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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Amending Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2246/2002

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 18 November 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 12 December 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 24 October 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 6 November 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 24 January 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 14 March 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 18 November 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
MEP #124738 ID
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #4560 PPEMEP #197717 S&DRaffaele STANCANELLI ECRMEP #197585 RenewMEP #197431 Verts/ALEMEP #24505 The Left
For opinion
ECON — Economic and Monetary Affairs IMCO — Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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

Timeline

  1. Outcome
  2. 18 November 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 23 October 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. Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 447 Against 14 Abstained 66

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 12:23 · 85% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 24 January 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

  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. 6 November 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

  11. Committee stage
  12. 24 October 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  13. 15 June 2023 Draft report published

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

  14. 12 December 2022 Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs), IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) give an opinion.