POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 17 December 2025 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2025/… of the European Parliament and of the Council on phasing out Russian natural gas imports and preparing the phase out of oil imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1938
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 7 October 2026 with a view to the adoption of Decision (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering France to accede to the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 7 October 2026 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 1999/62/EC as regards the variation of charges for heavy-duty vehicles based on their CO2 emissions and to clarify and simplify certain provisions
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 6 October 2026 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and amending Regulations (EU) 2024/795 and (EU) 2026/467
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 6 October 2026 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States in the euro area experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 6 October 2026 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) No 1173/2011 and (EU) No 473/2013 as regards their alignment with the economic governance framework of the Union and the further simplification of that framework
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 6 October 2026 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances at work
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 16 September 2026 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC, as regards the simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and the simplification of security and defence procurement
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 16 September 2026 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EC) No 1907/2006, (EC) No 1272/2008, (EU) No 528/2012, (EU) 2019/1021 and (EU) 2021/697 as regards defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for defence industry
POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT adopted at first reading on 16 September 2026 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council on the acceleration of permit-granting processes for defence readiness projects
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