Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders
- Reference
- 2021/0428(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Completed: published in the Official Journal on 20 June 2024 and now EU law.
- Stage
- Published as law
- Lead committee
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE
More facts (4)
- Rapporteur
- MEP #96952
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 6 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 3 versions
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 14 February 2022
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 20 September 2023
- Tabled for plenary (done) 27 September 2023
- Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 19 March 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 24 April 2024
- Published as law (done) 20 June 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
- MEP #96952 (S&D) former member
- Shadow rapporteurs
- MEP #124875 (ID) former member, MEP #197390 (EPP) former member, Charlie WEIMERS (ECR), Malik AZMANI (Renew), Erik MARQUARDT (Greens), MEP #197527 (The Left) former member
Decisions in plenary, 0
Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.
No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.
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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Versions, 3
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Adopted by Parliament24 Apr 2024
Adopted text TA9-0323/2024 TA-9-2024-0323
Tabled for plenary27 Sept 2023
Report A9-0280/2023 A-9-2023-0280
Committee draft8 Nov 2022
Draft report (LIBE) LIBE-PR-737471
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Report A9-0280/2023: Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2016/399, the Schengen Borders Code, on the movement of persons across borders.
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, 10
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Outcome 2 steps · 13 Jun 2024–20 Jun 2024
20 June 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
13 June 2024
Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
Plenary stage 1 step · 24 Apr 2024
24 April 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 24 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0323/2024Report A9-0280/2023
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 5 Oct 2023–19 Mar 2024
19 March 2024
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
5 October 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 · 27 Sept 2023–5 Oct 2023
5 October 2023
Plenary vote
Sitting of 5 Oct 2023 Council / Commission text C9-0473/2021Report A9-0280/2023
27 September 2023
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps · 14 Feb 2022–20 Sept 2023
20 September 2023
Committee vote: report adopted
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
8 November 2022
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
14 February 2022
Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
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Sources & citation
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- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders”. Dossier. reference 2021/0428(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2021-0428 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2021/0428(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2021%2F0428(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2021-0428,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2021-0428}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2021-0428},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2021/0428(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2021\%2F0428(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
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