Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: simplification and strengthening
2025/0039(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2025/0039(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: simplification and strengthening”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 17 Oct 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 10 Sep 2025 (final vote): adopted with 617 votes in favour, 18 against and 19 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0039(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Opinion
- INTA International Trade (opinion: Karin Karlsbro (Renew, Sweden))
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy (opinion: Filip Turek (PfE, Czechia)) - Budgetary assessment
- BUDG Budgets (opinion: Sandra Gómez López (S&D, Spain))
- Rapporteur
- Antonio Decaro (S&D, Italy)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left, Sweden), Sara Matthieu (Greens/EFA, Belgium), Mohammed Chahim (S&D, Netherlands), Pascal Canfin (Renew, France), Adam Jarubas (EPP, Poland), Alexandr Vondra (ECR, Czechia), Filip Turek (PfE, Czechia), Anja Arndt (ESN, Germany)
- Opinions
- 18 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (A10-0085/2025), 22 May 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0085/2025 - Antonio Decaro - Commission proposal, adopted, 564 for, 20 against, 12 abstentions; plus 17 more roll-call votes
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: simplification and strengthening (A10-0085/2025), 10 Sep 2025: final vote, adopted, 617 for, 18 against, 19 abstentions
Votes in the Council of the EU
- 29 Sep 2025: Council (Competitiveness), 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
- 10 Mar 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
1st reading
- 27 Mar 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 31 Mar 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 23 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 24 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 13 May 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 14 May 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 21 May 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 22 May 2025: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 3 Jul 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 9 Sep 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 10 Sep 2025: EP position at 1st reading
- 8 Oct 2025: Signature
- 17 Oct 2025: Publication in the Official Journal
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)
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.