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Generalised scheme of tariff preferences
22.4.2026 A9-0147/126
Amendment 126
Isabella Tovaglieri, Thierry Mariani, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Hermann Tertsch, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Enikő Győri, Raffaele Stancanelli, Paolo Borchia
on behalf of the PfE Group
Report A9-0147/2022
Bernd Lange
Generalised scheme of tariff preferences
(COM(2021)0579 – C9-0364/2021 – 2021/0297(COD))
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28 a (new)
Text proposed by the Commission
Amendment
(28 a) In consideration of the growing challenges faced by the Union rice producers, which stem from increasing competitive pressure driven both by the conclusion of trade agreements with countries applying production systems and standards significantly different from those of the Union, and by the environmental rules imposed within the Union—often without delivering concrete global environmental benefits—it is appropriate to introduce a predictable and effective automatic safeguard mechanism. This targeted mechanism for rice complements the other safeguard instruments provided for in this Regulation which remain equally available to the sector. The mechanism provides for the possibility to promptly intervene by re-instating MFN tariffs immediately and limiting preferential imports by means of a tariff-rate quota during the following year as soon as import volumes of specified rice products exceed the set thresholds by over 20 %. The thresholds are determined on a country-by-country basis as the arithmetic mean of annual EU import volumes originating in a beneficiary country’s import volumes during the ten calendar years preceding the year of calculation. For the purposes of legal certainty and predictability, the volumes applicable during the first year of this regulation’s application are calculated taking into account the years from 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2024. After the date of entry into force of this Regulation, the threshold volumes are adjusted every year, for application as from the following year. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the automatic safeguard mechanism and to prevent circumvention practices, including trade diversion and triangulation via third countries benefiting from preferential regimes, it is appropriate to establish a monitoring mechanism of import flows. Such a mechanism should enable the timely detection of abnormal trade patterns and allow the Commission to take appropriate mitigating measures where necessary.
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22.4.2026 A9-0147/127
Amendment 127
Isabella Tovaglieri, Thierry Mariani, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Hermann Tertsch, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Enikő Győri, Raffaele Stancanelli, Paolo Borchia
on behalf of the PfE Group
Report A9-0147/2022
Bernd Lange
Generalised scheme of tariff preferences
(COM(2021)0579 – C9-0364/2021 – 2021/0297(COD))
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 a (new)
Text proposed by the Commission
Amendment
Article29a
Automatic safeguard mechanism for rice
1. When imports of products falling under Combined Nomenclature codes 1006 10, 1006 20, 1006 30 and 1006 40 originating in a beneficiary country exceed, cumulatively and at any point of a calendar year, the yearly import volumes established for each beneficiary country according to the methodology specified in paragraph 4, by at least 20 %, the Commission shall:
(i) suspend, with immediate effect, the tariff preferences referred to in Article 1(2) for imports of those products originating in the beneficiary country concerned for the remainder of the calendar year; and
(ii) introduce, for the duration of the following calendar year, a tariff-rate quota for imports of those products originating in the beneficiary country concerned. The tariff-rate quota shall be equal to the country-specific yearly import volume established for the year in which the suspension referred to in point (i) took effect, according to the methodology specified in paragraph 4. Only imports within the tariff-rate quota shall continue to benefit from the tariff preferences referred to in Article 1(2).
2. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing, in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 39(2), the arrangements for monitoring the import volumes, for suspending the tariff preferences, and for applying the present mechanism. The first of those implementing acts shall apply as from 1 January 2027.
3. The import volumes for each beneficiary country referred to in paragraph 1, applicable for the calendar year 2027, shall be determined by the arithmetic mean of the annual import volumes of the EU originating in of each beneficiary country’s annual import volumes from 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2024. By 31 December 2027 and by 31 December every year thereafter, the Commission shall adopt an implementing act in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 39(2) to specify the import volumes referred to in paragraph 1 and applicable for the following calendar year, on the basis of the arithmetic mean of the annual import volumes of the EU originating in each beneficiary country’s annual import volumes during the ten preceding calendar years, based on the most recent available data.
4. The report on the application of this Regulation provided for in Article 40, second paragraph, shall include an assessment of the functioning of the present mechanism and its effectiveness in protecting Union rice producers from unfair competition.
5. The Commission shall establish a mechanism to monitor import flows of the products concerned with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of the automatic safeguard mechanism and to prevent circumvention practices, including trade diversion and triangulation via third countries. Where the monitoring reveals abnormal trade patterns or indications of circumvention, the Commission shall take appropriate measures without undue delay.
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