Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2072(INI)
Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups
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 26 November 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 3 April 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 24 September 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 2 October 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 26 November 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
26 November 2025 · decision 10
Economy & single market, Resolution
Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups
Adopted 360 for · 298 against · 8 abstained by a small majority
AI summary:The text calls for reducing regulatory burdens, fostering private investment, and closing the late-stage financing gap to help European firms grow and stay in the Union.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: decimal separators are updated from points to commas.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:Adds extensive new content on regulatory burdens, bank lending, and the need for simplification, including calls to review Green Deal obligations. Expands measures to mobilise private capital, including retail investment, pension funds, and venture capital, with new calls on EuVECA and tax incentives. Strengthens the focus on scale-up financing gaps and the role of the EIB Group, co-investment platforms, and the TechEU Platform. Adds clarifications on the 28th regime, guidance tools, and the balance between national and internal markets. The other changes are formal or wording: renumbering and minor rephrasing.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Economic and Monetary Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Jorge Martín Frías (Patriots)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Herbert Dorfmann (EPP), Tsvetelina Penkova (S&D), Marlena Maląg (ECR), Anouk van Brug (Renew), Damian Boeselager (Greens), Gaetano Pedulla' (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 26 Nov 2025
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups calls for reducing bureaucratic burdens, unlocking private capital, bridging the scale-up funding gap, and reinforcing a competitive EU ecosystem.
Tabled for plenary· 2 Oct 2025
AI summary:This resolution addresses access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups in the EU, covering regulatory burdens, private capital mobilization, scale-up funding gaps, and market competitiveness.
Committee draft· 13 May 2025
AI summary:This draft report on access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups calls for reducing bureaucratic burdens, unlocking private capital, bridging the scale-up funding gap, and reinforcing a competitive EU ecosystem.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
26 November 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 26 Nov 2025 Report A10-0185/2025Adopted text TA10-0300/2025
19 November 2025
1 amendment tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
2 October 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
24 September 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
13 June 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
13 May 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
3 April 2025
Referred to the ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2072(INI)