Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/0048(NLE)
Accession of Tonga to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, and the Pacific States
Non-legislative procedure (NLE): for example international agreements, appointments or opinions. · Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Parliament is asked to approve the decision. It can accept or reject the text as a whole but cannot amend it.
Where it stands
Plenary vote
Parliament gave its consent on 18 December 2024. The Council can now conclude the act.
- Referred to committee(done) 16 September 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 3 December 2024
- Tabled for plenary(done) 5 December 2024
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 18 December 2024
- Adopted by the Council(to come)
Decided in plenary
18 December 2024 · decision 1
Foreign affairs, International agreement
EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Tonga
Consent given 545 for · 81 against · 26 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The decision will be forwarded to the Council, the Commission, and the governments and parliaments of member states and Tonga.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: the explanatory statement is removed in the adopted text.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
No change of substance: the two versions differ only in presentation — cover page, numbering or the parts a report carries that the adopted text does not.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- International Trade
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Dariusz Joński (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Francisco Assis (S&D), Emmanouil Fragkos (ECR), Barry Cowen (Renew), Rudi Kennes (The Left), René Aust (ESN)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Fisheries
- Development
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 18 Dec 2024
AI summary:Parliament gives its consent to the accession of the Kingdom of Tonga to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Pacific States.
Tabled for plenary· 5 Dec 2024
AI summary:Parliament gives its consent to the accession of the Kingdom of Tonga to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Pacific States.
Committee draft· 14 Nov 2024
AI summary:The draft report recommends that Parliament consent to the Kingdom of Tonga's accession to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Pacific States, which would integrate Tonga further into regional and global trade.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 2 steps
18 December 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 18 Dec 2024 Adopted text TA10-0068/2024Report A10-0023/2024
5 December 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps
3 December 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
INTA (International Trade) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
14 November 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in INTA (International Trade). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
16 September 2024
Referred to the INTA (International Trade) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; PECH (Fisheries), DEVE (Development) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/0048(NLE)