Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0035(NLE)
Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and repealing Council Regulation (Euratom) 2021/765
Non-legislative procedure (NLE): for example international agreements, appointments or opinions. · Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion.
Parliament is consulted: it gives an opinion and can propose amendments, but the Council takes the decision and need not follow them.
Where it stands
Plenary vote
Parliament gave its opinion on 22 May 2025. The Council takes the final decision.
- Referred to committee(done) 5 May 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 24 April 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 30 April 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 22 May 2025
- Adopted by the Council(to come)
Decided in plenary
22 May 2025 · decision 5
Energy, New EU law
Euratom Research and Training Programme for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon Europe
Passed 489 for · 55 against · 38 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The adopted position means Parliament backs the programme's continuation and its link to the broader EU research framework.
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.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Industry, Research and Energy
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Borys Budka (EPP)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 22 May 2025
AI summary:Parliament approved the Commission proposal for a Council regulation establishing the Euratom Research and Training Programme for 2026-2027, complementing Horizon Europe.
Tabled for plenary· 30 Apr 2025
AI summary:Parliament approves the Commission proposal for a Council regulation establishing the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for 2026-2027, complementing Horizon Europe.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 1 step
22 May 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 22 May 2025 Adopted text TA10-0112/2025Report A10-0083/2025
Committee stage 1 step
5 May 2025
Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Plenary stage 1 step
30 April 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 1 step
24 April 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0035(NLE)