2024/2123(INI) Own-initiative report First reading

Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries, and the development and deployment of fishing gear

Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.

Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 18 December 2025. This is its final position on the matter.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 23 January 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 11 November 2025
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 20 November 2025
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 18 December 2025
  5. ✓ Parliament’s position Final
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. The adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
PECH — Fisheries
Rapporteur
Ton DIEPEVEEN PfE
Shadow rapporteurs
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC PPESérgio GONÇALVES S&DBert-Jan RUISSEN ECROihane AGIRREGOITIA MARTÍNEZ RenewRasmus NORDQVIST Verts/ALEEmma FOURREAU 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

Committee draft Draft report (PECH) 25 April 2025⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0236/2025 20 November 2025⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA10-0344/2025 18 December 2025

Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. 18 December 2025 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 18 December 2025 📄 Report A10-0236/2025📄 Adopted text TA10-0344/2025
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 450 Against 93 Abstained 37

    Final vote — text as a whole at 12:20 · 78% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 8 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 8 ballots in voting order
    1. Amendment 1 12:18 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – § 1 – Am 1
    Rejected
    2. Separate vote: after paragraph 4 After § 4
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    3. Amendment 3 12:19 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – § 8 – Am 3
    Rejected
    4. Amendment 4 12:19 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – § 42 – Am 4
    Rejected
    5. Amendment 5 12:19 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – § 46 – Am 5
    Rejected
    6. Amendment 6 12:19 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – § 61 – Am 6
    Rejected
    7. Amendment 7 12:20 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – After § 77 – Am 7
    Rejected
    8. Final vote — text as a whole 12:20 A10-0236/2025 – Ton Diepeveen – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  3. 10 December 2025 7 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendments 1–7
  4. 20 November 2025 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0236/2025
  5. Committee stage
  6. 11 November 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  7. 7 June 2025 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of PECH (Fisheries) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (PECH)
  8. 25 April 2025 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (PECH)
  9. 23 January 2025 Referred to the PECH (Fisheries) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.