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ORDINARY LEGISLATIVE procedure
Follow up to the European Parliament legislative resolution of 8 May 2025 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union
1. Rapporteur: Karin KARLSBRO (Renew Europe Group / SE)
2. References: 2025/0056(COD) / A10-0059/2025 / P10_TA(2025)103
3. Date of adoption of the resolution: 8 May 2025
4. Legal basis: Article 207(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
5. Competent Parliamentary Committee: Committee on International Trade (INTA)
6. Commission's position: accepts all amendments and the statement below.
Statement
The European Commission made the following statement before the vote:
“Should the Commission consider that extending the suspension of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union beyond 5 June 2028 is warranted in view of the situation at that point of time, the Commission will endeavour to submit to the European Parliament and the Council any proposal to that effect not later than nine months before the end of application of this Regulation.”
I would like also to clarify two very sperate issues: namely the suspension of the general safeguard regulation or under its other name, the common rules for imports regulation, and the Article 29 consultation process.
Regarding the draft Regulation that is being submitted to the vote now, I would like to clarify that once adopted, it would suspend the application of the basic safeguard regulation to imports of good from Ukraine. While the suspension of the general safeguard regulation is of general nature, currently there is only one safeguard measure for steel products that would be affected by the suspension. Suspending the general safeguard regulation was technically the only way to suspend the application of the steel safeguard measure concerning Ukraine.
Trade in agricultural products is being discussed in a separate framework, namely the Article 29 consultation process with Ukraine.
To conclude, the today’s draft regulation has no implication for the Article 29 process.