Rights, support and protection of victims of crime

Procedure 2023/0250(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Rights, support and protection of victims of crime”; the committee responsible is FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 30 Jun 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 21 May 2026 (final vote): adopted with 440 votes in favour, 49 against and 84 abstentions.

Reference

2023/0250(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteurs

Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spain), Lucia Yar (Renew, Slovakia)

Shadow rapporteurs

Elena Kountoura (The Left, Greece), Konstantinos Arvanitis (The Left, Greece), Diana Riba i Giner (Greens/EFA, Spain), Mélissa Camara (Greens/EFA, France), Alessandro Zan (S&D, Italy), Maria Noichl (S&D, Germany), Lucia Yar (Renew, Slovakia), Rosa Estaràs Ferragut (EPP, Spain), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium), Laurence Trochu (ECR, France), Anna Maria Cisint (PfE, Italy), Margarita de la Pisa Carrión (PfE, Spain), Irmhild Boßdorf (ESN, Germany)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Rights, support and protection of victims of crime (A9-0157/2024), 21 May 2026: final vote, adopted, 440 for, 49 against, 84 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 8 Jun 2026: Council (Transport, Telecommunications and Energy), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 0 against, 2 abstentions, 1 not participating. Abstained: Malta, Slovakia; Not participating: Denmark. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 11 Sep 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 13 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 14 Mar 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
4. 25 Mar 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
5. 11 Apr 2024: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
6. 4 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
7. 2 Dec 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (5 times, most recently on 10 Dec 2025)
8. 25 Feb 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
9. 20 May 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
10. 21 May 2026: EP position at 1st reading
11. 17 Jun 2026: Signature
12. 30 Jun 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)