Translation of "Instrument communautaire de défense commerciale " (French → English) :

40. Emphasises that the EU must support the role of the WTO in promoting economic stability and growth, in preventing trade conflicts, and in fighting protectionism by eliminating both trade and non-trade barriers, and ensuring that legitimate trade defence instruments (TDIs) are used only in last resort is of paramount importance; calls therefore on the Commission to support the efforts of new applicant countries with a view to enlarging the membership base of the WTO and by so doing enhancing its authority in defining and implementing trade relations standards worldwide;

My departments or myself have discussed all initiatives following the Global Europe agenda – i.e. the communication on China, the Green Paper on TDI, the communication on market access – at different times with Parliament.

This study also lends support to the idea that there is, at the present time, no visible and pressing need to review or amend the Community’s existing trade defence instruments.

Also, it will take new initiatives on the better protection of intellectual property rights, review and possible reform of the EU's trade defence instruments and a detailed reassessment of the EU’s strategy with China.

The EU is one of the few trade defence users that applies a public interest test in the form of the Community interest rule before applying Anti-Dumping measures.

Because it is precisely these things that trade defence instruments are intended to defend, a periodic review can help us to ensure that the EU’s trade defence instruments remain an effective response to unfair trading practices.