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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Nature restoration

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 29 July 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 4 July 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) preparing the report
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 28 June 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 29 November 2023
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 27 February 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 29 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
ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Rapporteur
César LUENA S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197422 PPEAlexandr VONDRA ECRMEP #4344 RenewJutta PAULUS Verts/ALEMEP #197817 The Left
For opinion
REGI — Regional Development

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 TA9-0089/2024 27 February 2024 ✦ Parliament's position at first reading on a proposed regulation on nature restoration. It sets binding restoration targets for land, sea, urban, freshwater, agricultural and forest ecosystems, and requires national restoration plans.⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA9-0277/2023 12 July 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed regulation on nature restoration sets binding targets to restore degraded ecosystems across the EU's land and sea areas.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0220/2023 28 June 2023 ✦ The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rejects the Commission's proposal for a regulation on nature restoration and calls on the Commission to withdraw it.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (ENVI) 6 December 2022 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission's proposal for a regulation on nature restoration. It amends the proposal to set a Union objective of restoring at least 30% of land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.

Committee opinions: Opinion (PECH),Draft opinion (PECH),Draft opinion (AGRI),Opinion (AGRI)

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. 29 July 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 24 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. 27 February 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 27 February 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0089/2024📄 Report A9-0220/2023
    Adopted Adopted by a small majority
    For 329 Against 275 Abstained 24

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 12:28 · 52% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 18 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 18 ballots in voting order
    1. Amendments 139 + 140 (voted as one) 12:27 A9-0220/2023 – César Luena – Rejection – Am 139= 140=
    Rejected
    2. Request for the amendments to the draft legislative act to be put to the vote 12:28 A9-0220/2023 – César Luena – Request for the amendments to the draft legislative act to be put to the vote
    Rejected
    3. Final vote on the provisional agreement 12:28 A9-0220/2023 – César Luena – Provisional agreement – Am 137
    Adopted
    4. Amendment 138 12:29 A9-0220/2023 – César Luena – Commission statement – Am 138
    Adopted
    5. Final vote Text as a whole
    6. Separate vote on Article 1, paragraph 1, point b
    7. Separate vote on Article 4, paragraph 1
    8. Separate vote on Article 4, paragraph 1
    9. Separate vote on Article 4, paragraph 7
    10. Separate vote on Article 4, paragraph 7
    11. Separate vote on Article 5, paragraph 1
    12. Separate vote on Article 5, paragraph 1
    13. Separate vote on Article 5, paragraph 7
    14. Separate vote on Article 5, paragraph 7
    15. Vote on text inserted after Article 22
    16. Separate vote on Article 27
    17. Separate vote on Article 27
    18. Final vote Commission proposal
  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.

    📄 ENVI-AG-758844
  8. 12 July 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”).

  9. Plenary stage
  10. 12 July 2023 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 12 July 2023 📄 Adopted text TA9-0277/2023📄 Council / Commission text C9-0208/2022📄 Report A9-0220/2023
  11. 11 July 2023 Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 11 July 2023 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0208/2022📄 Report A9-0220/2023
  12. 28 June 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0220/2023
  13. Committee stage
  14. 24 May 2023 PECH (Fisheries) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (PECH)
  15. 23 May 2023 AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (AGRI)
  16. 19 January 2023 Draft opinion from AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    📄 Draft opinion (AGRI)
  17. 6 December 2022 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (ENVI)
  18. 8 November 2022 Draft opinion from PECH (Fisheries)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    📄 Draft opinion (PECH)
  19. 4 July 2022 Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; REGI (Regional Development) gives an opinion.