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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Amending Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

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 13 February 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 24 October 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 27 October 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 11 January 2024
  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
ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Rapporteur
Anna ZALEWSKA ECR
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #130256 PPEMEP #209091 S&DMEP #96776 RenewMEP #229352 Verts/ALEMEP #96820 The Left

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 TA9-0059/2024 6 February 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a directive amending Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The position corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive (EU) 2024/884, after an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council.⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA9-0392/2023 9 November 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). It adds recitals on legal certainty, retroactive effects, photovoltaic panel treatment and consumer costs, and requires the Commission to assess a revision of the Directive by 31 December 2026.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0311/2023 27 October 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). It adds new recitals on legal certainty, photovoltaic panels and consumer costs, and new rules on financing historical waste.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (ENVI) 13 June 2023 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal to amend Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). It backs the proposal's targeted fix of the Court of Justice ruling on photovoltaic panels and adds amendments on legal certainty, transposition time and a future revision.

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 TA9-0059/2024📄 Report A9-0311/2023
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 628 Against 3 Abstained 6

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:00 · 99% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 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.

    📄 ENVI-AG-757124
  8. 9 November 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. 9 November 2023 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 9 November 2023 📄 Adopted text TA9-0392/2023📄 Report A9-0311/2023
  11. 27 October 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0311/2023
  12. Committee stage
  13. 24 October 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

    ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  14. 13 June 2023 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)
  15. 13 February 2023 Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.