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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of measures and cooperation in matters relating to the protection of adults

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: Parliament approved the text agreed with the Council on 20 October 2026. The Council must now adopt it formally before it is published as law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 10 July 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 24 June 2025
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 1 July 2025
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 3 June 2026
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 20 October 2026
  6. 6 Published as law
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
Jana TOOM Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Michał WAWRYKIEWICZ PPEKrzysztof ŚMISZEK S&DTobiasz BOCHEŃSKI ECRTineke STRIK Verts/ALEMario FURORE 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 TA10-0348/2026 20 October 2026 ✦ Parliament's position on a proposed regulation sets cross-border rules for protecting adults who cannot protect their interests because of an impairment or insufficiency of their personal faculties.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0128/2025 1 July 2025 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of measures and cooperation in matters relating to the protection of adults in cross-border cases.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (JURI) 3 March 2025 ✦ The Committee on Legal Affairs draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of measures and cooperation for the protection of adults in cross-border cases.

Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: The new version adds support measures for adults, including a one-stop shop, multilingual guidance, liaison officers and AI tools, and extends the consultation procedure to living and support arrangements. It deletes the chapter on protection registers and the provisions on interconnecting them, and adds a confidentiality provision. It changes the rules on the European Certificate of Support and Representation, including its effects, who may apply and fees. It adds transitional provisions on the phasing out of substitute decision-making and on the application of the regulation, and extends the evaluation report. The other changes are formal and wording: updated citations, renamed titles, moved content and rephrased terms. see the changes →

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. Plenary stage
  2. 20 October 2026 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 20 October 2026 📄 Adopted text TA10-0348/2026📄 Report A10-0128/2025
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 531 Against 93 Abstained 41

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:27 · 80% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  3. 14 October 2026 140 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendments 1–139📄 Amendment 140
  4. Negotiations with the Council
  5. 3 June 2026 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

  6. 12 May 2026 Trilogue meeting

    Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.

  7. 17 March 2026 Trilogue meeting

    Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.

  8. 9 July 2025 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. 1 July 2025 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0128/2025
  11. Committee stage
  12. 24 June 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  13. 24 March 2025 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of JURI (Legal Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (JURI)
  14. 3 March 2025 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (JURI)
  15. 10 July 2023 Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.