Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2124(INI)
Women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and outermost regions
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 30 April 2026. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 23 January 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 26 February 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 13 April 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 30 April 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
30 April 2026 · decision 8
EU budget & funds, Resolution
Women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and outermost regions
Adopted 404 for · 102 against · 67 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The text calls for gender mainstreaming across rural development, cohesion, digital, and agricultural policies, and for collecting gender-disaggregated data.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The adopted text removes several calls for gender budgeting and gender-responsive budgeting across EU programmes, including the CAP and cohesion policy. One wording change rephrases the description of women with disabilities in entrepreneurship.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report expands significantly, adding detailed recitals on gender equality, violence, and regional challenges, and new operational paragraphs on funding, education, and infrastructure. It introduces specific calls for gender-responsive budgeting, support for women farmers, and measures against gender-based violence, including shelters and legal frameworks. The text now emphasizes intersectionality, covering women with disabilities, migrants, and elderly, and calls for targeted financial instruments like a female founders fund. It also stresses the importance of data collection and the role of the CAP and cohesion policy in supporting women's entrepreneurship. The other changes are formal: updated citations and cross-references.
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.
- Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Sabrina Repp (S&D), Mireia Borrás Pabón (Patriots), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Valérie Devaux (Renew), Anna Strolenberg (Greens), Irmhild Bossdorf (ESN)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Agriculture and Rural Development· rapporteurAnna Strolenberg (Greens)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 30 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on women's entrepreneurship in rural, island, mountainous and outermost regions calls for targeted support in funding, training, infrastructure, and social protection, and for gender mainstreaming across EU policies.
Tabled for plenary· 13 Apr 2026
AI summary:This resolution addresses women's entrepreneurship in rural, island, mountainous, and outermost regions. It calls for improved access to funding, education, digital infrastructure, and support services, and for gender mainstreaming across EU policies and budgets.
Committee draft· 15 Jul 2025
AI summary:This draft report on women's entrepreneurship in rural, island and outermost regions calls for measures to improve access to finance, digital infrastructure, education, and support services, and to address gender-based violence.
Committee opinions: Opinion (AGRI), Draft opinion (AGRI)
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
30 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 30 Apr 2026 Report A10-0058/2026Adopted text TA10-0158/2026
30 April 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
24 April 2026
1 amendment tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
13 April 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
26 February 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
5 November 2025
AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
15 July 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
23 January 2025
Referred to the FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) gives an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2124(INI)