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Protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (“Strategic lawsuits against public participation”)

Reference
2022/0117(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 16 April 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Legal Affairs JURI
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
Tiemo WÖLKEN
Shadow rapporteurs
6 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
4 versions
Opinions from
CULT, FEMM
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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) 5 May 2022
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 27 June 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done)
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 24 January 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 27 February 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 16 April 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
Legal Affairs JURI
Rapporteur
Tiemo WÖLKEN (S&D)
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #124738 (ID) former member, Magdalena ADAMOWICZ (EPP), Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA (ECR), MEP #204416 (Renew) former member, Marie TOUSSAINT (Greens), Manon AUBRY (The Left)
Opinion: CULT
Culture and Education · rapporteur MEP #130833 (The Left) former member
Opinion: FEMM
Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

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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The people on this dossier — pick up to 6. Each gets a column with their own position.

Versions, 4

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

  1. Adopted by Parliament27 Feb 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0085/2024 TA-9-2024-0085

    Compare with adopted by parliament

  2. Adopted by Parliament11 Jul 2023

    Adopted text TA9-0264/2023 TA-9-2023-0264

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  3. Tabled for plenary29 Jun 2023

    Report A9-0223/2023 A-9-2023-0223

    Compare with committee draft

  4. Committee draft2 Mar 2023

    Draft report (JURI) JURI-PR-745170

Committee opinions: Opinion (CULT), Draft opinion (CULT), Draft opinion (LIBE), Opinion (LIBE)

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, 14

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

Outcome 2 steps · 11 Apr 2024–16 Apr 2024

  1. 16 April 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 11 April 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 · 27 Feb 2024

  1. 27 February 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 27 Feb 2024 Adopted text TA9-0085/2024Report A9-0223/2023

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 11 Jul 2023–24 Jan 2024

  1. 24 January 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

  2. 11 July 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 2 steps · 10 Jul 2023–11 Jul 2023

  1. 11 July 2023

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 11 Jul 2023 Report A9-0223/2023

  2. 10 July 2023

    Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 10 Jul 2023 Council / Commission text C9-0161/2022Report A9-0223/2023

Committee stage 7 steps · 5 May 2022–27 Jun 2023

  1. 27 June 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

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

  2. 25 May 2023

    CULT (Culture and Education) adopted its opinion

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

    Opinion (CULT)

  3. 23 May 2023

    LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) adopted its opinion

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

    Opinion (LIBE)

  4. 7 March 2023

    Draft opinion from LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    Draft opinion (LIBE)

  5. 2 March 2023

    Draft report published

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

    Draft report (JURI)

  6. 20 February 2023

    Draft opinion from CULT (Culture and Education)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    Draft opinion (CULT)

  7. 5 May 2022

    Referred to the JURI (Legal Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; CULT (Culture and Education), FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) give an opinion.

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0117
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Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (“Strategic lawsuits against public participation”)”. Dossier. reference 2022/0117(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0117 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2022/0117(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022%2F0117(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
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  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (“Strategic lawsuits against public participation”)}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0117}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0117},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2022/0117(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022\%2F0117(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}