Protection of the environment through criminal law
2025/0244(NLE) · Non-legislative enactments
Procedure 2025/0244(NLE) (non-legislative enactments) concerns “Protection of the environment through criminal law”; the committee responsible is JURI (Legal Affairs). Concluded in Parliament: Latest: EP decision on 8 Jul 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 8 Jul 2026 (final vote): adopted with 499 votes in favour, 99 against and 69 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0244(NLE)
- Type
- Non-legislative enactments
- Official title
- Conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law
- Status
- Concluded in Parliament
- Lead
- JURI Legal Affairs
- Opinion
- ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs - Rapporteur
- Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Renew, Bulgaria)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Mario Furore (The Left, Italy), Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Greens/EFA, Denmark), Leire Pajín (S&D, Spain), Daniel Buda (EPP, Romania), Tobiasz Bocheński (ECR, Poland)
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Protection of the environment through criminal law (A10-0156/2026), 8 Jul 2026: final vote, adopted, 499 for, 99 against, 69 abstentions
Timeline
- 12 Mar 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
- 7 Apr 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 20 Apr 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 3 Jun 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 12 Jun 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 8 Jul 2026: EP decision
- 23 Oct 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. 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.