Highlights - Ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agricultural matters - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

On 3 March Members discussed the 76 amendments tabled to the draft report on Mutual assistance to ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agricultural matters. In particular the Rapporteur has proposed to strengthen the security of the internal market and the products circulating within it, while at the same time providing consumers with a high level of protection. To do so, the Rapporteur has proposed concretely that the Commission be granted the prerogative of directly contacting economic agents, subject to prior notification of the national authorities, who are given two weeks within which to answer. He also seeks to prevent infringers from taking advantage of the rules specific to each Member State concerning the barring of legal action. Vote in Committee: 18 March 2014.