Production and marketing of forest reproductive material, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/2031 and 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 1999/105/EC (Regulation on forest reproductive material)

2023/0228(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0228(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Production and marketing of forest reproductive material, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/2031 and 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 1999/105/EC (Regulation on forest reproductive material)”; the committee responsible is AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 26 Jun 2026.

Reference
2023/0228(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development
Associated
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety (opinion: Christophe Clergeau (S&D, France))
Shadow rapporteurs
André Franqueira Rodrigues (S&D, Portugal), Emma Ytterell (Renew, Sweden)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Herbert Dorfmann (EPP, Italy)
Shadows: Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left, Ireland), Martin Häusling (Greens/EFA, Germany), Isabel Carvalhais (S&D, Portugal), Irène Tolleret (Renew, France), Bert-Jan Ruissen (ECR, Netherlands), Ivan David (ID, Czechia)

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 21 Apr 2026: Council (Foreign Affairs), Adoption of a Council's position (at first reading) and Adoption of the statement of the Council's reasons: adopted; Member states: 23 for, 3 against, 1 abstention. Against: Austria, Germany, Slovakia; Abstained: Slovenia. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

  1. 19 Oct 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 10 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 11 Mar 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  4. 19 Mar 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  5. 21 Mar 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  6. 23 Apr 2024: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  7. 24 Apr 2024: Plenary vote results; EP position at 1st reading with amendments
  8. 8 Dec 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
  9. 24 Feb 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 22 Apr 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  2. 30 Apr 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
  3. 5 May 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  4. 8 May 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 19 May 2026: Plenary vote results (agenda); Approval of the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading (adoption of the legislative act)
  6. 20 May 2026: Signature
  7. 26 Jun 2026: 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.