Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2053(INI)
How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?
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) 13 March 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 18 March 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 7
Agriculture, food & fisheries, Resolution
How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?
Adopted 426 for · 119 against · 40 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The text calls for tailored policies, maintaining the CAP budget, and promoting grassland-based systems, while rejecting one-size-fits-all livestock reduction strategies.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: decimal separators are changed from points to commas in several statistics. One substantive addition calls for incentivising extensive and grass-based livestock farming under the CAP.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report expands significantly, adding many new recitals and paragraphs on livestock's role in food security, rural development, and trade. It strengthens calls for CAP support, including a dedicated budget, and for measures to address farmer income and generational renewal. It adds emphasis on vaccination, biosecurity, and disease prevention, including new funding mechanisms and a European animal health fund. It introduces new paragraphs on trade reciprocity, mirror clauses, and promotion of EU products, and on synthetic foods and labelling. The other changes are formal or wording updates, such as punctuation and rephrasing.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Carlo Fidanza (ECR)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Jessika van Leeuwen (EPP), Cristina Maestre (S&D), Valérie Deloge (Patriots), Benoit Cassart (Renew), David Cormand (Greens), Mep #256961 (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 30 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on securing a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector stresses its economic, social and environmental importance, and calls for tailored policies, fair incomes, and support for farmers.
Tabled for plenary· 13 Apr 2026
AI summary:The report addresses the future of the EU livestock sector, emphasizing its economic, social, and environmental importance. It calls for tailored policies, support for farmers, and measures to combat animal diseases.
Committee draft· 12 Jun 2025
AI summary:This draft report addresses the future of the EU livestock sector, covering its economic, environmental, and social roles, and the challenges of animal diseases. It calls for tailored policies, support for farmers, and measures to ensure sustainability and competitiveness.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
30 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 30 Apr 2026 Report A10-0088/2026Adopted text TA10-0157/2026
30 April 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the 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
18 March 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
14 July 2025
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (AGRI)Amendments in committee (AGRI)
12 June 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
13 March 2025
Referred to the AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2053(INI)