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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

European cross-border associations

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 adopted its first-reading position on 13 March 2024. Next: negotiations with the Council, unless the Council accepts Parliament’s text as it stands.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 2 October 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 13 February 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 27 February 2024
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 13 March 2024
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council
  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
Sergey LAGODINSKY Verts/ALE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #125706 PPEMaravillas ABADÍA JOVER PPENacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR S&DLara WOLTERS S&DMEP #197585 RenewJana TOOM RenewMario FURORE The LeftManon AUBRY The Left
For opinion
IMCO — Internal Market and Consumer Protection · rapporteur Anna CAVAZZINI Verts/ALELIBE — Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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 TA9-0147/2024 13 March 2024 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed directive creates a legal form called the European cross-border association (ECBA) in every member state.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0062/2024 27 February 2024 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive on European cross-border associations creates a legal form, the 'European cross-border association' (ECBA), recognised automatically in all member states.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (JURI) 21 November 2023 ✦ The Committee on Legal Affairs' draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed directive on European cross-border associations (ECBAs). It amends the Commission proposal to add safeguards on freedom of association, funding and public debate, and to define a 'particularly serious offence'.

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. 13 March 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 13 March 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0147/2024📄 Report A9-0062/2024
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 490 Against 69 Abstained 64

    Final vote at 12:34 · 79% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 3 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 3 ballots in voting order
    1. Amendments by the committee responsible — put to the vote collectively Amendments by the committee responsible – put to the vote collectively
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    2. Amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote Amendments by the committee responsible – separate vote
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    3. Final vote 12:34 A9-0062/2024 – Sergey Lagodinsky – Commission proposal
    Adopted
  3. 12 March 2024 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 12 March 2024 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0326/2023📄 Report A9-0062/2024
  4. 27 February 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0062/2024
  5. Committee stage
  6. 13 February 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  7. 11 December 2023 Amendments tabled in committee

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

    📄 Amendments in committee (JURI)
  8. 4 December 2023 Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 IMCO-AL-754738
  9. 21 November 2023 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (JURI)
  10. 2 October 2023 Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) give an opinion.