Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement

Procedure 2024/0006(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement”; the committee responsible is EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 11 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 9 Oct 2025 (final vote): adopted with 414 votes in favour, 139 against and 61 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0006(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Directive 2009/38/EC as regards the establishment and functioning of European Works Councils and the effective enforcement of transnational information and consultation rights

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

EMPL Employment and Social Affairs

Rapporteur

Dennis Radtke (EPP, Germany)

Shadow rapporteurs

Rudi Kennes (The Left, Belgium), Nela Riehl (Greens/EFA, Germany), Gabriele Bischoff (S&D, Germany), Brigitte van den Berg (Renew, Netherlands), Elena Donazzan (ECR, Italy), Mélanie Disdier (PfE, France)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Amending Directive 2009/38/EC as regards the establishment and functioning of European Works Councils and the effective enforcement of transnational information and consultation rights (A10-0029/2024), 19 Dec 2024: roll-call vote, adopted, 300 for, 254 against, 21 abstentions
• Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement (A10-0029/2024), 9 Oct 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0029/2024 – Dennis Radtke – Provisional agreement – Am 79, adopted, 414 for, 139 against, 61 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 27 Oct 2025: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 0 against, 1 abstention. Abstained: Latvia. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 13 Feb 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
2. 26 Feb 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
3. 3 Apr 2024: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
4. 24 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
5. 6 Dec 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 19 Dec 2024: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 5 Jun 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
8. 8 Oct 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
9. 9 Oct 2025: EP position at 1st reading
10. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
11. 11 Dec 2025: Publication in the Official Journal

• All procedures

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)