Framework for achieving climate neutrality

2025/0524(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Procedure 2025/0524(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Framework for achieving climate neutrality”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 18 Mar 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 3 days, most recently on 10 Feb 2026 (final vote): adopted with 413 votes in favour, 226 against and 12 abstentions.

Reference
2025/0524(COD)
Type
Ordinary legislative procedure
Official title
Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality
Status
Completed, 1st reading
Lead
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Opinion
AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development (opinion: Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia))
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy (opinion: Niels Fuglsang (S&D, Denmark))
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Virginijus Sinkevičius (Greens/EFA, Lithuania))
Rapporteur
Ondřej Knotek (PfE, Czechia)
Shadow rapporteurs
Catarina Martins (The Left, Portugal), Lena Schilling (Greens/EFA, Austria), Javi López (S&D, Spain), Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (Renew, Netherlands), Lídia Pereira (EPP, Portugal), Anna Zalewska (ECR, Poland), Anja Arndt (ESN, Germany)
Opinions
12 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

  • European Climate Law (C10-0137/2025), 9 Jul 2025: roll-call vote, rejected, 300 for, 379 against, 8 abstentions
  • Framework for achieving climate neutrality (A10-0223/2025), 13 Nov 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0223/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Commission proposal, adopted, 379 for, 248 against, 10 abstentions; plus 39 more roll-call votes
  • Framework for achieving climate neutrality (A10-0223/2025), 10 Feb 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0223/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Provisional agreement – Am 69, adopted, 413 for, 226 against, 12 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 5 Mar 2026: Council (Justice and Home Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 22 for, 4 against, 1 abstention. Against: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia; Abstained: Belgium. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

  1. 7 Jul 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 15 Jul 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 24 Jul 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  4. 26 Aug 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  5. 8 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  6. 12 Sep 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  7. 5 Nov 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  8. 10 Nov 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible; Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  9. 12 Nov 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
  10. 13 Nov 2025: Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary; Amending a text in plenary
  11. 9 Dec 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
  12. 19 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
  13. 10 Feb 2026: EP position at 1st reading
  14. 11 Mar 2026: Signature
  15. 18 Mar 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

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.