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Law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims

Reference
2018/0044(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Parliament voted its first-reading position on 13 February 2019. Next: negotiations with the Council, unless the Council accepts Parliament’s text as it stands.
Stage
First reading
Lead committee
Legal Affairs JURI
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
MEP #96272
Shadow rapporteurs
4 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
3 versions
Opinions from
ECON

Where it stands

The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.

  1. Referred to committee (done) 16 April 2018
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 10 July 2018
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 17 July 2018
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Talks opened 12 September 2018
  5. Plenary vote (done) Voted 13 February 2019
  6. Published as law (to come)

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

People

Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.

Lead committee
Legal Affairs JURI
Rapporteur
MEP #96272 (EPP) former member
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #28206 (ALDE) former member, MEP #124776 (S&D) former member, MEP #124873 (ECR) former member, MEP #125061 (GUE-NGL) former member
Opinion: ECON
Economic and Monetary Affairs

Decisions in plenary, 0

Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.

No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.

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No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.

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Versions, 3

The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.

  1. Adopted by Parliament13 Feb 2019

    Adopted text TA8-0086/2019 TA-8-2019-0086

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  2. Tabled for plenary17 Jul 2018

    Report A8-0261/2018 A-8-2018-0261

    Compare with committee draft

  3. Committee draft3 May 2018

    Draft report (JURI) JURI-PR-621985

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  • Report A8-0261/2018: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims. It keeps the law of the assignor's habitual residence as the main rule and adds the law of the assigned claim for money in accounts and financial instruments.
  • Draft report (JURI): The Committee on Legal Affairs draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims.

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Timeline, 6

Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.

Plenary stage 1 step · 13 Feb 2019
  1. 13 February 2019

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 13 Feb 2019 Adopted text TA8-0086/2019Report A8-0261/2018

Negotiations with the Council 1 step · 12 Sept 2018
  1. 12 September 2018

    Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

Plenary stage 1 step · 17 Jul 2018
  1. 17 July 2018

    Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    Report A8-0261/2018

Committee stage 3 steps · 16 Apr 2018–10 Jul 2018
  1. 10 July 2018

    Committee vote: report adopted

    JURI (Legal Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  2. 3 May 2018

    Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in JURI (Legal Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    Draft report (JURI)

  3. 16 April 2018

    Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) gives an opinion.

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Sources & citation

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Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
26 September 2026

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European Parliament (2026). “Law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims”. Dossier. reference 2018/0044(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2018-0044 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2018/0044(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2018%2F0044(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2018-0044,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2018-0044}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2018-0044},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2018/0044(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2018\%2F0044(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}