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

Tabled by Francesco Torselli

Added: Article 9a Automatic safeguard measures 1. Without prejudice to Article 3(2), when imports of a product referred to in Article 2(7) from one single MERCOSUR Country exceed 5% of the reference value for that product, calculated based on the average imports from that Country in the three years before the application of the Agreement, the tariff preferences provided for in the Agreement shall be temporarily suspended. 2. Those automatic safeguard measures shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(4) without delay and in any event within a maximum of 21 days from the verification of the conditions set out in paragraph 1 of this article. 3. Without prejudice to Article 3(2) and paragraph 1 of this Article, if during the first three month of the calendar year imports under quotas of a given product referred to in Article 2(7) from one single MERCOSUR Country exceed 50 % of the annual quota set by the Agreement, the tariff preferences provided for in the Agreement shall be temporarily suspended. 4. The duration of the suspension shall be decided in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(4). The suspension shall be limited to the time needed to stabilize the market. 5. Automatic safeguard measures shall apply to every product which is put into free circulation after the date of entry into force of those measures.

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE779.036