Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution

2023/0373(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0373(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 26 Nov 2025.

Reference
2023/0373(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 2nd reading
Lead
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Associated
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy (opinion: Maria Spyraki (EPP, Greece))
Opinion
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Rapporteur
César Luena (S&D, Spain)
Shadow rapporteurs
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left, Greece), Jutta Paulus (Greens/EFA, Germany), Karin Karlsbro (Renew, Sweden), Liesbet Sommen (EPP, Belgium), Pietro Fiocchi (ECR, Italy), Barbara Bonte (PfE, Belgium)
Earlier terms
Rapporteur: João Albuquerque (S&D, Portugal)
Shadows: Idoia Villanueva Ruiz (The Left, Spain), Ska Keller (Greens/EFA, Germany), Catherine Chabaud (Renew, France), Karol Karski (ECR, Poland)
Opinions
3 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 22 Sep 2025: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), 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: Germany. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

  1. 23 Nov 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 27 Nov 2023: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 6 Dec 2023: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  4. 14 Feb 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  5. 19 Mar 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  6. 22 Mar 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  7. 22 Apr 2024: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  8. 23 Apr 2024: Plenary vote results; EP position at 1st reading with amendments
  9. 12 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  10. 29 Jan 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (2 times, most recently on 8 Apr 2025)
  11. 13 May 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible

2nd reading

  1. 9 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 14 Oct 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 20 Oct 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible; Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  4. 23 Oct 2025: Plenary vote results (agenda); Approval of the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading (adoption of the legislative act)
  5. 12 Nov 2025: Signature
  6. 26 Nov 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.