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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Convention area of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and Regulation (EU) .../2022 establishing a multiannual management plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean

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 19 March 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 2 May 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 24 October 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 26 October 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 29 November 2023
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 6 February 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 19 March 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
PECH — Fisheries
Rapporteur
MEP #125045 S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #136236 The LeftMEP #197806 IDGabriel MATO PPERaffaele STANCANELLI ECRMEP #96922 RenewMEP #197506 Verts/ALE
For opinion
ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety

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 TA9-0061/2024 6 February 2024 ✦ Parliament's position at first reading on a proposal to amend two regulations on Atlantic tuna fisheries. It updates rules implementing ICCAT conservation and control measures and the bluefin tuna management plan for the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0301/2023 26 October 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a Commission proposal to update EU rules implementing International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) measures. It amends Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 on management, conservation and control in the ICCAT Convention area and Regulation (EU) 2023/2053 on the bluefin tuna management plan.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (PECH) 28 August 2023 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on a proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 on ICCAT conservation and control measures and Regulation (EU) .../2022 on the bluefin tuna management plan. It adopts a first-reading position and tables amendments transposing recent ICCAT recommendations.

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. 19 March 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 13 March 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. 6 February 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 6 February 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0061/2024📄 Report A9-0301/2023
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 568 Against 44 Abstained 14

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:03 · 91% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 29 November 2023 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    📄 PECH-AG-757018
  8. 9 November 2023 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

  9. Plenary stage
  10. 26 October 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0301/2023
  11. Committee stage
  12. 24 October 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

    PECH (Fisheries) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  13. 28 August 2023 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in PECH (Fisheries). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (PECH)
  14. 2 May 2022 Referred to the PECH (Fisheries) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) gives an opinion.