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Parliament is asked to approve the decision. It can accept or reject the text as a whole but cannot amend it.
Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 11 March 2026 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 7 July 2025
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 3 December 2025
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 5 December 2025
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 21 January 2026
- ✓ Adopted by the Council 11 March 2026
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. The Council takes the final decision, and the act is published in the Official Journal.
Who is working on it
- Lead committee
- LIBE — Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Rapporteur
- Jaroslav BŽOCH PfE
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE PPEMatjaž NEMEC S&DJadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA ECRNikola MINCHEV RenewMélissa CAMARA Verts/ALEEstrella GALÁN 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: 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 →
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
- 11 March 2026 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- Plenary stage
- 21 January 2026 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by an overwhelming majorityFor 565 Against 83 Abstained 14
Final vote on the draft Council decision at 12:50 · 85% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
- 5 December 2025 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 3 December 2025 Committee vote: report adopted
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 18 November 2025 Amendments tabled in committee
Members of LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
- 23 October 2025 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 7 July 2025 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.