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2023/0208(COD)COM(2023)364ECON

Legal tender of euro banknotes and coins

Stage
Trilogue, reached 19 Dec 2025
Procedure
Regulation · Ordinary legislative procedure
Rapporteur
Fernando Navarrete Rojas (EPP)
Lead DG
DG ECFIN
Commissioner
Valdis Dombrovskis
Council configuration
Economic and Financial Affairs Council
Last activity
13 Jul 2026
Legal basis
TFEU_2016 Art. 133; TFEU_2016 Art. 294
41 entries · record as of 14 Sept 2026

Where it stands

Latest: Interinstitutional negotiation to reach an agreement (trilogue), 13 Jul 2026.

Show the earlier record: 22 dates, 29 Jun 2023 to 25 Nov 2025
  1. 29 Jun 2023
    • Adoption of legislative proposal by the Commission
  2. 7 Jul 2023
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  3. 13 Jul 2023
    • Referred to committee
  4. 3 Oct 2023
    • Feedback on adopted proposal closed: The scope and effects of legal tender of euro banknotes and coins, 54 responses · Commission
  5. 17 Oct 2023
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  6. 22 Dec 2023
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  7. 11 Jan 2024
    • Committee report tabled
    • EP committee draft report
  8. 22 Apr 2024
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  9. 12 Sept 2024
    • Decision on procedure
  10. 13 Nov 2024
    • Referred to committee
  11. 16 Dec 2024
    • Appointment of rapporteur
  12. 31 Mar 2025
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  13. 1 Apr 2025
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  14. 11 Jun 2025
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  15. 18 Jun 2025
    • Deliberations in Coreper
  16. 2 Jul 2025
    • Deliberations in Coreper
  17. 8 Jul 2025
    • Deliberations in Council
  18. 21 Oct 2025
    • Retained as a pending proposal in the Commission work programme · Commission
  19. 28 Oct 2025
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  20. 3 Nov 2025
    • Committee report tabled
    • EP committee draft report
  21. 5 Nov 2025
    • Consideration / exchange of views
  22. 25 Nov 2025
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  1. 10 Dec 2025
    • Deliberations in Coreper
  2. 12 Dec 2025
    • Deadline for tabling amendments
    • Deliberations in Council
  3. 19 Dec 2025
    • Adoption of negotiating mandate by Coreper
    • Committee amendments tabled
    • Tabling of amendments in the EP committee responsible
  4. 29 Jan 2026
    • Consideration / exchange of views
  5. 23 Jun 2026
    • Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible · Parliament committee
    • Adoption of draft report · provisional
    • Committee report adopted
    • Vote to enter trilogue · provisional
  6. 26 Jun 2026
    • Tabling of a document for EP plenary
    • Tabled for plenary
  7. 8 Jul 2026
    • Endorsement by EP plenary of the committee decision to start interinstitutional negotiations · Parliament, plenary
    • Plenary endorsed the trilogue mandate
  8. 13 Jul 2026
    • Interinstitutional negotiation to reach an agreement (trilogue) · Parliament, Council and Commission
    • Interinstitutional negotiations
8 people

Who is on it

The Parliament's rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and opinion rapporteurs currently on this file.

RoleNameGroupCountryCommittee
RapporteurFernando Navarrete RojasEPPESECON
Shadow rapporteurAuke ZijlstraPfENLECON
Shadow rapporteurDamian BoeselagerGreens/EFADEECON
Shadow rapporteurGilles BoyerRenewFRECON
Shadow rapporteurNikos PapandreouS&DELECON
Shadow rapporteurPasquale TridicoThe LeftITECON
Shadow rapporteurRada LaykovaESNBGECON
Shadow rapporteurStephen Nikola BartulicaECRHRECON
310 amendments

Amendments

Tabled between 29 Jan 2024 and 19 Dec 2025. The texts are in the amendment documents below.

By committee

  • ECON310

By author

  • Billy Kelleher56
  • Gilles Boyer47
  • Aurore Lalucq44
  • Jonás Fernández42
  • Evelyn Regner40
  • Stéphanie YON-COURTIN37
  • Eero Heinäluoma32
  • Carla Tavares30
  • Markus Ferber30
  • Nikos Papandreou30
Show 20 more authors
  • Olivier Chastel29
  • Thomas Bajada29
  • Matthias Ecke24
  • Rada Laykova16
  • Siegbert Frank Droese16
  • Hermann Tertsch14
  • Jorge Buxadé Villalba14
  • Jorge Martín Frías14
  • Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal14
  • Margarita de la Pisa Carrión14
  • Mireia Borrás Pabón14
  • Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE12
  • Herbert Dorfmann12
  • Pascal Arimont12
  • Fabio de Masi10
  • Diego Solier7
  • Geadis Geadi7
  • Marlena Maląg7
  • Nora Junco García7
  • Sibylle Berg7

Amendments each member tabled or co-signed. The record names an author on 229 of the 310 amendments.

By article

  • Article 14 – paragraph 111
  • Recital 1111
  • Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b9
  • Article 7 – paragraph 39
  • Recital 69
  • Article 5 a (new)8
  • Article 68
  • Article 7 – paragraph 18
  • Article 8 – paragraph 18
  • Article 9 – paragraph 28
Show 20 more provisions
  • Article 9 – paragraph 47
  • Recital 77
  • Article 12 – paragraph 16
  • Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 46
  • Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)6
  • Recital 7 a (new)6
  • Recital 86
  • Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a5
  • Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)5
  • Article 6 – paragraph 15
  • Article 8 a (new)5
  • Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)5
  • Article 9 – paragraph 55
  • Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 24
  • Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)4
  • Article 8 – paragraph 34
  • Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)4
  • Article 9 – paragraph 14
  • Recital 11 a (new)4
  • Article 10 – paragraph 23

Covers 190 of the 310 amendments.

8 documents

Documents

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1 consultation

Consultations on it

The Commission's Have Your Say consultations linked to this file. Where we publish the positions filed, the title opens them here.

ConsultationFeedback deadlineFeedback received
3 Oct 202354

Summary

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This regulation defines the legal tender status of euro banknotes and coins, mandating uniform acceptance across the euro area. It sets obligations for issuing authorities and safeguards physical cash integrity, supporting ECB price stability goals. The file is in trilogue stage, with ECFIN lead and rapporteur Fernando Navarrete Rojas.

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