General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM): fishing in the GFCM Agreement area

Procedure 2024/0098(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM): fishing in the GFCM Agreement area”; the committee responsible is PECH (Fisheries). Completed: Signed on 21 Oct 2026, publication in the Official Journal pending. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 15 Sep 2026 (final vote): adopted with 580 votes in favour, 51 against and 39 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0098(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) No 2023/2124 on certain provisions for fishing in the GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean) Agreement area

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

PECH Fisheries

Rapporteur

Željana Zovko (EPP, Croatia)

Shadow rapporteurs

Sebastian Everding (The Left, Germany), Isabella Lövin (Greens/EFA, Sweden), Thomas Bajada (S&D, Malta), Emma Ytterell (Renew, Sweden), Giuseppe Milazzo (ECR, Italy), Anna Maria Cisint (PfE, Italy)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM): fishing in the GFCM Agreement area (A10-0150/2025), 15 Sep 2026: final vote, adopted, 580 for, 51 against, 39 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 13 Oct 2026: Council (General Affairs), 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. 16 Sep 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 19 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 25 Feb 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 16 Jul 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 23 Jul 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 10 Sep 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 3 Jun 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
8. 15 Sep 2026: EP position at 1st reading
9. 21 Oct 2026: Signature

• 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)