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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

The transfer of proceedings in criminal matters

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 18 December 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 8 May 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 23 January 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 26 January 2024
  4. ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 9 April 2024
  5. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 23 April 2024
  6. ✓ Published as law 18 December 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
Assita KANKO ECR
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #226260 PPEEvin INCIR S&DMEP #124872 RenewSaskia BRICMONT Verts/ALEMEP #197527 The Left
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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0293/2024 23 April 2024 ✦ Parliament adopted its first-reading position on a proposed regulation on the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters. The position corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EU) 2024/3011, after an agreement was reached between Parliament and the Council.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0008/2024 26 January 2024 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters sets common rules for moving criminal proceedings between member states.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (LIBE) 10 October 2023 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission's proposal for a regulation on the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters. It adopts a first-reading position with 34 amendments to the Commission text.

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. 18 December 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 27 November 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. 23 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 23 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0293/2024📄 Report A9-0008/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 604 Against 2 Abstained 6

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:31 · 99% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. Negotiations with the Council
  7. 9 April 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    📄 LIBE-AG-760864
  8. 7 February 2024 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

  9. Plenary stage
  10. 26 January 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A9-0008/2024
  11. Committee stage
  12. 23 January 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  13. 8 November 2023 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (LIBE)
  14. 10 October 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.

    📄 Draft report (LIBE)
  15. 8 May 2023 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; JURI (Legal Affairs) gives an opinion.