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Regulation on import, export and transit measures for firearms, their essential components and ammunition (recast)

TA-9-2024-0302 · P9_TA(2024)0302 · PE748.984

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Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a recast regulation on import, export and transit measures for firearms, essential components and ammunition, implementing Article 10 of the UN Firearms Protocol. The text is a recast: it codifies unchanged provisions of earlier acts together with identified amendments, without changing their substance. Parliament calls on the Commission to refer the matter to it again if the Commission replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal. As an agreement was reached between Parliament and the Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EU) 2025/41.

Key points

  1. Parliament adopts its first-reading position on the proposed regulation on import, export and transit measures for firearms, essential components and ammunition.
  2. The regulation implements Article 10 of the United Nations Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition.
  3. The proposal is a recast: it codifies the unchanged provisions of earlier acts together with the amendments identified as such, without any change in their substance.
  4. Parliament takes into account the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission.
  5. Parliament calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal.
  6. Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EU) 2025/41, as an agreement was reached between Parliament and the Council.

Who is affected

  • Operators involved in the import, export and transit of firearms, essential components and ammunition, who would be covered by the regulation.
  • The Commission, which is asked to refer the matter to Parliament again if it substantially amends its proposal.

Figures and deadlines

  • Article 10 of the UN Firearms Protocol is the provision the regulation implements.
  • Regulation (EU) 2025/41 is the final legislative act corresponding to Parliament's position.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Articles 33 and 207 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.