Generalised scheme of tariff preferences

22.4.2026 A9-0147/128

Amendment 128

Gabriel Mato, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Esther Herranz García, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Javier Zarzalejos, Susana Solís Pérez, Borja Giménez Larraz, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Dolors Montserrat, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Elena Nevado del Campo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Alma Ezcurra Almansa, Francisco José Millán Mon, Esteban González Pons, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Paulo Cunha, Lídia Pereira, Hélder Sousa Silva, Sérgio Humberto, Sebastião Bugalho, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Ana Miguel Pedro, Giusi Princi, Massimiliano Salini, Salvatore De Meo, Caterina Chinnici, Flavio Tosi, Letizia Moratti, Marco Falcone, Herbert Dorfmann, Fulvio Martusciello, Emmanouil Kefalogiannis

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 specific challenges faced by the Union rice producers, it is appropriate to introduce a predictable mechanism leading to the automatic application of a tariff-rate quota mechanism. The automatic mechanism should protect the viability of the Union's rice sector whilst guaranteeing significant benefits for Least Developed Countries under the GSP Regulation. This targeted mechanism for rice complements the other safeguard instruments provided for in this Regulation which remain equally available to the sector. The mechanism addresses situations of exceptional pressure on the market 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 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 revised every year, for application as from the following year.

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22.4.2026 A9-0147/129

Amendment 129

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

1. When imports of products falling under Combined Nomenclature codes 1006 10, 1006 20, and 1006 30 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 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. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to beneficiary countries with a share for products falling under Combined Nomenclature codes 1006 10, 1006 20, and 1006 30, considered cumulatively, not exceeding 6 % of total Union imports.

3. 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.

4. 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 each beneficiary country 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 during the ten preceding calendar years, based on the most recent available data.

5. The report on the application of this Regulation provided for in Article 40, second paragraph, shall include an assessment of the need for and the functioning of the present mechanism.

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