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DRAFT RECOMMENDATION (COM(2025)0309 – C100000/2026 – 2025/0162(NLE))

On the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of a broad package of agreements to consolidate, deepen and expand the bilateral relations with the Swiss Confederation

AFET-PR-782339

Committee on Foreign Affairs · Rapporteur: Christophe Grudler

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The draft report asks Parliament to give its consent to a broad package of agreements with the Swiss Confederation. The package covers free movement of persons, air transport, road and rail carriage, conformity assessment, agricultural trade and a Common Food Safety Area. It also covers new agreements on electricity, health, Switzerland's regular financial contribution to reducing economic and social disparities, and participation in Union programmes and the EU space programme. It includes a protocol on parliamentary cooperation and a joint declaration on a high-level dialogue on the package and possible further development of bilateral relations.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes that Parliament give its consent to the conclusion of the broad package of agreements with the Swiss Confederation.

Key points

  1. Parliament gives its consent to the conclusion of the broad package of agreements.
  2. The package includes an amending protocol and an institutional protocol to the free movement of persons agreement.
  3. It includes an amending protocol, an institutional protocol and a state aid protocol to the air transport agreement.
  4. It includes an institutional protocol, an amending protocol and a state aid protocol to the agreement on carriage of goods and passengers by rail and road.
  5. It includes an amending protocol and an institutional protocol to the agreement on mutual recognition in relation to conformity assessment.
  6. It includes an amending protocol to the agreement on trade in agricultural products and a protocol establishing a Common Food Safety Area.
  7. It includes new agreements on electricity and on health.
  8. It includes an agreement on Switzerland's regular financial contribution towards reducing economic and social disparities in the European Union.
  9. It includes an agreement on Switzerland's participation in Union programmes and an agreement on its participation in the European Union Agency for the Space Programme.
  10. It includes a protocol on parliamentary cooperation and a joint declaration on a high-level dialogue on the package and possible further development of bilateral relations.

Who is affected

  • Switzerland: the package consolidates, deepens and expands its bilateral relations with the European Union.
  • EU member states and Switzerland: their governments and parliaments are to receive Parliament's position.

Legal basis: Article 217, Article 218(6), second subparagraph, point (a)(i), Article 218(7) and the second subparagraph of Article 218(8) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.