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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942

Reference
2021/0423(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 15 July 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Industry, Research and Energy ITRE
More facts (5)
Rapporteurs
Pascal CANFIN, Jutta PAULUS
Shadow rapporteurs
9 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
3 versions
Opinions from
BUDG, AGRI

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) 7 March 2022
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 26 April 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 28 April 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 11 January 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 10 April 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 15 July 2024

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
Industry, Research and Energy ITRE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197488 (ID) former member, Massimiliano SALINI (EPP), MEP #125064 (EPP) former member, Günther SIDL (S&D), Jens GEIER (S&D), MEP #197520 (ECR) former member, Anna ZALEWSKA (ECR), Martin HOJSÍK (Renew), MEP #197817 (The Left) former member
Opinion: BUDG
Budgets
Opinion: AGRI
Agriculture and Rural Development · rapporteur Norbert LINS (EPP)

Decisions in plenary, 0

Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.

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

Voting grid

Export

Every roll-call vote on the dossier, in date and voting order, with each group's line at the date of the vote.

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 Parliament10 Apr 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0190/2024 TA-9-2024-0190

    Compare with adopted by parliament

  2. Adopted by Parliament9 May 2023

    Adopted text TA9-0127/2023 TA-9-2023-0127

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  3. Tabled for plenary28 Apr 2023

    Report A9-0162/2023 A-9-2023-0162

What changed

Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.

No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier. The “Compare” links under Versions show every change between two versions.

Timeline, 13

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

Outcome 2 steps · 13 Jun 2024–15 Jul 2024
  1. 15 July 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 13 June 2024

    Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

Plenary stage 1 step · 10 Apr 2024
  1. 10 April 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 10 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0190/2024Report A9-0162/2023

Committee stage 1 step · 24 Jan 2024
  1. 24 January 2024

    Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    JURI-AL-758222

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 9 May 2023–11 Jan 2024
  1. 11 January 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

    The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.

    CJ10-AG-757975

  2. 9 May 2023

    Parliament opened negotiations with the Council

    After its vote Parliament sent the file back to committee, so that its negotiators can seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

Plenary stage 3 steps · 28 Apr 2023–9 May 2023
  1. 9 May 2023

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 9 May 2023 Report A9-0162/2023

  2. 8 May 2023

    Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 8 May 2023 Council / Commission text C9-0467/2021Report A9-0162/2023

  3. 28 April 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

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

    Report A9-0162/2023

Committee stage 4 steps · 7 Mar 2022–26 Apr 2023
  1. 26 April 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

    ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  2. 15 September 2022

    Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    CJ10-PR-736476

  3. 12 July 2022

    Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    AGRI-AL-735469

  4. 7 March 2022

    Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; BUDG (Budgets), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) give an opinion.

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Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942”. Dossier. reference 2021/0423(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2021-0423 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2021/0423(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2021%2F0423(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2021-0423,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2021-0423}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2021-0423},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2021/0423(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2021\%2F0423(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}