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Compromise amendments 10 and 11 are voted by roll call, with a brief correction regarding Renew’s member count before their adoption, followed by hand votes adopting compromises 12 to 22. The chair then closes the compromise block and proceeds to individual amendment 976, which after an initial hand vote is put to an electronic check.
In an ENVI-only session, the committee proceeds through compromise packages, individual amendments and final roll‑call votes on items 7 and 8, then adopts three objection items (9–11) by roll‑call majorities before adjourning the voting block for a break.
The ENVI chair restarts the session, announces substitutions specific to ENVI, and opens item 7 concerning roll call requests by Patriots and ECR on items 10 and 11. Compromise amendments 1 to 9 are then put to a show of hands and each is declared adopted.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - Voting session
The committee votes in sequence on compromise amendments 1 to 22 under item 7, mainly by show of hands, with compromises 10 and 11 decided by roll-call vote after resolving a Renew Group headcount issue. All compromise amendments put to the vote are adopted.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - Voting session
The Chair opens the ENVI voting session, announces substitute members for the vote and confirms the move to agenda item 7. Procedural clarifications include roll-call requests by Patriots and ECR and the method of voting (show of hands vs. roll call).
Chair Pierfrancesco MARAN announces substitutes for the joint vote, conducts a test vote of the system and then the roll call vote on the provisional Omnibus agreement. The file is adopted by 123 votes in favour, 10 against and 6 abstentions, the rapporteur is congratulated, and a short break is called to allow non‑ENVI members to leave before ENVI-only business continues.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The joint committees hold and adopt the roll-call vote on the Omnibus IV provisional agreement before ENVI continues alone with successive voting blocks on items 7 and 8, covering compromise packages, specific roll-call requests and final adoptions, then opens the roll-call vote on an objection under item 9.
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LIBE chair Javier ZARZALEJOS joins in welcoming the negotiating team, recalls this is the second file in the Omnibus 4 package and refers to the earlier vote on the related directive. He notes quorum and absence of further LIBE replacements, then proceeds to adopt, without objection, the minutes of the 4 December 2025 meeting.
A new joint ECON–LIBE–ENVI meeting is opened to vote on the Omnibus 4 provisional agreement; the ECON chair presents the trilogue outcome on extending SME mitigating measures to small mid‑caps and defining this new EU category, followed by the LIBE chair’s quorum check, procedural confirmations and a roll‑call vote adopting the Omnibus 4 regulation.
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The ENVI/ECON/LIBE joint meeting is opened, the agenda is adopted, and the chair introduces the vote on the provisional agreement on the Omnibus file, welcoming the co-rapporteurs and Commission. ECON chair Aurore LALUCQ outlines the outcome of the second trilogue on the mid-caps Omnibus, the extension of SME mitigating measures to small mid-caps, the anti–cliff-edge objective, the employee/turnover/asset thresholds, and the cross-cutting introduction of the new category in EU legislation.
The joint session is opened, the agenda is adopted and a test vote is held before members vote electronically to adopt the amending directives extending existing SME mitigating measures to small mid‑cap enterprises, closing the short joint meeting.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
LIBE first adopts its agenda and votes on the amending directive extending mitigating measures from SMEs to small mid-cap enterprises, then ENVI and ECON jointly open the Omnibus IV session, adopt the joint agenda and present the provisional political agreement defining small mid-caps and its cross-cutting insertion in EU legislation, with procedural checks on quorum and previous minutes.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
ENVI members and Commission services debate the draft 2027 budget opinion for environment, climate and health, with political groups outlining priorities on LIFE, biodiversity, fossil fuel phase-out and implementation capacity, before the Chair sets amendment deadlines and the voting calendar and suspends the meeting ahead of the next session.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Chair opens the ENVI meeting, adopts the agenda and coordinators’ decisions, then reports on trilogue outcomes regarding France’s accession to the Inter-American Sea Turtles Convention and the ECHA governance and financial stability regulation, outlining key compromises and next procedural steps via Coreper and post‑summer committee votes.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
DG ENV presents the forthcoming Circular Economy Act’s main directions on harmonising end‑of‑waste rules and EPR, strengthening secondary raw material markets and digital tools, after which the Chair closes by confirming ENVI’s central role and the committee’s intention to follow up once the Commission proposal is tabled.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
MEPs probe how circularity can support industrial sovereignty, how to govern cross-sector bioeconomy projects and scale pilots across 27 regimes, how to remove EU obstacles for secondary materials, and how an EU digital one‑stop‑shop EPR and trade measures could work, prompting panel responses on lighthouse projects, CBAM/mirror clauses, end‑of‑waste criteria, VAT reform and inclusive EPR governance to make circular models bankable.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Second-panel stakeholders from the bioeconomy, recycling industry, banking sector and a reuse marketplace explain technical and biological circular cycles, pull measures like recycled-content and procurement, financing conditions for circular business models, and the need to prioritise reuse via adapted EPR, product rules and VAT.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
MEPs question panelists on feasibility of upstream material targets, cost impacts on consumers and industry, integration of reuse into EPR, treatment of online and non‑EU competitors, and best-practice EPR governance, eliciting detailed replies on structural resource vulnerability, design of harmonised EPR and PRO rules, fiscal reforms and data transparency needs.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
First-panel experts (IRP, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Ecoembes/EESC, Deutsche Umwelthilfe) set out systemic resource-constraint arguments, business asks on single-market harmonisation and fiscal signals, EPR-based citizen and infrastructure approaches, and proposals for binding prevention and resource-use targets with reformed EPR and product rules.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the ENVI hearing, situates the forthcoming Circular Economy Act within EU industrial and environmental strategy, presents objectives on secondary raw materials and single market rules, and introduces the first expert panel with its diverse stakeholder perspectives.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The Commission defends its biotech proposal as part of a wider health and industrial package, justifies SPC extensions and targeted sandboxes under strict safeguards, after which rapporteur Casares and the chair close the item by restating access and affordability concerns, announcing the amendment deadline and ENVI’s competences, and suspending the meeting until the afternoon session.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Political group speakers and the associated‑committee co‑rapporteur present their lines on the biotech framework, including support for food and feed biotechnology, calls to strengthen EFSA’s innovation role while preserving its independence, opposition to SPC extensions and limits on regulatory sandboxes, and proposals to ensure all member states can benefit from biotech projects.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The chair restarts the agenda with the new EU framework for biotechnology and biomanufacturing, gives the floor to rapporteur González Casares who sets the strategic, regulatory and industrial objectives for ENVI’s opinion, and outlines his concerns on SPC extensions, crisis‑oriented public instruments and the need to anchor incentives in EU‑based biotech innovation.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the ENVI committee meeting, confirms substitutions and technical voting arrangements, then conducts the main morning voting block covering the Temido cohesion/CAP/fisheries fund report, TEN‑E guidelines, and a series of objections related to UNFCCC Antalya, REACH lead restrictions, GM crops and due diligence rules.
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Joint DEVE‑ENVI committees mandate co‑rapporteurs for Parliament’s SDG report to the UN High‑Level Political Forum, then proceed to amendment and roll‑call votes on the SDG text before ENVI alone adopts the 2028–2034 European cohesion and related funds regulation, including key compromises on CAP.
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The Commissioner details enforcement and IUU control tools, explains the funding and ring‑fencing of Ocean Pact priorities in the revised MFF, outlines support and simplification for small‑scale fishers, and presents the planned Ocean Act and approach to expanding marine protected areas, before MEPs take the floor in a catch‑the‑eye round on Ocean Pact and fisheries priorities, small‑scale fleets, bureaucracy, food security and Russia’s shadow fleet.
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EPP, S&D, ECR/PECH, Renew, Greens/EFA, Left and ENS MEPs conduct a first Q&A round, welcoming the Ocean Pact while demanding a binding, cross‑sectoral Ocean Act, stronger funding and timetable, better integration of small‑scale and outermost‑region fishers, stricter and effective MPAs, and more support for EU seafood competitiveness and fish welfare.
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Chairs open the joint ENVI‑DEVE‑PECH meeting, adopt the agenda, recall the 2025 UN Ocean Conference and introduce the EU Ocean Pact, then the Commissioner presents the Pact’s governance, main policy pillars and the planned Ocean Act as a future legal framework linked to the next MFF.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
In the afternoon item on the COP31 resolution, co‑sponsors and political groups set out divergent positions on climate ambition, fossil‑fuel phase‑out, multilateralism, competitiveness, finance, loss and damage, health and One Health, while the Chair notes the Commission’s absence, confirms amendment and vote timelines, and closes the sitting ahead of the next day’s joint meeting.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The committee examines the objection to the Commission’s draft restriction on lead in fishing tackle under REACH, with the objector questioning proportionality, evidence and SME impacts, while most political groups and the Commission defend the restriction on health and environmental grounds, citing RAC/SEAC opinions, alternatives, quantified lead‑reduction benefits, derogations and the upcoming vote schedule.
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