Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects
2023/0435(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2023/0435(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects”; the committee responsible is IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 8 May 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 12 Mar 2026 (final vote): adopted with 537 votes in favour, 2 against and 24 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2023/0435(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Amending Directive (EU) 2015/2302 to make the protection of travellers more effective and to simplify and clarify certain aspects of the Directive
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Opinion
- JURI Legal Affairs
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Renew, Germany)) - Rapporteur
- Alex Agius Saliba (S&D, Malta)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Hanna Gedin (The Left, Sweden), Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, Germany), Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew, Ireland), Arba Kokalari (EPP, Sweden), Denis Nesci (ECR, Italy), Klara Dostalova (PfE, Czechia)
- Opinions
- 6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (A10-0140/2025), 11 Sep 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0140/2025 - Alex Agius Saliba - Commission proposal, adopted, 535 for, 36 against, 47 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote
- Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (A10-0140/2025), 12 Mar 2026: final vote, adopted, 537 for, 2 against, 24 abstentions
Votes in the Council of the EU
- 30 Mar 2026: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 27 member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU
Timeline
1st reading
- 18 Jan 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
- 30 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 3 Feb 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 25 Feb 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 9 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 26 Jun 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 16 Jul 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 10 Sep 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 11 Sep 2025: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary; Amending a text in plenary
- 24 Sep 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 2 Dec 2025)
- 27 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 11 Mar 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 12 Mar 2026: EP position at 1st reading
- 29 Apr 2026: Signature
- 8 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.