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Inta Standing Rapporteurs & Shadows on International INTA STANDING RAPPORTEURS & SHADOWS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE RELATIONS Agreement/Negotiation Standing Rapporteur Shadows Country/region Member Political Group EPP S&D RENEW EUROPE GREENS/EFA ID ECR GUE ACP COUNTRIES Pacific States (1) and CARIFORUM (2): Interim Partnership Hervé JUVIN ID David McALLISTER Miroslav ČÍŽ Morten LØKKEGAARD Anna CAVAZZINI Emmanouil FRAGKOS Luke Ming FLANAGAN Agreement (EPA) SADC (Southern African Development Community) (3) (EPA) Joachim SCHUSTER S&D Elżbieta ŁUKACIJEWSKA Samira RAFAELA Saskia BRICMONT Luisa REGIMENTI Dominik TARCZYNSKI Helmut SCHOLZ EAC (East African Community) (4) (EPA) Massimiliano SALINI EPP Bernd LANGE Nicola DANTI Anna CAVAZZINI Luisa REGIMENTI Dominik TARCZYNSKI Helmut SCHOLZ ESA (Eastern and Southern African States) (5) (EPA) Saskia BRICMONT Greens/EFA Christophe HANSEN Agnes JONGERIUS Nicola DANTI Luisa REGIMENTI Dominik TARCZYNSKI Emmanuel MAUREL Central Africa (6) (EPA) Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE Renew Europe Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK N.N. Saskia BRICMONT Luisa REGIMENTI Dominik TARCZYNSKI Emmanuel MAUREL West Africa (7) (EPA) Kathleen VAN BREMPT (pro tempore) S&D Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK Samira RAFAELA Heidi HAUTALA Luisa REGIMENTI Jan ZAHRADIL Emmanuel MAUREL SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES Maghreb (8) Kathleen VAN BREMPT S&D Andrey KOVATCHEV Jérémy DECERLE Saskia BRICMONT Luisa REGIMENTI Sergio BERLATO Emmanuel MAUREL Tunisia Emmanuel MAUREL GUE Arnaud DANJEAN Kathleen VAN BREMPT Barry ANDREWS Saskia BRICMONT N.N. Sergio BERLATO Mashreq/Middle East (9) Luisa REGIMENTI ID Arnaud DANJEAN Costas MAVRIDES Jérémy DECERLE Saskia BRICMONT Emmanouil FRAGKOS Emmanuel MAUREL Israel/Palestine Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU EPP Kathleen VAN BREMPT Karin KARLSBRO Markéta GREGOROVÁ N.N. Sergio BERLATO N.N. EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD/EU ACCESSION Eastern Partnership (10) Markéta GREGOROVÁ Greens/EFA Sandra KALNIETE Mihai TUDOSE Urmas PAET Maximilian KRAH Witold J. WASZCZYKOWSKI Helmut SCHOLZ Ukraine Eniko GYÖRI EPP Marek BELKA Urmas PAET Markéta GREGOROVÁ Maximilian KRAH Witold J. WASZCZYKOWSKI Helmut SCHOLZ Russia Miroslav ČÍŽ S&D Liudas MAŽYLIS Nicola DANTI Heidi HAUTALA Oscar LANCINI Witold J. WASZCZYKOWSKI Helmut SCHOLZ Switzerland/Norway/Iceland/Liechtenstein Jörgen WARBORN EPP N.N. Urmas PAET Reinhard BÜTIKOFER Marco CAMPOMENOSI Geert BOURGEOIS Emmanuel MAUREL Turkey Andrey KOVATCHEV EPP Nikos ANDROULAKIS Jordi CAÑAS Markéta GREGOROVÁ Maximilian KRAH Emmanouil FRAGKOS N.N. ASIA Central Asia (11) Roman HAIDER ID Liudas MAŽYLIS Javier MORENO Morten LØKKEGAARD Klaus BUCHNER Witold J. WASZCZYKOWSKI Helmut SCHOLZ Inmaculada RODRIGUEZ China/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao (12) Iuliu WINKLER EPP Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE Reinhard BÜTIKOFER Maximilian KRAH Emmanouil FRAGKOS Helmut SCHOLZ PIÑERO Inmaculada RODRIGUEZ Japan Oscar LANCINI ID Massimiliano SALINI Barry ANDREWS Sergio BERLATO Helmut SCHOLZ PIÑERO Reinhard BÜTIKOFER & Klaus BUCHNER ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) (13) Heidi HAUTALA Greens/EFA Sean KELLY Miapetra KUMPULA NATRI Svenja HAHN Oscar LANCINI Jan ZAHRADIL Emmanuel MAUREL Singapore Barry ANDREWS Renew Europe Angelika WINZIG Mihai TUDOSE Reinhard BÜTIKOFER N.N. Jan ZAHRADIL Emmanuel MAUREL South Asia (14) Maximilian KRAH ID Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI Agnes JONGERIUS Svenja HAHN Saskia BRICMONT Dominik TARCZYNSKI Emmanuel MAUREL India Geert BOURGEOIS ECR David McALLISTER Agnes JONGERIUS Svenja HAHN Anna CAVAZZINI N.N. Emmanuel MAUREL Vietnam Geert BOURGEOIS ECR Iuliu WINKLER Bernd LANGE Karin KARLSBRO Saskia BRICMONT Oscar LANCINI Emmanuel MAUREL South Korea Liesje SCHREINEMACHER Renew Europe Angelika WINZIG Joachim SCHUSTER Saskia BRICMONT Marco CAMPOMENOSI Jan ZAHRADIL Helmut SCHOLZ Australia/New Zealand Daniel CASPARY EPP Pedro SILVA PEREIRA Karin KARLSBRO Anna CAVAZZINI & Klaus BUCHNER Oscar LANCINI Jan ZAHRADIL N.N. NORTH AMERICA Anna-Michelle Canada Javier MORENO S&D Samira RAFAELA Saskia BRICMONT N.N. Emmanouil FRAGKOS Helmut SCHOLZ ASIMAKOPOULOU USA Bernd LANGE S&D Danuta HÜBNER Liesje SCHREINEMACHER Reinhart BÜTIKOFER Oscar LANCINI Geert BOURGEOIS Helmut SCHOLZ LATIN AMERICA Andean Community (15) Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU EPP Nikos ANDROULAKIS Jordi CAÑAS Anna CAVAZZINI N.N. Sergio BERLATO Helmut SCHOLZ Central America (16) and Cuba Sven SIMON EPP Miroslav ČÍŽ Dita CHARANZOVÁ Anna CAVAZZINI N.N. Mazaly AGUILAR Helmut SCHOLZ José Manuel GARCIA Chile Samira RAFAELA Renew Europe Nikos ANDROULAKIS Anna CAVAZZINI Markus BUCHHEIT Emmanouil FRAGKOS Helmut SCHOLZ MARGALLO y MARFIL Mercosur (17) Jordi CAÑAS Renew Europe Sven SIMON Kathleen VAN BREMPT Anna CAVAZZINI&Yannick JADOT Marco CAMPOMENOSI Mazaly AGUILAR Helmut SCHOLZ Mexico Inmaculada RODRIGUEZ PIÑERO S&D Eniko GYÖRI Dita CHARANZOVÁ Anna CAVAZZINI N.N. Mazaly AGUILAR Emmanuel MAUREL OTHER, INCLUDING SECTORIAL TRADE INITIATIVES BREXIT Christophe HANSEN EPP N.N. Liesje SCHREINEMACHER Heidi HAUTALA N.N. Geert BOURGEOIS Helmut SCHOLZ FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) Karin KARLSBRO Renew Europe Jörgen WARBORN Miapetra KUMPULA NATRI Heidi HAUTALA N.N. Dominik TARCZYNSKI Helmut SCHOLZ GSP (Generalised Scheme of Preferences) N.N. ECR Sean KELLY N.N. Jordi CAÑAS Anna CAVAZZINI Marco CAMPOMENOSI Emmanouil FRAGKOS Helmut SCHOLZ Inmaculada RODRIGUEZ MIC (Multilateral Investment Court) and investment policy Anna CAVAZZINI Greens/EFA Danuta HÜBNER Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE Maximilian KRAH Geert BOURGEOIS Emmanuel MAUREL PIÑERO WTO rules on e-commerce Kathleen VAN BREMPT (pro tempore) S&D Jörgen WARBORN Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE Markéta GREGOROVÁ Roman HAIDER Geert BOURGEOIS Helmut SCHOLZ Dominik TARCZYNSKI GUE EGA (Environmental Goods Agreement) Helmut SCHOLZ Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI Miapetra KUMPULA NATRI Barry ANDREWS Anna CAVAZZINI N.N. 1/1 CONFIGURATION OF INTA MONITORING GROUPS 1 Pacific States Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 2 CARIFORUM Trinidad and Tobago. SADC (Southern African 3 Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland. Development Community) 4 EAC (East African Community) Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda. ESA (Eastern and Southern African 5 Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe. States) 6 Central Africa Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe. 7 West Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. 8 Maghreb Covering all Maghreb countries except for Tunisia: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco. 9 Mashreq/Middle East Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria. 10 Eastern Partnership Covering all Eastern Partnership countries except for Ukraine: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova. 11 Central Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. People’s Republic of China, the separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsuww, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and 12 China/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. ASEAN (Association of South East Covering all ASEAN countries except for Singapore and Vietnam: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma, Philippines, Thailand. 13 Asian Nations) 14 South Asia Covering South Asian countries except for India:) Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. 15 Andean Community Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. 16 Central America Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. 17 Mercosur Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay (and Venezuela, but not part of negotiations). 1/1.
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