Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain

Procedure 2024/0318(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain”; the committee responsible is AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 20 Mar 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 12 Feb 2026 (final vote): adopted with 555 votes in favour, 0 against and 26 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0318(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Cooperation among enforcement authorities responsible for the enforcement of Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development

Opinion

IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection (opinion: Adnan Dibrani (S&D, Sweden))

Rapporteur

Stefano Bonaccini (S&D, Italy)

Shadow rapporteurs

Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left, Ireland), Martin Häusling (Greens/EFA, Germany), Valérie Hayer (Renew, France), Paulo do Nascimento Cabral (EPP, Portugal), Waldemar Buda (ECR, Poland), Valérie Deloge (PfE, France)

Opinions

6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain (A10-0153/2025), 12 Feb 2026: final vote, adopted, 555 for, 0 against, 26 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 5 Mar 2026: Council (Justice and Home 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. 20 Jan 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 20 Mar 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
3. 9 Apr 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
4. 28 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
5. 26 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
6. 15 Jul 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
7. 30 Jul 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
8. 11 Sep 2025: Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda); Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
9. 16 Oct 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (2 times, most recently on 12 Nov 2025)
10. 12 Feb 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda); EP position at 1st reading
11. 11 Mar 2026: Signature
12. 20 Mar 2026: 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)