2 Amendments of Franc BOGOVIČ related to 2018/0256M(NLE)
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that Article 7 of Protocol 1 to the 2012 Agreement contains a safeguard clause making it possible for appropriate steps to be taken where imports of large quantities of agricultural products classed as sensitive under the agreement cause serious market distortion and/or serious harm to the industry concerned; hopes that preferential imports into the EU of sensitive agricultural products from Morocco and Western Sahara will continue to be subject to appropriate and broad monitoring by the Commission, and that the Commission will still be ready to immediately activate the aforementioned clause where an established need arises;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that the EU and Morocco have negotiated, as set out in the initial agreement concluded in 2012, an ambitious and comprehensive agreement on protecting the geographical indications and designations of origin of agricultural products, processed agricultural products, fish and fishery products that provides for the protection by Morocco of the full list of the EU’s geographical indications; points out, furthermore, that the procedure for concluding the agreement, which began in 2015, was suspended following the Court’s judgment of 21 December 2016; calls for that procedure to be immediately resumed and finalised as soon as possible in conjunction with the conclusion of the agreement considered in this opinion. Calls on the Commission to intervene in front of EP Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, as soon as possible, with a presentation on the current state of play of agricultural trade between the EU and Morocco and on the ongoing negotiations of the agreement on geographical indications.