Procedure

Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process

2025/0108(COD)·10th term·INTA·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·Completed

Subjects: Bilateral economic and trade agreements and relations · Relations with South-East Europe and the Balkans · European neighbourhood policy

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): VAN DIJCK Kris (ECR)

Summary

This dossier concerns exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process. The amendments address admission of products of the beneficiary parties (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia) without quantitative restrictions, conditions on the rule of law, democracy and human rights, Serbia's compliance, alignment with international law, the interconnection of Western Balkan states with Turkiye, and tariff quotas.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
26 Sep 2025
Plenary vote — Adopted
13 Nov 2025 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Procedure completed

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committee

26 Sep 2025

Dates

Plenary votes

5 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 →

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1. 13 Nov 2025Rejected
  On amendment 3 · point 1 · article 1 · subparagraph 1
  Official label: Article 1 - alinéa 1 - avant le point 1 - Am 3 · what was voted ↗
  79 for539 against9 abstentions92 did not vote
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2. 13 Nov 2025Rejected
  On amendment 2 · sub-point b · point 1 · article 1 · subparagraph 1
  Official label: Article 1 - alinéa 1 - point 1 - après le sous-point b - Am 2 · what was voted ↗
  106 for507 against9 abstentions97 did not vote
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13 Nov 2025Rejected
On amendment 4 · paragraph 1 · point 4 · article 1
Official label: Article 1, § 1, après le point 4 - Am 4 · what was voted ↗
80 for544 against10 abstentions85 did not vote
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13 Nov 2025Rejected
On amendment 1 · text to be inserted after recital 5
Official label: Après le considérant 5 - Am 1 · what was voted ↗
73 for548 against11 abstentions87 did not vote
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13 Nov 2025Main voteAdopted
On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Official label: Proposition de la Commission · what was voted ↗
543 for72 against22 abstentions82 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Plenary amendments4 tabled on this text

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

Amendment 1Verts/ALEProposal for a regulation · Recital 5 a (new)
Amendment
(5 a) However, Serbia is not compliant with the conditions provided for in Article 2(1), point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2024/823 due to the persistent and serious erosion of the rule of law and fundamental principles of democracy, including free and fair elections. Additionally, Serbia's alignment with the Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has been steadily declining since 2021, and Serbia has not aligned with restrictive measure against Russia, nor with the majority of the statements of the Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy relating to Russia and Ukraine. Serbia has also not aligned with Union restrictive measures relating to Russia, China, Bel…
Excerpt — full text in the official PDF.
official amendment document ↗
Amendment 2Verts/ALEProposal for a regulation · Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b a (new)
Amendment
(b a) In Article 2(1), point (d) is replaced by the following: ‘(d) abstention of the beneficiary parties from engaging in serious and systematic violations of human rights, including core labour rights, of fundamental principles of democracy and of the rule of law. The compliance with this condition shall be assessed annually on the basis of the Union's annual enlargement country reports and, where applicable, the Union's annual Rule of Law Report. The outcome of that assessment shall be reported to the European Parliament.’
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Amendment 3Verts/ALEProposal for a regulation · Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1
Amendment
-1 In Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. Products originating in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia (‘the beneficiary parties’) covered by Chapters 7 and 8 of the Combined Nomenclature shall be admitted for import into the Union without quantitative restrictions or measures having equivalent effect, and with exemption from custom duties and charges having equivalent effect.’
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Amendment 4Verts/ALEProposal for a regulation · Article 1 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Replaces or inserts a longer passage — full text in the official document.
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