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Parliament’s vote records list this file as 2016/0224B; its procedure register has it as 2016/0224(COD).

Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

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.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 21 October 2019
  2. 2 Committee work LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) preparing the report
  3. 3 Tabled for plenary
  4. 4 Plenary vote
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council Talks opened 30 May 2018
  6. 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

Tabled for plenary · latest Report A8-0171/2018 22 May 2018 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation establishing a common procedure for international protection in the Union and repealing Directive 2013/32/EU.

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

  1. Committee stage
  2. 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.

  3. Negotiations with the Council
  4. 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”).

  5. Committee stage
  6. 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.

    📄 Draft report (LIBE)
  7. 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.