14.7.2015   

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 230/126


Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down Union procedures in the field of the common commercial policy in order to ensure the exercise of the Union’s rights under international trade rules, in particular those established under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (codification)

COM(2014) 341 final — 2014/0174 (COD)

(2015/C 230/27)

On 15 September 2014 the European Parliament decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee, under Article 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, on the

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down Union procedures in the field of the common commercial policy in order to ensure the exercise of the Union’s rights under international trade rules, in particular those established under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (codification)

COM(2014) 341 final — 2014/0174 (COD).

Since the Committee unreservedly endorses the proposal and feels that it requires no comment on its part, it decided, at its 503rd plenary session of 10 and 11 December 2014 (meeting of 10 December), by 150 votes to 3 with 1 abstention, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text.

Brussels, 10 December 2014.

The President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Henri MALOSSE