Where the law stands, Dossier 2023/0410(COD)
Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group
Amending Council Decision 89/367/EEC setting up a Standing Forestry Committee
Ordinary legislative procedure (COD): Parliament and the Council decide together as equals. · First reading
A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.
Where it stands
Negotiations with the Council
Parliament adopted its position on 21 October 2025. Negotiations with the Council on a common text are under way.
- Referred to committee(done) 26 February 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 23 September 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 1 October 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 21 October 2025
- Negotiations with the Council Talks opened 21 October 2025
- Published as law(to come)
Decided in plenary
21 October 2025 · decision 7
Climate & environment, New EU law
Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group
Passed 327 for · 256 against · 58 abstained by a small majority
AI summary:The adopted text includes amendments to the committee's tasks and structure, aiming to improve its functioning.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The only substantive change clarifies the Commission's duty to consider and respond to expert group opinions. Other changes are formal or wording: removing a consultation, adding footnotes, and punctuation adjustments.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Emma Wiesner (Renew), Pekka Toveri (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Alexander Bernhuber (EPP), Marta Temido (S&D), Mireia Borrás Pabón (Patriots), Maria Ohisalo (Greens), Per Clausen (The Left), Maria Grapini (S&D), Marie Dauchy (Patriots), Anna Zalewska (ECR), Elsi Katainen (Renew), Martin Häusling (Greens), Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 21 Oct 2025
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of the proposal to amend Council Decision 89/367/EEC renames the Standing Forestry Committee as the Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group and updates its tasks and composition.
Tabled for plenary· 1 Oct 2025
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of the proposal to amend Council Decision 89/367/EEC renames the Standing Forestry Committee as the Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group and updates its tasks and composition.
Timeline
Newest first.
Negotiations with the Council 1 step
21 October 2025
Parliament opened negotiations with the Council
After its vote Parliament sent the file back to committee, so that its negotiators can seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
Plenary stage 3 steps
21 October 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 21 Oct 2025 Adopted text TA10-0241/2025Report A10-0175/2025
14 October – 17 October 2025
22 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
1 October 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
23 September 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
24 February 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
22 January 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
26 February 2024
Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2023/0410(COD)