Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2057(INI)
Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
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Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 19 December 2024. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 10 October 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 4 December 2024
- Tabled for plenary(done) 6 December 2024
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 19 December 2024
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
19 December 2024 · decision 5
Jobs, social affairs & equality, Resolution
Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Adopted 322 for · 163 against · 46 abstained by a clear majority
AI summary:The text urges the Council to reaffirm commitment to the Beijing Declaration, integrate gender equality into EU external action, and address the global backlash against women's rights.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:Adds concerns about women's sports and Syrian women's security under the new regime. Softens the foreign policy commitment by dropping 'feminist' and gender-transformative language. Removes the promotion of safe migration pathways, focusing only on labour migration policies. The only formal change is a punctuation correction.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report expands the scope to girls and adds universal principle, education, and stronger commitment language. Recitals are reorganized: new ones on data framework and gender mainstreaming replace earlier ones on SDG indicators and backlash. Recommendations are greatly expanded with new calls on Saudi Arabia, UN Women, WPS, intersectionality, and many specific policy areas. An explanatory section is added to justify the recommendation.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Lina Gálvez (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Eleonora Meleti (EPP), Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus (S&D), Margarita De La Pisa Carrión (Patriots), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Abir Al-Sahlani (Renew), Mélissa Camara (Greens), Hanna Gedin (The Left), Irmhild Bossdorf (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 19 Dec 2024
AI summary:Parliament recommends that the Council reaffirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to gender equality in EU external action, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and address backlash against women's rights.
Tabled for plenary· 6 Dec 2024
AI summary:This recommendation to the Council sets out EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, urging commitment to the Beijing Declaration and action on gender equality.
Committee draft· 10 Oct 2024
AI summary:The draft report recommends that the Council confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and implement gender equality in all EU external action, including through gender mainstreaming and budgeting.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
19 December 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 19 Dec 2024 Report A10-0030/2024Adopted text TA10-0075/2024
10 December – 11 December 2024
18 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
6 December 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
4 December 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
14 November 2024
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) proposed changes to the draft.
10 October 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
10 October 2024
Referred to the FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2057(INI)