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The statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (recast)

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 8 December 2025 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 17 January 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 13 July 2022
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 27 July 2022
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 16 July 2025
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 21 October 2025
  6. ✓ Published as law 8 December 2025
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
AFCO — Constitutional Affairs
Rapporteurs
Loránt VINCZE PPEMEP #2323 PPECharles GOERENS Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Gabriele BISCHOFF S&DAlexandre VARAUT PfEMEP #28297 ECRGheorghe PIPEREA ECRMEP #197531 Verts/ALEReinier VAN LANSCHOT Verts/ALEMEP #96646 The LeftNikolas FARANTOURIS The Left

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 TA10-0239/2025 21 October 2025 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and foundations lays down rules for their registration, governance, funding and spending.⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA9-0328/2022 15 September 2022 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and foundations sets rules on registration, funding, transparency, and gender equality.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0223/2022 27 July 2022 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and foundations introduces new categories of revenue, allows cross-border campaigns, and strengthens verification and sanction procedures.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (AFCO) 22 March 2022 ✦ This draft report proposes amendments to the Commission's recast regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and foundations. It revises rules on registration, de-registration, funding, and transparency.

Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: Adds extensive gender equality requirements: internal rules, plans, protocols, and transparency obligations for parties and foundations. Introduces a new verification procedure for compliance with EU values, allowing Parliament, Council, or Commission to request checks. Clarifies rules on indirect funding, including participation in foundation events and a ban on training candidates before elections. Restructures funding decision termination and withdrawal, distinguishing between future effect and retroactive effect with detailed consequences. Other changes are formal or wording: updates to references, punctuation, and rephrasing without altering substance. see the changes →

Committee opinions: Draft opinion (BUDG),Opinion (BUDG)

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. 8 December 2025 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 26 November 2025 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. 21 October 2025 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 21 October 2025 📄 Adopted text TA10-0239/2025📄 Report A9-0223/2022
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 446 Against 162 Abstained 35

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:22 · 69% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 9 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 9 ballots in voting order
    1. Proposal to vote on amendments
    — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    2. Final vote on the provisional agreement 13:22 A9-0223/2022 – Loránt Vincze, Charles Goerens – Provisional agreement – Am 146
    Adopted
    3. Final vote Text as a whole
    — no individual positions recorded
    4. Separate vote on Article 2 Article 2 – § 1 – point 4 – point b
    — no individual positions recorded
    5. Separate vote on Article 2 Article 2 – § 1 – point 4 – point b
    — no individual positions recorded
    6. Separate vote on Article 4 Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point j
    — no individual positions recorded
    7. Separate vote on Article 30 Article 30 – § 2 – point a – point ix
    — no individual positions recorded
    8. Separate vote on recital 6
    — no individual positions recorded
    9. Final vote Commission proposal
  6. 14 October – 15 October 2025 5 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendment 146📄 Amendments 147–150
  7. Negotiations with the Council
  8. 16 July 2025 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

    The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.

  9. 15 September 2022 Parliament opened negotiations with the Council

    After its vote Parliament sent the file back to committee, so that its negotiators can seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

  10. Plenary stage
  11. 15 September 2022 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 15 September 2022 📄 Adopted text TA9-0328/2022📄 Council / Commission text C9-0432/2021📄 Report A9-0223/2022
  12. 15 September 2022 Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 15 September 2022 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0432/2021📄 Report A9-0223/2022
  13. 27 July 2022 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0223/2022
  14. Committee stage
  15. 13 July 2022 Committee vote: report adopted

    AFCO (Constitutional Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  16. 22 March 2022 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (AFCO)
  17. 14 February 2022 Draft opinion from BUDG (Budgets)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    📄 Draft opinion (BUDG)
  18. 17 January 2022 Referred to the AFCO (Constitutional Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.