Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
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 24 June 2024 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 1 February 2023
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 5 October 2023
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 10 October 2023
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 15 February 2024
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 23 April 2024
- ✓ Published as law 24 June 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
- Rapporteurs
- MEP #124992 The LeftMEP #197785 The Left
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Maria WALSH PPEJuan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR S&DJana TOOM RenewAlice KUHNKE Verts/ALEMEP #204334 ECRMEP #236052 IDLena DÜPONT PPEMEP #197635 S&DAbir AL-SAHLANI RenewMargarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN ECRChristine ANDERSON ID
- For opinion
- JURI — Legal 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
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
- 24 June 2024 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- 13 June 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
- Plenary stage
- 23 April 2024 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by an overwhelming majorityFor 563 Against 7 Abstained 17
Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:59 · 96% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- 22 April 2024 Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
- Negotiations with the Council
- 15 February 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 18 October 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
- 10 October 2023 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 5 October 2023 Committee vote: report adopted
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 7 July 2023 Amendments tabled in committee
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
- 26 May 2023 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 1 February 2023 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; JURI (Legal Affairs) gives an opinion.