The European Parliament has scheduled a vote on the UCC recast for 16 September 2026.

The European Parliament has scheduled a plenary sitting in Strasbourg from 14 to 17 September 2026 . The agenda for that sitting includes, on 16 September 2026, a vote on a recast of the Union Customs Code .

The entry published by Parliament describes the agenda item as a “recast of the Union Customs Code” . The available extract does not identify the number or reference of the proposal to be put to a vote .

The agenda provides no further detail on the precise nature of the parliamentary act announced for that recast . The source provides neither the full title of the legislative file nor the version of the text to be considered in the sitting . No compromise text is reproduced or attached to the available document .

The document places the vote on the third day of the sitting, between its scheduled opening on 14 September and its planned close on 17 September 2026 . It announces a vote on that date, without publishing the time of consideration or the order in which the Union Customs Code item will be taken .

The same publication refers to debates and votes on three proposals concerning the Union’s defences against carbon leakage and the stability of the carbon market . It presents those three proposals as other items on the plenary agenda .

The available extract does not provide the references for those three proposals, their individual titles or their respective discussion schedules . Nor does it set out the provisions they contain on carbon leakage or carbon-market stability .

The published agenda announces the 16 September vote, but contains no voting result . It reports neither vote totals nor political-group positions, nor amendments adopted or rejected . The available document reproduces no statement by the Parliament’s Presidency, the European Commission or the Council on the listed item .

As at the date of the document consulted, the available source does not disclose the proposal references, the compromise text or the voting result .

The current customs code framework

The framework set out by EUR-Lex is based on Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, which establishes the Union Customs Code, or UCC . That Regulation sets out the general rules and procedures applicable to goods entering or leaving the customs territory of the Union . EUR-Lex states that those rules are adapted to modern business models and communication tools .

The UCC is supplemented by delegated acts and implementing acts adopted by the European Commission under the Regulation . Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 lays down uniform conditions for implementing the UCC and for the harmonised application of procedures by Member States . EUR-Lex states that this implementing Regulation has undergone a series of amendments and refers to its consolidated versions under “Linked documents” .

The summary cites Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/635, dated 2 February 2024, as the latest amendment to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 . According to EUR-Lex, that text concerns evidence of the customs status of Union goods and certain provisions relating to the Union transit procedure .

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 supplements Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 as regards detailed rules concerning certain provisions of the UCC . EUR-Lex also refers to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/341, described as the “Transitional Delegated Act”, which lays down certain transitional rules until the necessary IT systems are fully operational .

On the IT side, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1070 lays down technical arrangements for the development, operation and maintenance of customs electronic systems for exchanging and storing information under the UCC . EUR-Lex states that this Regulation replaced and repealed Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/414 from 1 June 2023 .

The EUR-Lex page consulted sets out the framework currently in force and the instruments that supplement it . It does not describe the substance of the recast listed on the parliamentary agenda .