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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942

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 15 July 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 7 March 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 26 April 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 28 April 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 11 January 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 10 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 15 July 2024
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
ITRE — Industry, Research and Energy
Rapporteurs
Pascal CANFIN RenewJutta PAULUS Verts/ALE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197488 IDMassimiliano SALINI PPEMEP #125064 PPEGünther SIDL S&DJens GEIER S&DMEP #197520 ECRAnna ZALEWSKA ECRMartin HOJSÍK RenewMEP #197817 The Left
For opinion
BUDG — Budgets AGRI — Agriculture and Rural Development · rapporteur Norbert LINS PPE

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 TA9-0190/2024 10 April 2024 ✦ Parliament's position on a proposed regulation to reduce methane emissions in the energy sector, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942. It sets rules on measurement, reporting and verification of methane emissions, leak detection and repair, and restrictions on venting and flaring.⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA9-0127/2023 9 May 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed regulation on methane emissions reduction in the energy sector. It lays down rules for measuring, quantifying, monitoring, reporting and verifying methane emissions in oil, fossil gas and coal, and for abating them through leak detection and repair and limits on venting and flaring.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0162/2023 28 April 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on methane emissions reduction in the energy sector. It sets rules for measuring, quantifying, monitoring, reporting and verifying methane emissions, and for abating them through leak detection and repair and limits on venting and flaring.

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. 15 July 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 13 June 2024 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. 10 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 10 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0190/2024📄 Report A9-0162/2023
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 530 Against 63 Abstained 28

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 18:38 · 85% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Committee stage
  7. 24 January 2024 Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 JURI-AL-758222
  8. Negotiations with the Council
  9. 11 January 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    📄 CJ10-AG-757975
  10. 9 May 2023 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”).

  11. Plenary stage
  12. 9 May 2023 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 9 May 2023 📄 Report A9-0162/2023
  13. 8 May 2023 Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 8 May 2023 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0467/2021📄 Report A9-0162/2023
  14. 28 April 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0162/2023
  15. Committee stage
  16. 26 April 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

    ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  17. 15 September 2022 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 CJ10-PR-736476
  18. 12 July 2022 Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 AGRI-AL-735469
  19. 7 March 2022 Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; BUDG (Budgets), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) give an opinion.