Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/0299(NLE)
Amendments to the International Health Regulations contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024
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 6 May 2025. The Council can now conclude the act.
- Referred to committee(done) 10 March 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 9 April 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 14 April 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 6 May 2025
- Adopted by the Council(to come)
Decided in plenary
6 May 2025 · decision 7
Health, International agreement
Amendments to the International Health Regulations contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024
Consent given 514 for · 126 against · 6 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The amendments, adopted on 1 June 2024, introduce a "pandemic emergency" as the highest global alert level and issue non-binding Temporary Recommendations to guide countries.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
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.
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
- Public Health
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Adam Jarubas (EPP)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 6 May 2025
AI summary:Parliament gives its consent to the draft Council decision inviting Member States to accept, in the interest of the European Union, the amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024.
Tabled for plenary· 14 Apr 2025
AI summary:Parliament gives its consent to the draft Council decision inviting Member States to accept amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) adopted on 1 June 2024.
Committee draft· 4 Mar 2025
AI summary:The draft report recommends that Parliament consent to the Council decision inviting member states to accept amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005), adopted on 1 June 2024.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 2 steps
6 May 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 6 May 2025 Adopted text TA10-0073/2025Report A10-0064/2025
14 April 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
9 April 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
SANT (Public Health) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
28 March 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of SANT (Public Health) proposed changes to the draft.
10 March 2025
Referred to the SANT (Public Health) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
4 March 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in SANT (Public Health). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/0299(NLE)