Plenary report, 9 April 2025
On the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context
Report A-10-2025-0058 · (17102/1/2024 – C100057/2025 – 2018/0198(COD))
Committee on Regional Development · Rapporteur: Sandro Gozi
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AI:In short
Parliament approves the Council position at first reading on a regulation to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context. The act is adopted in accordance with the Council position, and Parliament instructs its President and Secretary-General to sign and publish it.
Position. The Committee on Regional Development recommends that Parliament confirm the Council position at first reading without amending it.
Key points
- Parliament approves the Council position at first reading without amendments.
- The act is adopted in accordance with the Council position.
- Parliament instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council.
- Parliament instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal.
- Parliament instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and national parliaments.
Legal basis. Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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Full text
Draft european parliament legislative resolution 17 paragraphs
(17102/1/2024 – C100057/2025 – 2018/0198(COD))
(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)
The European Parliament,
–having regard to the Council position at first reading (17102/1/2024 – C100057/2025),
–having regard to the opinions of the European Economic and Social Committee of 19 September 2018 and of 24 April 2024,
–having regard to the opinions of the Committee of the Regions of 5 December 2018 and of 17 April 2024,
–having regard to its position at first reading on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2018)0373– 2018/0198(COD),
–having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(2023)0790),
–having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
–having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 75(4) of its Rules of Procedure,
–having regard to Rule 68 of its Rules of Procedure,
–having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Regional Development (A10-0058/2025),
Read the rest (5 paragraphs)
1.Approves the Council position at first reading;
2.Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position;
3.Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
4.Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;
5.Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.
Short justification 2 paragraphs
The Council position at first reading reflects the agreement reached between Parliament and the Council in interinstitutional negotiations at early second-reading stage, after legal-linguistic verification.
Since the Committee on Regional Development (REGI), with its vote on 28 January 2025, already unanimously confirmed the outcome of those interinstitutional negotiations, as your rapporteur I propose that REGI recommends that the Plenary confirms the position of the Council at first reading, without amending it.
Annex: entities or persons from whom the rapporteur has received input 1 paragraph
The rapporteur declares under his exclusive responsibility that he did not receive input from any entity or person to be mentioned in this Annex pursuant to Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure.
Procedure pages
How the committees handled the text, and how their members voted on it.
Procedure – committee responsible 1 paragraph
| Title | Border Regions’ instrument for development and growth (BRIDGEforEU) | |
| References | 17102/1/2024 – C10-0057/2025 – 2018/0198(COD) | |
| Date of Parliament’s first reading – P number | 14.2.2019 T8-0118/2019 | |
| Draft act considered at first reading | COM(2018)0373 - C8-0228/2018 | |
| Receipt of Council position at first reading announced in plenary | 3.4.2025 | |
| Committee(s) responsible | REGI | |
| Rapporteurs Date appointed | Sandro Gozi 9.9.2024 | |
| Previous rapporteurs | Matthijs van Miltenburg | |
| Discussed in committee | 3.12.2024 | 27.1.2025 |
| Date adopted | 9.4.2025 | |
| Result of final vote | +: –: 0: | 30 0 2 |
| Members present for the final vote | Pascal Arimont, Fredis Beleris, Dragoş Benea, Gordan Bosanac, Andi Cristea, Klára Dobrev, Klara Dostalova, Kathleen Funchion, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Gabriella Gerzsenyi, Sérgio Gonçalves, Krzysztof Hetman, Elsi Katainen, Isabelle Le Callennec, Nora Mebarek, Elena Nevado del Campo, Andrey Novakov, Valentina Palmisano, Sabrina Repp, Marcos Ros Sempere, Antonella Sberna, Mārtiņš Staķis, Francesco Ventola, Marta Wcisło | |
| Substitutes present for the final vote | Nikolina Brnjac, Sandro Gozi, Julien Leonardelli, Alexandra Mehnert, Ana Miranda Paz, Denis Nesci, Jessika Van Leeuwen | |
| Members under Rule 216(7) present for the final vote | Arno Bausemer | |
| Date tabled | 9.4.2025 |
Final vote by roll call by the committee responsible 3 paragraphs
30 · For
- ECR
- Denis Nesci, Antonella Sberna, Francesco Ventola
- ESN
- Arno Bausemer
- EPP
- Pascal Arimont, Fredis Beleris, Nikolina Brnjac, Gabriella Gerzsenyi, Krzysztof Hetman, Isabelle Le Callennec, Alexandra Mehnert, Elena Nevado del Campo, Andrey Novakov, Jessika Van Leeuwen, Marta Wcisło
- Renew
- Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Sandro Gozi, Elsi Katainen
- S&D
- Dragoş Benea, Andi Cristea, Klára Dobrev, Sérgio Gonçalves, Nora Mebarek, Sabrina Repp, Marcos Ros Sempere
- The Left
- Kathleen Funchion, Valentina Palmisano
- Greens
- Gordan Bosanac, Ana Miranda Paz, Mārtiņš Staķis
0 · Against
2 · Abstained
- Patriots
- Klara Dostalova, Julien Leonardelli