Amending Directives 2000/14/EC, 2011/65/EU, 2013/53/EU, 2014/29/EU, 2014/30/EU, 2014/31/EU, 2014/32/EU, 2014/33/EU, 2014/34/EU, 2014/35/EU, 2014/53/EU, 2014/68/EU and 2014/90/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards digitalisation and common specifications
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 committee approved the deal reached with the Council on 14 July 2026; the plenary vote on it is still to come.
- ✓ Referred to committee 10 July 2025
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 27 January 2026
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 16 February 2026
- 4 Plenary vote Scheduled 24 November 2026
- 5 Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 14 July 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
- IMCO — Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Rapporteur
- Reinier VAN LANSCHOT Verts/ALE
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Andreas SCHWAB PPEChristel SCHALDEMOSE S&DVirginie JORON PfEDenis NESCI ECRAnna-Maja HENRIKSSON Renew
- For opinion
- ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety · rapporteur Raúl DE LA HOZ QUINTANO PPETRAN — Transport and Tourism
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 (ENVI)
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
- Committee stage
- 7 September 2026 Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- Negotiations with the Council
- 14 July 2026 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 9 June 2026 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 15 April 2026 Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
- 11 March 2026 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
- 16 February 2026 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 27 January 2026 Committee vote: report adopted
IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 3 December 2025 ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 24 October 2025 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) proposed changes to the draft.
- 10 July 2025 Referred to the IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), TRAN (Transport and Tourism) give an opinion.