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Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims

Reference
2022/0426(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
Where it stands
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 24 June 2024 and now EU law.
Stage
Published as law
Lead committee
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE
More facts (5)
Rapporteurs
MEP #124992, MEP #197785
Shadow rapporteurs
11 members
Decisions in plenary
None yet
Versions
2 versions
Opinions from
JURI

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) 1 February 2023
  2. Committee work (done) Report adopted 5 October 2023
  3. Tabled for plenary (done) 10 October 2023
  4. Negotiations with the Council (done) Deal approved in committee 15 February 2024
  5. Plenary vote (done) Adopted 23 April 2024
  6. Published as law (done) 24 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
Rapporteurs
MEP #124992 (The Left) former member, MEP #197785 (The Left) former member
Shadow rapporteurs
Maria WALSH (EPP), Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D), Jana TOOM (Renew), Alice KUHNKE (Greens), MEP #204334 (ECR) former member, MEP #236052 (ID) former member, Lena DÜPONT (EPP), MEP #197635 (S&D) former member, Abir AL-SAHLANI (Renew), Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN (ECR), Christine ANDERSON (ID)
Opinion: JURI
Legal 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

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No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.

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Versions, 2

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 TA9-0310/2024 TA-9-2024-0310

    Compare with tabled for plenary

  2. Tabled for plenary10 Oct 2023

    Report A9-0285/2023 A-9-2023-0285

What changed

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Timeline, 11

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

Outcome 2 steps · 13 Jun 2024–24 Jun 2024
  1. 24 June 2024

    Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  2. 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 2 steps · 22 Apr 2024–23 Apr 2024
  1. 23 April 2024

    Plenary vote

    Sitting of 23 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0310/2024Report A9-0285/2023

  2. 22 April 2024

    Debated in plenary

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

    Sitting of 22 Apr 2024 Council / Commission text C9-0431/2022Report A9-0285/2023

Negotiations with the Council 2 steps · 18 Oct 2023–15 Feb 2024
  1. 15 February 2024

    Committee approved the deal reached with the Council

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

    CJ01-AG-759031

  2. 18 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 1 step · 10 Oct 2023
  1. 10 October 2023

    Report tabled for plenary

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

    Report A9-0285/2023

Committee stage 4 steps · 1 Feb 2023–5 Oct 2023
  1. 5 October 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. 7 July 2023

    Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.

    CJ01-AM-750067

  3. 26 May 2023

    Draft report published

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

    CJ01-PR-749081

  4. 1 February 2023

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

    The lead committee prepares the report; JURI (Legal Affairs) gives 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). “Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims”. Dossier. reference 2022/0426(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0426 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2022/0426(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022%2F0426(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2022-0426,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0426}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2022-0426},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Dossier. reference 2022/0426(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2022\%2F0426(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}