Considerations on COM(2023)548 - EU position in the Working Party on Customs Questions affecting Transport as regards the proposal to amend the Terms of Reference of the Working Party

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dossier COM(2023)548 - EU position in the Working Party on Customs Questions affecting Transport as regards the proposal to amend the Terms of ...
document COM(2023)548 EN
date September 28, 2023
 
(1)The terms of reference of the Working Party on Customs Questions affecting transport (‘the WP.30 ToR’) entered into force in October 2017.

(2)Pursuant to its rules of procedures, the Working Party may adopt, by consensus or by vote, a decision on its Terms of Reference or Conventions under its auspices.

(3)The Working Party, during its 164th session on October 2023 or a subsequent session, is to adopt amendments on its Terms of Reference.

(4)It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union's behalf in the Working Party, as the new Terms of Reference of the Working Party will be capable of decisively influencing the content of Union law on customs, transport and border-crossing facilitations.

(5)It is necessary to transform the title of the Working Party to acknowledge its role at global level as well as making it possible that non-United Nation member may attend to meeting in the future.

(6)It is useful to clarify the tasks, the role and the relationship of the Working Party with inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations.

(7)The position to be taken on behalf of the Union in the Working Party should therefore be based on the draft amendments attached to this Decision. This is without prejudice to the possibility for non-substantial minor changes to the draft amendments, to be agreed by the representatives of the Union in the Working Party without further decision of the Council.