2025/0040(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Amending Regulations (EU) 2015/1017, (EU) 2021/523, (EU) 2021/695 and (EU) 2021/1153 as regards increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under Regulation (EU) 2021/523 and simplifying reporting requirements

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 23 December 2025 and now EU law.

  1. Referred to committee 3 April 2025
  2. Committee work Report adopted 24 June 2025
  3. Tabled for plenary 26 June 2025
  4. Plenary vote Adopted 26 November 2025
  5. Negotiations with the Council Trilogue 23 September 2025
  6. Published as law 23 December 2025
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
BUDG — Budgets
Rapporteurs
Aura SALLA PPEIrene TINAGLI S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Nils UŠAKOVS S&DAngéline FURET PfERuggero RAZZA ECRStine BOSSE RenewRasmus NORDQVIST Verts/ALEMarkus FERBER PPEEnikő GYŐRI PfEDenis NESCI ECRGerben-Jan GERBRANDY RenewDamian BOESELAGER Verts/ALE
For opinion
TRAN — Transport and Tourism · rapporteur Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI PPEENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety ITRE — Industry, Research and Energy · rapporteur Niels Flemming HANSEN PPE

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: Opinion (TRAN),Opinion (ITRE),Draft opinion (TRAN)

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

Timeline

  1. Outcome
  2. 23 December 2025 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 16 December 2025 Signature
  4. 26 November 2025 Plenary decision
  5. Plenary stage
  6. Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 519 Against 65 Abstained 73

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 12:30 · 79% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 9 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 9 ballots in voting order
    1. Final vote on the provisional agreement 12:30 A10-0117/2025 – Aura Salla, Irene Tinagli – Provisional agreement – Am 2
    Adopted
    2. Final vote Text as a whole
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    3. Separate vote: article 1 Article 1 – § 1 – point 24 – after sub§ 1
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    4. Separate vote: article 1 Article 1 – § 1 – point 24 – after sub§ 1
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    5. Separate vote: after recital 2 After recital 2
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    6. Separate vote: after recital 2 After recital 2
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    7. Separate vote: after recital 2 After recital 2
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    8. Separate vote: after recital 2 After recital 2
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Lapsed
    9. Final vote Commission proposal
    Lapsed
  7. 25 November 2025 Debated in plenary

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

  8. 19 November – 21 November 2025 9 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

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

  9. 5 November 2025 Committee approve provisional agreement
  10. Negotiations with the Council
  11. 23 September 2025 Trilogue meeting

    Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.

  12. 2 September 2025 Trilogue meeting

    Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.

  13. 9 July 2025 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (a "trilogue").

  14. Plenary stage
  15. 26 June 2025 Report tabled for plenary

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

  16. Committee stage
  17. 24 June 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

    BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  18. 3 June 2025 TRAN (Transport and Tourism) adopted its opinion

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

  19. 3 June 2025 ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) adopted its opinion

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

  20. 8 May 2025 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.

  21. 25 April 2025 Draft report published

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

  22. 22 April 2025 Draft opinion from TRAN (Transport and Tourism)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

  23. 3 April 2025 Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; TRAN (Transport and Tourism), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) give an opinion.