The European Parliament rapporteurs on the various texts making up the Pact on Migration and Asylum will launch their consultations with the various stakeholders and should request an impact assessment from Parliament’s research service (EPRS) before starting the drafting work, a parliamentary source told EUROPE on Tuesday 15 December.
The various rapporteurs held an informal meeting on the same day to define the way forward and coordinate their work.
This impact assessment, which could take 12 to 16 weeks, will not, however, replace a similar exercise by the European Commission that Parliament continues to ask for.
In the view of MEPs, this is not likely to derail the discussion timetable of the Pact. At the EU Council, the competent ministers have recently pointed out that reaching agreement on this Pact will take time, months, if not years, have noted certain sources (see EUROPE 12622/3).
As a reminder, the EPP group will be in charge of the report on the Regulation on asylum management and migration, the S&D group will deal with the crisis instrument and the pre-control procedures for migrants, the Renew Europe group will draft the report on new asylum procedures and the ECR group will draft the Eurodac Regulation. The Greens/EFA group is retaining the Returns Directive, still under discussion, while the S&D group is dealing with an own-initiative report on legal migration (see EUROPE 12593/17). (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)