The European Commissionhas welcomed the signing of the amended farming agreement between Morocco and the European Union (EU) as it reinforces the long-standing partnership between Rabat and Brussels.
The farming agreement concluded with Morocco aims to extend preferential tariff treatment to the Sahara region and has been provisionally applied as of 3 of October 2025, ensuring continuity and certainty for traders, the Commission said in a statement on Monday.
The European Commission noted in this regard that discussions on this matter will take place shortly within the Council of the EU and the European Parliament.
The agreement ensures that proofs of origin and labelling of products indicate the region of production (Dakhla and Laayoune), and further ensures that advantages will be granted to the concerned beneficiaries.
The Executive body of the European Union also welcomed a “profound friendship and a solid and multi-faceted cooperation”, built up over the years between Rabat and Brussels, noting that both parties look forward to taking this cooperation to the next level in the coming months, by concluding a Strategic Partnership Agreement.
Several European experts in international trade have welcomed the signing of the agreement as a major milestone in the construction of a solid multi-level strategic partnership between Rabat and Brussels and as a tool providing the stability and certainty needed by commercial operators to strengthen trade and investment between the two parties.
They also underscored that the agreement not only confirms Morocco’s key role as a main economic partner of the EU in Africa and the Arab world, but also strengthens the ties between the two shores of the Mediterranean in a particularly strategic field, namely agriculture and sustainable development.
Besides, the agreement, which enshrines the maintaining of a tariff preference for products from the Kingdom’s southern provinces destined to the European market, is an unparalleled recognition of the Moroccan territory’s economic unity and contributes to the transparency and traceability of products thanks to clear labelling, the experts argued, adding that the amended deal is set to guarantee better protection for European consumers, while promoting economic development in the Kingdom’s different regions.
