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:

As I explained to Senator O'Reilly, the legal basis on which that was done was the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It required a unanimous decision of the Council followed by a regulation, which was then adopted by qualified majority voting under Article 207 of the treaty.

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