The European Parliament’s rapporteurs on the reform of the Schengen Borders Code will once again try to reach an agreement on the aspects of the report by Sylvie Guillaume (S&D) (see EUROPE 13167/20) when they meet again on Tuesday 27 June.
Positions have been deadlocked for several weeks between the various groups on the question of the duration of internal border controls and the arrangements for extending these measures (Article 27-a-5), and no new date for a vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties has been put forward at this stage.
Practical difficulties - such as convening meetings - have been added in the meantime, further delaying the process. The Council of the EU adopted its mandate in June 2022 (see EUROPE 12969/2).
The various European Parliament rapporteurs, for their part, remain very divided on the question of the duration and arrangements for extending internal border controls, which the French rapporteur would like to bring into line with the Court of Justice of the EU’s judgment on the issue in April 2022 (see EUROPE 12939/9).
In the spring, however, they had found common ground on reinstating in the European Parliament’s mandate regarding the provisions allowing return procedures between Member States for illegal immigrants under Article 23-a (see EUROPE 13132/7). (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)