Where the law stands, Dossier 2022/0288(COD)
Import, export and transit measures for firearms, their essential components and ammunition, implementing Article 10 of the United Nations’ Protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UN Firearms Protocol) (recast)
Ordinary legislative procedure (COD): Parliament and the Council decide together as equals. · First reading
A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.
Where it stands
Published as law
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 January 2025 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 9 November 2022
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 24 October 2023
- Tabled for plenary(done) 30 October 2023
- Negotiations with the Council(done) Deal approved in committee 20 March 2024
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 23 April 2024
- Published as law(done) 22 January 2025
No plenary decision on this dossier is in our records yet.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- International Trade
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Bernd Lange (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Mep #197695 (EPP), Urmas Paet (Renew), Markéta Gregorová (Greens), Sergio Berlato (ECR), Mep #192635 (ID), Mep #24505 (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Foreign Affairs
- Budgets
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 23 Apr 2024
Tabled for plenary· 30 Oct 2023
Committee draft· 5 Jun 2023
Committee opinions: Opinion (LIBE), Draft opinion (LIBE)
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 2 steps
22 January 2025
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
19 December 2024
Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
Plenary stage 1 step
23 April 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 23 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0302/2024Report A9-0312/2023
Negotiations with the Council 2 steps
20 March 2024
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
9 November 2023
Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
Plenary stage 1 step
30 October 2023
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 5 steps
24 October 2023
Committee vote: report adopted
INTA (International Trade) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
20 September 2023
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
7 September 2023
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
5 June 2023
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in INTA (International Trade). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
9 November 2022
Referred to the INTA (International Trade) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), AFET (Foreign Affairs), BUDG (Budgets) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2022/0288(COD)