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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

European fisheries and aquaculture statistics and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1921/2006, (EC) No 762/2008, (EC) No 216/2009, (EC) No 217/2009 and (EC) No 218/2009

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 13 October 2026); the plenary vote on the outcome is still to come.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 6 October 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 6 May 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 8 May 2026
  4. 4 Plenary vote Awaiting the vote
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council Trilogue 13 October 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
PECH — Fisheries
Rapporteur
Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC PPEAntónio TÂNGER CORRÊA PfEStephen Nikola BARTULICA ECRMichal WIEZIK RenewAna MIRANDA PAZ 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

Tabled for plenary · latest Report A10-0135/2026 8 May 2026 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on European fisheries and aquaculture statistics, replacing five existing legal acts with one framework.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (PECH) 4 February 2026 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on European fisheries and aquaculture statistics, which would repeal five existing regulations. It adopts Parliament's first-reading position and approves an annexed statement.

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. 13 October 2026 Trilogue meeting

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

  3. 4 June 2026 Trilogue meeting

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

  4. 20 May 2026 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

  5. Plenary stage
  6. 8 May 2026 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0135/2026
  7. Committee stage
  8. 6 May 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  9. 12 March – 20 March 2026 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)

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

    📄 Amendments in committee (PECH)📄 Amendments in committee (PECH)
  10. 4 February 2026 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (PECH)
  11. 6 October 2025 Referred to the PECH (Fisheries) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.