Measures to reduce the cost of deploying gigabit electronic communications networks and repealing Directive 2014/61/EU (Gigabit Infrastructure Act)
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 8 May 2024 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 29 March 2023
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 19 September 2023
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 25 September 2023
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 22 February 2024
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 23 April 2024
- ✓ Published as law 8 May 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
- ITRE — Industry, Research and Energy
- Rapporteur
- MEP #212855 Renew
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Georg MAYER IDAngelika WINZIG PPEMEP #240478 S&DMEP #238639 ECRMEP #197465 Verts/ALEElena KOUNTOURA 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
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
- Outcome
- 8 May 2024 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- 29 April 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
- Plenary stage
- 23 April 2024 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by an overwhelming majorityFor 594 Against 7 Abstained 15
Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:30 · 96% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- Negotiations with the Council
- 22 February 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 5 February 2024 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 25 January 2024 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 5 December 2023 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 4 October 2023 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
- Plenary stage
- 25 September 2023 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 19 September 2023 Committee vote: report adopted
ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 7 July 2023 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) proposed changes to the draft.
- 15 June 2023 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 29 March 2023 Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.