Suspending the application of the rules on extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste (Omnibus VIII on environmental legislation)
2025/0395(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2025/0395(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Suspending the application of the rules on extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste (Omnibus VIII on environmental legislation)”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Ongoing: Latest: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary on 20 Oct 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 20 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 616 votes in favour, 9 against and 39 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0395(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Suspending the application of the rules on the appointment of an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste
- Status
- Ongoing, 1st reading
- Lead
- ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Opinion
- IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy - Rapporteur
- Ingeborg Ter Laak (EPP, Netherlands)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Emma Fourreau (The Left, France), Jutta Paulus (Greens/EFA, Germany), Delara Burkhardt (S&D, Germany), Ana Vasconcelos (Renew, Portugal), Pietro Fiocchi (ECR, Italy), Anne-Sophie Frigout (PfE, France)
- Opinions
- 4 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Suspending the application of the rules on extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste (Omnibus VIII on environmental legislation) (A10-0266/2026), 20 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0266/2026 – Ingeborg Ter Laak – Commission proposal, adopted, 616 for, 9 against, 39 abstentions; plus 7 more roll-call votes
Timeline
1st reading
- 9 Feb 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
- 11 Mar 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 22 May 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 5 Oct 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 9 Oct 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 19 Oct 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 20 Oct 2026: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary; Amending a text in plenary
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.