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

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 18Rejected

   Recital 2

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   (2) The EMPA and the ITA Removed: aim to protect Union producers of Added: will undermine Union producers who manufacture sensitive commodities in the Removed: agriculture sector by limiting preferences to tariff rate quotas. Added: agricultural sector . The safeguards are reactive in nature, being designed to trigger only after a collapse in prices has already taken place, thereby failing to provide genuine protection to EU farmers and rural communities;

2. Amendment 19Rejected

   Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point ii a (new)

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   Added: (ii a) clear indications of a deterioration in the economic situation of the industry, across the Union or at Member State level, including an increase in volume of more than 5 % year-on-year compared to the three-year average of the imports under preferential terms of a given product or sustained decreases in domestic prices, may be sufficient to demonstrate serious injury to the sector and to warrant a safeguard;

3. Amendment 20Rejected

   Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point iii a (new)

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   Added: (iii a) trade unions representing workers producing the same or a directly competitive product in the importing party;

4. Amendment 21Adopted

   Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   … means a significant overall impairment to the position of the Union industry; Added: an increase in volume of more than 5 % year-on-year compared to the three-year average of the imports under preferential terms of a given product, or a decrease of more than 5 % year-on-year in the average import price of a given product, shall be considered as prima facie evidence of serious injury;

5. Amendment 22Rejected

   Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   Removed: 10. ‘transition period’ means: (i) 12 years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement; or (ii) for goods for which the Tariff Elimination Schedule of the Union provides for tariff elimination in 10 years or more, 18 years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement; Added: deleted

6. Amendment 23Rejected

   Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   … in accordance with this Regulation where a product originating in a country Removed: concerned Added: concerned, which complies with EU environmental, animal welfare, food-safety and labour requirements, is imported into the Union:

7. Amendment 24Rejected

   Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   Removed: (c) the increase of imports is the result of the effect of obligations incurred under the Agreement, including of the reduction or the elimination of the customs duties on that product. Added: deleted

8. Amendment 25Rejected

   Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   Added: 1 a. For point (b), “under such conditions” shall be understood as conditions under which the production in the exporting country takes place are at least equivalent to those in the EU in terms of the protection of human, animal, plant life or health, and the protection of exhaustible natural resources. For greater certainty, the use of chemical substances banned in the EU may be a reason to impose a safeguard measure.

9. Amendment 26Rejected

   Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

   Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

   Added: (c a) a suspension of imports of the product concerned.

10. Amendment 27Rejected

    Article 3 a (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    Added: Article3a A safeguard measure may be imposed: (a) if the EMPA or ITA is used to challenge the EU precautionary principle; or (b) in case of persistent substantial differences in the standards pertaining to the protection of human, animal, plant life or health, and the protection of exhaustible natural resources; or (c) if there are factual and reasonable indications that the product is related to illegal deforestation.

11. Amendment 28Rejected

    Article 5 – paragraph 1

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    … the request of a Member State, of any natural or legal person Removed: that is Added: acting on behalf of the Union industry, of any association not having legal personality acting on behalf of the Union industry, or of Removed: any association not having legal personality that is acting on behalf Added: a trade union representing workers of the Union industry, where there is sufficient prima facie evidence of …

12. Amendment 29Rejected

    Article 5 – paragraph 1

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    … be initiated by the Commission at the request of a Member State, Added: the European Parliament, of any natural or legal person that is acting on behalf of …

13. Amendment 30Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 2

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    … there is a surge of imports or a decrease in domestic prices Added: or a fall in market share, in relation to the Union industry concentrated in one or several Member States, or where there is a surge of imports or a decrease in the price of a product Added: or a fall in market share, in relation to the Union industry, and the Union producers of like or directly competitive products are predominantly …

14. Amendment 33Rejected

    Article 7 – paragraph 5

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    … and losses, and employment. This list is not exhaustive, and the Commission Removed: may Added: shall also take other relevant factors into consideration for its determination of the existence … serious injury or threat of serious injury, such as stocks, prices, return Removed: of Added: on capital employed, cash flow, the level of market shares, Added: environmental or public health impacts, including risks arising from the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in exporting countries, the use of chemical substances banned in the Union, compliance of Mercosur economic operators with Union due diligence and deforestation legislation, and other factors which are causing or may have caused serious injury, …

15. Amendment 35Rejected

    Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    Removed: (c) the increase of imports is the result of the reduction or the elimination of the customs duties on that product. Added: deleted

16. Amendment 37Rejected

    Article 11 – paragraph 3

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    Removed: 3. The Commission shall not apply, extend or maintain in force a bilateral safeguard measure beyond the expiration of the transition period. Added: deleted

17. Amendment 38Rejected

    Article 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Lynn Boylan, Luke Ming Flanagan +4 · The Left

    Added: Article12a Reciprocity of Standards Clause and Health and SPS Clause 1. The Commission shall initiate an investigation and adopt safeguard measures under this Regulation where there is credible evidence that imports benefiting from tariff preferences do not meet equivalent environmental, climate, animal welfare, health, food and feed safety, or labour protection requirements applicable to Union producers. 2. In the event of a documented risk to human, animal, or plant health, including the use of production methods prohibited in the Union or failure to comply with sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, the Commission shall immediately suspend imports of the product benefiting from tariff preferences, in accordance with Article 9. 3. Measures adopted under this Article shall be necessary and proportionate and shall be subject to review in accordance with Article 12.

18. Amendment 39Rejected

    Recital 4

    Tabled by Christophe Bay, Thierry Mariani, Isabella Tovaglieri +2 · PfE

    … market access is constrained by the limits contained in tariff rate quotas. Added: Nevertheless, while the bilateral safeguard may address quantitative imbalances arising from the Agreement, there is no safeguard ensuring that imports from Mercosur countries comply with the Union production rules, notably on food safety, animal welfare, social and environmental standards. Notes that the absence of genuine mirror clauses may negatively affect the competitiveness of Union farmers and the health of Union citizens.

19. Amendment 42Rejected

    Article 4 – paragraph 3 b (new)

    Tabled by Enikő Győri, Christophe Bay, Thierry Mariani +3 · PfE

    Added: 3 b. Where an increase in imports causes or threatens to cause serious injury or the risk thereof to a sector in one or more Member States, the Commission may initiate the application of a safeguard measure on the products concerned, even if the 5 % increase threshold is not met at Union level, provided that clear evidence demonstrates significant adverse effects at Member State or regional market level.

20. Amendment 45Rejected

    Article 9 a (new)

    Tabled by Isabella Tovaglieri, Christophe Bay, Thierry Mariani +2 · PfE

    Added: Article9a Automatic safeguard measure 1. The Commission shall suspend, without undue delay, the tariff preferences provided for by the Agreement if one of the following conditions applies: (a) imports of a product from a Mercosur country exceed 5 % of the reference value for that product, calculated on the basis of the average imports from that country in the three years preceding the application of the Agreement; or (b) imports under the quota for a given product from a Mercosur country exceed 50 % of the annual quota established by the Agrement. 2. This automatic safeguard shall be adopted no later than 21 days after the verification of one of the conditions set out in paragraph 1.

21. Amendment 50Rejected

    Article 12 – paragraph 7

    Tabled by Christophe Bay, Thierry Mariani, Isabella Tovaglieri +3 · PfE

    Removed: 7. The total duration of a safeguard measure shall not exceed four years, including the period of application of any provisional safeguard measure, the initial period of application and any extension thereof. Added: deleted

22. Amendment 51Rejected

    Article 14 – paragraph 3 a (new)

    Tabled by Christophe Bay, Thierry Mariani, Isabella Tovaglieri +2 · PfE

    Added: 3 a. If the report demonstrates that the provisional and definitive safeguard measures have been triggered more than once for the same product, thereby confirming repeated threats posed by Mercosur imports to Union farmers, the Commission should engage with the Mercosur countries with a view to permanently excluding the product concerned from the trade liberalisation commitments offered under the ITA and EMPA.

23. Amendment 52Rejected

    Recital 2

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    (2) The EMPA and the ITA Removed: aim to Added: fail to adequately protect Union producers of sensitive commodities in the agriculture sector Removed: by limiting preferences to tariff rate quotas. Added: despite the use of tariff rate quotas and they should therefore be renegotiated.

24. Amendment 57Rejected

    Article 4 – paragraph 1

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    1. The Commission shall Removed: regularly Added: constantly and proactively monitor the Union market of sensitive products, in particular as regards import and export trends, production and price Removed: developments. Added: developments as well as compliance with applicable Union sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, with the support of the Union market observatories established by Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. For that purpose, the Commission shall cooperate and exchange data with Member Removed: States Added: States, the European Parliament and the Union industry on a regular basis. Added: In its monitoring the Commission shall look at the cumulative effect of its preferential trade agreements in force.

25. Amendment 58Rejected

    Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    Added: 2 a. As set out in the SPS Chapter of the Agreement, the Commission will carry out verifications, including audits, of the official control system of Mercosur States. The Commission will adapt the nature and frequency of verifications, including audits, to the inherent characteristics of the product concerned, the track record of past import checks and other available information. The inspections referred to in paragraph 1 shall include checks on: (a) the use of substances, treatments or production methods that are prohibited or strictly limited in the Union, including pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormones; (b) the compliance with relevant due diligence legislation; (c) the functioning of traceability mechanisms for products intended for export to the Union, including the verification of critical points in the supply chain where gaps or irregularities may occur. The Commission shall ensure that inspections allow for the full traceability of agri-food products exported to the Union, from production to the point of export, and shall take the necessary measures to remedy any traceability deficiencies identified during the checks. The Commission shall ensure that adequate and sufficient testing capacity is available to carry out the checks conducted by national customs authorities and the inspections referred to in this paragraph.

26. Amendment 60Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 3

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    … the absence of contrary indications, an increase in volume of more than Removed: 10% year-on-year, Added: 5 % compared to the three-year average, as a rule, of the imports under preferential terms of a given … evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union Removed: industry, if, at the same time, the average import price for those imports from a country concerned is at least 10%, as a rule, below the relevant average domestic price of like or directly competitive products during the same period, based on available data. Added: industry.

27. Amendment 61Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 4

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    … treat, in the absence of contrary indications, a decrease of more than Removed: 10% year-on-year, Added: 5% compared to the three-year average, as a rule, in the average import price of a given product … evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union Removed: industry, if at the same time the average import price for that product from a country concerned is at least 10%, as a rule, below the relevant average domestic price of like or directly competitive products during the same period, based on available data. Added: industry.

28. Amendment 62Rejected

    Article 7 – paragraph 5

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    … prices, return of capital employed, cash flow, the level of market shares, Added: environmental or public health impacts including risks arising from the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in exporting countries, potential public-health threats linked to antimicrobial-resistant bacteria entering the Union via animal-derived products, and resulting structural competitive disadvantages for Union producers, the use of chemical substances banned in the Union, compliance of Mercosur economic operators with Union due diligence and deforestation legislations and other factors which are causing or may have caused serious injury, …

29. Amendment 64Adopted

    Article 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    Added: Article12a Environment, Health and SPS clause 1. The Commission shall initiate an investigation and adopt safeguard measures under this Regulation where there is credible evidence that imports benefiting from tariff preferences do not meet equivalent environmental, animal welfare, health, food safety, or labor protection requirements applicable to Union producers. 2. In the event of a documented risk to human, animal, or plant health, including the use of production methods prohibited in the Union or failure to comply with sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, the Commission may immediately suspend imports of the product benefiting from tariff preferences, in accordance with Article 9(3). Measures adopted under this Article shall be necessary and proportionate and shall be subject to review in accordance with Article 12.

30. Amendment 66Rejected

    Article 14 – paragraph 3

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    … of trade with each country for which the safeguard measure is in Removed: place. Added: place and shall include a summary of the cumulative impact of preferential trade agreements on sensitive products.

31. Amendment 67Rejected

    Article 14 – paragraph 5 a (new)

    Tabled by Saskia Bricmont · Verts/ALE

    Added: 5 a. No later than two years after the date of entry into force of the Agreement and regularly thereafter, the Commission shall assess, after consulting the Union industry, the opportunity to develop differentiated thresholds tailored to the specific characteristics of the product markets.

32. Amendment 69Rejected

    Recital 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: (2 a) Union farmers are subject to particularly strict requirements in terms of traceability, food safety, animal welfare, and environmental sustainability, while agricultural products imported from Mercosur are produced to standards that are often lower. This regulatory asymmetry creates unfair competition that could seriously undermine Union argiculture.

33. Amendment 70Rejected

    Article 3 – paragraph 1

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    … increased quantities, in absolute terms or relative to Union production or consumption; Removed: and Added: or (b) under such conditions, as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry; Removed: and Added: or (c) the increase of imports is the result of the effect of … of the reduction or the elimination of the customs duties on that Removed: product. Added: product ; or (d) does not comply with requirements equivalent to those imposed by Union legislation on public health, environmental protection, traceability, or animal welfare, resulting in distortion of competition or downward pressure on European agricultural prices. (c a) does not comply with requirements equivalent to those imposed by Union legislation on public health, environmental protection, traceability, or animal welfare, resulting in distortion of competition or downward pressure on European agricultural prices.

34. Amendment 71Rejected

    Article 19 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: Article19a This Regulation shall not prevent a Member State from maintaining or adopting national measures to protect its agricultural or industrial sectors when they face foreign competition that does not comply with equivalent production, health, or environmental standards.

35. Amendment 74Rejected

    Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)

    Tabled by Francesco Torselli, Waldemar Buda · ECR

    Added: Temporary suspension of tariff preferences for agricultural products 1. The application of tariff preferences and any liberalisation measures provided for in the Agreement shall be temporarily suspended until 30 June 2026 with regard to all agricultural products covered by this Regulation. 2. During the period of suspension, the Commission shall carry out additional, in-depth on-site audits in the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, conducted by the competent Union inspection services, in particular concerning food safety, the use of pesticides, active substances and antibiotics, animal welfare, and sanitary, phytosanitary and veterinary standards. 3. The audits referred to in paragraph 2 shall include an assessment of the compliance of production, control and supervisory practices in the countries listed in paragraph 2 with the objectives of the Union’s Farm to Fork policy, as well as with the following Union legal acts: (a) in relation to the use of pesticides and active substances, including compliance with: Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, Regulation (EU) 2019/1381 on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain, the lists of substances withdrawn, prohibited or not renewed pursuant to implementing acts adopted under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 and the maximum residue levels (MRLs) applicable in the Union pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005; (b) in relation to the use of veterinary medicinal products and the prevention of antimicrobial resistance, including compliance with: Regulation (EU) 2019/6 on veterinary medicinal products and Regulation (EU) 2019/4 on medicated feed, the rules limiting the prophylactic, mass and routine use of antibiotics in animal husbandry; (c) in relation to animal welfare, including compliance with: Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes, sector-specific directives (broiler chickens, pigs, calves), Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport, including temperature and travel-time standards and Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing; (d) in relation to sanitary, phytosanitary and veterinary standards, including compliance with: Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls, the food hygiene package and Regulations (EC) No 178/2002, 852/2004 and 853/2004, on requirements concerning refrigeration systems, frozen-goods transport, traceability and the supply chain; (e) in relation to environmental and climate requirements, in particular concerning the use of chemical substances in accordance with: Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) and Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP), on prohibitions concerning substances of particular concern for health or the environment. The audits shall also assess whether public-control mechanisms and certification systems are in place and capable of ensuring that agricultural products exported to the Union do not contain substances whose use is prohibited or restricted under Union law. 4. The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report on the results of the audits referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 no later than 30 June 2026. 5. Where the Commission fails to submit the report referred to in paragraph 4 by the deadline set in that paragraph, or where that report demonstrates evidence of non-compliance or a risk of non-compliance with Union standards, the suspension of tariff preferences shall be automatically extended for an additional period of six months. Such extension shall continue to apply, in successive six-month periods, until the Commission has established, on the basis of verified and conclusive evidence, full compliance of the production, control and supervisory systems of the countries concerned with all applicable Union standards.

36. Amendment 75Rejected

    Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point i

    Tabled by Francesco Torselli, Waldemar Buda · ECR

    (i) Removed: 12 Added: 15 years from the date of entry into force of the Agreement; or

37. Amendment 76Rejected

    Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

    Tabled by Francesco Torselli · ECR

    Added: (c a) the suspension of the preferential tariff treatment and the application of a prohibitive tariff rate equivalent to the most-favoured-nation bound rate where, on the basis of verifications conducted pursuant to this Regulation, the Commission establishes that a statistically significant number of consignments benefiting from preferential access fail to comply with on-farm production, animal-welfare or environmental standards required to Union producers;

38. Amendment 77Rejected

    Article 9 a (new)

    Tabled by Francesco Torselli · ECR

    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.

39. Amendment 80Rejected

    Article 9 – paragraph 7 a (new)

    Tabled by Georgiana Teodorescu, Patryk Jaki, Adrian-George Axinia +42 · Members

    Added: 7 a. Any supplementation of the support fund for farmers affected by tariff reductions shall not come at the expense of the welcome doubling of the CAP's crisis reserve communicated by the Commission in the National and Regional Partnerships Plans.

40. Amendment 81Adopted

    Recital 2

    Tabled by Raphaël Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Germain, Eric Sargiacomo +42 · Members

    (2) The Removed: EMPA and the ITA aim to protect Union producers of Added: Partnership Agreement and the Interim Trade Agreement will reduce the protections enjoyed by Union producers who manufacture sensitive commodities in the Removed: agriculture sector by limiting preferences to tariff rate quotas. Added: agricultural sector. Bilateral safeguard clauses should therefore be put in place to limit the scope of preferential tariff quotas in the event of injury or threat of injury.

41. Amendment 83Adopted

    Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

    Tabled by Raphaël Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Germain, Eric Sargiacomo +37 · Members

    Added: Clear indications of a deterioration in the economic situation of the industry, across the Union or at Member State level, including an increase in volume of more than 5 % year-on-year compared to the three-year average of the imports under preferential terms of a given product or sustained decreases in domestic prices, may be sufficient to demonstrate serious injury to the sector and to warrant a safeguard.

42. Amendment 84Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)

    Tabled by Raphaël Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Germain, Eric Sargiacomo +30 · Members

    Added: 4 a. The Commission shall treat an increase in volume of the imports under preferential terms of a given product from a country concerned as prima facie evidence of serious injury or the threat of serious injury to Union industry, if, at the same time, the average import price of those imports is below 120 % of the reference thresholds laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

43. Amendment 85Rejected

    Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point -a

    Tabled by Raphaël Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Germain, Eric Sargiacomo +28 · Members

    Added: (-a) at a price below 120 % of the reference thresholds laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013; or

44. Amendment 86Adopted

    Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

    Tabled by Raphaël Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Germain, Eric Sargiacomo +37 · The Left Members

    Added: Clear indications of a deterioration in the economic situation of the industry, across the Union or at Member State level, including an increase in volume of more than 5 % year-on-year compared to the three-year average of the imports under preferential terms of a given product or sustained decreases in domestic prices, may be sufficient to demonstrate serious injury to the sector and to warrant a safeguard.

45. Amendment 87Adopted

    Article 11 – paragraph 1

    Tabled by Raphaël Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Germain, Eric Sargiacomo +38 · The Left Members

    … that the conditions set out in Article 3(1) are met, the Commission Removed: may Added: shall adopt definitive safeguard measures in accordance with the examination procedure referred to …