Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025
2:00 am
Mr. Declan Smyth:
No. It is quite clear that the relevant legal provision is in Article 2 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Where the European Union has exclusive competence in a given field, it is not open to a member state to adopt legislation, unless it is empowered by a Union legal Act to do so.
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