Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept

Procedure 2025/0132(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept”; 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 396 votes in favour, 226 against and 30 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0132(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 as regards the application of the ‘safe third country’ concept

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteur

Lena Düpont (EPP, Germany)

Shadow rapporteurs

Ilaria Salis (The Left, Italy), Erik Marquardt (Greens/EFA, Germany), Cecilia Strada (S&D, Italy), Fabienne Keller (Renew, France), Assita Kanko (ECR, Belgium), Fabrice Leggeri (PfE, France), Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik (ESN, Poland)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept (A10-0255/2025), 17 Dec 2025: roll-call vote, adopted, 384 for, 237 against, 31 abstentions
• Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept (A10-0255/2025), 10 Feb 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0255/2025 – Lena Düpont – Provisional agreement – Am 13, adopted, 396 for, 226 against, 30 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 23 Feb 2026: Council (Agriculture and Fisheries), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 23 for, 3 against, 0 abstentions, 1 not participating. Against: Spain, France, Portugal; Not participating: Denmark. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1st reading

1. 10 Jul 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 22 Sep 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 17 Oct 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 3 Dec 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 9 Dec 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 17 Dec 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation; Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
7. 27 Jan 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
8. 10 Feb 2026: EP position at 1st reading
9. 24 Feb 2026: Signature
10. 26 Feb 2026: 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)