24/09/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 24 September, Member States’ representatives to the EU (Coreper) adopted the EU Council’s negotiating position on the revision of legislation on air passenger rights. This position stems from the political agreement reached at the last Council of European Transport Ministers in June in Luxembourg (see EUROPE 13654/1). Estonia, which abstained, Hungary and Lithuania, which voted in favour, and Portugal, which voted against, expressed their reservations in a statement. Coreper also approved the conclusion of the first reading. This means that the European Parliament has three months to examine the Council’s position and can approve it, reject it or propose amendments, and send the proposal back to the Council for a second reading. The European Parliament has also contested this choice of procedure (see EUROPE 13640/16). Read the statements: https://aeur.eu/f/ilq (AD)