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Common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (recast)

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: In committee: LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) is preparing the report (draft published 21 February 2020).

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 22 October 2018
  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
  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
Tineke STRIK Verts/ALE
Shadow rapporteurs
Nadine MORANO PPEMurielle LAURENT S&DMarieke EHLERS PfECharlie WEIMERS ECRMalik AZMANI RenewEstrella GALÁN The LeftMary KHAN ESN

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

Committee draft · latest Draft report (LIBE) 21 February 2020 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission's proposal to recast the Return Directive, which sets common standards for returning irregularly staying third-country nationals.

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 February 2020 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)
  3. 22 October 2018 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.