Use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area, amending Directive 2012/34/EU and repealing Regulation (EU) No 913/2010

2023/0271(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0271(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area, amending Directive 2012/34/EU and repealing Regulation (EU) No 913/2010”; the committee responsible is TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 10 Jun 2026.

Reference
2023/0271(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Shadow rapporteurs
Arash Saeidi (The Left, France), Johan Danielsson (S&D, Sweden), Valérie Devaux (Renew, France), Gheorghe Falcă (EPP, Romania), Ondřej Krutílek (ECR, Czechia), Ondřej Kovařík (PfE, Czechia)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Tilly Metz (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg)
Shadows: Bogusław Liberadzki (S&D, Poland), Dominique Riquet (Renew, France), Marian-Jean Marinescu (EPP, Romania), Dorien Rookmaker (ECR, Netherlands), Marco Campomenosi (ID, Italy)

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: 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 27 member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

  1. 20 Jul 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

  1. 2 Oct 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 28 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 4 Mar 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  4. 5 Mar 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 12 Mar 2024: Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting; EP position at 1st reading
  6. 19 Nov 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (4 times, most recently on 18 Nov 2025)
  7. 27 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 28 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. 6 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. 10 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.