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Legal migration policy and law

2020/2255(INL)·9th term·DEVE / LIBE·INL - Legislative initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Migration policy
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): AL-SAHLANI Abir (Renew)
Summary

A legislative-initiative report on legal migration policy and law. The amendments debate the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, regular migration channels and labour migration versus Member States' competence under the TFEU, solidarity and shared responsibility, securing of external borders and returns, human rights and detention conditions, the role of NGOs and the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group, brain drain, circular migration, remittances and climate-driven displacement.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    22 Jul 2021 – 10 Sep 2021
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    25 Nov 2021 · On the motion for a resolution — the text as a whole
  3. Procedure completed
333
Amendments
distinct, in window
39
Members
tabled at least one
2
Committee(s)
22 Jul 2021 – 10 Sep 2021
Dates

Plenary votes

15 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

  1. Show the 12 earlier votes
    1. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 5S — paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1 - Am 5S · what was voted ↗
      158 for521 against8 abstentions18 did not vote
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    2. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 2 — text to be inserted after paragraph 1
      Official label: Après le § 1 - Am 2 · what was voted ↗
      165 for503 against21 abstentions16 did not vote
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    3. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 6 — text to be inserted after paragraph 1
      Official label: Après le § 1 - Am 6 · what was voted ↗
      152 for522 against13 abstentions18 did not vote
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    4. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 7 — text to be inserted after paragraph 1
      Official label: Après le § 1 - Am 7 · what was voted ↗
      149 for529 against9 abstentions18 did not vote
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    5. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 8S — paragraph 2
      Official label: § 2 - Am 8S · what was voted ↗
      161 for517 against9 abstentions18 did not vote
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    6. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 9 — text to be inserted after paragraph 2
      Official label: Après le § 2 - Am 9 · what was voted ↗
      164 for517 against6 abstentions18 did not vote
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    7. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 10 — text to be inserted after paragraph 2
      Official label: Après le § 2 - Am 10 · what was voted ↗
      147 for524 against16 abstentions18 did not vote
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    8. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 11 — paragraph 3
      Official label: § 3 - Am 11 · what was voted ↗
      103 for521 against63 abstentions18 did not vote
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    9. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 12 — text to be inserted after paragraph 3
      Official label: Après le § 3 - Am 12 · what was voted ↗
      152 for530 against5 abstentions18 did not vote
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    10. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 13 — paragraph 4
      Official label: § 4 - Am 13 · what was voted ↗
      156 for523 against8 abstentions18 did not vote
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    11. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 14 — text to be inserted after paragraph 15
      Official label: Après le § 15 - Am 14 · what was voted ↗
      167 for507 against13 abstentions18 did not vote
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    12. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On the recommendation — amendment 3 — the annex
      Official label: Annexe, recommandation 8, après le tiret 1 - Am 3 · what was voted ↗
      266 for363 against57 abstentions19 did not vote
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  2. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
    On amendment 4S — citation 31
    Official label: Visa 31 - Am 4S · what was voted ↗
    158 for526 against3 abstentions18 did not vote
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  3. 24 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totals
    On amendment 1 — text to be inserted after recital A
    Official label: Après le considérant A - Am 1 · what was voted ↗
    175 for492 against22 abstentions16 did not vote
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  4. 25 Nov 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the motion for a resolution — the text as a whole
    Official label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗
    497 for160 against38 abstentions10 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

PE696.298 ↗PE696.523 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

39 Members · by amendment count
1🇲🇹
Cyrus ENGERER
Socialists & Democrats · Malta
66
2🇸🇪
Alice KUHNKE
Greens / EFA · Sweden
39(28 solo)
3🇪🇸
Domènec RUIZ DEVESA
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
37
4🇪🇸
Pernando BARRENA ARZA
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Spain
37
5🇷🇴
Maria GRAPINI
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
36(1 solo)
6🇸🇰
Milan UHRÍK
Europe of Sovereign Nations · Slovakia
36(36 solo)
7🇫🇷
Sylvie GUILLAUME
Socialists & Democrats · France
35
8🇵🇹
Isabel SANTOS
Socialists & Democrats · Portugal
35
9🇵🇱
Łukasz KOHUT
European People's Party (EPP) · Poland
34
10🇩🇪
Dietmar KÖSTER
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
34
11🇸🇪
Charlie WEIMERS
European Conservatives & Reformists · Sweden
30(30 solo)
12🇦🇹
Bettina VOLLATH
Socialists & Democrats · Austria
29
13🇮🇹
Pietro BARTOLO
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
29
14🇸🇪
Abir AL-SAHLANI
Renew Europe · Sweden
26(3 solo)
15🇳🇱
Sophia IN 'T VELD
Renew Europe · Netherlands
23
16🇩🇪
Damian BOESELAGER
Greens / EFA · Germany
21(10 solo)
17🇮🇹
Pierfrancesco MAJORINO
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
17
18🇵🇹
Carlos ZORRINHO
Socialists & Democrats · Portugal
17
19🇧🇪
Marc TARABELLA
Non-attached · Belgium
17
20🇮🇪
Clare DALY
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Ireland
17
21🇪🇸
Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES
Non-attached · Spain
16(16 solo)
22🇩🇪
Erik MARQUARDT
Greens / EFA · Germany
14(14 solo)
23🇳🇱
Rob ROOKEN
European Conservatives & Reformists · Netherlands
14(14 solo)
24🇩🇪
Lena DÜPONT
European People's Party (EPP) · Germany
13(13 solo)
25🇱🇺
Charles GOERENS
Renew Europe · Luxembourg
12

The amendments, in full text

333 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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