Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products
2025/0531(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2025/0531(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products”; the committee responsible is ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Ongoing: Latest: EP position at 1st reading on 22 Oct 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 22 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 477 votes in favour, 59 against and 41 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0531(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Amending Regulations (EC) No 1272/2008, (EC) No 1223/2009 and (EU) 2019/1009 as regards simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products
- Status
- Ongoing, 1st reading
- Lead
- ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection - Opinion
- AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development (opinion: Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia))
- Rapporteurs
- Dimitris Tsiodras (EPP, Greece), Piotr Müller (ECR, Poland)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Per Clausen (The Left, Denmark), Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, Germany), Majdouline Sbai (Greens/EFA, France), Idoia Mendia (S&D, Spain), Kristian Vigenin (S&D, Bulgaria), Martin Hojsík (Renew, Slovakia), Nikola Minchev (Renew, Bulgaria), Salvatore De Meo (EPP, Italy), Pietro Fiocchi (ECR, Italy), Anne-Sophie Frigout (PfE, France), Volker Schnurrbusch (ESN, Germany)
- Opinions
- 3 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products (A10-0104/2026), 29 Apr 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0104/2026 – Dimitris Tsiodras, Piotr Müller – Commission proposal, adopted, 540 for, 60 against, 45 abstentions; plus 14 more roll-call votes
- Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products (A10-0104/2026), 22 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0104/2026 – Dimitris Tsiodras, Piotr Müller – Provisional agreement – Am 118, adopted, 477 for, 59 against, 41 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote
Timeline
1st reading
- 8 Sep 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 10 Dec 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 9 Jan 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 24 Feb 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 15 Apr 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 20 Apr 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 29 Apr 2026: Amending a text in plenary; Referral of the matter back to the EP committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 16 Jun 2026: Interinstitutional negotiation
- 14 Jul 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 22 Oct 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda); EP position at 1st reading
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)
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