Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0395(COD)
Suspending the application of the rules on the appointment of an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste
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.
- Ingeborg ter Laak (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Delara Burkhardt (S&D), Anne-Sophie Frigout (Patriots), Pietro Fiocchi (ECR), Ana Vasconcelos (Renew), Jutta Paulus (Greens), Emma Fourreau (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Industry, Research and Energy
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Committee draft· 22 May 2026
AI summary:This is the rapporteur's draft report on a Commission proposal to suspend, until 1 January 2035, the rules requiring battery and packaging producers to appoint an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility in Member States where they are not established.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (IMCO)
Timeline
Newest first.
Committee stage 3 steps
1 July 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) proposed changes to the draft.
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 the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0395(COD)