Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
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.
- Referred to committee (done) 7 March 2022
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 26 April 2023
- Tabled for plenary (done) 28 April 2023
- Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 11 January 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 10 April 2024
- 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
- Rapporteurs
- Pascal CANFIN (Renew), Jutta PAULUS (Greens)
- 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.
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.
Adopted by Parliament10 Apr 2024
Adopted text TA9-0190/2024 TA-9-2024-0190
Adopted by Parliament9 May 2023
Adopted text TA9-0127/2023 TA-9-2023-0127
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
15 July 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
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
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
24 January 2024
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 9 May 2023–11 Jan 2024
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.
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
9 May 2023
Plenary vote
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
28 April 2023
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps · 7 Mar 2022–26 Apr 2023
26 April 2023
Committee vote: report adopted
ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
15 September 2022
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
12 July 2022
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
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.
Connections
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Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- 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)}
}