Amending Directive 2005/35/EC on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties, including criminal penalties, for pollution offences
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 16 November 2023
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 17 November 2023
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 4 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 #33982 PPE
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Carlo FIDANZA ECRMEP #197641 S&DMEP #239973 RenewJutta PAULUS Verts/ALELeila CHAIBI The Left
- For opinion
- LIBE — Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs JURI — Legal Affairs PECH — Fisheries · rapporteur MEP #124734 PPEBUDG — Budgets ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety
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: Opinion (PECH),Draft 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 583 Against 27 Abstained 12
Final vote on the provisional agreement at 18:47 · 94% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- Negotiations with the Council
- 4 March 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 22 November 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
- 17 November 2023 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 16 November 2023 Committee vote: report adopted
TRAN (Transport and Tourism) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 9 November 2023 PECH (Fisheries) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 21 September 2023 Draft opinion from PECH (Fisheries)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
- 4 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; LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), JURI (Legal Affairs), PECH (Fisheries), BUDG (Budgets), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) give an opinion.