Media advisory - Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) of 20 May 2021

Indicative programme

from 08.00
Arrivals (live streaming)

+/- 08.15
Doorstep by Augusto Santos Silva, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Portugal

+/- 09.00
Beginning of the Foreign Affairs Council (Trade)

Adoption of the agenda

Other business: Current legislative proposals (IPI) (+/- 09.00 public session)

Conclusions on the trade policy review

WTO reform and preparations for the next Ministerial Conference

EU-US trade relations

Other business:

a) Steel safeguards
b) EU-Mercosur

Approval of “A” items

Informal exchange with the WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Informal exchange with the United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai

At the end of the meeting (+/- 16.15) press conference in live streaming.

Please note that there will be no physical press conference. EU accredited journalists will be able to ask questions remotely using this link.

Journalists who already registered for previous Trade press conferences do not need to register again.

Deadline: Thursday, 20 May 2021, 15.15

Further instructions will be sent to all registered participants approximately half an hour after the deadline.

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