Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)
2024/0035(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2024/0035(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Ongoing: Latest: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary on 17 Jun 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 17 Jun 2025 (final vote): adopted with 599 votes in favour, 2 against and 62 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2024/0035(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Status
- Ongoing, 1st reading
- Lead
- LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Opinion
- CULT Culture and Education (opinion: Zala Černilec Tomašič (EPP, Slovenia))
FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (opinion: Heléne Fritzon (S&D, Sweden)) - Parliamentary committee for opinion on recasting technique
- JURI Legal Affairs (opinion: Magdalena Adamowicz (EPP, Poland))
- Rapporteur
- Jeroen Lenaers (EPP, Netherlands)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Isabel Serra Sánchez (The Left, Spain), Saskia Bricmont (Greens/EFA, Belgium), Marina Kaljurand (S&D, Estonia), Hilde Vautmans (Renew, Belgium), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium), Alexandre Varaut (PfE, France)
- Opinions
- 14 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (A10-0097/2025), 17 Jun 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0097/2025 – Jeroen Lenaers – Commission proposal, adopted, 599 for, 2 against, 62 abstentions; plus 13 more roll-call votes
Timeline
1st reading
- 16 Apr 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 25 Apr 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
- 24 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 18 Nov 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 9 Jan 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 30 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 3 Mar 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 13 May 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 26 May 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 17 Jun 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda); Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 23 Jun 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (4 times, most recently on 22 Jun 2026)
- 4 Nov 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. 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.