(...) EU-Turkey trade is "at an advanced level", but to improve trade relations further, customs union mechanisms need to be made fully functional, bureaucracy simplified, and remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers removed, said the International Trade Committee on Wednesday.
MEPs also called on the Turkey to implement the additional protocol to the EC-Turkey Association Agreement in full, as failure to do so could seriously hamper accession negotiations with the EU.
The committee called on both the EU and Turkey to pay due attention to their interlinked economies and "to maintain open trade and investments regimes" in a non-legislative report drafted by Metin Kazak (ALDE, BG) and approved on Wednesday with 23 votes in favour and 2 against. (...)
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