Missions
A committee can decide to organise missions to a member state, a country outside of the EU or to international conferences. Missions are undertaken in the exercise of the powers conferred on the committee and are composed of a limited numbers of members of the committee. Committees may also send, for no more than three days, a three-member delegation to agencies for which they are principally responsible. On this page you will find all the available information relating to specific missions.
From 19 to 21 June, MEPs will travel to Indonesia to discuss political and trade relations as well as regional integration.
From 14 to 20 May, MEPs will travel to Brazil and Uruguay to discuss trade and investment relations as well as regional integration.
A delegation of seven Members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) and the Chair of the Delegation for relations with South Africa travelled to Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town between 3 and 7 April 2023.
The six-member delegation led by INTA committee chair Bernd Lange (S&D, DE) traveled to Chisinau. The aim of the delegation was to meet with Ministers, parliamentarians as well as civil society and private sector representatives.
A delegation of 7 Members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) travelled to Taipei from 19 to 21 December. The aim of the mission was to discuss about trade and investment relations. The Delegation had meetings with representatives of the Government, the Legislative Yuan, civil society and private sector representatives.
On November 29th, a delegation of Members of the European Parliament visited the largest seaport in Europe: the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Members saw first-hand an important energy port for green hydrogen and discussed with Customs concrete implications of the Forced Labour Product Ban that the Parliament is currently working on.
From 1-3 November, a five-member delegation led by INTA committee chair Bernd Lange (S&D, DE) travelled to Nairobi, Kenya. The aim of the delegation was to meet with newly elected Ministers, parliamentarians as well as civil society and private sector representatives. The discussions focused mainly on EU-Kenya trade relations and the ongoing negotiation process on the EU-Kenya interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that also includes a trade and sustainability chapter.
A delegation of seven Members travelled to Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 13-14 October. Members held meetings with the civil society, the Northern Ireland Business Brexit Working Group Members, Stormont Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey and political party representatives. They also met EU officials in Northern Ireland as well as students.
A delegation from the European Parliament, drawn from the International Trade Committee, participated in this year's Public Forum of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Between 18 and 20 July, a delegation of the International Trade Committee visited Bangladesh to discuss the country's status as a beneficiary of the EU’s Everything but Arms trade preference scheme through which all Bangladeshi exports (except arms and ammunition) can enter the EU duty- and quota-free.
A delegation of 8 Members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) travelled to Geneva from 12 to 15 June for the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). They held a series of bilateral meetings with ministers, pressing them to reach an agreement on issues such as unsustainable fisheries subsidies, agriculture, e-commerce and a possible waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
An ad hoc delegation of eight Members traveled to Santiago de Chile from 23 to 25 May 2022 to discuss the progress of the modernisation of the trade part of the existing 2002 EU-Chile Association Agreement and other bilateral trade matters.