Increased efficiency of the External Action Guarantee

Procedure 2025/0262(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Increased efficiency of the External Action Guarantee”; the committee responsible is AFET (Foreign Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 4 May 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 10 Mar 2026 (final vote): adopted with 441 votes in favour, 105 against and 81 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0262(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/947 as regards increased efficiency of the External Action Guarantee

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

AFET Foreign Affairs
DEVE Development

Budgetary assessment

BUDG Budgets

Rapporteurs

David McAllister (EPP, Germany), Charles Goerens (Renew, Luxembourg)

Shadow rapporteurs

Mimmo Lucano (The Left, Italy), Erik Marquardt (Greens/EFA, Germany), Tineke Strik (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Marit Maij (S&D, Netherlands), Sandra Gómez López (S&D, Spain), Dan Barna (Renew, Romania), Niels Geuking (EPP, Germany), Kristoffer Storm (ECR, Denmark), György Hölvényi (PfE, Hungary), Marc Jongen (ESN, Germany)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Increased efficiency of the External Action Guarantee (A10-0221/2025), 10 Mar 2026: final vote, adopted, 441 for, 105 against, 81 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 30 Mar 2026: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), 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. 19 Jun 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 20 Aug 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 5 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 5 Nov 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 10 Nov 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 24 Nov 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 26 Jan 2026: Interinstitutional negotiation
8. 25 Feb 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
9. 10 Mar 2026: EP position at 1st reading
10. 29 Apr 2026: Signature
11. 4 May 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)