Considers, with regard to the protection of the EU’s financial interests, that while not questioning the need to conclude ambitious and wide-ranging trade agreements with the EU’s major trading partners aiming at reducing and eliminating customs tariffs it is necessary to make a careful further assessment of the effects of implementation of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on the Union budget, in terms of the loss of own resources in the form of custom duties (which currently account for 12 % of the Union’s budgetary resources);
ne da bi dvomil v potrebo po sklepanju ambicioznih in obsežnih trgovinskih sporazumov z največjimi trgovskimi partnerji EU, katerih cilj je zmanjšati in odpraviti carinske tarife, v zvezi z zaščito finančnih interesov EU meni, da je treba pozorno preučiti učinke izvajanja sporazumov o prosti trgovini na proračun Unije, in sicer v smislu izgube lastnih sredstev v obliki carinskih dajatev (ki sedaj predstavljajo 12 % proračunskih sredstev Unije);