A10-0182/2026 – Javi López, Borja Giménez Larraz – § 38 – Am 26

Tabled by Manon Aubry, Pernando Barrena Arza, Danilo Della Valle, Lynn Boylan, Younous Omarjee, Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith, Leila Chaibi, Arash Saeidi, Rima Hassan, Damien Carême, Emma Fourreau, Irene Montero, Rudi Kennes

… expanding market and a strategic partner in the supply of critical raw Removed: materials, offering the EU opportunities to enhance its resilience and deepen transatlantic ties; Added: materials; notes Mexico’s vital role as a producer of critical raw materials, particularly … imports, which is critical for the steel, iron and refrigeration supply chains; Removed: supports the Agreement’s aim of ensuring a more secure and diversified supply of critical raw materials essential for the EU’s green and digital transition through improved market access and provisions on non-discrimination, Added: expresses concern that the Agreement reflects an EU approach focused on securing access to raw materials without a strategy to reduce overall resource consumption; warns that the EU’s continued and unsustainable pursuit of external raw material supplies risks perpetuating patterns of neo-extractivism and reinforcing the EU’s structural dependency on imported raw materials and goods, rather than addressing underlying demand; stresses that provisions such as the prohibition of Removed: import and export monopolies and Removed: a Added: the ban on dual Removed: pricing; Added: pricing significantly constrain Mexico’s ability to pursue domestic industrial policies, develop local value chains and ensure the fair distribution of resource wealth; regrets the lack of binding safeguards for environmental protection, indigenous rights and local communities; calls for EU and Mexican authorities to ensure that the Agreement effectively … in enhancing social, environmental and human rights standards in the mining sector; Added: calls for a fundamental reorientation of trade policy towards reducing resource dependency, promoting circular economy approaches and ensuring that raw material partnerships are based on sustainability, equity and support for value addition in third countries;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.395