Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application

Procedure 2025/0429(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 28 Jul 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 4 days, most recently on 26 Mar 2026 (final vote): rejected with 228 votes in favour, 311 against and 92 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0429(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application

Status

Completed, 2nd reading

Lead

LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteur

Birgit Sippel (S&D, Germany)

Shadow rapporteurs

Isabel Serra Sánchez (The Left, Spain), Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA, Czechia), Irena Joveva (Renew, Slovenia), Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spain), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium), António Tânger Corrêa (PfE, Portugal)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application (A10-0040/2026), 11 Mar 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0040/2026 – Birgit Sippel – Commission proposal, adopted, 458 for, 103 against, 63 abstentions; plus 9 more roll-call votes
• Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application (A10-0040/2026), 26 Mar 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0040/2026 – Birgit Sippel – Commission proposal, rejected, 228 for, 311 against, 92 abstentions; plus 8 more roll-call votes
• Temporary derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse (C10-0178/2026), 7 Jul 2026: roll-call vote, adopted, 331 for, 304 against, 11 abstentions
• Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive (C10-0178/2026), 9 Jul 2026: roll-call vote, main vote: C10-0178/2026 – Proposal for rejection, rejected, 276 for, 286 against, 30 abstentions; plus 27 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 2 Jul 2026: Council of the EU, Adoption of a Council's position (at first reading) and Adoption of the statement of the Council's reasons: adopted; Member states: 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 27 member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU
• 23 Jul 2026: Council of the EU, Adoption of the legislative act and Approval of the EP's Amendments: adopted; Member states: 25 for, 1 against, 1 abstention. Against: Hungary; Abstained: Belgium. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1. 15 Jan 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

1. 27 Jan 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 5 Feb 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 2 Mar 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
4. 3 Mar 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
5. 11 Mar 2026: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
6. 12 Mar 2026: Interinstitutional negotiation (2 times, most recently on 16 Mar 2026)
7. 26 Mar 2026: EP position at 1st reading

2nd reading

1. 6 Jul 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 9 Jul 2026: Adoption of amendments to the Council’s position by the EP at 2nd reading
3. 24 Jul 2026: Signature
4. 28 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)