Transparency in EU trade negotiations

On this page you will find links to the EU’s negotiating text proposals and the latest reports published since October 2015 related to the negotiation and implementation of the EU’s trade agreements. You will also find links to impact assessments and sustainability impact assessments of the agreements.

The page links to details of meetings attended by Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, as well as those attended by members of his cabinet, and meetings attended by DG Trade Director-General Sabine Weyand.

It also provides details of DG Trade’s outreach to civil society organisations.   

• 2023 transparency statistics of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Trade
• Factsheet on the transparency policy in EU Trade

Ongoing negotiations and agreements being negotiated or ratified

EU negotiating text proposals, the latest round reports, and other information related to the EU’s ongoing trade negotiations and trade agreements being adopted or ratified.

Australia

• Negotiation round reports – Textual proposals – Negotiating mandate
• More on the EU-Australia Trade Agreement

Chile

• Text of the agreement – Negotiation round reports – Textual proposals – Negotiating mandate
• More on the EU-Chile Advanced Framework Agreement

China 

• Negotiation round reports on the EU-China Investment Agreement
• More on the EU-China Investment Agreement

E-commerce negotiations in the WTO

•  EU proposal – Council decision and annex

Eastern and Southern Africa

• Negotiation round reports – EU textual proposals

Energy Charter Treaty modernisation

•  Mandate and annex

Indonesia

• Negotiation round reports – Textual proposals – Cross-border data flows and protection of personal data and privacy – Factsheet
• More on the EU-Indonesia Trade Agreement

Japan 

• Negotiation round reports on data flows and privacy
• More on the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

Mercosur

• Text of the agreement – Negotiation round reports – Textual proposals
• More on the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

 Mexico

• Agreement in Principle and its texts – Negotiation round reports
• More on the EU-Mexico Trade Agreement

Multilateral Investment Court 

• Negotiating mandate

Myanmar

• Negotiation round reports

Philippines

• Negotiation round reports – EU textual proposals
• More on the EU-Philippines Trade Agreement

Tunisia

• Negotiation round reports – Textual proposals

United States

• Mandate on elimination of tariffs for industrial goods – Mandate on conformity assessment

WTO Committee on Agriculture

• Proposal on domestic support, public stockholding for food security purposes and cotton from Brazil, EU, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay

Implementation – Committees and Dialogues

The EU and its trading partners meet regularly to discuss issues and best practices when applying the agreement. The committees meet regularly; the meeting documents can be found here:

Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Belarus,  Canada, Central America, Colombia - Ecuador - Peru, Economic Partnership Agreements, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, New Zealand, Palestine, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

Domestic advisory groups and civil society fora

Impact Assessments and Sustainability Impact Assessments

Impact Assessments and Sustainability Impact Assessments are carried out in support of negotiations.

• Impact Assessments
• Sustainability Impact Assessments

Meetings with organisations and self-employed individuals held by:

• Meetings with Commissioner Šefčovič 
• Meetings with Commissioner Šefčovič's Cabinet
• EU Trade Director-General Sabine Weyand

Public consultations on EU trade policy

To ensure that trade-related EU policies and laws are prepared, implemented and reviewed in an open and transparent manner, stakeholders may express their views in open public consultations.

Consultations