movement of persons, Common commercial policy)

In view of this, we cannot fail to take into consideration the fact that the objectives of the common commercial policy must be fully coordinated with the overall objectives of the European Union.

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, one of the strong ideas of this report is the need to establish a vital link between the common commercial policy and the common fisheries policy.