New EU-Mercosur trade agreement The agreement in principle Brussels, 1 July 2019Eu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • July 15th, 2019
This document summarises the negotiating results of the trade part of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement at the time of the agreement in principle on 28 June 2019. The agreement in principle is subject to the final transcription into the texts and the respective market access offers.
EU-MERCOSUR* TRADE AGREEMENTEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • July 1st, 2019
The EU and Mercosur agree that they will not lower labour or environmental standards in order to promote trade and attract investment.
EU-MERCOSUR* TRADE AGREEMENTEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • June 28th, 2019
EU Member State administrations play a central role in performing these controls. They inform the Commission and other national administrations in the EU through a well-established alert system about any unauthorised or unhealthy products. This allows us to intensify controls and make sure all such products are kept out of EU market.
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: A devastating impact on forestsEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • April 15th, 2021
The EU has committed to become climate-neutral by 2050 and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. Under the European Green Deal the EU has committed to reduce imported emissions from deforestation. Yet, the EU-Mercosur trade agreement will aggravate deforestation and further increase EU imports of forest-risk commodities, seriously undermining the Green Deal’s efforts.
THE EU-MERCOSUR TRADE AGREEMENTEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • December 5th, 2019
The EU-Mercosur agreement will:Eu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • August 5th, 2019
Scrap customs tariffs for German exporters and importers Create new opportunities for German farmers andagri-food producers Protect distinctive German food and drink products Improve access to the Mercosur services market to German firms Enable German firms to bid for more public contracts in Mercosur Help German small businesses export more to Mercosur
EU-Mercosur agreement: A “compensation Fund” for farmers that sparks more concern than reassuranceEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • October 22nd, 2024
As the perspective of concluding negotiations on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement at the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro gets closer a proposal has emerged in Brussels to set up a “compensation fund” aimed at pacifying European farmers. For our sectors, this appears more like a fake quick fix rather than a genuine solution. It fails to address key concerns, particularly regarding the impact on sensitive sectors and the lack of reciprocity in production standards under the current terms of the agreement.
THE EUROPEAN UNION-MERCOSUR TRADE AGREEMENTEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • April 28th, 2021
BusinessEurope, the Confederation of Portuguese Business (CIP) and the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI), with the support of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, organised a virtual event today to show the strong commitment from European and Brazilian business to sustainability and to the EU-Mercosur agreement.
EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Would Harm User Rights and the CommonsEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • February 24th, 2022
The European Union (EU) and the Latin American sub-regional bloc consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Mercosur) have been negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) since 2000. The FTA is expansive, addressing trade in industrial and agricultural goods, potential changes to rules governing small- and medium-sized businesses as well as government procurement, and intellectual property provisions such as copyrights and patents. The EU-Mercosur FTA negotiations continue during a time when several of the affected countries—including Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and even the EU—are involved in a review of their own copyright rules.
EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: A bad deal for transparency, policy coherence and access to medicinesEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • August 6th, 2020
The European Union (EU) and Mercosur have been negotiating a free trade agreement for the last 16 years, with talks picking up pace in the last 15 months. Negotiations are now nearing completion and there are increasing concerns among public health advocates, patient and consumer organisations, and other stakeholders, both in Europe and the Americas. They are rightly worried about how these talks have been conducted and the impact some of the provisions reportedly put forward by the European Commission (EC) could have on the fulfillment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), in general, and sustainable access to medicines, in particular.
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: Fuelling conflict and human rights violationsEu-Mercosur Trade Agreement • September 2nd, 2021
The European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay) concluded a trade agreement back in 2019 to exchange more products and services. The process of ratification is due to start soon.
