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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

European Year of Rail (2021)

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: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 28 December 2020 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 11 March 2020
  2. ✓ Committee work
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Talks opened 21 October 2020
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Voted 15 December 2020
  6. ✓ Published as law 28 December 2020
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.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0345/2020 15 December 2020 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a decision designating 2021 the European Year of Rail. The decision sets out the objectives, activities and coordination for the year.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0191/2020 14 October 2020 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to designate 2021 as the European Year of Rail. It keeps the designation and adds new objectives, activities, a budget and an annex of events.

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. Outcome
  2. 28 December 2020 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 23 December 2020 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

  4. Plenary stage
  5. 15 December 2020 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 15 December 2020 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0076/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0162/2019📄 Council / Commission text C9-0378/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0395/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0396/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0397/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0398/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0399/2020📄 Report A9-0101/2020📄 Report A9-0191/2020📄 Report A9-0252/2020📄 Report A9-0253/2020
  6. 14 December 2020 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 14 December 2020 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0076/2020📄 Report A9-0191/2020
  7. Negotiations with the Council
  8. 21 October 2020 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

  9. Committee stage
  10. 11 March 2020 Referred to committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.