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Council Decision (EU) 2025/2468 of 13 November 2025 authorising the opening of negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on a common sanitary and phytosanitary area between the European Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Great Britain and to link the United Kingdom’s and the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions trading systems

Council Decision (EU) 2025/2468 of 13 November 2025 authorising the opening of negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on a common sanitary and phytosanitary area between the European Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Great Britain and to link the United Kingdom’s and the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions trading systems

Decision (EU) 2025/2468 · Decision · 4 articles

Data as of 2026-07-04 · Compiled from an official source version. Later amendments or repeals may not be reflected; the official text prevails. · Read the official text ↗

Article 1

1.   The Commission is hereby authorised to negotiate the following agreements, on behalf of the Union, with the United Kingdom: (a) an agreement on a common sanitary and phytosanitary area between the Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Great Britain; and (b) an agreement to link the United Kingdom’s and the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions trading systems. 2.   The negotiations shall be conducted on the basis of the negotiating directives of the Council set out in the Addendum to this Decision, subject to any directives which the Council may subsequently issue to the Commission.

Article 2

The Commission is hereby nominated as the Union negotiator.

Article 3

The negotiations shall be conducted in consultation with the Working Party on the United Kingdom, acting as a special committee in accordance with Article 218(4) of the Treaty.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Commission.

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