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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-101-108 · COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD)
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- Amendment list A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108
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- 4 February 2026
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- 2025/0322(COD)
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Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
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| 3. The Commission shall treat, in the absence of contrary indications, an increase in volume of more than 10% year-on-year, as a rule, of the imports under preferential terms of a given product from a country concerned as prima facie evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union industry, if, at the same time, the average import price for those imports from a country concerned is at least 10%, as a rule, below the relevant average domestic price of like or directly competitive products during the same period, based on available data. | 3. The Commission shall treat, in the absence of contrary indications, an increase in volume of more than 10% year-on-year, as a rule, of the imports under preferential terms of a given product from a country concerned as prima facie evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union industry, |
Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 4. The Commission shall treat, in the absence of contrary indications, a decrease of more than 10% year-on-year, as a rule, in the average import price of a given product from a country concerned imported into the Union on preferential terms as prima facie evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union industry, if at the same time the average import price for that product from a country concerned is at least 10%, as a rule, below the relevant average domestic price of like or directly competitive products during the same period, based on available data. | 4. The Commission shall treat, in the absence of contrary indications, a decrease of more than 10% year-on-year, as a rule, in the average import price of a given product from a country concerned imported into the Union on preferential terms as prima facie evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union industry, |
Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 5. The Commission shall evaluate all relevant factors of an objective and quantifiable nature that affect the situation of the Union industry, in particular the rate and amount of the increase in imports of the product concerned in absolute and relative terms, the share of the domestic market taken by the increased imports, and changes regarding the Union industry with respect to the level of sales, production, productivity, capacity utilisation, profits and losses, and employment. This list is not exhaustive, and the Commission may take other relevant factors into consideration for its determination of the existence of serious injury or threat of serious injury, such as stocks, prices, return of capital employed, cash flow, the level of market shares, and other factors which are causing or may have caused serious injury, or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry. | 5. The Commission shall evaluate all relevant factors of an objective and quantifiable nature that affect the situation of the Union industry, in particular the rate and amount of the increase in imports of the product concerned in absolute and relative terms, the share of the domestic market taken by the increased imports, and changes regarding the Union industry with respect to the level of sales, production, productivity, capacity utilisation, profits and losses, and employment. This list is not exhaustive, and the Commission shall also take other relevant factors into consideration for its determination of the existence of serious injury or threat of serious injury, such as stocks, prices, return on capital employed, cash flow, the level of market shares, environmental or public health impacts, including risks arising from the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in exporting countries, the use of chemical substances banned in the Union, compliance of Mercosur economic operators with Union due diligence and deforestation legislation, and other factors which are causing or may have caused serious injury, or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry. |
Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| (b 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, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
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 reduction or the elimination of the customs duties on that product. | deleted |
Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 1. Where an investigation leads to the conclusion that the conditions set out in Article 3(1) are met, the Commission may adopt definitive safeguard measures in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 18(3). | 1. Where an investigation leads to the conclusion that the conditions set out in Article 3(1) are met, the Commission shall adopt definitive safeguard measures in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 18(3). |
Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| 3. The Commission shall not apply, extend or maintain in force a bilateral safeguard measure beyond the expiration of the transition period. | deleted |
Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
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| Article12b | |
| Environment, Health and SPS clause | |
| 1. The Commission shall initiate an investigation and adopt safeguard measures under this Regulation where there is credible evidence that imports benefiting from tariff preferences do not meet equivalent environmental, animal welfare, health, food safety, or labour protection requirements applicable to Union producers. | |
| 2. In the event of a documented risk to human, animal or plant health, including the use of production methods prohibited in the Union or failure to comply with sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, the Commission may immediately suspend imports of the product benefiting from tariff preferences, in accordance with Article 9(3). Measures adopted under this Article shall be necessary and proportionate and shall be subject to review in accordance with Article 12. |
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European Parliament (2026). “A10-0254/101 - Amendement 101 - Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez - 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, 4 February 2026. docId A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108, reference A10-0254/2025. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-a-10-2025-0254-am-101-108,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{A10-0254/101 - Amendement 101 - Manon Aubry, Arash Saeidi, Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Luke Ming Flanagan, Danilo Della Valle, Anja Hazekamp, Rudi Kennes, Catarina Martins, Elena Kountoura, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez - 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 = {2026},
date = {2026-02-04},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId A-10-2025-0254-AM-101-108, reference A10-0254/2025. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
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