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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

Where it stands: Parliament voted its first-reading position on 14 February 2019. Next: negotiations with the Council, unless the Council accepts Parliament’s text as it stands.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 29 November 2017
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 22 January 2019
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 28 January 2019
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Voted 14 February 2019
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council
  6. 6 Published as law
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. For a law, Parliament’s adopted text is its first-reading position; Parliament and the Council then negotiate a common text (trilogues) which both must approve before it is published as law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
TRAN — Transport and Tourism
Rapporteur
Roberts ZĪLE ECR
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #96885 ALDEGeorg MAYER ENFMEP #28393 PPEMEP #124857 S&DMEP #28238 Verts/ALEMEP #136236 GUE-NGL
For opinion
EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA8-0125/2019 14 February 2019 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 on access to the international market for coach and bus services. It extends the rules to national interurban services, sets up independent regulatory bodies, opens terminals on fair terms, and revises authorisation procedures and cabotage rules.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A8-0032/2019 28 January 2019 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 on access to the international coach and bus market. It extends the rules to all inter-urban regular services, keeps them out of urban centres, and requires each member state to designate an independent regulatory body.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (TRAN) 15 June 2018 ✦ The Committee on Transport and Tourism's draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading amendments to the Commission proposal amending Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 on access to the international coach and bus market.

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. 14 February 2019 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 14 February 2019 📄 Adopted text TA8-0125/2019📄 Report A8-0032/2019
  3. 28 January 2019 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A8-0032/2019
  4. Committee stage
  5. 22 January 2019 Committee vote: report adopted

    TRAN (Transport and Tourism) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  6. 15 June 2018 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (TRAN)
  7. 29 November 2017 Referred to the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) gives an opinion.