Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes
2023/0438(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2023/0438(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 22 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 25 Nov 2025 (final vote): adopted with 556 votes in favour, 74 against and 7 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2023/0438(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Budgetary assessment
- BUDG Budgets (opinion: Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, Portugal))
- Parliamentary committee for opinion on legal basis
- JURI Legal Affairs (opinion: Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, Germany))
- Rapporteur
- Jeroen Lenaers (EPP, Netherlands)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Ilaria Salis (The Left, Italy), Saskia Bricmont (Greens/EFA, Belgium), Thijs Reuten (S&D, Netherlands), Nikola Minchev (Renew, Bulgaria), Georgiana Teodorescu (ECR, Romania), Matthieu Valet (PfE, France)
- Opinions
- 6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (A10-0109/2025), 25 Nov 2025: final vote, adopted, 556 for, 74 against, 7 abstentions
Votes in the Council of the EU
- 8 Dec 2025: Council (Justice and Home Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions, 1 not participating. Not participating: Denmark. Result at the Council of the EU
Timeline
1st reading
- 29 Feb 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
- 30 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 13 Feb 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 21 Feb 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 23 Apr 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 20 May 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 12 Jun 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 18 Jun 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 23 Jun 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (2 times, most recently on 25 Sep 2025)
- 5 Nov 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 24 Nov 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 25 Nov 2025: EP position at 1st reading
- 16 Dec 2025: Signature
- 22 Dec 2025: Publication in the Official Journal
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)
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