Safety of toys and repealing Directive 2009/48/EC

2023/0290(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0290(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Safety of toys and repealing Directive 2009/48/EC”; the committee responsible is IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 12 Dec 2025.

Reference
2023/0290(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Associated
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety (opinion: Sara Cerdas (S&D, Portugal))
Shadow rapporteurs
Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left, Ireland), Anna Stürgkh (Renew, Austria), Piotr Müller (ECR, Poland), Ernő Schaller-Baross (PfE, Hungary)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: Marion Walsmann (EPP, Germany)
Shadows: Stelios Kouloglou (The Left, Greece), Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, Germany), Brando Benifei (S&D, Italy), Vlad-Marius Botoş (Renew, Romania), Beata Mazurek (ECR, Poland), Alessandra Basso (ID, Italy)
Opinions
4 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: 26 for, 0 against, 1 abstention. Abstained: Austria. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

  1. 5 Sep 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

  1. 19 Oct 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 8 Nov 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 24 Jan 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  4. 13 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. 13 Mar 2024: Plenary vote results; EP position at 1st reading with amendments
  7. 20 Nov 2024: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 10 Apr 2025)
  8. 26 Jun 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 23 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 3 Nov 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 11 Nov 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  4. 12 Nov 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 25 Nov 2025: Plenary vote results (agenda); Approval of the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading (adoption of the legislative act)
  6. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
  7. 12 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.