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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Establishing the Union support for the Schengen area, for European integrated border management and for the common policy on visas for the period from 2028 to 2034

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: In committee: LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) is preparing the report (draft published 19 May 2026).

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 23 October 2025
  2. 2 Committee work LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) preparing the report
  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
Rapporteur
Karlo RESSLER PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
Murielle LAURENT S&DTom VANDENDRIESSCHE PfEGeorgiana TEODORESCU ECRJan-Christoph OETJEN RenewErik MARQUARDT Verts/ALEIlaria SALIS The Left
For opinion
AFET — Foreign 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

Committee draft · latest Draft report (LIBE) 19 May 2026 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the proposed regulation establishing Union support for the Schengen area, European integrated border management and the common policy on visas for 2028 to 2034.

Committee opinions: Draft opinion (BUDG),Opinion (BUDG)

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. Committee stage
  2. 15 July 2026 BUDG (Budgets) adopted its opinion

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

    📄 Opinion (BUDG)
  3. 24 June 2026 Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)

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

    📄 Amendments in committee (LIBE)📄 Amendments in committee (LIBE)
  4. 19 May 2026 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)
  5. 23 October 2025 Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; AFET (Foreign Affairs) gives an opinion.