Common procedure for international protection in the Union
A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.
Where it stands: Parliament’s negotiators are talking to the Council; the plenary vote on the outcome is still to come.
- ✓ Referred to committee 21 October 2019
- 2 Committee work LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) preparing the report
- 3 Tabled for plenary
- 4 Plenary vote
- 5 Negotiations with the Council Talks opened 30 May 2018
- 6 Published as law
How a file moves through Parliament
A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. For a law, Parliament’s adopted text is its first-reading position; Parliament and the Council then negotiate a common text (trilogues) which both must approve before it is published as law.
Who is working on it
- Lead committee
- LIBE — Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Rapporteur
- Fabienne KELLER Renew
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Lena DÜPONT PPEAssita KANKO ECRErik MARQUARDT Verts/ALEMEP #96952 S&DMEP #197480 IDMEP #96852 The Left
- For opinion
- AFET — Foreign Affairs EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs
The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.
The text, version by version
Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.
Timeline
- Committee stage
- 21 October 2019 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; AFET (Foreign Affairs), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) give an opinion.
- Negotiations with the Council
- 30 May 2018 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
- Committee stage
- 12 May 2017 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 12 September 2016 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; AFET (Foreign Affairs), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) give an opinion.