European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement

Procedure 2025/0073(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement”; the committee responsible is EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Completed: Signed on 20 May 2026, publication in the Official Journal pending. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 28 Apr 2026 (final vote): adopted with 566 votes in favour, 67 against and 26 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0073(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/691 as regards support to workers affected by imminent job displacement in enterprises undergoing restructuring

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

EMPL Employment and Social Affairs

Budgetary assessment

BUDG Budgets (opinion: Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR, Belgium))

Rapporteur

Liesbet Sommen (EPP, Belgium)

Shadow rapporteurs

Rudi Kennes (The Left, Belgium), Villy Søvndal (Greens/EFA, Denmark), Estelle Ceulemans (S&D, Belgium), Grégory Allione (Renew, France), Francesco Torselli (ECR, Italy), Marie Dauchy (PfE, France)

Opinions

5 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement (A10-0251/2025), 28 Apr 2026: final vote, adopted, 566 for, 67 against, 26 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 11 May 2026: Council (Education, Youth and Culture), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 1 against, 2 abstentions. Against: Sweden; Abstained: Austria, Poland. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 5 May 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 21 May 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 30 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 15 Jul 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
5. 23 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
6. 3 Dec 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
7. 8 Dec 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
8. 17 Dec 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
9. 17 Mar 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
10. 28 Apr 2026: EP position at 1st reading
11. 20 May 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)