Inland waterway transport: River Information Systems (RIS)

Procedure 2024/0011(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Inland waterway transport: River Information Systems (RIS)”; the committee responsible is TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 12 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 7 Oct 2025 (final vote): adopted with 636 votes in favour, 10 against and 4 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0011(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Directive 2005/44/EC on harmonised river information services (RIS) on inland waterways in the Community

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

TRAN Transport and Tourism

Rapporteur

Tom Berendsen (EPP, Netherlands)

Shadow rapporteurs

Merja Kyllönen (The Left, Finland), Kai Tegethoff (Greens/EFA, Germany), François Kalfon (S&D, France), Valérie Devaux (Renew, France), Kris Van Dijck (ECR, Belgium), Rachel Blom (PfE, Netherlands)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Inland waterway transport: River Information Systems (RIS) (A10-0033/2025), 7 Oct 2025: final vote, adopted, 636 for, 10 against, 4 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 27 Oct 2025: 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

1. 29 Feb 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 16 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 19 Dec 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 18 Mar 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 20 Mar 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 2 Apr 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 26 Jun 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
8. 16 Jul 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
9. 7 Oct 2025: EP position at 1st reading
10. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
11. 12 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)