# C_2022099EN.01024901.xml

| 1.3.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 99/249 |
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1.3.2022

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 99/249

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P9_TA(2021)0342

Visa Information System (VIS): visa processing ***II

European Parliament legislative resolution of 7 July 2021 on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EC) No 767/2008, (EC) No 810/2009, (EU) 2016/399, (EU) 2017/2226, (EU) 2018/1240, (EU) 2018/1860, (EU) 2018/1861, (EU) 2019/817 and (EU) 2019/1896 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decisions 2004/512/EC and 2008/633/JHA, for the purpose of reforming the Visa Information System (05950/1/2021 — C9-0198/2021 — 2018/0152A(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

(2022/C 99/40)

The European Parliament,

| — | having regard to the Council position at first reading (05950/1/2021 — C9-0198/2021), |
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having regard to the Council position at first reading (05950/1/2021 — C9-0198/2021),

| — | having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 19 September 2018 (1), |
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having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 19 September 2018 (1),

| — | having regard to its position at first reading (2) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2018)0302), |
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having regard to its position at first reading (2) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2018)0302),

| — | having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs on the proposed legal basis, |
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having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs on the proposed legal basis,

| — | having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, |
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having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

| — | having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure, |
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having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

| — | having regard to the decision by the Conference of Presidents of 25 September 2020 to authorise the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to split the legislative procedure and to proceed on that basis, |
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having regard to the decision by the Conference of Presidents of 25 September 2020 to authorise the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to split the legislative procedure and to proceed on that basis,

| — | having regard to Rules 67 and 40 of its Rules of Procedure, |
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having regard to Rules 67 and 40 of its Rules of Procedure,

| — | having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A9-0207/2021), |
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having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A9-0207/2021),

| 1. | Approves the Council position at first reading; |
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| 2. | Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position; |
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| 3. | Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; |
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| 4. | Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union; |
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| 5. | Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments. |
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(1)  OJ C 440, 6.12.2018, p. 154.

(2)  OJ C 23, 21.1.2021, p. 286.

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