Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Amending Directive 2004/37/EC as regards the addition of substances and setting limit values in its Annexes I, III and IIIa
- Reference
- 2025/0232(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Parliament’s committee approved the deal reached with the Council on 2 September 2026; the plenary vote on it is still to come.
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Employment and Social Affairs EMPL
More facts (4)
- Rapporteur
- Liesbet SOMMEN
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 6 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 2 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) 6 October 2025
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 15 April 2026
- Tabled for plenary (done) 17 April 2026
- Plenary vote (current step) Scheduled 6 October 2026
- Negotiations with the Council (current step) Deal approved in committee 2 September 2026
- 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
- Employment and Social Affairs EMPL
- Rapporteur
- Liesbet SOMMEN (EPP)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Nora MEBAREK (S&D), Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN (Patriots), Mariateresa VIVALDINI (ECR), Grégory ALLIONE (Renew), Maria OHISALO (Greens), Per CLAUSEN (The Left)
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.
Tabled for plenary17 Apr 2026
Report A10-0100/2026 A-10-2026-0100
Committee draft11 Dec 2025
Draft report (EMPL) EMPL-PR-781362
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- Report A10-0100/2026: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Directive 2004/37/EC on workers' exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxic substances. It adds new definitions, new Annex I entries for welding fumes and hazardous medicinal products, and binding limit values for cobalt, isoprene, 1,4-dioxane and mercury compounds.
- Draft report (EMPL): This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal to amend Directive 2004/37/EC by adding substances and setting limit values in its Annexes I, III and IIIa.
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, 9
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Negotiations with the Council 4 steps · 29 Apr 2026–2 Sept 2026
2 September 2026
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
23 June 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
7 May 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
29 April 2026
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 · 17 Apr 2026
17 April 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps · 6 Oct 2025–15 Apr 2026
15 April 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
30 January 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
11 December 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
6 October 2025
Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
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Sources & citation
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- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Amending Directive 2004/37/EC as regards the addition of substances and setting limit values in its Annexes I, III and IIIa”. Dossier. reference 2025/0232(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-0232 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2025/0232(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025%2F0232(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2025-0232,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Amending Directive 2004/37/EC as regards the addition of substances and setting limit values in its Annexes I, III and IIIa}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-0232}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-0232},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2025/0232(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025\%2F0232(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}