Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process

Procedure 2025/0108(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process”; the committee responsible is INTA (International Trade). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 22 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 13 Nov 2025 (final vote): adopted with 543 votes in favour, 72 against and 22 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0108(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/823 of 28 February 2024 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

INTA International Trade

Rapporteur

Kris Van Dijck (ECR, Belgium)

Shadow rapporteurs

Danilo Della Valle (The Left, Italy), Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA, Czechia), Ştefan Muşoiu (S&D, Romania), Ľubica Karvašová (Renew, Slovakia), Ilia Lazarov (EPP, Bulgaria), Pierre Pimpie (PfE, France), Markus Buchheit (ESN, Germany)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process (A10-0188/2025), 13 Nov 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Commission proposal, adopted, 543 for, 72 against, 22 abstentions; plus 4 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 8 Dec 2025: Council (Justice and Home Affairs), 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

1st reading

1. 16 Jun 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 23 Jun 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 10 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 6 Oct 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 9 Oct 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 13 Nov 2025: EP position at 1st reading
7. 16 Dec 2025: Signature
8. 22 Dec 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)