Generalised scheme of tariff preferences

22.4.2026 A9-0147/130

Amendment 130

Carlo Fidanza, Daniele Polato, Nicola Procaccini, Patryk Jaki, Galato Alexandraki, Nicolas Bay, Sergio Berlato, Paolo Borchia, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński, Waldemar Buda, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Stefano Cavedagna, Susanna Ceccardi, Alessandro Ciriani, Anna Maria Cisint, Giovanni Crosetto, Elena Donazzan, Michał Dworczyk, Pietro Fiocchi, Alberico Gambino, Jean-Paul Garraud, Chiara Gemma, Małgorzata Gosiewska, Paolo Inselvini, Nora Junco García, Mariusz Kamiński, Rihards Kols, Ondřej Krutílek, Lara Magoni, Marlena Maląg, Marion Maréchal, Giuseppe Milazzo, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Denis Nesci, Aldo Patriciello, Guillaume Peltier, Michele Picaro, Ruggero Razza, Silvia Sardone, Diego Solier, Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă, Marco Squarta, Raffaele Stancanelli, Dominik Tarczyński, Georgiana Teodorescu, Hermann Tertsch, Francesco Torselli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Laurence Trochu, Ivaylo Valchev, Jessika van Leeuwen, Francesco Ventola, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Veronika Vrecionová, Emmanouil Fragkos

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 one of the following products i.e. undenatured ethyl alcohol (falling under Combined Nomenclature code 2207 10), denatured ethyl alcohol (falling under Combined Nomenclature code 2207 20), rice (falling under Combined Nomenclature codes 1006 10, 1006 20, and 1006 30), and sugar (falling under Combined Nomenclature code 1701) 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 the products specified in paragraph 1 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 the products specified in paragraph 1 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 mentioned above considered cumulatively for each sector, not exceeding 6 % the percentages of total Union imports mentioned.

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.

Or. en

Justification

The automatic safeguard clause should be extended to other sensitive sectors, such as ethanol and sugar. To ensure real effectiveness, the percentage increase applied to the reference quantity should be reduced to 20%, allowing the safeguard to function as a genuine preventive and stabilising tool for the European related sectors.