Amending Directive 2009/16/EC on port State control
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 16 December 2024 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 10 July 2023
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 7 December 2023
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 8 December 2023
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 20 March 2024
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 10 April 2024
- ✓ Published as law 16 December 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
- TRAN — Transport and Tourism
- Rapporteur
- MEP #197756 S&D
- Shadow rapporteurs
- MEP #28294 PPEJohan VAN OVERTVELDT ECRMEP #35016 IDMEP #197585 RenewMEP #124856 Verts/ALEMEP #197731 The Left
- For opinion
- PECH — Fisheries · rapporteur MEP #96922 RenewENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs BUDG — Budgets
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
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (PECH),Opinion (PECH)
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
- 16 December 2024 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- 27 November 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
- Plenary stage
- 10 April 2024 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by an overwhelming majorityFor 593 Against 3 Abstained 28
Final vote on the provisional agreement at 18:46 · 95% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- Negotiations with the Council
- 20 March 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 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”).
- Plenary stage
- 8 December 2023 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 7 December 2023 Committee vote: report adopted
TRAN (Transport and Tourism) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 29 November 2023 PECH (Fisheries) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 19 September 2023 Draft opinion from PECH (Fisheries)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
- 19 September 2023 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 10 July 2023 Referred to the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; PECH (Fisheries), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), BUDG (Budgets) give an opinion.