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Automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”), amending Council Decisions 2008/615/JHA and 2008/616/JHA and Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, 2019/817 and 2019/818 of the European Parliament and of the Council

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 5 April 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 27 January 2022
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 23 May 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 26 May 2023
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 4 December 2023
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 8 February 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 5 April 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
MEP #96903 PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #125020 S&DJoachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI ECRFabienne KELLER RenewMEP #197531 Verts/ALEMEP #197731 The Left
For opinion
BUDG — Budgets

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 TA9-0073/2024 8 February 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation, known as Prüm II. The regulation sets rules for automated searches and exchange of data between member states' authorities and amends earlier Council decisions and EU regulations.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0200/2023 26 May 2023 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation (Prüm II) sets conditions and procedures for automated searching of DNA profiles, dactyloscopic data, facial images, police records and certain vehicle registration data.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (LIBE) 19 September 2022 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the proposed Prüm II regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation. It sets out Parliament's amendments to the Commission proposal.

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. 5 April 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 13 March 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. 8 February 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 8 February 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0073/2024📄 Report A9-0200/2023
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 451 Against 94 Abstained 10

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 12:08 · 81% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. 7 February 2024 Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 7 February 2024 📄 Council / Commission text C9-0455/2021📄 Report A9-0200/2023
  7. Negotiations with the Council
  8. 4 December 2023 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    📄 LIBE-AG-757156
  9. 12 June 2023 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

  10. Plenary stage
  11. 26 May 2023 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0200/2023
  12. Committee stage
  13. 23 May 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  14. 19 September 2022 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)
  15. 27 January 2022 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; BUDG (Budgets) gives an opinion.