The General Scheme of the Bill proposes to use the system currently employed by the European Union for the purposes of ensuring that importers are aware of which locations are not eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Under this system, the postal codes of those areas in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are listed under a technical arrangement concluded between the EU and the Government of Israel concerning implementation of Protocol 4 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
The most recent version of this list was published on 27 October 2025 on the European Commission website concerning taxation and customs – the link to which is set out below:
taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/eu-israel-technical-arrangement_en
The CSO currently does not collect data on the value or categories of goods specifically from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory entering Ireland.
There are also no reliable data at EU or national level on the volume of trade in services with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, as the current method of data collection (based on Eurostat requirements) simply records the value against an overall country code, i.e. Israel.
