Procedure

Role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season

2025/0051(COD)·10th term·ITRE·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·CompletedProcedure completed

Subjects: Gas, electricity, natural gas, biogas · Security of energy supply · Cooperation and agreements for energy

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): BUDKA Borys (EPP)

Summary

This dossier concerns the role of gas storage in securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season. The amendments revise the mandatory storage filling target and intermediate filling trajectory, allow conditional deviations linked to energy-efficiency and demand-reduction measures, address LNG imports, competition for global supplies and price volatility, ending reliance on Russian gas amid Russia's war against Ukraine, a return to market-based mechanisms, and Commission monitoring.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
9 Apr 2025 – 11 Apr 2025
Plenary vote — Adopted
8 May 2025 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Plenary vote — Adopted
8 Jul 2025 · On the provisional agreement negotiated with the Council (the trilogue deal) — amendment 9
Procedure completed

154

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committee(s)

9 Apr 2025 – 11 Apr 2025

Dates

Plenary votes

9 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

Where each group stood at the decisive votes

Group			Shift
EPP	For96%	For97%	consistent
S&D	For100%	For98%	consistent
Renew	For100%	For100%	consistent
Greens/EFA	For100%	For100%	consistent
ECR	For96%	For97%	consistent
The Left	Against60%	For66%	Against → For
Patriots	Against72%	Against74%	consistent
ESN	Against77%	Against88%	consistent
Non-attached	Against67%	Against60%	consistent

Milestones are the votes that adopt or reject text (not every amendment vote) — the percentage is the share of the group’s Members behind that position. Click a column heading to open the vote below.

Show the 6 earlier votes
1. 8 May 2025Rejected
  On amendment 4 — paragraph 1 — Regulation 2017/1938 — article 1 — subparagraph 1
  Official label: Article 1, après l'alinéa 1 Règlement (UE) 2017/1938; Article 6 bis, § 1, alinéa 1 - Am 4 · what was voted ↗
  75 for465 against32 abstentions147 did not vote
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2. 8 May 2025Rejected
  On amendment 5 (part 1 of a split vote) — text to be inserted after paragraph 5 — Regulation 2017/1938 — article 1
  Official label: Après l'article 1 Règlement (UE) 2017/1938; Article 6 bis, après le § 5 - Am 5/1 · what was voted ↗
  92 for472 against7 abstentions148 did not vote
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3. 8 May 2025Adopted
  On amendment 7 — text to be inserted after recital 1
  Official label: Après le considérant 1 - Am 7 · what was voted ↗
  366 for140 against67 abstentions146 did not vote
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4. 8 May 2025Rejected
  On amendment 2 (part 1 of a split vote) — text to be inserted after recital 8
  Official label: Après le considérant 8 - Am 2/1 · what was voted ↗
  94 for478 against5 abstentions142 did not vote
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5. 8 May 2025Rejected
  On amendment 3 — text to be inserted after recital 9
  Official label: Après le considérant 9 - Am 3 · what was voted ↗
  102 for427 against45 abstentions145 did not vote
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6. 8 May 2025Rejected
  On amendment 8 — text to be inserted after recital 10
  Official label: Après le considérant 10 - Am 8 · what was voted ↗
  100 for440 against31 abstentions148 did not vote
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8 May 2025Main voteAdopted
On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Official label: Proposition de la Commission · what was voted ↗
425 for106 against43 abstentions145 did not vote
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8 Jul 2025Rejected
On a procedural request to put the amendments to a vote
Official label: Demande de procéder au vote sur les amendements · what was voted ↗
126 for542 against3 abstentions48 did not vote
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8 Jul 2025Main voteAdopted
On the provisional agreement negotiated with the Council (the trilogue deal) — amendment 9
Official label: Accord provisoire - Am 9 · what was voted ↗
542 for109 against30 abstentions38 did not vote
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