Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0391(COD)
Speeding-up environmental assessments
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
Committee work
In committee: ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) is preparing the report (draft published 22 May 2026).
- Referred to committee(done) 9 February 2026
- Committee work ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) preparing the report
- Tabled for plenary(to come)
- Plenary vote(to come)
- Negotiations with the Council(to come)
- Published as law(to come)
No plenary decision on this dossier is in our records yet.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Emma Wiesner (Renew)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Radan Kanev (EPP), Annalisa Corrado (S&D), Mathilde Androuët (Patriots), Beatrice Timgren (ECR), Jutta Paulus (Greens), Emma Fourreau (The Left), Anja Arndt (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Committee draft· 22 May 2026
AI summary:This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on speeding-up environmental assessments. It adopts a first-reading position with amendments that delete the 'toolbox' for strategic sectors and its Annex, replace EU-wide deadlines with project-specific timelines, and strengthen digital and resource provisions.
Timeline
Newest first.
Committee stage 3 steps
24 June 2026
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (ENVI)Amendments in committee (ENVI)
22 May 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
9 February 2026
Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0391(COD)