Driving licences, amending Directive (EU) 2022/2561 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EU) No 383/2012

2023/0053(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0053(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Driving licences, amending Directive (EU) 2022/2561 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EU) No 383/2012”; the committee responsible is TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 5 Nov 2025.

Reference
2023/0053(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Opinion
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Rapporteur
Jutta Paulus (Greens/EFA, Germany)
Shadow rapporteurs
Matteo Ricci (S&D, Italy), Valérie Devaux (Renew, France), Carlo Fidanza (ECR, Italy), Paolo Borchia (PfE, Italy), Siegbert Frank Droese (ESN, Germany)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Karima Delli (Greens/EFA, France)
Shadows: Elena Kountoura (The Left, Greece), Achille Variati (S&D, Italy), Dominique Riquet (Renew, France), Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska (EPP, Poland), Peter Lundgren (ECR, Sweden), Marco Campomenosi (ID, Italy)

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: 23 for, 2 against, 2 abstentions. Against: Croatia, Malta; Abstained: Austria, Bulgaria. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

  1. 17 Apr 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 3 May 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 19 Jul 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  4. 7 Dec 2023: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  5. 11 Jan 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  6. 27 Feb 2024: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  7. 28 Feb 2024: Plenary vote results; EP position at 1st reading with amendments
  8. 3 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  9. 22 Oct 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (4 times, most recently on 24 Mar 2025)
  10. 14 May 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 6 Oct 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  2. 9 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  3. 13 Oct 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  4. 14 Oct 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 21 Oct 2025: Plenary vote results (agenda); Approval of the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading (adoption of the legislative act)
  6. 22 Oct 2025: Signature
  7. 5 Nov 2025: 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.