The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season

Procedure 2025/0051(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season”; the committee responsible is ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 10 Sep 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 8 Jul 2025 (final vote): adopted with 542 votes in favour, 109 against and 30 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0051(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU)2017/1938 as regards the role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

ITRE Industry, Research and Energy

Rapporteur

Borys Budka (EPP, Poland)

Shadow rapporteurs

Dario Tamburrano (The Left, Italy), Marie Toussaint (Greens/EFA, France), Jens Geier (S&D, Germany), Ivars Ijabs (Renew, Latvia), Andrea Wechsler (EPP, Germany), Ondřej Krutílek (ECR, Czechia), András Gyürk (PfE, Hungary)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season (A10-0079/2025), 8 May 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0079/2025 - Borys Budka - Commission proposal, adopted, 425 for, 106 against, 43 abstentions; plus 6 more roll-call votes
• The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season (A10-0079/2025), 8 Jul 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0079/2025 – Borys Budka – Provisional agreement – Am 9, adopted, 542 for, 109 against, 30 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 18 Jul 2025: Council (General Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 25 for, 1 against, 1 abstention. Against: Hungary; Abstained: Slovakia. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1. 29 Jan 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

1. 28 Mar 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
2. 31 Mar 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
3. 24 Apr 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
4. 25 Apr 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
5. 7 May 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
6. 8 May 2025: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 13 May 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 24 Jun 2025)
8. 26 Jun 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
9. 8 Jul 2025: EP position at 1st reading
10. 18 Jul 2025: Signature
11. 10 Sep 2025: 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)