Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0073(COD)
European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement
Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/691 as regards support to workers affected by imminent job displacement in enterprises undergoing restructuring
Ordinary legislative procedure (COD): Parliament and the Council decide together as equals. · First reading
A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.
Where it stands
Plenary vote
Parliament approved the text agreed with the Council on 28 April 2026. The Council must now adopt it formally before it is published as law.
- Referred to committee(done) 5 May 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 3 December 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 8 December 2025
- Negotiations with the Council(done) Deal approved in committee 17 March 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 28 April 2026
- Published as law(to come)
Decided in plenary
28 April 2026 · decision 4
Jobs, social affairs & equality, New EU law
European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement
Passed 566 for · 67 against · 26 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The proposal amends the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to support workers facing imminent job displacement during company restructuring.
What changed
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:Extends EGF support to workers in enterprises undergoing restructuring, including suppliers and downstream producers, with a focus on SMEs and disadvantaged groups. Adds flexibility for applications in small labour markets and exceptional cases, with a 15% cap and a 40% budget reservation for displaced workers. Strengthens social partner involvement and consultation, and extends the deadline for enterprise requests to four weeks. Adds reporting and assessment requirements, including a 20-working-day extension for Commission assessments and new reporting on beneficiary outcomes. The other changes are formal: a budgetary assessment is added as an annex.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Employment and Social Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Liesbet Sommen (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Estelle Ceulemans (S&D), Marie Dauchy (Patriots), Francesco Torselli (ECR), Grégory Allione (Renew), Villy Søvndal (Greens), Rudi Kennes (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 28 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation amends Regulation (EU) 2021/691 to support workers affected by imminent job displacement in enterprises undergoing restructuring.
Tabled for plenary· 8 Dec 2025
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation extends the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to support workers at risk of imminent job displacement in enterprises undergoing restructuring, including direct suppliers and downstream producers.
Committee draft· 30 Jun 2025
AI summary:This draft report sets out Parliament's amendments to the proposed regulation extending European Globalisation Adjustment Fund support to workers facing imminent job displacement in restructuring enterprises.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (BUDG), Opinion (BUDG)
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
20 May 2026
Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
Plenary stage 2 steps
28 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 28 Apr 2026 Adopted text TA10-0116/2026Report A10-0251/2025
22 April – 24 April 2026
46 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps
17 March 2026
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
17 December 2025
Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
Plenary stage 1 step
8 December 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 6 steps
3 December 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
23 September 2025
BUDG (Budgets) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
18 July 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
15 July 2025
Draft opinion from BUDG (Budgets)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
30 June 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
5 May 2025
Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0073(COD)