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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Registration documents for vehicles and vehicle registration data recorded in national vehicle registers

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 2 July 2026); the plenary vote on the outcome is still to come.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 10 July 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 8 April 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 14 April 2026
  4. 4 Plenary vote Awaiting the vote
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council Trilogue 2 July 2026
  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
TRAN — Transport and Tourism
Rapporteur
Johan DANIELSSON S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Alexandra MEHNERT PPEJulien LEONARDELLI PfEAdrian-George AXINIA ECRAsger CHRISTENSEN RenewTilly METZ Verts/ALEElena KOUNTOURA The Left
For opinion
IMCO — Internal Market and Consumer Protection · rapporteur Klara DOSTALOVA PfE

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

Tabled for plenary · latest Report A10-0089/2026 14 April 2026 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive on vehicle registration documents and registration data. It harmonises physical and mobile registration certificates, sets a transition to mobile certificates by default, and requires Member States to record and exchange registration data.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (TRAN) 3 December 2025 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a directive on vehicle registration documents and vehicle registration data in national registers, replacing Council Directive 1999/37/EC.

Committee opinions: Draft opinion (IMCO),Opinion (IMCO)

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. Negotiations with the Council
  2. 2 July 2026 Trilogue meeting

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

  3. 29 April 2026 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

  4. Plenary stage
  5. 14 April 2026 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0089/2026
  6. Committee stage
  7. 8 April 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

    TRAN (Transport and Tourism) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  8. 27 January 2026 IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (IMCO)
  9. 20 January 2026 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of TRAN (Transport and Tourism) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (TRAN)
  10. 3 December 2025 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (TRAN)
  11. 10 July 2025 Referred to the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) gives an opinion.