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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association process (codification)

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 6 March 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 6 October 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 11 December 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 9 January 2024
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 16 January 2024
  5. ✓ Negotiations with the Council
  6. ✓ Published as law 6 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
JURI — Legal Affairs
Rapporteur
Magdalena ADAMOWICZ 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 TA9-0005/2024 16 January 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a proposed regulation on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association process. The proposal is a straightforward codification of existing texts without any change in substance.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0001/2024 9 January 2024 ✦ Parliament's position at first reading takes over the Commission proposal for a regulation on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association process, as a codification.

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. 6 March 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 28 February 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. 16 January 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 16 January 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0005/2024📄 Report A9-0001/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 582 Against 5 Abstained 18

    Final vote at 12:05 · 96% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. 9 January 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0001/2024
  7. Committee stage
  8. 11 December 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

    JURI (Legal Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  9. 6 October 2022 Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.