International passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions: cabotage operations between Austria and Switzerland

Procedure 2025/0407(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “International passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions: cabotage operations between Austria and Switzerland”; the committee responsible is TRAN (Transport and Tourism). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 17 Jul 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 7 Jul 2026 (final vote): adopted with 654 votes in favour, 4 against and 1 abstention.

Reference

2025/0407(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Empowering Austria to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of the provision of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

TRAN Transport and Tourism

Parliamentary committee for opinion on legal basis

JURI Legal Affairs (opinion: Tobiasz Bocheński (ECR, Poland))

Rapporteur

Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi (EPP, Greece)

Shadow rapporteurs

Elena Kountoura (The Left, Greece), Lena Schilling (Greens/EFA, Austria), Andreas Schieder (S&D, Austria), Benoit Cassart (Renew, Belgium), Kosma Złotowski (ECR, Poland), Roman Haider (PfE, Austria)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• International passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions: cabotage operations between Austria and Switzerland (A10-0174/2026), 7 Jul 2026: final vote, adopted, 654 for, 4 against, 1 abstention

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 13 Jul 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. 27 Jan 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 4 Feb 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 13 Apr 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 5 May 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
5. 3 Jun 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
6. 15 Jun 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
7. 7 Jul 2026: EP position at 1st reading
8. 14 Jul 2026: Signature
9. 17 Jul 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)