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POLICY & REGULATION · 8 min read The EU Asked India and Sri Lanka for the Same Climate Promise. Only One of Them Can Lose Its Tariffs Over It Both Article 16.6 of the EU-India Free Trade Agreement and the EU’s new GSP regulation stipulate that the Paris Agreement must be implemented. In India’s case, … Read more
The EU puts Sri Lanka’s 2024 GSP+ utilisation at a record 69%, not 49%. The shortfall is apparel’s, at 57% — and a second clock started on 1 July.
Brandix’s FY2024/25 community programme reached 400,815 people across 321 Provide projects, and published a resolution rate its peers do not.
The Public Utilities Commission reset renewable feed-in tariffs on 21 August. The decision defines a four-hour prioritised window, caps storage exports at 123 kWh per kW, and makes grid clearance the eligibility gate. None of the three is in the coverage.
Suwamaga screened 23,000+ across 25 districts. Its impact report says 3% were newly diagnosed with diabetes. The annual report does not carry that number.
Every reservoir percentage in circulation this month describes the Irrigation Department’s 74 major tanks. The number that governs electricity is published separately, and on 24 August it was roughly thirty points higher. With three questions risk managers are asking, answered.
EU law makes permeable tea bags compostable from 12 February 2028. What Article 9 asks of Sri Lankan tea exporters, and five exporter questions answered.
The EU’s GSP+ assessment grades Sri Lanka treaty by treaty. Four reporting deadlines fall before January 2027, when environment breaches can cost tariffs.
From 27 September 2026 the EU bans four green claims outright. One bans uncertified labels – and Sri Lanka already has a certified scheme running.
The EU’s new GSP Regulation applies from 1 January 2027. It replaces the Kyoto Protocol with the Paris Agreement among the conventions GSP+ depends on, and makes every beneficiary reapply by end-2028 — putting a climate pledge inside a Sri Lankan trade file worth about EUR 1.5 billion a year.