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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Amending Directives 2009/102/EC and (EU) 2017/1132 as regards further expanding and upgrading the use of digital tools and processes in company law

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 10 January 2025 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 17 April 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 29 November 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 5 December 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 8 April 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 24 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 10 January 2025
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
Emil RADEV PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197635 S&DMEP #124873 ECR
For opinion
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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0360/2024 24 April 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a proposed directive amending Directives 2009/102/EC and (EU) 2017/1132 on the use of digital tools and processes in company law.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0394/2023 5 December 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive amending Directives 2009/102/EC and (EU) 2017/1132 on digital tools in company law. It requires preventive administrative, judicial or notarial control of company formation documents, and lets Member States add public electronic identity and legality checks.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (JURI) 19 July 2023 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a directive amending Directives 2009/102/EC and (EU) 2017/1132 on digital tools and processes in company law.

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. 10 January 2025 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 19 December 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. 24 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 24 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0360/2024📄 Report A9-0394/2023
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 550 Against 3 Abstained 19

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 18:46 · 96% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 8 April 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

  8. 13 December 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. 5 December 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0394/2023
  11. Committee stage
  12. 29 November 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  13. 19 July 2023 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (JURI)
  14. 17 April 2023 Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) gives an opinion.