Seasonal changes of time
With the Council of the EU, which is preparing its first-reading position.
Last active 05 Jun 2025
What this bill does
In plain terms: what it changes and who it affects.
This proposal ends twice-yearly clock changes across the EU while letting each Member State choose its permanent standard time.
It affects Member States, transport, communications, cross-border businesses, public authorities and citizens relying on coordinated time rules. Lawyers should note notification duties and repeal of the current summer-time regime.
- Prohibits Member States from applying seasonal changes to their standard time or times.
- Allows one final seasonal change on 27 October 2019 at 1:00 a.m. UTC.
- Requires six months’ notice to the Commission before any non-seasonal standard-time change.
- Repeals Directive 2000/84/EC with effect from 1 April 2019.
- Takes effect
- The Directive enters into force twenty days after Official Journal publication and applies from 1 April 2019.
- Transitional law
- Member States may make one final seasonal change on 27 October 2019 if they notify that decision.
- Directive 2000/84/EC (32000L0084)
- entire act: repeals the entire directive with effect from 1 April 2019
Latest update
23 Aug 2026The most recent development in this bill's progress.
Council first-reading file remains unchanged on seasonal clock changes proposal
1st reading – Council of the EU → 1st reading – Council of the EU
The proposal would end seasonal time changes and repeal Directive 2000/84/EC, but no new procedural movement is recorded.
- Still at Council of the EU, first reading.
- Proposal concerns discontinuing seasonal time changes.
- No completed phases or new events are recorded.
Documents
1 recentSourcesOEILEUR-LexEU Law Tracker