Establishing an EU talent pool

2023/0404(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2023/0404(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Establishing an EU talent pool”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 12 May 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 10 Mar 2026 (final vote): adopted with 414 votes in favour, 182 against and 21 abstentions.

Reference
2023/0404(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 1st reading
Lead
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Opinion
CULT Culture and Education (opinion: Nela Riehl (Greens/EFA, Germany))
DEVE Development (opinion: Tomas Tobé (EPP, Sweden))
EMPL Employment and Social Affairs (opinion: Marianne Vind (S&D, Denmark))
Rapporteur
Abir Al-Sahlani (Renew, Sweden)
Shadow rapporteurs
Pernando Barrena Arza (The Left, Spain), Anna Strolenberg (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Javier Moreno Sánchez (S&D, Spain), Lena Düpont (EPP, Germany), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium), Tom Vandendriessche (PfE, Belgium)
Opinions
13 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

  • Establishing an EU talent pool (A10-0045/2025), 3 Apr 2025: roll-call vote, adopted, 327 for, 229 against, 50 abstentions
  • Establishing an EU talent pool (A10-0045/2025), 10 Mar 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0045/2025 – Abir Al-Sahlani – Provisional agreement – Am 163, adopted, 414 for, 182 against, 21 abstentions; plus 2 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 30 Mar 2026: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 0 against, 2 abstentions, 1 not participating. Abstained: Hungary, Netherlands; Not participating: Denmark. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

  1. 23 Jan 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
  2. 30 Jan 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
  3. 6 Feb 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  4. 8 Feb 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
  5. 19 Feb 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
  6. 30 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  7. 20 Dec 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  8. 28 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  9. 19 Feb 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  10. 19 Mar 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  11. 26 Mar 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  12. 3 Apr 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
  13. 7 Apr 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 24 Sep 2025)
  14. 3 Dec 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
  15. 10 Mar 2026: EP position at 1st reading
  16. 29 Apr 2026: Signature
  17. 12 May 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.