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Laying down conservation, management and control measures applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1899/85 and Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010

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 8 October 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 11 September 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 23 January 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 24 January 2024
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 19 February 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 10 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 8 October 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
PECH — Fisheries
Rapporteur
MEP #197645 Verts/ALE
Shadow rapporteurs
Francisco José MILLÁN MON PPEMEP #237224 S&DMEP #221463 ECRMEP #96922 RenewMEP #136236 The Left
For opinion
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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0199/2024 10 April 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a proposed regulation setting conservation, management and control measures in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0004/2024 24 January 2024 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal transposing North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) conservation, management and control measures into EU law. It adds conditions on pelagic surveillance, waste and lost gear rules, transhipment reporting, inspection and infringement procedures, and defers camera surveillance to 1 January 2026.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (PECH) 8 November 2023 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal to put North-East Atlantic fisheries conservation, management and control measures into EU law. It adopts a first-reading position and proposes five amendments to the Commission's text.

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. 8 October 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 18 September 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. 10 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 10 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0199/2024📄 Report A9-0004/2024
    Adopted Adopted by a clear majority
    For 353 Against 214 Abstained 55

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 18:44 · 57% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 19 February 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    📄 PECH-AG-759033
  8. 7 February 2024 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. 24 January 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0004/2024
  11. Committee stage
  12. 23 January 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

    PECH (Fisheries) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  13. 8 November 2023 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in PECH (Fisheries). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (PECH)
  14. 11 September 2023 Referred to the PECH (Fisheries) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) gives an opinion.