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Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
Report A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027 · COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD)
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- Amendment list A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027
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- 10 December 2025
- Dossier
- 2025/0322(COD)
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Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
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| (2) The EMPA and the ITA aim to protect Union producers of sensitive commodities in the agriculture sector by limiting preferences to tariff rate quotas. | (2) The EMPA and the ITA will undermine Union producers who manufacture sensitive commodities in the agricultural sector . The safeguards are reactive in nature, being designed to trigger only after a collapse in prices has already taken place, thereby failing to provide genuine protection to EU farmers and rural communities; |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| (ii a) clear indications of a deterioration in the economic situation of the industry, across the Union or at Member State level, including an increase in volume of more than 5 % year-on-year compared to the three-year average of the imports under preferential terms of a given product or sustained decreases in domestic prices, may be sufficient to demonstrate serious injury to the sector and to warrant a safeguard; |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| (iii a) trade unions representing workers producing the same or a directly competitive product in the importing party; |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 5. ‘serious injury’ means a significant overall impairment to the position of the Union industry; | 5. ‘serious injury’ means a significant overall impairment to the position of the Union industry; an increase in volume of more than 5 % year-on-year compared to the three-year average of the imports under preferential terms of a given product, or a decrease of more than 5 % year-on-year in the average import price of a given product, shall be considered as prima facie evidence of serious injury; |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 10. ‘transition period’ means: | deleted |
| (i) 12 years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement; or | |
| (ii) for goods for which the Tariff Elimination Schedule of the Union provides for tariff elimination in 10 years or more, 18 years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement; |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 1. A safeguard measure may be imposed in accordance with this Regulation where a product originating in a country concerned is imported into the Union: | 1. A safeguard measure may be imposed in accordance with this Regulation where a product originating in a country concerned, which complies with EU environmental, animal welfare, food-safety and labour requirements, is imported into the Union: |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| (c) the increase of imports is the result of the effect of obligations incurred under the Agreement, including of the reduction or the elimination of the customs duties on that product. | deleted |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 1 a. For point (b), “under such conditions” shall be understood as conditions under which the production in the exporting country takes place are at least equivalent to those in the EU in terms of the protection of human, animal, plant life or health, and the protection of exhaustible natural resources. For greater certainty, the use of chemical substances banned in the EU may be a reason to impose a safeguard measure. |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| (c a) a suspension of imports of the product concerned. |
Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| Article3a | |
| A safeguard measure may be imposed: | |
| (a) if the EMPA or ITA is used to challenge the EU precautionary principle; or | |
| (b) in case of persistent substantial differences in the standards pertaining to the protection of human, animal, plant life or health, and the protection of exhaustible natural resources; or | |
| (c) if there are factual and reasonable indications that the product is related to illegal deforestation. |
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European Parliament (2025). “A10-0254/18 - Amendement 18 - Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi - au nom du groupe The Left - Rapport A10-0254/2025 - Gabriel Mato - Clause de sauvegarde bilatérale prévue par l’accord de partenariat UE-Mercosur et l’accord intérimaire UE-Mercosur sur le commerce pour les produits agricoles - (COM(2025)0639 - C10-0247/2025 - 2025/0322(COD))”. Text, 10 December 2025. docId A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027, reference A10-0254/2025. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027 (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{A10-0254/18 - Amendement 18 - Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi - au nom du groupe The Left - Rapport A10-0254/2025 - Gabriel Mato - Clause de sauvegarde bilatérale prévue par l’accord de partenariat UE-Mercosur et l’accord intérimaire UE-Mercosur sur le commerce pour les produits agricoles - (COM(2025)0639 - C10-0247/2025 - 2025/0322(COD))}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-12-10},
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url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId A-10-2025-0254-AM-018-027, reference A10-0254/2025. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
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