European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challenges
2025/0085(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2025/0085(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challenges”; the committee responsible is EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). 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 453 votes in favour, 149 against and 59 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0085(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- EMPL Employment and Social Affairs
- Opinion
- ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
REGI Regional Development (opinion: Sandro Gozi (Renew, France))
SEDE Security and Defence (opinion: Urmas Paet (Renew, Estonia)) - Budgetary assessment
- BUDG Budgets (opinion: Jean-Marc Germain (S&D, France))
- Rapporteur
- Marit Maij (S&D, Netherlands)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Estrella Galán (The Left, Spain), Villy Søvndal (Greens/EFA, Denmark), Brigitte van den Berg (Renew, Netherlands), Maravillas Abadía Jover (EPP, Spain), Elena Donazzan (ECR, Italy), Séverine Werbrouck (PfE, France)
- Opinions
- 15 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges (C10-0064/2025), 7 May 2025: roll-call vote, adopted, 370 for, 268 against, 16 abstentions
- European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challenges (A10-0122/2025), 10 Sep 2025: final vote, adopted, 453 for, 149 against, 59 abstentions
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
- 5 May 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 8 May 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 21 May 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 16 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 25 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion; Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 30 Jun 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 9 Jul 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 15 Jul 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
- 4 Sep 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
- 18 Sep 2025: Signature
- 19 Sep 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.