Skip to content
Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans

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 24 May 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 18 January 2024
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 11 March 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 11 March 2024
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 9 April 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 24 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 24 May 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
AFET — Foreign Affairs
Rapporteurs
Tonino PICULA S&DKarlo RESSLER PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
Željana ZOVKO PPEMEP #96991 S&DMEP #124873 ECRBogdan RZOŃCA ECRMEP #125063 RenewFabienne KELLER RenewMEP #197451 Verts/ALEMEP #197645 Verts/ALEMEP #28586 The LeftMEP #130833 The Left
For opinion
REGI — Regional Development · rapporteur MEP #197692 PPECONT — Budgetary Control · rapporteur MEP #1892 PPEINTA — International Trade · rapporteur MEP #96646 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 TA9-0343/2024 24 April 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on the proposed regulation establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0085/2024 11 March 2024 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal sets up the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans, a financing instrument for 2024-2027.

Committee opinions: Opinion (REGI),Draft opinion (INTA),Opinion (INTA)

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. 24 May 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 14 May 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. 24 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 24 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0343/2024📄 Report A9-0085/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 517 Against 56 Abstained 30

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 14:10 · 86% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 2 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 2 ballots in voting order
    1. Final vote on the provisional agreement 14:10 A9-0085/2024 - Tonino Picula, Karlo Ressler - Accord provisoire - Am 2
    Adopted
    2. Joint statement
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
  6. 23 April 2024 Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 23 April 2024 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0408/2023📄 Report A9-0085/2024
  7. Negotiations with the Council
  8. 9 April 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    📄 CJ15-AG-760968
  9. 14 March 2024 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

  10. Plenary stage
  11. 11 March 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0085/2024
  12. Committee stage
  13. 11 March 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

    AFET (Foreign Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  14. 22 February 2024 Committee opinion adopted

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

    📄 CONT-AL-758991
  15. 19 February 2024 INTA (International Trade) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (INTA)
  16. 14 February 2024 REGI (Regional Development) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (REGI)
  17. 9 February 2024 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 CJ15-PR-758888
  18. 24 January 2024 Draft opinion from INTA (International Trade)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    📄 Draft opinion (INTA)
  19. 18 January 2024 Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; REGI (Regional Development), CONT (Budgetary Control), INTA (International Trade) give an opinion.