Amending short-stay visas regulation (EU) 2018/1806) as regards Vanuatu
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 14 January 2025 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 16 September 2024
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 21 November 2024
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 21 November 2024
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 27 November 2024
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council
- ✓ Published as law 14 January 2025
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
- Paulo CUNHA PPE
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Matjaž NEMEC S&DTom VANDENDRIESSCHE PfESebastian TYNKKYNEN ECRIrena JOVEVA RenewJaume ASENS LLODRÀ Verts/ALEDamien CARÊME 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
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: The versions differ only in formal points: the committee report's explanatory text is replaced by the adopted position's reference. see the changes →
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: No change of substance: the two versions differ only in presentation — cover page, numbering or the parts a report carries that the adopted text does not. see the changes →
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
- 14 January 2025 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- 19 December 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
- Plenary stage
- 27 November 2024 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by an overwhelming majorityFor 627 Against 6 Abstained 37
Final vote at 12:26 · 94% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- 21 November 2024 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 21 November 2024 Committee vote: report adopted
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 3 October 2024 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 16 September 2024 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.