Air passenger rights

2013/0072(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2013/0072(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Air passenger rights”; the committee responsible is TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 2 Oct 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 7 Jul 2026 (final vote): adopted with 646 votes in favour, 12 against and 3 abstentions.

Reference
2013/0072(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title
Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights and amendment of Regulation (EC) No 2027/97 on air carrier liability in respect of the carriage of passengers and their baggage by air
Status
Completed, Conciliation and 3rd reading
Lead
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Opinion
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection (opinion: Hans-Peter Mayer (EPP, Germany))
JURI Legal Affairs
Rapporteur
Andrey Novakov (EPP, Bulgaria)
Shadow rapporteurs
Arash Saeidi (The Left, France), Vicent Marzà Ibáñez (Greens/EFA, Spain), Matteo Ricci (S&D, Italy), Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Renew, Germany), Kosma Złotowski (ECR, Poland), Vilis Krištopans (PfE, Latvia)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Georges Bach (EPP, Luxembourg)
Shadows: Jaromír Kohlíček (The Left, Czechia), Keith Taylor (Greens/EFA), Bernadette Vergnaud (S&D, France), Jacqueline Foster (ECR), Vilja Toomast (ALDE, Estonia)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

  • Air passenger rights (A10-0001/2026), 21 Jan 2026: roll-call vote, adopted, 632 for, 15 against, 9 abstentions
  • Air passenger rights (A10-0191/2026), 7 Jul 2026: final vote, adopted, 646 for, 12 against, 3 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 29 Sep 2025: Council (Competitiveness), Adoption of a Council's position (at first reading) and Adoption of the statement of the Council's reasons: adopted; Member states: 21 for, 4 against, 2 abstentions. Against: Germany, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia; Abstained: Austria, Estonia. Result at the Council of the EU
  • 13 Jul 2026: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 23 for, 2 against, 2 abstentions. Against: Spain, Latvia; Abstained: Austria, Finland. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

  1. 28 Mar 2013: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

  1. 16 Apr 2013: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 6 Sep 2013: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 17 Sep 2013: Committee tabling an opinion
  4. 5 Nov 2013: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  5. 17 Dec 2013: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  6. 22 Jan 2014: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  7. 5 Feb 2014: Plenary vote results; EP position at 1st reading with amendments
  8. 5 Dec 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur

2nd reading

  1. 9 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 15 Oct 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (7 times, most recently on 2 Jun 2026)
  3. 24 Nov 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  4. 12 Jan 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  5. 13 Jan 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  6. 20 Jan 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
  7. 21 Jan 2026: Adoption of amendments to the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading

Conciliation and 3rd reading

  1. 15 Jun 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  2. 18 Jun 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
  3. 1 Jul 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  4. 6 Jul 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
  5. 7 Jul 2026: Approval of the joint text agreed in the Conciliation Committee by the EP
  6. 16 Sep 2026: Signature
  7. 2 Oct 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.