Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations

2023/0129(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0129(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations”; the committee responsible is JURI (Legal Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 30 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 16 Dec 2025 (roll-call vote): rejected with 128 votes in favour, 454 against and 57 abstentions.

Reference
2023/0129(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title
Compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) 816/2006
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
JURI Legal Affairs
Associated
INTA International Trade (opinion: Helmut Scholz (The Left, Germany))
Opinion
DEVE Development
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
Shadow rapporteurs
Mario Furore (The Left, Italy), Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, Germany), Laurence Farreng (Renew, France), Kosma Złotowski (ECR, Poland)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Adrián Vázquez Lázara (Renew, Spain)
Shadows: Emmanuel Maurel (The Left, France), Heidi Hautala (Greens/EFA, Finland), Tiemo Wölken (S&D, Germany), Geoffroy Didier (EPP, France)
Opinions
4 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

  • Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations (A10-0246/2025), 16 Dec 2025: roll-call vote, main vote: A10-0246/2025 – Adrián Vázquez Lázara – Article 15 – after § 3; Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 – Am 3, rejected, 128 for, 454 against, 57 abstentions; plus 2 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 27 Oct 2025: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of a Council's position (at first reading) and Adoption of the statement of the Council's reasons: 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. 12 Jun 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 26 Jun 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 2 Oct 2023: Committee tabling an opinion
  4. 16 Oct 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  5. 28 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  6. 13 Feb 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  7. 19 Feb 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  8. 12 Mar 2024: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  9. 13 Mar 2024: Plenary vote results; EP position at 1st reading with amendments
  10. 10 Dec 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 21 May 2025)
  11. 24 Jun 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 13 Nov 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 1 Dec 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 3 Dec 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  4. 4 Dec 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 16 Dec 2025: Signature; Approval of the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading (adoption of the legislative act)
  6. 30 Dec 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.