Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals
- Reference
- 2022/0394(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Completed: published in the Official Journal on 6 December 2024 and now EU law.
- Stage
- Published as law
- Lead committee
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety ENVI
More facts (4)
- Rapporteur
- Lídia PEREIRA
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 6 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 4 versions
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 1 February 2023
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 24 October 2023
- Tabled for plenary (done) 3 November 2023
- Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 11 March 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 10 April 2024
- Published as law (done) 6 December 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
- Lídia PEREIRA (EPP)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Catherine GRISET (ID), Ville NIINISTÖ (Greens), MEP #197817 (The Left) former member, Tiemo WÖLKEN (S&D), Anna ZALEWSKA (ECR), Emma WIESNER (Renew)
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, 4
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 TA9-0195/2024 TA-9-2024-0195
Adopted by Parliament21 Nov 2023
Adopted text TA9-0402/2023 TA-9-2023-0402
Tabled for plenary3 Nov 2023
Report A9-0329/2023 A-9-2023-0329
Committee draft10 May 2023
Draft report (ENVI) ENVI-PR-745292
Committee opinions: Opinion (AGRI), Draft opinion (AGRI)
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 · 27 Nov 2024–6 Dec 2024
6 December 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
27 November 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 TA9-0195/2024Report A9-0329/2023
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 21 Nov 2023–11 Mar 2024
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.
21 November 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 · 3 Nov 2023–21 Nov 2023
21 November 2023
Plenary vote
Sitting of 21 Nov 2023 Adopted text TA9-0402/2023Council / Commission text C9-0399/2022Report A9-0329/2023
20 November 2023
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 20 Nov 2023 Council / Commission text C9-0399/2022Report A9-0329/2023
3 November 2023
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 6 steps · 1 Feb 2023–24 Oct 2023
24 October 2023
Committee vote: report adopted
ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
30 August 2023
AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
28 June 2023
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
10 May 2023
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
12 April 2023
Draft opinion from AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
1 February 2023
Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
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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). “Establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals”. Dossier. reference 2022/0394(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0394 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2022/0394(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022%2F0394(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2022-0394,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0394}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0394},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2022/0394(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022\%2F0394(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
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