Committee responsible for matters relating to the establishment, implementation and monitoring of the Union’s common commercial policy and its external economic relations, in particular:

1.   financial, economic and trade relations with third countries and regional organisations;

2.   the common external tariff and trade facilitation as well as the external aspects of customs provisions and management;

3.   the opening, monitoring, conclusion and follow-up of bilateral, multilateral and plurilateral trade agreements governing economic, trade and investment relations with third countries and regional organisations;

4.   measures of technical harmonisation or standardisation in fields covered by instruments of international law;

5.   relations with the relevant international organisations and international fora on trade-related matters, and with organisations promoting regional economic and commercial integration outside the Union;

6.   relations with the WTO, including its parliamentary dimension.

The committee liaises with the relevant interparliamentary and ad hoc delegations for the economic and trade aspects of relations with third countries.