Phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies

2025/0180(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2025/0180(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies”; the committee responsible is INTA (International Trade). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 2 Feb 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 17 Dec 2025 (final vote): adopted with 500 votes in favour, 120 against and 32 abstentions.

Reference: 2025/0180(COD)
Type: Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title: Phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1938
Status: Completed, 1st reading
Lead: INTA International Trade
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
Opinion: IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection (opinion: Paulius Saudargas (EPP, Lithuania))
Rapporteurs: Inese Vaidere (EPP, Latvia), Ville Niinistö (Greens/EFA, Finland)
Shadow rapporteurs: Danilo Della Valle (The Left, Italy), Hanna Gedin (The Left, Sweden), Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA, Czechia), Francisco Assis (S&D, Portugal), Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (S&D, France), Katri Kulmuni (Renew, Finland), Ľubica Karvašová (Renew, Slovakia), Andrea Wechsler (EPP, Germany), Daniel Obajtek (ECR, Poland), Rihards Kols (ECR, Latvia), Raffaele Stancanelli (PfE, Italy), Markus Buchheit (ESN, Germany)
Opinions: 1 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (A10-0195/2025), 17 Dec 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0195/2025 – Inese Vaidere, Ville Niinistö – Provisional agreement – Am 27, adopted, 500 for, 120 against, 32 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

26 Jan 2026: Council (General Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 2 against, 1 abstention. Against: Hungary, Slovakia; Abstained: Bulgaria. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

23 Jun 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

14 Jul 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
8 Sep 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
25 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
16 Oct 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
17 Oct 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
22 Oct 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
6 Nov 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 2 Dec 2025)
15 Dec 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
16 Dec 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
17 Dec 2025: EP position at 1st reading
26 Jan 2026: Signature
2 Feb 2026: 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)

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