Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism

Procedure 2023/0371(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 10 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 7 Oct 2025 (final vote): adopted with 518 votes in favour, 96 against and 24 abstentions.

Reference

2023/0371(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 as regards the revision of the suspension mechanism

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteur

Matjaž Nemec (S&D, Slovenia)

Shadow rapporteurs

Estrella Galán (The Left, Spain), Tineke Strik (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Malik Azmani (Renew, Netherlands), Ana Miguel Pedro (EPP, Portugal), Charlie Weimers (ECR, Sweden), Pascale Piera (PfE, France), Mary Khan (ESN, Germany)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism (A10-0035/2025), 7 Oct 2025: final vote, adopted, 518 for, 96 against, 24 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 17 Nov 2025: Council (General Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 26 participating member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 20 Nov 2023: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 19 Feb 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 30 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
4. 19 Mar 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 21 Mar 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 2 Apr 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 7 Apr 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (4 times, most recently on 17 Jun 2025)
8. 15 Jul 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
9. 6 Oct 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
10. 7 Oct 2025: EP position at 1st reading
11. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
12. 10 Dec 2025: Publication in the Official Journal

• All procedures

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)