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Amending Council Directive 98/24/EC and Directive 2004/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates

Reference
2023/0033(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 19 March 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Employment and Social Affairs EMPL
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
MEP #197571
Shadow rapporteurs
6 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
3 versions
Opinions from
ENVI

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) 13 March 2023
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 7 September 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 8 September 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 11 January 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 7 February 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 19 March 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
Employment and Social Affairs EMPL
Rapporteur
MEP #197571 (The Left) former member
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197586 (ID) former member, MEP #197455 (EPP) former member, MEP #228604 (S&D) former member, MEP #197544 (ECR) former member, MEP #247122 (Renew) former member, Sara MATTHIEU (Greens)
Opinion: ENVI
Environment, Climate and Food Safety

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

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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 Parliament7 Feb 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0066/2024 TA-9-2024-0066

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  2. Tabled for plenary8 Sept 2023

    Report A9-0263/2023 A-9-2023-0263

    Compare with committee draft

  3. Committee draft8 May 2023

    Draft report (EMPL) EMPL-PR-746964

What changed

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

Timeline, 10

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

Outcome 2 steps · 13 Mar 2024–19 Mar 2024
  1. 19 March 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 13 March 2024

    Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

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

Plenary stage 2 steps · 6 Feb 2024–7 Feb 2024
  1. 7 February 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 7 Feb 2024 Adopted text TA9-0066/2024Report A9-0263/2023

  2. 6 February 2024

    Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 6 Feb 2024 Council / Commission text C9-0022/2023Report A9-0263/2023

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 13 Sept 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.

  2. 13 September 2023

    Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

Plenary stage 1 step · 8 Sept 2023
  1. 8 September 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

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

    Report A9-0263/2023

Committee stage 3 steps · 13 Mar 2023–7 Sept 2023
  1. 7 September 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

    EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  2. 8 May 2023

    Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    Draft report (EMPL)

  3. 13 March 2023

    Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) gives an opinion.

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Sources & citation

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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Amending Council Directive 98/24/EC and Directive 2004/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates”. Dossier. reference 2023/0033(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0033 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2023/0033(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023%2F0033(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2023-0033,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Amending Council Directive 98/24/EC and Directive 2004/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0033}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0033},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2023/0033(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023\%2F0033(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}