No Green Claims Directive has been adopted, so the proposal creates no transposition, application, or business compliance deadline.
The European Parliament's record, updated 20 September 2026, marks the proposal as blocked. It remains pending rather than formally withdrawn.
The Green Claims Directive proposal has no compliance dates. Procedure 2023/0085(COD) is blocked: two trilogues took place in 2025, the Commission announced on 20 June 2025 that it intended to withdraw the proposal, and the planned third trilogue was cancelled. The proposal was still listed as pending in the 2026 Commission Work Programme, and a June 2026 Council budget document says negotiations are at a standstill and no agreement is expected in 2026. This calendar separates those events from the binding dates in the distinct .
The Green Claims file reached interinstitutional negotiations, with trilogues on 28 January and 24 April 2025. The Commission announced on 20 June 2025 that it intended to withdraw the proposal, and Parliament reported that the Council cancelled the trilogue scheduled for 23 June.
The Parliament Legislative Train record, updated 20 September 2026, labels the file blocked and says the 2026 Commission Work Programme lists it as pending. A June 2026 Council budget document separately says negotiations are at a standstill and no agreement is expected in 2026. Neither source records a formal withdrawal or final act.
Sources (4)
The record updated 20 September 2026 supports the blocked status, the two 2025 trilogues, the withdrawal-intent announcement, cancellation of the third trilogue, and the proposal's pending listing in the 2026 Commission Work Programme.
Status: Blocked
Supports the 20 June 2025 announcement of an intention to withdraw; it does not establish a formal withdrawal act.
intention to withdraw
Supports cancellation of the trilogue scheduled for 23 June 2025.
cancelled
Supports the June 2026 statement that negotiations are at a standstill and no agreement is expected in 2026; it does not establish formal withdrawal or closure.
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The calendar starts with the Commission proposal published on 22 March 2023. The proposal is COM(2023) 166 final and concerns substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims.
The European Parliament adopted its first-reading position on 12 March 2024. The Council Environment formation approved a general approach on 17 June 2024, giving the Council's negotiating text against the Commission proposal.
Sources (3)
Supports the 22 March 2023 Commission proposal milestone and the proposal's subject matter.
COM/2023/166 final
Supports Parliament's first-reading adoption date and the link to procedure 2023/0085(COD).
first reading on 12 March 2024
Supports the 17 June 2024 Council general approach milestone for the Green Claims Directive proposal.
approved by the Council (Environment)
A compliance calendar for an adopted directive would track publication, entry into force, transposition, application, and national implementation measures. None can be calculated from the Commission proposal, Parliament position, or Council general approach because each is a negotiating document rather than a final act.
Teams may inventory claims, identify supporting evidence, and monitor the procedure. Those are internal readiness actions, not statutory Green Claims Directive deadlines.
Sources (2)
Supports treating the file as blocked and pending, not adopted or officially withdrawn, and therefore as having no final compliance deadlines.
The 2026 Commission Work Programme, adopted on 21 October 2025, lists the proposal as pending.
Supports describing the Council document as a general approach rather than a final adopted act.
General approach
on empowering consumers for the green transition is a separate, adopted directive. Member States had to transpose it by 27 March 2026, and its national measures apply from 27 September 2026.
Those dates govern amendments to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and Consumer Rights Directive. From 27 September 2026, national measures implementing apply to practices such as unsupported generic environmental claims, certain sustainability labels, and product-neutrality claims based on greenhouse-gas offsetting. These are not Green Claims Directive dates and do not make COM(2023) 166 law.
Sources (1)
Primary adopted text for entry into force, transposition, application, and Commission reporting dates of the separate Empowering Consumers Directive.
27 September 2026
"General approach"
"approved by the Council (Environment)"
"Information updated as of 20/09/2026."
"Status: Blocked"
"The 2026 Commission Work Programme, adopted on 21 October 2025, lists the proposal as pending."
"intention to withdraw"
"COM/2023/166 final"
"27 September 2026"
"first reading on 12 March 2024"
"cancelled"
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