Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review

Procedure 2025/0084(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review”; the committee responsible is REGI (Regional Development). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 19 Sep 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 10 Sep 2025 (final vote): adopted with 440 votes in favour, 168 against and 52 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0084(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulations (EU) 2021/1058 and (EU) 2021/1056 as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

REGI Regional Development

Opinion

EMPL Employment and Social Affairs
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety (opinion: Antonio Decaro (S&D, Italy))
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
SEDE Security and Defence (opinion: Riho Terras (EPP, Estonia))
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Sérgio Humberto (EPP, Portugal))

Budgetary assessment

BUDG Budgets (opinion: Danuše Nerudová (EPP, Czechia))

Rapporteur

Dragoş Benea (S&D, Romania)

Shadow rapporteurs

Valentina Palmisano (The Left, Italy), Cristina Guarda (Greens/EFA, Italy), Ľubica Karvašová (Renew, Slovakia), Krzysztof Hetman (EPP, Poland), Denis Nesci (ECR, Italy), Klara Dostalova (PfE, Czechia), Irmhild Boßdorf (ESN, Germany)

Opinions

26 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Amending of the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review (C10-0063/2025), 7 May 2025: roll-call vote, adopted, 316 for, 291 against, 27 abstentions
• Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review (A10-0129/2025), 10 Sep 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0129/2025 - Dragoş Benea - Provisional agreement - Am 77, adopted, 440 for, 168 against, 52 abstentions; plus 2 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 18 Sep 2025: Council (Environment), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 2 against, 1 abstention. Against: Finland, Sweden; Abstained: Bulgaria. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 5 May 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 13 May 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 21 May 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
4. 3 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
5. 4 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
6. 16 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
7. 25 Jun 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
8. 2 Jul 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
9. 9 Jul 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
10. 15 Jul 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
11. 3 Sep 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
12. 9 Sep 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
13. 10 Sep 2025: EP position at 1st reading
14. 18 Sep 2025: Signature
15. 19 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)