BETA


2021/0046(COD) Centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third-country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN)
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2024/04/10

Progress: Awaiting Parliament's position in 1st reading

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead LIBE SIPPEL Birgit (icon: S&D S&D) ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ Juan Ignacio (icon: EPP EPP), OETJEN Jan-Christoph (icon: Renew Renew), STRIK Tineke (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), VANDENDRIESSCHE Tom (icon: ID ID), JAKI Patryk (icon: ECR ECR), ERNST Cornelia (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL)
Committee Legal Basis Opinion JURI
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 40, TFEU 016-p2, TFEU 074, TFEU 078-p2, TFEU 079-p2, TFEU 082-p1, TFEU 085-p1-a2, TFEU 087-p2, TFEU 088-p2-a1

Events

2024/04/10
   Indicative plenary sitting date
2024/03/26
   EP - Specific opinion
Documents
2024/02/14
   EP - Approval in committee of the text agreed at 1st reading interinstitutional negotiations
2024/02/08
   CSL - Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement
2023/04/20
   EP - Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations confirmed by plenary (Rule 71 - vote)
2023/04/17
   EP - Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations announced in plenary (Rule 71)
2023/04/14
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
Details

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the report by Birgit SIPPEL (S&D, DE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2019/816 establishing a centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN) to supplement the European Criminal Records Information System and Regulation (EU) 2019/818 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816 for the purpose of introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders.

As a reminder, the overall objective of the Commission is to allow for the use of the Common Identity Repository (CIR) and European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals (‘ECRIS-TCN’) during the Screening. However, according to Members, the provisions granting blanket access rights to the competent authorities are not considered necessary to allow for the screening to be carried out effectively.

The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows:

Data entry in ECRIS-TCN

The amended text stated that for each convicted third-country national, the central authority of the convicting Member State should create a data record in the central system. The data record should include a flag indicating that the third-country national concerned has been convicted in the previous 25 years of a terrorist offence or in the previous 15 years of any other criminal offence listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 if it is punishable by a custodial sentence or a detention order for a maximum period of at least three years under national law, including the code of the convicting Member State.

For the purpose of the security checks, only data records to which a flag has been added should be searchable.

The use of ECRIS-TCN for identifying the Member States holding criminal records information

Following a search launched by the authorities, the central system should inform the competent authority of a hit and should automatically notify the central authority of the Member State holding criminal records information on the third country national concerned of a request for an opinion on whether the presence of that person on the territory of the Member States would pose a threat to internal security. The result of a search in the central system should only be used for the purposes of assessing whether the third country national subject to the screening might pose a threat to internal security.

The central authority of the Member State holding criminal records information on the third country national subject to the screening should provide an opinion to the competent authorities within four days . The absence of opinion within four days should mean that there are no security grounds to be taken into account.

Documents
2023/03/28
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading
2023/03/28
   EP - Committee decision to open interinstitutional negotiations with report adopted in committee
2022/01/24
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2021/11/16
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/04/29
   ES_PARLIAMENT - Contribution
Documents
2021/04/27
   PT_PARLIAMENT - Contribution
Documents
2021/03/22
   EP - SIPPEL Birgit (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2021/03/08
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading
2021/03/02
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE: to allow access to the European Criminal Records Information System for third-country nationals (ECRIS-TCN) for the purpose of security checks introduced by the Regulation establishing screening of third-country nationals at external borders.

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.

BACKGROUND: one of the legislative proposals accompanying the Commission's Communication of 23 September 2020 on a new Pact on Migration and Asylum is the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a screening of third-country nationals at the external borders for the purpose of determining whether a person is a threat to internal security or public policy.

The security checks as part of the screening should be at least of a similar level as the checks performed in respect of third country nationals that apply beforehand for an authorisation to enter the Union for a short stay, whether they are under a visa obligation or not.

Since access to the Entry/Exit System (EES), the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), the Visa Information System (VIS) and the European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals (ECRIS-TCN) is necessary for the authorities designated to carry out the screening, the regulations establishing those databases need to be amended to provide for this additional access right.

CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to amend Regulation (EU) 2019/816 by adding a new provision allowing the designated authorities in the context of the screening to access and search the ECRIS-TCN database for records relating to persons who have been convicted for a terrorist offence or other serious criminal offences.

To this end, the proposal specifies the conditions of accessing the European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals database which has been set up by an EU regulation with a view to ensure uniform application across the Union and legal certainty by avoiding divergent interpretations in the Member States with regard to the use of this central database.

In addition, the proposal complements the uniform rules on security checks during the screening as set out in the proposed Screening Regulation.

The proposal also amends Regulation (EU) 2019/818 by adding a new provision that allows designated authorities, in the context of screening, to access data stored in the common identity data repository (CIR).

Documents

  • Specific opinion: PE759.950
  • Approval in committee of the text agreed at 1st reading interinstitutional negotiations: GEDA/A/(2024)000943
  • Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement: GEDA/A/(2024)000943
  • Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A9-0148/2023
  • Amendments tabled in committee: PE703.279
  • Committee draft report: PE700.426
  • Contribution: COM(2021)0096
  • Contribution: COM(2021)0096
  • Legislative proposal published: COM(2021)0096
  • Legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
  • Committee draft report: PE700.426
  • Amendments tabled in committee: PE703.279
  • Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement: GEDA/A/(2024)000943
  • Specific opinion: PE759.950
  • Contribution: COM(2021)0096
  • Contribution: COM(2021)0096

Votes

Système européen d’information sur les casiers judiciaires - ressortissants de pays tiers - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Europäisches Strafregisterinformationssystem für Drittstaatsangehörige - A9-0148/2023 - Birgit Sippel - Décision d'engager des négociations interinstitutionnelles (article 71 du règlement) #

2023/04/20 Outcome: +: 431, -: 121, 0: 25
DE IT ES FR RO NL AT SE CZ DK PT BG SK IE HR LU LT SI BE FI MT LV EL EE CY ?? HU PL
Total
82
59
54
66
21
28
16
19
18
14
16
11
13
12
12
6
8
6
18
10
3
6
10
5
3
1
18
42
icon: PPE PPE
140
3

Denmark PPE

Abstain (1)

1

Slovakia PPE

Abstain (1)

4

Luxembourg PPE

2

Slovenia PPE

Abstain (1)

3

Finland PPE

For (1)

1

Malta PPE

For (1)

1

Latvia PPE

2

Estonia PPE

Abstain (1)

1

PPE

1
icon: S&D S&D
113

Czechia S&D

For (1)

1

Bulgaria S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Lithuania S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

For (1)

1

Belgium S&D

For (1)

1

Malta S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Estonia S&D

For (1)

1

Cyprus S&D

For (1)

1
icon: Renew Renew
86

Italy Renew

For (1)

1

Austria Renew

For (1)

1
3

Ireland Renew

For (1)

1

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Luxembourg Renew

2

Lithuania Renew

1

Slovenia Renew

2

Finland Renew

2

Latvia Renew

Abstain (1)

1

Greece Renew

1

Estonia Renew

2

Hungary Renew

2

Poland Renew

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
62

Italy Verts/ALE

3

Romania Verts/ALE

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Denmark Verts/ALE

2

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

2

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1
icon: The Left The Left
29

Germany The Left

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

2

Netherlands The Left

Against (1)

1

Sweden The Left

Against (1)

1

Czechia The Left

Against (1)

1

Denmark The Left

Against (1)

1

Ireland The Left

For (1)

Against (2)

Abstain (1)

4

Belgium The Left

Against (1)

1

Finland The Left

Against (1)

1

Greece The Left

1

Cyprus The Left

Abstain (1)

2
icon: ID ID
54

Austria ID

Against (2)

2

Czechia ID

Against (2)

2

Denmark ID

Against (1)

1

Estonia ID

Against (1)

1
icon: NI NI
35

Germany NI

Against (1)

2

France NI

Against (2)

2

Netherlands NI

Against (1)

1

Slovakia NI

2

Croatia NI

2

Latvia NI

Against (1)

1
icon: ECR ECR
58

Germany ECR

Against (1)

1

Romania ECR

Against (1)

1

Netherlands ECR

4

Sweden ECR

3

Bulgaria ECR

Against (1)

1

Slovakia ECR

Abstain (1)

1

Croatia ECR

Against (1)

1

Lithuania ECR

Against (1)

1

Finland ECR

2

Greece ECR

Against (1)

1
AmendmentsDossier
25 2021/0046(COD)
2022/01/25 LIBE 25 amendments...
source: 703.279

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

docs/3/date
Old
2024-03-13T00:00:00
New
2024-03-26T00:00:00
docs/3
date
2024-03-13T00:00:00
docs
url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/JURI-AL-759950_EN.html title: PE759.950
committee
JURI
type
Specific opinion
body
EP
forecasts/0/date
Old
2024-04-22T00:00:00
New
2024-04-10T00:00:00
committees/1
type
Committee Legal Basis Opinion
body
EP
committee_full
Legal Affairs
committee
JURI
associated
False
procedure/legal_basis/0
Rules of Procedure EP 40
events/7
date
2024-02-14T00:00:00
type
Approval in committee of the text agreed at 1st reading interinstitutional negotiations
body
EP
docs
title: GEDA/A/(2024)000943
docs/2
date
2024-02-08T00:00:00
docs
title: GEDA/A/(2024)000943
type
Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement
body
CSL
forecasts
  • date: 2024-04-22T00:00:00 title: Indicative plenary sitting date
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/2
date
2023-04-14T00:00:00
docs
url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0148_EN.html title: A9-0148/2023
type
Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
body
EP
events/4/summary
  • The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the report by Birgit SIPPEL (S&D, DE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2019/816 establishing a centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN) to supplement the European Criminal Records Information System and Regulation (EU) 2019/818 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816 for the purpose of introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders.
  • As a reminder, the overall objective of the Commission is to allow for the use of the Common Identity Repository (CIR) and European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals (‘ECRIS-TCN’) during the Screening. However, according to Members, the provisions granting blanket access rights to the competent authorities are not considered necessary to allow for the screening to be carried out effectively.
  • The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows:
  • Data entry in ECRIS-TCN
  • The amended text stated that for each convicted third-country national, the central authority of the convicting Member State should create a data record in the central system. The data record should include a flag indicating that the third-country national concerned has been convicted in the previous 25 years of a terrorist offence or in the previous 15 years of any other criminal offence listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 if it is punishable by a custodial sentence or a detention order for a maximum period of at least three years under national law, including the code of the convicting Member State.
  • For the purpose of the security checks, only data records to which a flag has been added should be searchable.
  • The use of ECRIS-TCN for identifying the Member States holding criminal records information
  • Following a search launched by the authorities, the central system should inform the competent authority of a hit and should automatically notify the central authority of the Member State holding criminal records information on the third country national concerned of a request for an opinion on whether the presence of that person on the territory of the Member States would pose a threat to internal security. The result of a search in the central system should only be used for the purposes of assessing whether the third country national subject to the screening might pose a threat to internal security.
  • The central authority of the Member State holding criminal records information on the third country national subject to the screening should provide an opinion to the competent authorities within four days . The absence of opinion within four days should mean that there are no security grounds to be taken into account.
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
events/6
date
2023-04-20T00:00:00
type
Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations confirmed by plenary (Rule 71 - vote)
body
EP
events/6
date
2023-04-19T00:00:00
type
Request for a plenary vote on the Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations (Rule 71)
events/6
date
2023-04-19T00:00:00
type
Request for a plenary vote on the Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations (Rule 71)
events/5
date
2023-04-17T00:00:00
type
Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations announced in plenary (Rule 71)
body
EP
docs/2/docs/0/url
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0148_EN.html
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
events/4/docs/0/url
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0148_EN.html
docs/2
date
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs
url: https://connectfolx.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
ES_PARLIAMENT
docs/2
date
2023-04-14T00:00:00
docs
title: A9-0148/2023
type
Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
body
EP
docs/3
date
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs
url: https://connectfolx.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
ES_PARLIAMENT
docs/3
date
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs
url: https://connectfolx.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
PT_PARLIAMENT
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/4
date
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs
url: https://connectfolx.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
PT_PARLIAMENT
docs/4/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
events/4
date
2023-04-14T00:00:00
type
Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
body
EP
docs
title: A9-0148/2023
procedure/stage_reached
Old
Awaiting committee decision
New
Awaiting Parliament's position in 1st reading
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-28T00:00:00
New
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-26T00:00:00
New
2021-04-27T00:00:00
events/2
date
2023-03-28T00:00:00
type
Vote in committee, 1st reading
body
EP
events/3
date
2023-03-28T00:00:00
type
Committee decision to open interinstitutional negotiations with report adopted in committee
body
EP
procedure/Legislative priorities/0
title
Joint Declaration 2023-24
url
https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/thematicnote.do?id=41380&l=en
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee
LIBE
associated
False
rapporteur
name: SIPPEL Birgit date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00 group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D
shadows
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee
LIBE
associated
False
rapporteur
name: SIPPEL Birgit date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00 group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D
shadows
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee
LIBE
associated
False
rapporteur
name: SIPPEL Birgit date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00 group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D
shadows
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee
LIBE
associated
False
rapporteur
name: SIPPEL Birgit date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00 group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D
shadows
docs/2/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096
New
https://connectfolx.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096
docs/3/docs/0/url
Old
http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096
New
https://connectfolx.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096
procedure/Legislative priorities
  • title: Joint Declaration 2022 url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/thematicnote.do?id=41360&l=en
docs/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
docs
summary
type
Legislative proposal
body
EC
docs/2
date
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
ES_PARLIAMENT
docs/2/date
Old
2021-04-29T00:00:00
New
2021-04-28T00:00:00
docs/3
date
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
ES_PARLIAMENT
docs/3
date
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
PT_PARLIAMENT
docs/3/date
Old
2021-04-27T00:00:00
New
2021-04-26T00:00:00
docs/4
date
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
PT_PARLIAMENT
events/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
type
Legislative proposal published
body
EC
docs
summary
docs/2/docs/0/url
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-AM-703279_EN.html
docs/2
date
2022-01-24T00:00:00
docs
title: PE703.279
type
Amendments tabled in committee
body
EP
docs/1/docs/0/url
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-PR-700426_EN.html
docs/1
date
2021-11-16T00:00:00
docs
title: PE700.426
type
Committee draft report
body
EP
committees/0/shadows/4
name
JAKI Patryk
group
European Conservatives and Reformists Group
abbr
ECR
docs/1
date
2021-04-29T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
ES_PARLIAMENT
docs/2
date
2021-04-27T00:00:00
docs
url: http://www.connefof.europarl.europa.eu/connefof/app/exp/COM(2021)0096 title: COM(2021)0096
type
Contribution
body
PT_PARLIAMENT
procedure/instrument/1
Amending Regulation 2019/816 2017/0144(COD) Amending Regulation 2019/818 2017/0352(COD) Amended by 2019/0001B(COD)
procedure/instrument/1
Amending Regulation 2019/816 2017/0144(COD) Amending Regulation 2019/818 2017/0352(COD)
docs/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
docs
summary
type
Legislative proposal
body
EC
docs/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
docs
summary
type
Legislative proposal
body
EC
events/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
type
Legislative proposal published
body
EC
docs
summary
commission
  • body: EC dg: Migration and Home Affairs commissioner: JOHANSSON Ylva
events/1/body
EP
events/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
type
Legislative proposal published
body
EC
docs
summary
docs/0/summary
  • PURPOSE: to allow access to the European Criminal Records Information System for third-country nationals (ECRIS-TCN) for the purpose of security checks introduced by the Regulation establishing screening of third-country nationals at external borders.
  • PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
  • ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
  • BACKGROUND: one of the legislative proposals accompanying the Commission's Communication of 23 September 2020 on a new Pact on Migration and Asylum is the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a screening of third-country nationals at the external borders for the purpose of determining whether a person is a threat to internal security or public policy.
  • The security checks as part of the screening should be at least of a similar level as the checks performed in respect of third country nationals that apply beforehand for an authorisation to enter the Union for a short stay, whether they are under a visa obligation or not.
  • Since access to the Entry/Exit System (EES), the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), the Visa Information System (VIS) and the European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals (ECRIS-TCN) is necessary for the authorities designated to carry out the screening, the regulations establishing those databases need to be amended to provide for this additional access right.
  • CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to amend Regulation (EU) 2019/816 by adding a new provision allowing the designated authorities in the context of the screening to access and search the ECRIS-TCN database for records relating to persons who have been convicted for a terrorist offence or other serious criminal offences.
  • To this end, the proposal specifies the conditions of accessing the European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals database which has been set up by an EU regulation with a view to ensure uniform application across the Union and legal certainty by avoiding divergent interpretations in the Member States with regard to the use of this central database.
  • In addition, the proposal complements the uniform rules on security checks during the screening as set out in the proposed Screening Regulation.
  • The proposal also amends Regulation (EU) 2019/818 by adding a new provision that allows designated authorities, in the context of screening, to access data stored in the common identity data repository (CIR).
events/0
date
2021-03-08T00:00:00
type
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading
events/0
date
2021-03-02T00:00:00
type
Legislative proposal published
body
EC
docs
summary
events/1
date
2021-03-08T00:00:00
type
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
body
EP
procedure/instrument/1
Amending Regulation 2019/816 2017/0144(COD) Amending Regulation 2019/818 2017/0352(COD)
procedure/instrument/1
Amending Regulation 2019/816 2017/0144(COD) Amending Regulation 2019/818 2017/0352(COD) Amended by 2019/0001B(COD)
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee
LIBE
associated
False
rapporteur
name: SIPPEL Birgit date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00 group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D
shadows
committees/0
type
Responsible Committee
body
EP
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee
LIBE
associated
False
events/0/summary
  • PURPOSE: to allow access to the European Criminal Records Information System for third-country nationals (ECRIS-TCN) for the purpose of security checks introduced by the Regulation establishing screening of third-country nationals at external borders.
  • PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
  • ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
  • BACKGROUND: one of the legislative proposals accompanying the Commission's Communication of 23 September 2020 on a new Pact on Migration and Asylum is the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a screening of third-country nationals at the external borders for the purpose of determining whether a person is a threat to internal security or public policy.
  • The security checks as part of the screening should be at least of a similar level as the checks performed in respect of third country nationals that apply beforehand for an authorisation to enter the Union for a short stay, whether they are under a visa obligation or not.
  • Since access to the Entry/Exit System (EES), the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), the Visa Information System (VIS) and the European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals (ECRIS-TCN) is necessary for the authorities designated to carry out the screening, the regulations establishing those databases need to be amended to provide for this additional access right.
  • CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to amend Regulation (EU) 2019/816 by adding a new provision allowing the designated authorities in the context of the screening to access and search the ECRIS-TCN database for records relating to persons who have been convicted for a terrorist offence or other serious criminal offences.
  • To this end, the proposal specifies the conditions of accessing the European Criminal Records Information System for third country nationals database which has been set up by an EU regulation with a view to ensure uniform application across the Union and legal certainty by avoiding divergent interpretations in the Member States with regard to the use of this central database.
  • In addition, the proposal complements the uniform rules on security checks during the screening as set out in the proposed Screening Regulation.
  • The proposal also amends Regulation (EU) 2019/818 by adding a new provision that allows designated authorities, in the context of screening, to access data stored in the common identity data repository (CIR).
events/1
date
2021-03-08T00:00:00
type
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
body
EP
procedure/dossier_of_the_committee
  • LIBE/9/05485
procedure/stage_reached
Old
Preparatory phase in Parliament
New
Awaiting committee decision
procedure/instrument/1
Amending Regulation 2019/816 2017/0144(COD) Amending Regulation 2019/818 2017/0352(COD) Amended by 2019/0001B(COD)
procedure/instrument/1
Amending Regulation 2019/816 2017/0144(COD) Amending Regulation 2019/818 2017/0352(COD)