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Empowering the French Republic to negotiate, sign and conclude an international agreement on the safety and interoperability requirements within the Channel Fixed Link

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 18 March 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 10 July 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 8 January 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 30 January 2024
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 7 February 2024
  5. ✓ Negotiations with the Council
  6. ✓ Published as law 18 March 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 #197844 S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Jörgen WARBORN PPEMEP #96801 ECRMEP #96885 RenewLeila CHAIBI 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 TA9-0062/2024 7 February 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a decision empowering the French Republic to negotiate, sign and conclude an international agreement on safety and interoperability requirements within the Channel Fixed Link.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0018/2024 30 January 2024 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal empowers France to negotiate, sign and conclude an international agreement with the United Kingdom on safety and interoperability in the Channel Fixed Link.

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. 18 March 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 13 March 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. 7 February 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 7 February 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0062/2024📄 Report A9-0018/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 636 Against 2 Abstained 3

    Final vote at 12:52 · 99% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. 30 January 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0018/2024
  7. Committee stage
  8. 8 January 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

    TRAN (Transport and Tourism) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  9. 10 July 2023 Referred to the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.