Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001, (EU) 2019/944, (EU) 2024/1788 as regards acceleration of permit-granting procedures
- Reference
- 2025/0400(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Parliament’s negotiators are talking to the Council (last trilogue 14 July 2026); the plenary vote on the outcome is still to come.
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Industry, Research and Energy ITRE
More facts (5)
- Rapporteur
- Niels FUGLSANG
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 6 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 2 versions
- Opinions from
- ENVI
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 12 February 2026
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 2 July 2026
- Tabled for plenary (done) 3 July 2026
- Plenary vote (current step) Awaiting the vote
- Negotiations with the Council (current step) Trilogue 14 July 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
- Industry, Research and Energy ITRE
- Rapporteur
- Niels FUGLSANG (S&D)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Andrea WECHSLER (EPP), Jana NAGYOVÁ (Patriots), Ondřej KRUTÍLEK (ECR), Anna STÜRGKH (Renew), Michael BLOSS (Greens), Rudi KENNES (The Left)
- Opinion: ENVI
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety · rapporteur Rasmus NORDQVIST (Greens)
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 plenary3 Jul 2026
Report A10-0195/2026 A-10-2026-0195
Committee draft16 Apr 2026
Draft report (ITRE) ITRE-PR-785274
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- Report A10-0195/2026: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001, (EU) 2019/944 and (EU) 2024/1788 on speeding up permit-granting procedures. It sets deadlines for permits for renewable energy, storage, recharging stations and electricity grids, and exempts small installations and repowering from environmental impact assessments.
- Draft report (ITRE): The rapporteur's draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on a Commission proposal to amend Directives (EU) 2018/2001, (EU) 2019/944 and (EU) 2024/1788 to speed up permit-granting for energy projects.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (ENVI), Opinion (ENVI)
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, 8
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 8 Jul 2026–14 Jul 2026
14 July 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
8 July 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 · 3 Jul 2026
3 July 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 5 steps · 12 Feb 2026–2 Jul 2026
2 July 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
15 June 2026
ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
12 May – 27 May 2026
Amendments tabled in committee (3 batches)
Members of ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (ITRE)Amendments in committee (ITRE)Amendments in committee (ITRE)
16 April 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
12 February 2026
Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) 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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- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001, (EU) 2019/944, (EU) 2024/1788 as regards acceleration of permit-granting procedures”. Dossier. reference 2025/0400(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-0400 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2025/0400(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025%2F0400(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001, (EU) 2019/944, (EU) 2024/1788 as regards acceleration of permit-granting procedures}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-0400}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-0400},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2025/0400(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025\%2F0400(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
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