Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2086(INI)
Ensuring faster registration and uptake of biological control agents
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 25 November 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 8 May 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 4 November 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 14 November 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 25 November 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
25 November 2025 · decision 10
Agriculture, food & fisheries, Resolution
Ensuring faster registration and uptake of biological control agents
Adopted 590 for · 28 against · 32 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The text addresses the need to accelerate the authorisation process for biological plant protection products in the EU.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: punctuation and number formatting are corrected.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Alexander Bernhuber (EPP), Anna Strolenberg (Greens)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Christophe Clergeau (S&D), Anne-Sophie Frigout (Patriots), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Jeannette Baljeu (Renew), Majdouline Sbai (Greens), Anja Hazekamp (The Left), Anja Arndt (ESN), Stefan Köhler (EPP), Annalisa Corrado (S&D), Benoit Cassart (Renew), Mep #256961 (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 25 Nov 2025
AI summary:Parliament calls on the Commission to establish an EU-wide legal definition of biological control solutions and a framework for faster approval and authorisation, including targeted revision of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.
Tabled for plenary· 14 Nov 2025
AI summary:This resolution calls on the Commission to establish an EU-wide legal definition of biological control solutions and a framework for faster approval and authorisation, including tailored risk assessment, mutual recognition, and fast-track procedures.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
25 November 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 25 Nov 2025 Report A10-0234/2025Adopted text TA10-0284/2025
24 November 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
14 November 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
4 November 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
23 July 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
16 June 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
8 May 2025
Referred to the AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2086(INI)