Improving and enforcing working conditions of trainees and combating regular employment relationships disguised as traineeships (‘Traineeships Directive’)
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’s negotiators are talking to the Council (last trilogue 5 May 2026); the plenary vote on the outcome is still to come.
- ✓ Referred to committee 13 November 2024
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 23 September 2025
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 1 October 2025
- 4 Plenary vote Awaiting the vote
- 5 Negotiations with the Council Trilogue 5 May 2026
- 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
- EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs
- Rapporteur
- Alicia HOMS GINEL S&D
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK PPEMélanie DISDIER PfEChiara GEMMA ECRIrena JOVEVA RenewBenedetta SCUDERI Verts/ALECatarina MARTINS The Left
- For opinion
- JURI — Legal Affairs CULT — Culture and Education · rapporteur Nicola ZINGARETTI S&D
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: Draft opinion (CULT),Opinion (CULT)
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
- Negotiations with the Council
- 5 May 2026 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 24 February 2026 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 18 November 2025 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 8 October 2025 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
- 1 October 2025 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 23 September 2025 Committee vote: report adopted
EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 8 April 2025 CULT (Culture and Education) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 27 March 2025 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
- 24 February 2025 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 7 January 2025 Draft opinion from CULT (Culture and Education)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
- 13 November 2024 Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; JURI (Legal Affairs), CULT (Culture and Education) give an opinion.