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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims

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 13 February 2019. Next: negotiations with the Council, unless the Council accepts Parliament’s text as it stands.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 16 April 2018
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 10 July 2018
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 17 July 2018
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Talks opened 12 September 2018
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Voted 13 February 2019
  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
JURI — Legal Affairs
Rapporteur
MEP #96272 PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #28206 ALDEMEP #124776 S&DMEP #124873 ECRMEP #125061 GUE-NGL
For opinion
ECON — Economic and Monetary 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 TA8-0086/2019 13 February 2019 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed regulation sets uniform conflict-of-laws rules for the third-party effects of assignments of claims in civil and commercial matters.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A8-0261/2018 17 July 2018 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims. It keeps the law of the assignor's habitual residence as the main rule and adds the law of the assigned claim for money in accounts and financial instruments.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (JURI) 3 May 2018 ✦ The Committee on Legal Affairs draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims.

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. 13 February 2019 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 13 February 2019 📄 Adopted text TA8-0086/2019📄 Report A8-0261/2018
  3. Negotiations with the Council
  4. 12 September 2018 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

  5. Plenary stage
  6. 17 July 2018 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A8-0261/2018
  7. Committee stage
  8. 10 July 2018 Committee vote: report adopted

    JURI (Legal Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  9. 3 May 2018 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in JURI (Legal Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (JURI)
  10. 16 April 2018 Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) gives an opinion.