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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Speeding-up environmental assessments

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: Tabled for plenary; the vote is scheduled for 24 November 2026.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 9 February 2026
  2. 2 Committee work ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) preparing the report
  3. 3 Tabled for plenary
  4. 4 Plenary vote Scheduled 24 November 2026
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council
  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
ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Rapporteur
Emma YTTERELL Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Radan KANEV PPEAnnalisa CORRADO S&DMathilde ANDROUËT PfEBeatrice TIMGREN ECRJutta PAULUS Verts/ALEEmma FOURREAU The LeftAnja ARNDT 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

Committee draft · latest Draft report (ENVI) 22 May 2026 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on speeding-up environmental assessments. It adopts a first-reading position with amendments that delete the 'toolbox' for strategic sectors and its Annex, replace EU-wide deadlines with project-specific timelines, and strengthen digital and resource provisions.

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. Committee stage
  2. 24 June 2026 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)

    Members of ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (ENVI)📄 Amendments in committee (ENVI)
  3. 22 May 2026 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (ENVI)
  4. 9 February 2026 Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.