Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2079(INI)
Competition policy – annual report 2024
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 8 May 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 28 November 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 8 April 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 15 April 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 8 May 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
8 May 2025 · decision 11
Economy & single market, Resolution
Competition policy – annual report 2024
Adopted 358 for · 124 against · 79 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The report calls for competition policy to support EU goals like sustainability and competitiveness, while warning against market dominance and distortion from State aid.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal and wording points: a decimal separator is corrected and a missing space is added.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report broadens the scope of competition policy to include sustainability, energy, defence, and innovation, and adds references to the Draghi and Letta reports. It strengthens State aid conditions, including bans for tax haven companies and a European Competitiveness Fund, and adds deadlines for IPCEI notifications. It expands merger control scrutiny to killer acquisitions and digital markets, and adds calls for a new competition tool and structural remedies. It adds numerous sector-specific concerns, including digital concentration, AI, financial sector, food supply chains, and payments, and calls for investigations. It increases Parliament's role in competition policy and updates the explanatory statement.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Economic and Monetary Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Lara Wolters (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Andreas Schwab (EPP), Pierre Pimpie (Patriots), Francesco Ventola (ECR), Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Renew), Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Greens), Martin Schirdewan (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 8 May 2025
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on the 2024 competition policy annual report calls for a competition policy that supports EU goals like sustainability and competitiveness, while warning against market concentration and State aid fragmentation.
Tabled for plenary· 15 Apr 2025
AI summary:This resolution on the 2024 annual competition policy report sets out Parliament's views on EU competition policy, covering general principles, industrial policy, enforcement, mergers, and sectoral issues.
Committee draft· 11 Dec 2024
AI summary:This draft report on the EU competition policy annual report 2024 reaffirms competition policy's role in protecting consumers and contributing to EU policies, and calls for updated enforcement, merger rules, and sectoral action.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
8 May 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 8 May 2025 Report A10-0071/2025Adopted text TA10-0104/2025
7 May 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
30 April 2025
14 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
15 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
8 April 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
3 February 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
11 December 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
28 November 2024
Referred to the ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2079(INI)