Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability
2023/0447(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2023/0447(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability”; the committee responsible is AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 10 Aug 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 28 Apr 2026 (final vote): adopted with 558 votes in favour, 35 against and 52 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2023/0447(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development
- Opinion
- ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety (opinion: Manuela Ripa (EPP, Germany))
- Rapporteur
- Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Anja Hazekamp (The Left, Netherlands), Tilly Metz (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg), Dario Nardella (S&D, Italy), Michal Wiezik (Renew, Slovakia), Salvatore De Meo (EPP, Italy), Vilis Krištopans (PfE, Latvia)
- Opinions
- 6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability (A10-0104/2025), 19 Jun 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0104/2025 – Veronika Vrecionová – Commission proposal, adopted, 457 for, 17 against, 86 abstentions; plus 21 more roll-call votes
- Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability (A10-0104/2025), 28 Apr 2026: final vote, adopted, 558 for, 35 against, 52 abstentions
Votes in the Council of the EU
- 22 May 2026: Council (Foreign Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 0 against, 1 abstention. Abstained: Czechia. Result at the Council of the EU
Timeline
1st reading
- 25 Jan 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
- 24 Jul 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 10 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 14 Jan 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 8 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 3 Jun 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 10 Jun 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 19 Jun 2025: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 15 Jul 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (2 times, most recently on 25 Nov 2025)
- 12 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 28 Apr 2026: EP position at 1st reading
- 17 Jun 2026: Signature
- 10 Aug 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.