Strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement

Procedure 2024/0187(CNS) (consultation procedure) concerns “Strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 20 Jun 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 2 Apr 2025 (final vote): adopted with 377 votes in favour, 279 against and 16 abstentions.

Reference

2024/0187(CNS)

Type

Consultation procedure

Status

Completed

Lead

LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteur

Malik Azmani (Renew, Netherlands)

Shadow rapporteurs

Estrella Galán (The Left, Spain), Anna Strolenberg (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Francisco Assis (S&D, Portugal), Alice Teodorescu Måwe (EPP, Sweden), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium), Roberto Vannacci (PfE, Italy)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement (A10-0041/2025), 2 Apr 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0041/2025 – Malik Azmani – Commission proposal, adopted, 377 for, 279 against, 16 abstentions; plus 6 more roll-call votes

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 12 Jun 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

1. 21 Oct 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 19 Nov 2024: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 21 Nov 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
4. 19 Mar 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 24 Mar 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 2 Apr 2025: Amending a text in plenary
7. 20 Jun 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)