Question 14190 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Hervé Saulignac draws the attention of the Minister of Economy and Finance to the decision of July 2018 to suspend the application of the opinion of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of November 24, 2016, imposing on economic operators specific labeling for food products from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the mention “Israeli settlement” on the label. This review follows the interpretative communication from the European Union of November 11, 2015, which itself responded to the explicit request of a dozen member countries to implement the policy of “differentiation” between Israel and the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. This opinion was the subject of an appeal by an Israeli producer established in a colony and an organization supporting the policy of colonization of the Israeli government before the Council of State. At the end of May 2018, he submitted a preliminary question to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Using this preliminary question as a pretext, although not suspensive, the DGCCRF decided to suspend any sanctions against the offenders, effectively freezing the application of the notice for many months. This, even though non-compliance with regulations on the origin is indisputable particularly with regard to imported wines, mainly from the occupied Golan and increasingly from the West Bank and the Ahava range of products, manufactured in the colony of Mitzpe Shalem in occupied Palestinian territory. Also, he asks him if the Government intends to maintain the opinion of November 26, 2016 in favor of specific labeling of products from the occupied territories of Palestine.

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