Chapter III, Article 14 · Regulation (EU) 2026/1395

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1.By 1 January 2030, and every three years thereafter, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a report on the status of ratification of the relevant conventions, the compliance of the GSP+ beneficiary countries with any reporting obligations under such relevant conventions and the status of the effective implementation thereof.

2.The report referred to in paragraph 1 shall include:

(a)the conclusions or recommendations of relevant monitoring bodies in respect of each GSP+ beneficiary country; and

(b)the Commission’s, and where appropriate the EEAS’s, conclusions on whether each GSP+ beneficiary country respects its binding undertakings to comply with reporting obligations, to cooperate with relevant monitoring bodies in accordance with the relevant conventions and to ensure the effective implementation thereof, taking into account the implementation of its plan of action.

The report may include any information the Commission considers appropriate from any source.In cases of specific concerns, the report shall indicate recommendations on issues and actions to be prioritised in the next monitoring cycle to improve the effective implementation of the relevant conventions as referred to in the corresponding binding undertakings.

3.In drawing their conclusions concerning effective implementation of the relevant conventions, the Commission, and where appropriate the EEAS, shall assess the conclusions and recommendations of the relevant monitoring bodies, as well as, without prejudice to other sources, information submitted by the European Parliament or the Council as well as third parties, including governments and international organisations, civil society and social partners.

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beneficiary countries
means countries benefitting from any of the preferential arrangements under the GSP;
Common Customs Tariff duties
means the customs duties specified in Part Two of Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, except those duties established as part of tariff quotas;
complaint
means a complaint submitted to the Commission through the Single Entry Point (SEP).
countries
means countries and territories that have a customs administration;
effective implementation
means the integral implementation of the undertakings and obligations undertaken under the relevant conventions, thus ensuring fulfilment of the principles, objectives and rights guaranteed in the relevant conventions in the beneficiary country’s entire territory, including in any areas of that territory that the beneficiary country has designated as a special economic zone or an export processing zone;
enhanced engagement
means a continuous process aiming to facilitate and incentivise beneficiary countries to make progress in the implementation of the conditions set out in this Regulation, or to address shortcomings in respecting the principles of the relevant conventions;
interested parties
includes those parties involved in the production, distribution or sale of the imported products referred to in paragraph 1 and of like products or directly competing products.
least-developed countries
means least-developed countries designated as such by the UN;
like product
means a product which is identical, that is to say alike in all respects, to the product under consideration, or, in the absence of such a product, another product which, although not alike in all respects, has characteristics closely resembling those of the product under consideration.
plan of action
means a list of measures provided by a GSP+ requesting country to effectively implement the relevant conventions;
preferential market access arrangement
means preferential access to the Union market through a trade agreement, either provisionally applied or in force, or through autonomous preferences granted by the Union;
Sensitive/non-sensitive
refers to the products included in the standard GSP (Article 6).
standard GSP beneficiary countries
means countries benefitting from the standard GSP as listed in Annex I and identified as such in column C thereof;

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