{"id":154063,"date":"2018-02-24T00:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T05:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154063"},"modified":"2018-02-24T00:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T05:38:39","slug":"eu-parliament-tackles-ph-report-on-gsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/24\/eu-parliament-tackles-ph-report-on-gsp\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament tackles PH report on GSP+"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135054\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Philippine-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135054\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Philippine-flag.jpg\" alt=\"The European Union (EU) Parliament has tackled the key issues in the Philippines as part of the monitoring of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+). (Photo by Marlon E\/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Philippine-flag.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Philippine-flag-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The European Union (EU) Parliament has tackled the key issues in the Philippines as part of the monitoring of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+). (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sjsharktank\/4704308381\/in\/photolist-8aGNZc-UWqY1n-6r5gxu-CgEbbA-2i1XAC-6oWXjL-aqoshr-qxe5NV-UuFioX-fQ23jp-3j3Zkk-fQ278g-in3Yo9-iCMiQm-6F3bmH-gUi1Yx-s3xyG8-9VvRUY-Jqbys-5uZe3D-3Z9Ma-7T4Yqg-6tp5UQ-qepuex-9f3rUV-3Z9M3-sj88r9-cpD12h-9zhFyQ-b5WFRK-b1ZYTp-iCM3Qw-in1YYb-8RcZR4-5UdsGK-in2q6M-RRxBWN-iCPr8A-in3EeL-5AuCfo-W7ehMM-9PgyKS-fQiRMw-iCKMic-in3A1p-WhQA91-fzZJmF-iCLDHD-4EfEMf-in4ek5\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sjsharktank\/\">Marlon E\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The European Union (EU) Parliament has tackled the key issues in the Philippines as part of the monitoring of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+).<\/p>\n<p>EU Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen told reporters that the bloc\u2019s legislative body meeting on Feb. 20 \u201cwent well\u201d, wherein the reports of countries benefitting the GSP+ were discussed.<\/p>\n<p>In the working document of the European Commission for the Philippines, it assessed the country\u2019s compliance with the GSP+ obligations, particularly adhering to the 27 international conventions concerning with human rights, labor rights, environmental protection and climate change, and good governance.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Philippines, the EU Parliament assessed other GSP+ beneficiaries such as Armenia, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Paraguay, and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jessen has welcomed the development in the country\u2019s exports to the economic bloc due to the GSP+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn trade front, [I\u2019m] quite happy with the development,\u201d the EU envoy here said.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, the EU upgraded the GSP benefits of the Philippines to GSP+, which already expanded the inclusion of products with zero tariff from 2,442 under the regular GSP to 6,274 goods in the GSP+.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that EU\u2019s share to the country\u2019s total exports increased to 15 percent in 2017 from 12 percent in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine exports to the 28 member states of EU grew 32.8 percent to USD9.26 billion last year from USD6.97 billion in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, GSP+ is helping your exports in a very significant manner,\u201d Jessen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The European Union (EU) Parliament has tackled the key issues in the Philippines as part of the monitoring &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[16740,47180,47179],"class_list":["post-154063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-eu-parliament","tag-gsp","tag-ph-report","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}