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DG Trade Civil Society Dialogue meetings and Expert Groups

The DG Trade Civil Society Dialogue (CSD) is an important instrument for the exchange of views on trade policy between DG Trade officials and a wide range of stakeholders’representatives. Within the framework ofthe CSD, ASSUC's Secretariat took part in several meetingsorganised on issuessuch as the reformedGSP, agriculture trade and EU FTAs. The Market Access AdvisoryCommittee (MAAC) is organisedby DG Trade to discuss with stakeholders and Member States specific market access issues in third countries in order to find joint approaches to address these. ASSUC has, since 2021, also participated in the Trade Contact Group of DG TAXUD, dealing with technical customs issues such as special customs procedures (inward processing relief),andbroader customsregulatory issues.

- Meeting with Sabine Weyand on trade policy (including WTO 12th Ministerial Conference update) – 25 January 2022

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- Update on trade relations with ASEAN – 14 February 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on the ex-post evaluation of the implementation of the trade pillar of the EU-Central America Association Agreement - interim report – 15 February 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on the New GSP Regulation – 8 March 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on Comparative Analysis of Trade and Sustainable Development Provisions in Free Trade Agreements – 10 March 2022

- TRADE Civil Society Dialogue meeting in preparation of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference – 17 May 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on ex-post evaluation of implementation of trade pillar of EU-Central America Association Agreement - draft final report – 25 May 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on effectively prohibiting the placing on the EU market of products made by forced labour – 9 June 2022

- Debrief on the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference – 20 June 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue meeting on India – 13 July 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue meeting on the Trade and Sustainable Development Review – 15 July 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on the next GSP report – 6 September 2022

- Update on trade negotiations with Australia – 10 November 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on EU-Latin America trade relations –15 December 2022

- Civil Society Dialogue on the Trade SIA in support of negotiations with India and state-of-play of EU-India bilateral negotiations – 21 March 2023

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