Council Decision (EU) 2022/481 of 22 March 2022 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the General Council of the World Trade Organization as regards the adoption of a decision on the review of the Understanding on Tariff Rate Quota Administration Provisions of Agricultural Products

The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the General Council of the World Trade Organization at any meeting to be held by 31 March 2022, or thereafter if a further extension is agreed, shall be to support a consensus-based outcome with a view to adopting a decision concluding the review of the operation of the Decision of the WTO Ministerial Conference of 7 December 2013 on the Understanding of Tariff Rate Quota Administration Provisions of Agricultural Products, as defined in Article 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture (WT/MIN(13)/39), and rendering paragraphs 13 to 15 of that Decision, along with Annex B to that Decision, non-operational, as set out in the draft decision set out in the annex to the report contained in document G/AG/32, which is attached to this Decision.

Minor changes to the draft decision set out in the annex to the report contained in document G/AG/32 may be agreed to by the representatives of the Union in the General Council of the WTO without a further decision of the Council.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.