Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain

Procedure 2024/0319(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain”; the committee responsible is AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 29 Jul 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 16 Jun 2026 (final vote): adopted with 560 votes in favour, 75 against and 25 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0319(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development

Budgetary assessment

BUDG Budgets

Rapporteur

Céline Imart (EPP, France)

Shadow rapporteurs

Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left, Ireland), Anna Strolenberg (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Cristina Maestre (S&D, Spain), Barry Cowen (Renew, Ireland), Bert-Jan Ruissen (ECR, Netherlands), Csaba Dömötör (PfE, Hungary), Stanislav Stoyanov (ESN, Bulgaria)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain (A10-0161/2025), 8 Oct 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0161/2025 – Céline Imart – Commission proposal, adopted, 532 for, 78 against, 25 abstentions; plus 21 more roll-call votes
• Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain (A10-0161/2025), 16 Jun 2026: final vote, adopted, 560 for, 75 against, 25 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 29 Jun 2026: Council (Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 21 for, 3 against, 3 abstentions. Against: Latvia, Netherlands, Sweden; Abstained: Germany, Denmark, Estonia. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 20 Jan 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 18 Mar 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 1 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 8 Sep 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 12 Sep 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 7 Oct 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
7. 8 Oct 2025: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
8. 14 Oct 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (4 times, most recently on 5 Mar 2026)
9. 8 Apr 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
10. 16 Jun 2026: EP position at 1st reading
11. 8 Jul 2026: Signature
12. 29 Jul 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)