General Data Protection Regulation: additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the Regulation

Procedure 2023/0202(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “General Data Protection Regulation: additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the Regulation”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 12 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 21 Oct 2025 (final vote): adopted with 533 votes in favour, 43 against and 68 abstentions.

Reference

2023/0202(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteur

Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA, Czechia)

Shadow rapporteurs

Özlem Demirel (The Left, Germany), Kristian Vigenin (S&D, Bulgaria), Michael McNamara (Renew, Ireland), Axel Voss (EPP, Germany), Jacek Ozdoba (ECR, Poland)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• General Data Protection Regulation: additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the Regulation (A9-0045/2024), 21 Oct 2025: final vote, adopted, 533 for, 43 against, 68 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. 13 Jul 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 9 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 29 Nov 2023: Committee tabling an opinion
4. 15 Feb 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 20 Feb 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 10 Apr 2024: Plenary vote results; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary; Amending a text in plenary
7. 30 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
8. 4 Nov 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (4 times, most recently on 16 Jun 2025)
9. 15 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. 12 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)