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2025/2206(INL) Legislative initiative First reading

Modernised rules for patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare

Parliament asks the Commission to propose a law and says what it should contain.

Where it stands: In committee: SANT (Public Health) is preparing the report (draft published 14 July 2026).

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 13 November 2025
  2. 2 Committee work SANT (Public Health) preparing the report
  3. 3 Tabled for plenary
  4. 4 Plenary vote
  5. 5 Parliament’s position
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
SANT — Public Health
Rapporteur
Giorgos GEORGIOU The Left
Shadow rapporteurs
Liesbet SOMMEN PPEMarta TEMIDO S&DValérie DELOGE PfEMichele PICARO ECRVlad VASILE-VOICULESCU RenewTilly METZ Verts/ALE

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 (SANT) 14 July 2026 ✦ This is a draft report by the Committee on Public Health, with recommendations to the Commission, on modernised rules for patients' rights in cross-border healthcare. It calls on the Commission to propose a revision of Directive 2011/24/EU by the end of 2027, and sets out detailed recommendations in an annex.

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. 11 September 2026 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)

    Members of SANT (Public Health) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (SANT)📄 Amendments in committee (SANT)
  3. 14 July 2026 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in SANT (Public Health). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (SANT)
  4. 13 November 2025 Referred to the SANT (Public Health) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.