Consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries
2023/0441(CNS) · Consultation procedure
Procedure 2023/0441(CNS) (consultation procedure) concerns “Consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Concluded in Parliament: Latest: Amending a text in plenary on 7 Oct 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 7 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 470 votes in favour, 180 against and 18 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2023/0441(CNS)
- Type
- Consultation procedure
- Official title
- Measures to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries
- Status
- Concluded in Parliament
- Lead
- LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Associated
- AFET Foreign Affairs (opinion: Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, Spain), Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, Spain))
- Opinion
- DEVE Development
JURI Legal Affairs (opinion: Gilles Lebreton (ID, France)) - Rapporteur
- Lena Düpont (EPP, Germany)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Ilaria Salis (The Left, Italy), Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle (Renew, Netherlands), Marieke Ehlers (PfE, Netherlands)
- Earlier terms
- Rapporteur: Loránt Vincze (EPP, Romania)
Shadows: Miguel Urbán Crespo (The Left, Spain), Tineke Strik (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Marina Kaljurand (S&D, Estonia), Jana Toom (Renew, Estonia), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium) - Opinions
- 5 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries (A10-0254/2026), 7 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0254/2026 – Lena Düpont – Commission proposal, adopted, 470 for, 180 against, 18 abstentions; plus 5 more roll-call votes
Timeline
- 31 Jan 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 21 Feb 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
- 5 Mar 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report; Committee tabling an opinion
- 14 Mar 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
- 20 Mar 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 8 Apr 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 18 Apr 2024: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 19 Apr 2024: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 24 Apr 2024: Vote in European Parliament plenary sitting; EP decision
- 9 Mar 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
- 18 Mar 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 5 May 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 22 May 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 28 Sep 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 29 Sep 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 7 Oct 2026: Amending a text in plenary
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.