Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans
- Reference
- 2023/0397(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Completed: published in the Official Journal on 24 May 2024 and now EU law.
- Stage
- Published as law
- Lead committee
- Foreign Affairs AFET
More facts (5)
- Rapporteurs
- Tonino PICULA, Karlo RESSLER
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 10 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 2 versions
- Opinions from
- REGI, CONT, INTA
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 18 January 2024
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 11 March 2024
- Tabled for plenary (done) 11 March 2024
- Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 9 April 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 24 April 2024
- Published as law (done) 24 May 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
- Foreign Affairs AFET
- Rapporteurs
- Tonino PICULA (S&D), Karlo RESSLER (EPP)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Željana ZOVKO (EPP), MEP #96991 (S&D) former member, MEP #124873 (ECR) former member, Bogdan RZOŃCA (ECR), MEP #125063 (Renew) former member, Fabienne KELLER (Renew), MEP #197451 (Greens) former member, MEP #197645 (Greens) former member, MEP #28586 (The Left) former member, MEP #130833 (The Left) former member
- Opinion: REGI
- Regional Development · rapporteur MEP #197692 (EPP) former member
- Opinion: CONT
- Budgetary Control · rapporteur MEP #1892 (EPP) former member
- Opinion: INTA
- International Trade · rapporteur MEP #96646 (The Left) former member
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 Parliament24 Apr 2024
Adopted text TA9-0343/2024 TA-9-2024-0343
Tabled for plenary11 Mar 2024
Report A9-0085/2024 A-9-2024-0085
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Report A9-0085/2024: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal sets up the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans, a financing instrument for 2024-2027.
Committee opinions: Opinion (REGI), Draft opinion (INTA), Opinion (INTA)
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 · 14 May 2024–24 May 2024
24 May 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
14 May 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 · 23 Apr 2024–24 Apr 2024
24 April 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 24 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0343/2024Report A9-0085/2024
23 April 2024
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 23 Apr 2024 Council / Commission text C9-0408/2023Report A9-0085/2024
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 14 Mar 2024–9 Apr 2024
9 April 2024
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
14 March 2024
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 · 11 Mar 2024
11 March 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 7 steps · 18 Jan 2024–11 Mar 2024
11 March 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
AFET (Foreign Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
22 February 2024
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
19 February 2024
INTA (International Trade) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
14 February 2024
REGI (Regional Development) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
9 February 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
24 January 2024
Draft opinion from INTA (International Trade)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
18 January 2024
Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; REGI (Regional Development), CONT (Budgetary Control), INTA (International Trade) 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). “Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans”. Dossier. reference 2023/0397(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0397 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2023/0397(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023%2F0397(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0397}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0397},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2023/0397(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023\%2F0397(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
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