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Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/18

Amendment 18

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Recital 2

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(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;

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/19

Amendment 19

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point ii a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(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;

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/20

Amendment 20

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point iii a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(iii a) trade unions representing workers producing the same or a directly competitive product in the importing party;

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/21

Amendment 21

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

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;

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/22

Amendment 22

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

10. ‘transition period’ means:

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(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;

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/23

Amendment 23

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

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:

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/24

Amendment 24

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(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

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/25

Amendment 25

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

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.

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/26

Amendment 26

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(c a) a suspension of imports of the product concerned.

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11.12.2025 A10-0254/27

Amendment 27

Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Anja Hazekamp, Danilo Della Valle, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0254/2025

Gabriel Mato

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

(COM(2025)0639 – C10-0247/2025 – 2025/0322(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

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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