Asset recovery and confiscation
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 2 May 2024 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 22 June 2022
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 23 May 2023
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 26 May 2023
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 23 January 2024
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 13 March 2024
- ✓ Published as law 2 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
- Loránt VINCZE PPE
- Shadow rapporteurs
- MEP #197480 IDThijs REUTEN S&DAssita KANKO ECRMalik AZMANI RenewSergey LAGODINSKY Verts/ALEMEP #88715 The Left
- For opinion
- BUDG — Budgets · rapporteur MEP #209140 Renew
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 opinions: Draft opinion (JURI),Draft opinion (BUDG),Opinion (JURI),Opinion (BUDG)
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
- Outcome
- 2 May 2024 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- 24 April 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
- Plenary stage
- 13 March 2024 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by an overwhelming majorityFor 598 Against 19 Abstained 7
Final vote on the provisional agreement at 12:18 · 96% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- Negotiations with the Council
- 23 January 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 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”).
- Plenary stage
- 26 May 2023 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 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.
- 28 March 2023 BUDG (Budgets) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 21 March 2023 JURI (Legal Affairs) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 14 February 2023 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 25 January 2023 Draft opinion from BUDG (Budgets)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
- 18 January 2023 Draft opinion from JURI (Legal Affairs)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
- 22 June 2022 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; BUDG (Budgets) gives an opinion.