Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)
- Reference
- 2023/0085(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Parliament adopted its position on 12 March 2024. Negotiations with the Council on a common text are under way (last trilogue 24 April 2025).
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety ENVI
More facts (5)
- Rapporteurs
- Delara BURKHARDT, MEP #209091, MEP #124696, Sandro GOZI
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 19 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 2 versions
- Opinions from
- BUDG, AGRI, ITRE
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 June 2023
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 14 February 2024
- Tabled for plenary (done) 23 February 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 12 March 2024
- Negotiations with the Council (current step) Trilogue 24 April 2025
- Published as law (to come)
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
- Rapporteurs
- Delara BURKHARDT (S&D), MEP #209091 (S&D) former member, MEP #124696 (Renew) former member, Sandro GOZI (Renew)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Danuše NERUDOVÁ (EPP), MEP #197515 (EPP) former member, Valérie DELOGE (Patriots), Emma WIESNER (Renew), Pietro FIOCCHI (ECR), MEP #197806 (ID) former member, Kai TEGETHOFF (Greens), Lynn BOYLAN (The Left), MEP #197743 (The Left) former member, Arba KOKALARI (EPP), Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA (S&D), Virginie JORON (Patriots), Kim VAN SPARRENTAK (Greens), Stefano CAVEDAGNA (ECR), MEP #229352 (Greens) former member, Carlo FIDANZA (ECR), Alice KUHNKE (Greens), Luke Ming FLANAGAN (The Left), MEP #197527 (The Left) former member
- Opinion: BUDG
- Budgets
- Opinion: AGRI
- Agriculture and Rural Development · rapporteur MEP #112611 (EPP) former member
- Opinion: ITRE
- Industry, Research and Energy
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, 2
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Adopted by Parliament12 Mar 2024
Adopted text TA9-0131/2024 TA-9-2024-0131
Tabled for plenary23 Feb 2024
Report A9-0056/2024 A-9-2024-0056
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Adopted text TA9-0131/2024: Parliament's amended version of the proposed Green Claims Directive requires traders to substantiate explicit environmental claims with scientific evidence before making them public.
- Report A9-0056/2024: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a Green Claims Directive requires traders to substantiate and communicate explicit environmental claims, and to have them verified before publication.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (AGRI), 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, 10
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 28 Jan 2025–24 Apr 2025
24 April 2025
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
28 January 2025
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
Plenary stage 3 steps · 23 Feb 2024–12 Mar 2024
12 March 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 12 Mar 2024 Adopted text TA9-0131/2024Report A9-0056/2024
11 March 2024
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 11 Mar 2024 Council / Commission text C9-0116/2023Report A9-0056/2024
23 February 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 5 steps · 1 Jun 2023–14 Feb 2024
14 February 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
24 January 2024
AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
13 November 2023
Amendments tabled in committee (3 batches)
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
11 October 2023
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
1 June 2023
Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; BUDG (Budgets), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) give an opinion.
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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). “Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)”. Dossier. reference 2023/0085(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0085 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2023/0085(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023%2F0085(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2023-0085,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0085}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0085},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2023/0085(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023\%2F0085(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}