Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods

2025/0260(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2025/0260(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods”; the committee responsible is INTA (International Trade). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 30 Jun 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 16 Jun 2026 (final vote): adopted with 444 votes in favour, 152 against and 54 abstentions.

Reference
2025/0260(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Status
Completed, 1st reading
Lead
INTA International Trade
Opinion
PECH Fisheries
Budgetary assessment
BUDG Budgets (opinion: Sandra Gómez López (S&D, Spain))
Rapporteur
Bernd Lange (S&D, Germany)
Shadow rapporteurs
Martin Schirdewan (The Left, Germany), Anna Cavazzini (Greens/EFA, Germany), Karin Karlsbro (Renew, Sweden), Željana Zovko (EPP, Croatia), Kris Van Dijck (ECR, Belgium), Anna Bryłka (PfE, Poland), Markus Buchheit (ESN, Germany)
Opinions
7 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 25 Jun 2026: Council (Environment), 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

  1. 24 Sep 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

  1. 20 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 22 Oct 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  3. 11 Dec 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  4. 19 Mar 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible; Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  5. 26 Mar 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting; Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
  6. 13 Apr 2026: Interinstitutional negotiation (3 times, most recently on 19 May 2026)
  7. 2 Jun 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
  8. 15 Jun 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  9. 16 Jun 2026: EP position at 1st reading
  10. 25 Jun 2026: Signature
  11. 30 Jun 2026: 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.