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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Establishing the Justice programme for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/693

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: The committee adopted its report on 19 October 2026; it goes to plenary next.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 20 October 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 19 October 2026
  3. 3 Tabled for plenary
  4. 4 Plenary vote
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council
  6. 6 Published as law
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
Tineke STRIK Verts/ALEJaroslav BŽOCH PfE
Shadow rapporteurs
Emil RADEV PPEKrzysztof ŚMISZEK S&DPascale PIERA PfETobiasz BOCHEŃSKI ECRDainius ŽALIMAS RenewTineke STRIK Verts/ALEMario FURORE The LeftMarcin SYPNIEWSKI ESNMichał WAWRYKIEWICZ PPEKatarina BARLEY S&DAssita KANKO ECRNikola MINCHEV RenewJaume ASENS LLODRÀ Verts/ALEGiuseppe ANTOCI 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.

Timeline

  1. Committee stage
  2. 19 October 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  3. 15 July 2026 BUDG (Budgets) adopted its opinion

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 Opinion (BUDG)
  4. 19 May 2026 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 CJ03-AM-788926
  5. 16 April 2026 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 CJ03-PR-787047
  6. 20 October 2025 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.