Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed production

Procedure 2024/0027(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed production”; the committee responsible is AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 20 Jun 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 22 May 2025 (final vote): adopted with 374 votes in favour, 176 against and 36 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0027(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Granting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seed

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development

Rapporteur

Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia)

Shadow rapporteurs

Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left, Ireland), Thomas Waitz (Greens/EFA, Austria), Gheorghe Cârciu (S&D, Romania), Elsi Katainen (Renew, Finland), Daniel Buda (EPP, Romania), Gilles Pennelle (PfE, France), Ivan David (ESN, Czechia)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Granting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seed (A10-0043/2025), 3 Apr 2025: roll-call vote, adopted, 411 for, 191 against, 13 abstentions
• Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed production (A10-0043/2025), 22 May 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0043/2025 – Veronika Vrecionová – Commission proposal, adopted, 374 for, 176 against, 36 abstentions; plus 3 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 12 Jun 2025: Council (Justice and Home Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 25 for, 1 against, 1 abstention. Against: Hungary; Abstained: Poland. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 26 Feb 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 20 Nov 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 20 Dec 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 19 Mar 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 25 Mar 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 3 Apr 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 22 May 2025: EP position at 1st reading with amendments
8. 17 Jun 2025: Signature
9. 20 Jun 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)