European Maritime Safety Agency and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002

2023/0163(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0163(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “European Maritime Safety Agency and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002”; the committee responsible is TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 29 Dec 2025.

Reference
2023/0163(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Opinion
BUDG Budgets (opinion: Niclas Herbst (EPP, Germany))
CONT Budgetary Control
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
PECH Fisheries (opinion: Clara Aguilera (S&D, Spain))
Rapporteur
Sérgio Humberto (EPP, Portugal)
Shadow rapporteurs
Merja Kyllönen (The Left, Finland), Sérgio Gonçalves (S&D, Portugal), Jeannette Baljeu (Renew, Netherlands), Vilis Krištopans (PfE, Latvia)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar (EPP, Portugal)
Shadows: João Pimenta Lopes (The Left, Portugal), Jutta Paulus (Greens/EFA, Germany), Sara Cerdas (S&D, Portugal), Caroline Nagtegaal (Renew, Netherlands), Roberts Zīle (ECR, Latvia)
Opinions
6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 13 Oct 2025: Council (Justice and Home Affairs), 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

  1. 7 Jul 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

  1. 10 Jul 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 19 Sep 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 7 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  4. 29 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  5. 7 Dec 2023: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  6. 8 Dec 2023: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  7. 13 Dec 2023: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
  8. 11 Mar 2024: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  9. 12 Mar 2024: Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting; EP position at 1st reading
  10. 3 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  11. 19 Nov 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (2 times, most recently on 20 May 2025)
  12. 24 Jun 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 21 Oct 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  2. 23 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  3. 5 Nov 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  4. 7 Nov 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 12 Nov 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
  6. 13 Nov 2025: Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting; Approval of the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading (adoption of the legislative act) (agenda)
  7. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
  8. 29 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.