2025/0265(CNS) Consultation procedure First reading

Establishing the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulations (Euratom) 2021/100 and (Euratom) 2021/948

The Council decides; Parliament gives an opinion that the Council must consider but need not follow.

Where it stands: Parliament gave its opinion on 16 September 2026. The Council takes the final decision.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 12 November 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 24 June 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 6 July 2026
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 16 September 2026
  5. 5 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. The Council takes the final decision, and the act is published in the Official Journal.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
ITRE — Industry, Research and Energy
Rapporteur
Sophie WILMÈS Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Matej TONIN PPETsvetelina PENKOVA S&DPaolo BORCHIA PfEKris VAN DIJCK ECRJutta PAULUS Verts/ALEMarcin SYPNIEWSKI ESN

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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA10-0300/2026 16 September 2026 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed Council regulation sets up the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning for 2028-2034, replacing two earlier Euratom regulations.⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA10-0030/0026 ⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0196/2026 6 July 2026 ✦ Parliament's amended version of a proposed Council regulation sets up the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning for 2028-2034, replacing two Euratom regulations. It merges external nuclear safety cooperation with partner countries and internal decommissioning of the Commission's Joint Research Centre nuclear sites into one instrument.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (ITRE) 16 March 2026 ✦ The rapporteur's draft report approves the Commission proposal for a Council regulation setting up the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning for 2028-2034, which merges the current Euratom nuclear safety and decommissioning instruments into one with an external and an internal component.

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

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. Plenary stage
  2. 16 September 2026 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 16 September 2026 📄 Report A10-0196/2026📄 Adopted text TA10-0030/0026
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 600 Against 21 Abstained 48

    Final vote at 14:20 · 90% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  3. 16 September 2026 Plenary vote
    📄 Adopted text TA10-0030/0026📄 Adopted text TA10-0300/2026
  4. 11 September 2026 1 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

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

    📄 Amendment 1
  5. 6 July 2026 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0196/2026
  6. Committee stage
  7. 24 June 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

    ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  8. 3 June 2026 BUDG (Budgets) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (BUDG)
  9. 26 March 2026 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (ITRE)
  10. 16 March 2026 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (ITRE)
  11. 12 November 2025 Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.