Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Joint meeting Joint Committee procedure (Rule 59) of ECON, LIBE

Name: Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Joint meeting Joint Committee procedure (Rule 59) of ECON, LIBE
Uploaded: 2026-07-02T07:33:15+00:00
Duration: 1958 s

00:06 - 03:36

Speaker 1

Please take your seats. And have your cards ready. Well first let me inform you that the ECON chair will be joining us in the next voting session. Please keep quiet so we can start our meeting. The first item is the adoption of the agenda.

I understand if there is no objection, so the agenda is deemed adopted. During the session we will have the vote on the amending directives as regards the extension of certain mitigating measures available for small and medium-sized enterprises to small mid-cap enterprises and further simplifying measures. Before we move to the vote, well first I can see that we have quorum. And then let me announce the following LIBE and non-LIBE members that will participate in today's vote. There are no replacements in EPP as I understand.

On S&D Jean-Marc Germain is replacing Maria Keller, I'm sorry, is replacing Matthias Nemec. On PfE Sebastian Cruz is replacing Marie Keller, Thomas Bussek is replacing Jaroslav George, Catherine Griset is replacing Fabrice Leggeri, Virginie Joron is replacing Mathieu Valet, Elisabeth Dieringer is replacing Petra Steger and Julien Leonardelli will replace Andras Laszlo. On ECR Emmanuelle Fracos will be replacing Assita Kanko and there are no replacements reported in LIBE from Renew, Greens, The Left or ESN and non-attached members. So we will start with the test vote to make sure that the voting system is working. Please proceed to the test vote.

Yes, no, abstention, just to check. Vote is open now as a test. Someone hasn't voted already. Vote is closed. Well it seems that the system works properly.

So now we move to the real thing. Again, the vote on amending directives as regards the extension of certain mitigation, mitigating measures available for small medium-sized enterprises to small mid-cap enterprises and further simplifying measures.

03:36 - 04:32

Speaker 2

Vote is open. There's still some members who haven't voted. And I close the vote. And it is widely adopted. Thank you, thank you very much, dear colleagues, this meeting then is hereby closed and now we will continue with the ECON-LIBE-ENVI meeting and the vote on the Omnibus 4 regulation.

Please ECON and LIBE members, you're invited to stay and ENVI members will be joining us in this room.

12:45 - 13:45

Speaker 5

Good morning everybody. I invite everybody to take his place so we can start. Good. I welcome everybody to this meeting in which we will vote on the provisional... please colleagues. In which we will vote on the provisional agreement on the Omnibus 4 file.

A very welcome to the co-rapporteur Maria Teresa Vivaldini, Niels Hansen and Lukas Mandl, to the shadow of the file as well as to our colleagues in the room from the Commission. If no objection is raised, the agenda is deemed adopted. And now I give the floor to my colleagues starting from the ECON chair.

13:45 - 14:58

Speaker 4

Thank you dear chair, good morning everyone. And welcome to the co-rapporteurs, the shadows and the representative of the Commission and I would like to thank the co-rapporteur for the good collaboration in the context of the inter-institutional negotiations and for successfully concluding the second trilogue on June the 9th. Interpretation is available today in 21 languages and you are invited to speak in your mother tongue when available. During the second and final trilogue on the Mid-caps Omnibus, the negotiating teams of Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the proposal which extends certain mitigating measures available for SMEs to small mid-cap enterprises and introduces further simplification measures. The aim is to avoid cliff-edge situation where a company's obligation drastically increase when they grow beyond the SME threshold and to support companies in scaling up.

14:58 - 15:35

Aurore Lalucq

In line with the European Parliament position, small mid-cap enterprises are defined in principle as company with fewer than 1000 employees and either up to 200 million in turnover or up to 172 million in total asset. The new category will be introduced in various laws ranging from data protection, batteries, stock exchanging, listing of companies etc. with existing SMEs exemption extending to the new category and I give the floor to the LIBE chair.

15:35 - 16:42

Javier Zarzalejos

Thank you chair and good morning to all of you.

I join my colleagues from ECON and ENVI in welcoming the co-rapporteurs and the shadows and congratulating them on the successful outcome of the trilogue on the 9th of June. This is the second file included in the Omnibus IV package, and I already had the pleasure to congratulate the negotiating team for the outcome on the first vote on the directive, which took place right before this session. I am particularly welcoming the swift manner in which our co-rapporteurs have concluded this file with the Cyprus presidency. As I can see from the number of members present, that we have a quorum. And as far as the LIBE committee is concerned, no further replacements have been reported.

So I think that we can move to the next item, which is the adoption of minutes. If no objection is raised, the minutes of the meeting of the 4th of December 2025 are deemed adopted. Chair?

16:42 - 32:30

Pierfrancesco Maran

Thank you. Now we go to the voting procedures. I have to inform that of the substitutes: Gomes substitute Fernandes, Guzenina substitute Papandreou, Noichl substitute Kubin, Jiménez-Larraz substitute Evans-Garcia, Zerdowski substitute Lukaszewska, Jørgensen substitute André, Griese substitute Figu, Langsiepen substitute Paulus, Sondal substitute Sbai, Freund substitute Marino. So now we will have a test vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote. Okay. So now we can proceed with the vote. It will be a roll-call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote. And it's adopted by 122 in favor, 10 against, 6 abstentions. We congratulate with the rapporteur. And now we have a small break to allow people that are not from the ENVI committee to leave the room, while for the ENVI members we will go on with the next votes, so stay here.

Okay, colleagues, we can go on with our voting session. I have to inform about the substitutes for the votes here in ENVI. So, Jiménez Larraso substitute Aranz García, Złotowski substitute Łukacijewska, Princi substitute Mora... no, sorry. No, it's not here. Sorry, the Greens are not more...

Ah, okay. So, Jaron substitute Andrews, Griset substitute Fergut, Langensiepen substitute Paulus, Sondal substitute Sbai, and Freund substitute Marino. We move now to the item number seven. We have to roll call vote the number ten and eleven asked from Patriots and ECR. We start with the compromise number one, raising our hands.

Who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number two, who's in favor?

Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. I kindly ask people to raise your hands. Compromise number three, who's in favor?

Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number four, who's in favor? Who's against?

Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number five, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained?

Adopted. Compromise number six, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted.

Compromise number seven, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number eight, who's in favor?

Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number nine, who's in favor? Who's against?

Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number ten by roll call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote. And it's adopted.

Compromise number eleven by roll call vote, I open the vote. Pardon, there is a plus one Renew. Yes, it doesn't work because we have one Renew more than the allowed, so I... Well, it's solved. Now we can open the vote.

I close the vote. And it's adopted. Compromise number twelve, raising our hands, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained?

Adopted. Compromise number thirteen, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted.

Compromise number fourteen, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number fifteen, who's in favor?

Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number sixteen, who's in favor? Who's against?

Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number seventeen, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained?

Adopted. Compromise number eighteen, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted.

Compromise number nineteen, who's in favor? Who's against? Who abstained? Adopted. Compromise number twenty, who's in favor?

Who's against? Who abstain? Adopted. Compromise number 20. Who is in favor?

Who's against? Who abstain? Adopted. We ended compromise. So amendment 976.

Who is in favor? Who's against? Who abstain? Check. I open the vote.

I close the vote. And it's rejected. Amendment 977. Who is in favor? Who's against?

Who abstain? I'd say rejected because I see the same hands. Amendment 30. Who is in favor? Who's against?

Who abstain? Rejected. And the final vote by roll call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote.

And it's adopted by 52 votes in favor, 4 against and 16 abstentions. Now we... thank you. We have to change it please. Now we move to the item number 8. We have two requests for roll call vote for amendment 2 and 9 from EPP.

We start the vote with compromise number 1. Who is in favor? Who's against? Who abstain? Adopted.

Compromise number 2 by roll call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it's adopted. Compromise number 3.

Who is in favor? Who's against? Who abstain? Adopted. Compromise number 4.

Who is in favor? Who's against? Who abstain? Adopted. Compromise number 9 by roll call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote. And it's adopted. Compromise number 10. Who is in favor?

Who's against? Who abstain? Adopted. Final vote by roll call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote. And it's adopted, 57 in favor, 14 against, 1 abstention. Thank you. Okay. Now we vote for the objection, the item number 9.

It will be a roll call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote. And it's adopted, 49 in favor, 22 against, one abstention. Now we have the item number 10, that is another objection by roll call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote. And it's adopted, 48 in favor, 22 against, one abstention. Now we go to the objection item number 11. I open the vote. I close the vote.

And it's adopted, 48 in favor, 23 against, one abstention. Now we will have a break. Thank you all the colleagues. We will have a break till 10:30.