P9_TA(2024)0376 – Advance passenger information: enhancing and facilitating external border controls – European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2024 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information (API) for enhancing and facilitating external border controls, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/817 and Regulation (EU) 2018/1726, and repealing Council Directive 2004/82/EC (COM(2022)0729 – C9-0428/2022 – 2022/0424(COD)) (Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)
Date: 2024-04-25
Institutions: Committee on Budgets, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Committee on Transport and Tourism, European Parliament
Subjects: air transport, border control, carriage of passengers, data protection, disclosure of information, exchange of information, external border of the EU, free movement of persons, illegal migration, personal data




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C/2025/3797


17.9.2025






P9_TA(2024)0376

Advance passenger information: enhancing and facilitating external border controls


European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2024 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information (API) for enhancing and facilitating external border controls, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/817 and Regulation (EU) 2018/1726, and repealing Council Directive 2004/82/EC (COM(2022)0729 – C9-0428/2022 – 2022/0424(COD))


(Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)

(C/2025/3797)



The European Parliament,







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having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2022)0729),










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having regard to Article 294(2) and Article 77(2), points (b) and (d), and Article 79(2), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C9-0428/2022),










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having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 27 April 2023
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having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the responsible committee under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure and the undertaking given by the Council representative by letter of 13 March 2024 to approve Parliament’s position, in accordance with Article 294(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to Rule 59 of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism,










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having regard to the report of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A9-0409/2023),










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Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out;










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Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal;










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Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.







(1)  
            OJ C 228, 29.6.2023, p. 97.






P9_TC1-COD(2022)0424


Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2024 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2025/… of the European Parliament and of the Council on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information for enhancing and facilitating external border checks, amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726 and (EU) 2019/817, and repealing Council Directive 2004/82/EC



(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EU) 2025/12.)




ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3797/oj
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