The Global Agreement between the European Union entered into force in 1997. Of that agreement, here is the text pertaining to trade in services. Starting in May 2016, negotiations began to modernize this agreement, with the third round occurring in April 2017.
Please consult the following links for more details
— Modernisation of the Global Agreement
—Impact assessment of modernisation
The European Services Industries Priorities for the modernisation of the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement were adopted by ESF on 19 April 2027. The Position analyses the trade relationship between the two parties and provides detailed requests per services sectors about the barriers that the negotiations should aim at reducing or removing. You can find the Position here.
Like for the EU-MERCOSUR agreement last week, ESF Director has been invited to a close-door meeting of the European Parliament INTA Monitoring Group on Mexico on 26th March 2025 for a specific session on trade in services.
The meeting gathered the Rapporteur Borja Giménez Larraz (SP- EPP) and the shadow rapporteurs. In addition of the 7 MEPs, 5 officials of the Commission, around 25 MEPs assistants and staff of the INTA committee. ESF was the only outside organisation invited.
You can find attached the two-pages document used for the event and the statistics that were also circulated to the embers of the Monitoring Group. These two documents were sent to the members of the Monitoring Group, as well as the copy of the ESF position on that FTA dated from 2017 (here).
