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

2025/0322(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2025/0322(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products”; the committee responsible is INTA (International Trade). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 19 Mar 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 10 Feb 2026 (final vote): adopted with 483 votes in favour, 102 against and 67 abstentions.

Reference: 2025/0322(COD)
Type: Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title: Implementing the bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
Status: Completed, 1st reading
Lead: INTA International Trade
Opinion: AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development (opinion: Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia))
Rapporteur: Gabriel Mato (EPP, Spain)
Shadow rapporteurs: Manon Aubry (The Left, France), Saskia Bricmont (Greens/EFA, Belgium), Francisco Assis (S&D, Portugal), Svenja Hahn (Renew, Germany), Francesco Torselli (ECR, Italy), Christophe Bay (PfE, France), Markus Buchheit (ESN, Germany)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products (A10-0254/2025), 16 Dec 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0254/2025 – Gabriel Mato – Commission proposal, adopted, 431 for, 161 against, 70 abstentions; plus 45 more roll-call votes
Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products (A10-0254/2025), 10 Feb 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0254/2025 – Gabriel Mato – Provisional agreement – Am 89, adopted, 483 for, 102 against, 67 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

5 Mar 2026: Council (Justice and Home Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 1 against, 2 abstentions. Against: Hungary; Abstained: Austria, Belgium. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

3 Nov 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

20 Nov 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
24 Nov 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2 Dec 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
8 Dec 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
9 Dec 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
16 Dec 2025: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary; Amending a text in plenary
17 Dec 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
27 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
10 Feb 2026: EP position at 1st reading
11 Mar 2026: Signature
19 Mar 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

All procedures

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)

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