2025/2086(INI) Own-initiative report First reading

Ensuring faster registration and uptake of biological control agents

Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.

Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 25 November 2025. This is its final position on the matter.

  1. Referred to committee 8 May 2025
  2. Committee work Report adopted 4 November 2025
  3. Tabled for plenary 14 November 2025
  4. Plenary vote Adopted 25 November 2025
  5. Parliament’s position Final
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 adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
AGRI — Agriculture and Rural Development
Rapporteurs
Alexander BERNHUBER PPEAnna STROLENBERG Verts/ALE
Shadow rapporteurs
Christophe CLERGEAU S&DAnne-Sophie FRIGOUT PfELaurence TROCHU ECRJeannette BALJEU RenewMajdouline SBAI Verts/ALEAnja HAZEKAMP The LeftAnja ARNDT ESNStefan KÖHLER PPEAnnalisa CORRADO S&DBenoit CASSART RenewSebastian EVERDING 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

Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 590 Against 28 Abstained 32

    Final vote — text as a whole at 12:42 · 91% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 3 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 3 ballots in voting order
    1. Separate vote: paragraph 12 § 12
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    2. Separate vote: paragraph 12 § 12
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    3. Final vote — text as a whole 12:42 A10-0234/2025 – Alexander Bernhuber, Anna Strolenberg – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  3. 24 November 2025 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

  4. 14 November 2025 Report tabled for plenary

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

  5. Committee stage
  6. 4 November 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

    AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  7. 23 July 2025 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.

  8. 16 June 2025 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

  9. 8 May 2025 Referred to the AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.