Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level
2025/0101(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2025/0101(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level”; the committee responsible is LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 26 Feb 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 10 Feb 2026 (final vote): adopted with 408 votes in favour, 184 against and 60 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0101(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 as regards the establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Opinion
- AFET Foreign Affairs (opinion: Marco Tarquinio (S&D, Italy))
- Rapporteur
- Alessandro Ciriani (ECR, Italy)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Damien Carême (The Left, France), Erik Marquardt (Greens/EFA, Germany), Cecilia Strada (S&D, Italy), Fabienne Keller (Renew, France), Tomas Tobé (EPP, Sweden), Susanna Ceccardi (PfE, Italy), Milan Uhrík (ESN, Slovakia)
- Opinions
- 6 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level (A10-0259/2025), 17 Dec 2025: roll-call vote, adopted, 396 for, 202 against, 56 abstentions
- Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level (A10-0259/2025), 10 Feb 2026: final vote, adopted, 408 for, 184 against, 60 abstentions
Votes in the Council of the EU
- 23 Feb 2026: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 24 for, 0 against, 2 abstentions, 1 not participating. Abstained: Belgium, Hungary; Not participating: Denmark. Result at the Council of the EU
Timeline
1st reading
- 16 Jun 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 11 Sep 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 22 Sep 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 26 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 20 Nov 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 3 Dec 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 10 Dec 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 17 Dec 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation; Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 27 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 10 Feb 2026: EP position at 1st reading
- 24 Feb 2026: Signature
- 26 Feb 2026: 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)
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.