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Import, export and transit measures for firearms, their essential components and ammunition, implementing Article 10 of the United Nations’ Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UN Firearms Protocol) (recast)

Reference
2022/0288(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 January 2025 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
International Trade INTA
More facts (5)
Rapporteur
Bernd LANGE
Shadow rapporteurs
6 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
3 versions
Opinions from
IMCO, AFET, BUDG

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) 9 November 2022
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 24 October 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 30 October 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 20 March 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 23 April 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 22 January 2025

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
International Trade INTA
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197695 (EPP) former member, Urmas PAET (Renew), Markéta GREGOROVÁ (Greens), Sergio BERLATO (ECR), MEP #192635 (ID) former member, MEP #24505 (The Left) former member
Opinion: IMCO
Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Opinion: AFET
Foreign Affairs
Opinion: BUDG
Budgets

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.

Add members’ columns
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 Parliament23 Apr 2024

    Adopted text TA9-0302/2024 TA-9-2024-0302

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  2. Tabled for plenary30 Oct 2023

    Report A9-0312/2023 A-9-2023-0312

    Compare with committee draft

  3. Committee draft5 Jun 2023

    Draft report (INTA) INTA-PR-748984

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

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, 11

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

Outcome 2 steps · 19 Dec 2024–22 Jan 2025
  1. 22 January 2025

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 19 December 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 · 23 Apr 2024
  1. 23 April 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 23 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0302/2024Report A9-0312/2023

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 9 Nov 2023–20 Mar 2024
  1. 20 March 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    INTA-AG-759983

  2. 9 November 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 1 step · 30 Oct 2023
  1. 30 October 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

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

    Report A9-0312/2023

Committee stage 5 steps · 9 Nov 2022–24 Oct 2023
  1. 24 October 2023

    Committee vote: report adopted

    INTA (International Trade) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  2. 20 September 2023

    LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) adopted its opinion

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

    Opinion (LIBE)

  3. 7 September 2023

    Committee opinion adopted

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

    JURI-AL-752959

  4. 5 June 2023

    Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in INTA (International Trade). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    Draft report (INTA)

  5. 9 November 2022

    Referred to the INTA (International Trade) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), AFET (Foreign Affairs), BUDG (Budgets) give an opinion.

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Sources & citation

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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Import, export and transit measures for firearms, their essential components and ammunition, implementing Article 10 of the United Nations’ Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UN Firearms Protocol) (recast)”. Dossier. reference 2022/0288(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0288 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2022/0288(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022%2F0288(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
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  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Import, export and transit measures for firearms, their essential components and ammunition, implementing Article 10 of the United Nations’ Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UN Firearms Protocol) (recast)}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0288}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0288},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2022/0288(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022\%2F0288(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}