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:
The treaties regulate trade in the Internal Market of the Union. What we are speaking about at present is external trade. For instance, the reference to public policy on the freedom to provide services, which is regulated by the treaty, is a freedom to provide services within the Internal Market of the European Union.