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Amending Regulation (EU) 2019/816 establishing a centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third-country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN) to supplement the European Criminal Records Information System and Regulation (EU) 2019/818 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816 for the purpose of introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders

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: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 May 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 8 March 2021
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 28 March 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 14 April 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 14 February 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 10 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 22 May 2024
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
Birgit SIPPEL S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE IDJuan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ PPEPatryk JAKI ECRJan-Christoph OETJEN RenewTineke STRIK Verts/ALEMEP #96852 The Left

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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0182/2024 10 April 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a regulation amending Regulations (EU) 2019/816 and (EU) 2019/818 to introduce screening of third-country nationals at the external borders.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0148/2023 14 April 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal amending Regulation (EU) 2019/816 on ECRIS-TCN and Regulation (EU) 2019/818 on interoperability, for the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (LIBE) 16 November 2021 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2019/816 on the ECRIS-TCN system and Regulation (EU) 2019/818 on interoperability, to introduce screening of third-country nationals at the external borders.

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. Outcome
  2. 22 May 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 14 May 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

  4. Plenary stage
  5. 10 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 10 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0182/2024📄 Report A9-0148/2023
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 414 Against 182 Abstained 29

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 18:31 · 66% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. 10 April 2024 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 10 April 2024 📄 Council / Commission text C8-0179/2016📄 Council / Commission text C8-0321/2016📄 Council / Commission text C8-0323/2016📄 Council / Commission text C8-0324/2016📄 Council / Commission text C8-0325/2016📄 Council / Commission text C9-0039/2024📄 Council / Commission text C9-0088/2021📄 Council / Commission text C9-0307/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0308/2020📄 Council / Commission text C9-0309/2020📄 Report A8-0171/2018📄 Report A8-0186/2017📄 Report A8-0212/2017📄 Report A8-0245/2017📄 Report A8-0316/2017📄 Report A9-0127/2023📄 Report A9-0148/2023📄 Report A9-0149/2023📄 Report A9-0152/2023📄 Report A9-0164/2024
  7. Committee stage
  8. 11 March 2024 Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 JURI-AL-759950
  9. Negotiations with the Council
  10. 14 February 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

    The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.

  11. 20 April 2023 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

    Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).

  12. Plenary stage
  13. 20 April 2023 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 20 April 2023 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0088/2021📄 Report A9-0148/2023
  14. 14 April 2023 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A9-0148/2023
  15. Committee stage
  16. 28 March 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

    LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  17. 16 November 2021 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)
  18. 8 March 2021 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.