Combating corruption

Procedure 2023/0135(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Combating corruption”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 11 May 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 26 Mar 2026 (final vote): adopted with 581 votes in favour, 21 against and 42 abstentions.

Reference

2023/0135(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Combating corruption, replacing Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA and the Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union and amending Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Associated

CONT Budgetary Control (opinion: Caterina Chinnici (EPP, Italy))

Rapporteur

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle (Renew, Netherlands)

Shadow rapporteurs

Giuseppe Antoci (The Left, Italy), Daniel Freund (Greens/EFA, Germany), Chloé Ridel (S&D, France), David Casa (EPP, Malta), Mariusz Kamiński (ECR, Poland), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE, Spain)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Combating corruption (A9-0048/2024), 26 Mar 2026: final vote, main vote: A9-0048/2024 – Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle – Provisional agreement – Am 221, adopted, 581 for, 21 against, 42 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 21 Apr 2026: Council (Foreign Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 26 participating member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 1 Jun 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 21 Sep 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 7 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
4. 31 Jan 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 21 Feb 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 27 Feb 2024: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 30 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
8. 28 Jan 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (5 times, most recently on 2 Dec 2025)
9. 27 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
10. 25 Mar 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
11. 26 Mar 2026: EP position at 1st reading
12. 29 Apr 2026: Signature
13. 11 May 2026: 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)