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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast)

Reference
2022/0347(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 20 November 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Environment, Climate and Food Safety ENVI
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
Javi LÓPEZ
Shadow rapporteurs
6 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
4 versions
Opinions from
TRAN, JURI
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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) 19 January 2023
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 27 June 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 5 July 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 11 March 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 24 April 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 20 November 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
Environment, Climate and Food Safety ENVI
Rapporteur
Javi LÓPEZ (S&D)
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197582 (ID) former member, Norbert LINS (EPP), Anna ZALEWSKA (ECR), Karin KARLSBRO (Renew), Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ (Greens), MEP #197805 (The Left) former member
Opinion: TRAN
Transport and Tourism · rapporteur MEP #197756 (S&D) former member
Opinion: JURI
Legal Affairs · rapporteur Magdalena ADAMOWICZ (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.

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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, 4

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

  1. Adopted by Parliament24 Apr 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0319/2024 TA-9-2024-0319

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  2. Adopted by Parliament13 Sept 2023

    Adopted text TA9-0318/2023 TA-9-2023-0318

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  3. Tabled for plenary5 Jul 2023

    Report A9-0233/2023 A-9-2023-0233

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  4. Committee draft23 Feb 2023

    Draft report (ENVI) ENVI-PR-742410

AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
  • Report A9-0233/2023: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast) sets new air quality standards to be met by 2030 and regularly reviewed thereafter.

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Committee opinions: Opinion (TRAN), Draft opinion (TRAN)

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 · 23 Oct 2024–20 Nov 2024

  1. 20 November 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 23 October 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 · 24 Apr 2024

  1. 24 April 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 24 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0319/2024Report A9-0233/2023

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 13 Sept 2023–11 Mar 2024

  1. 11 March 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

  2. 13 September 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 · 5 Jul 2023–13 Sept 2023

  1. 13 September 2023

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 13 Sept 2023 Adopted text TA9-0318/2023Council / Commission text C9-0364/2022Report A9-0233/2023

  2. 12 September 2023

    Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 12 Sept 2023 Council / Commission text C9-0364/2022Report A9-0233/2023

  3. 5 July 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

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

    Report A9-0233/2023

Committee stage 5 steps · 19 Jan 2023–27 Jun 2023

  1. 27 June 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

    ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  2. 27 June 2023

    Committee opinion adopted

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

    JURI-AL-750118

  3. 24 May 2023

    TRAN (Transport and Tourism) adopted its opinion

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

    Opinion (TRAN)

  4. 23 February 2023

    Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    Draft report (ENVI)

  5. 19 January 2023

    Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; TRAN (Transport and Tourism), JURI (Legal Affairs) give an opinion.

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0347
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Retrieved
25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2026). “Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast)”. Dossier. reference 2022/0347(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0347 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2022/0347(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022%2F0347(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
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  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast)}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0347}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0347},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2022/0347(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022\%2F0347(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
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