Mr. Martin Konený:

There are already some good practices for Ireland to share with other member states. As we mentioned, Ireland has explicitly made clear that bilateral agreements between Ireland and Israel only apply to Israel within its internationally recognised, pre-1967 borders, and that they do not apply to the settlements. A few member states have stated that, but not many. It is important to increase the number of member states which are explicit about this. To give another specific example which is more at the EU level, there is no common advice for European businesses about whether to invest and have other economic links in settlements. A number of member states, including Ireland, have such an advisory on government websites. We counted 18 member states with such an advisory. Those were jointly agreed several years ago. The EU has not published such an advisory. This is a tiny, simple step that could be taken at EU level, but all of this requires demand and requests from member states. It is only then that things will happen.