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Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum

Reference
2020/0277(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 May 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR
Shadow rapporteurs
6 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
3 versions
Opinions from
BUDG, AFET
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Where it stands

The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.

  1. Referred to committee (done) 11 November 2020
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 28 March 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 5 April 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 14 February 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 10 April 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 22 May 2024

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

People

Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.

Lead committee
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE
Rapporteur
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D)
Shadow rapporteurs
Silvia SARDONE (ID), Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI (EPP), Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA (ECR), Malik AZMANI (Renew), Damian BOESELAGER (Greens), Konstantinos ARVANITIS (GUE-NGL)
Opinion: BUDG
Budgets
Opinion: AFET
Foreign Affairs

Decisions in plenary, 0

Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.

No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.

Voting grid

Export

Every roll-call vote on the dossier, in date and voting order, with each group's line at the date of the vote.

No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.

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The people on this dossier — pick up to 6. Each gets a column with their own position.

Versions, 3

The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.

  1. Adopted by Parliament10 Apr 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0178/2024 TA-9-2024-0178

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  2. Tabled for plenary5 Apr 2023

    Report A9-0127/2023 A-9-2023-0127

    Compare with committee draft

  3. Committee draft23 Nov 2021

    Draft report (LIBE) LIBE-PR-697631

What changed

Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.

No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier. The “Compare” links under Versions show every change between two versions.

Timeline, 13

Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.

Outcome 2 steps · 14 May 2024–22 May 2024

  1. 22 May 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 14 May 2024

    Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

Committee stage 1 step · 11 Apr 2024

  1. 11 April 2024

    Committee opinion adopted

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

    JURI-AL-759947

Plenary stage 2 steps · 10 Apr 2024–10 Apr 2024

  1. 10 April 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 10 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0178/2024Report A9-0127/2023

  2. 10 April 2024

    Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 10 Apr 2024 Council / Commission text C8-0179/2016Council / Commission text C8-0321/2016Council / Commission text C8-0323/2016Council / Commission text C8-0324/2016Council / Commission text C8-0325/2016Council / Commission text C9-0039/2024Council / Commission text C9-0088/2021Council / Commission text C9-0307/2020Council / Commission text C9-0308/2020Council / Commission text C9-0309/2020Report A8-0171/2018Report A8-0186/2017Report A8-0212/2017Report A8-0245/2017Report A8-0316/2017Report A9-0127/2023Report A9-0148/2023Report A9-0149/2023Report A9-0152/2023Report A9-0164/2024

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 20 Apr 2023–14 Feb 2024

  1. 14 February 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

  2. 20 April 2023

    Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council

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

Plenary stage 2 steps · 5 Apr 2023–20 Apr 2023

  1. 20 April 2023

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 20 Apr 2023 Council / Commission text C9-0308/2020Report A9-0127/2023

  2. 5 April 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

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

    Report A9-0127/2023

Committee stage 4 steps · 11 Nov 2020–28 Mar 2023

  1. 28 March 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

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

  2. 27 January 2022

    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)

  3. 23 November 2021

    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)

  4. 11 November 2020

    Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; BUDG (Budgets), AFET (Foreign Affairs) give an opinion.

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Sources & citation

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2020-0277
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum”. Dossier. reference 2020/0277(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2020-0277 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2020/0277(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2020%2F0277(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
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  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2020-0277}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2020-0277},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2020/0277(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2020\%2F0277(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}