origin certificate

(IT) Mr President, during the first reading in committee, a completely different text - one including the product origin certificate - was approved.

A number of Member States have queried Israeli origin certificates over recent months, and replies are now being received by Member States' customs authorities.

Could the necessary controls be carried out more effectively, even if we still have no country of origin certificate, but the VAT is levied in the other countries?

It is not clear why the Council and the Commission gave up on this point: we do not intend to give up, and so we are voting against the report precisely because the origin certificate has been omitted.