Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations

Procedure 2021/0375(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations”; the committee responsible is AFCO (Constitutional Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 8 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 21 Oct 2025 (final vote): adopted with 446 votes in favour, 162 against and 35 abstentions.

Reference

2021/0375(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

The statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (recast)

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

AFCO Constitutional Affairs

Rapporteur

Loránt Vincze (EPP, Romania)

Shadow rapporteurs

Nikolas Farantouris (The Left, Greece), Reinier Van Lanschot (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Gheorghe Piperea (ECR, Romania), Alexandre Varaut (PfE, France)

Earlier terms

Rapporteur: Rainer Wieland (EPP, Germany), Charles Goerens (Renew, Luxembourg)
Shadows: Helmut Scholz (The Left, Germany), Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Greens/EFA, France), Gabriele Bischoff (S&D, Germany), Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (ECR, Poland)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (A9-0223/2022), 21 Oct 2025: final vote, adopted, 446 for, 162 against, 35 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 17 Nov 2025: Council (General Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 27 member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 17 Jan 2022: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 26 Jan 2022: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 14 Feb 2022: Committee tabling an opinion
4. 22 Mar 2022: Parliamentary committee tabling report
5. 13 Jul 2022: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
6. 27 Jul 2022: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
7. 15 Sep 2022: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting; Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting; Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
8. 2 Oct 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
9. 16 Jul 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
10. 21 Oct 2025: EP position at 1st reading
11. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
12. 8 Dec 2025: Publication in the Official Journal

• All procedures

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)