Scrutiny of international agreements; treaties considered on 5 February 2019 Contents
Summary
On 14 January 2019 the Procedure Committee decided that, for the remainder of the current session of Parliament, the European Union Committee should scrutinise and report on all Brexit-related treaties, or international agreements, laid before Parliament in accordance with section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010. Chapter 1 of this report describes how the EU Committee will approach this task, including the criteria against which it will report on agreements.
On 5 February the Committee scrutinised three such international agreements:
- Protocol (2015) amending the annex to the Agreement on trade in civil aircraft [CP 9]
- Amendment of the TRIPS Agreement [CP 10]
- Protocol amending the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization [CP 11]
The Committee has reported all three agreements for information.