Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0541(COD)
Establishing the Union support for the Schengen area, for European integrated border management and for the common policy on visas for the period from 2028 to 2034
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
Committee work
In committee: LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) is preparing the report (draft published 19 May 2026).
- Referred to committee(done) 23 October 2025
- Committee work LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) preparing the report
- Tabled for plenary(to come)
- Plenary vote(to come)
- Negotiations with the Council(to come)
- Published as law(to come)
No plenary decision on this dossier is in our records yet.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Karlo Ressler (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Murielle Laurent (S&D), Tom Vandendriessche (Patriots), Georgiana Teodorescu (ECR), Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Renew), Erik Marquardt (Greens), Ilaria Salis (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Foreign Affairs
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Committee draft· 19 May 2026
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (BUDG), Opinion (BUDG)
Timeline
Newest first.
Committee stage 4 steps
15 July 2026
BUDG (Budgets) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
24 June 2026
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (LIBE)Amendments in committee (LIBE)
19 May 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
23 October 2025
Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; AFET (Foreign Affairs) gives an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0541(COD)