Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders

2025/0329(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2025/0329(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 23 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 17 Dec 2025 (final vote): adopted with 405 votes in favour, 242 against and 8 abstentions.

Reference: 2025/0329(COD)
Type: Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title: Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 as regards certain obligations of operators and traders
Status: Completed, 1st reading
Lead: ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Opinion: AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
INTA International Trade
Rapporteur: Christine Schneider (EPP, Germany)
Shadow rapporteurs: Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left, Sweden), Marie Toussaint (Greens/EFA, France), Delara Burkhardt (S&D, Germany), Pascal Canfin (Renew, France), Anna Zalewska (ECR, Poland), Ondřej Knotek (PfE, Czechia)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders (C10-0263/2025), 26 Nov 2025: final vote, main vote: C10-0263/2025 – Commission proposal, adopted, 402 for, 250 against, 8 abstentions; plus 35 more roll-call votes
Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders (C10-0263/2025), 17 Dec 2025: final vote, main vote: C10-0263/2025 – Provisional agreement – Am 137, adopted, 405 for, 242 against, 8 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

18 Dec 2025: Council of the EU, Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 1 against, 2 abstentions. Against: Spain; Abstained: Belgium, Netherlands. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

12 Nov 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
13 Nov 2025: Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
26 Nov 2025: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
4 Dec 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
10 Dec 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
15 Dec 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
17 Dec 2025: EP position at 1st reading
19 Dec 2025: Signature
23 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)

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.