Amendments to Biocidal Products Regulation as regards the extension of certain data protection periods

2025/0408(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2025/0408(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Amendments to Biocidal Products Regulation as regards the extension of certain data protection periods”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 26 May 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 28 Apr 2026 (final vote): adopted with 591 votes in favour, 54 against and 8 abstentions.

Reference: 2025/0408(COD)
Type: Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title: Amending Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 as regards the extension of certain data protection periods
Status: Completed, 1st reading
Lead: ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Opinion: IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Rapporteur: Pierfrancesco Maran (S&D, Italy)
Shadow rapporteurs: Tilly Metz (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg), Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (Renew, Netherlands), Christine Schneider (EPP, Germany), Alexandr Vondra (ECR, Czechia), Ondřej Knotek (PfE, Czechia)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Amendments to Biocidal Products Regulation as regards the extension of certain data protection periods (A10-0094/2026), 28 Apr 2026: final vote, adopted, 591 for, 54 against, 8 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

11 May 2026: Council (Education, Youth and Culture), 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

9 Feb 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
10 Mar 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
15 Apr 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
16 Apr 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
28 Apr 2026: EP position at 1st reading
20 May 2026: Signature
26 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)

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.