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Written by Anita Orav (4th edition, updated on 06.06.2024).
Eurodac is a biometric database in which Member States are required to enter the fingerprint data of asylum-seekers in order to identify where they entered the European Union (EU). Established in 2000 and reviewed in 2013, its main purpose is to facilitate the application of the Dublin Regulation. The 2013 revision of the regulation broadened its scope to provide law enforcement authorities with access to the Eurodac database.
As part of the reform of the common European asylum system in 2016, the European Commission proposed a recast of the Eurodac Regulation. The co-legislators reached a partial agreement on the proposal in 2018. As part of the broader migration and asylum pact, the new Commission presented an amended proposal on 23 September 2020.
Following trilogue negotiations, a political agreement on the Eurodac was reached on 20 December 2023. The European Parliament adopted the regulation at its plenary session on 10 April 2024 and the Council adopted the act on 14 May 2024. The final act was published in the Official Journal on 22 May 2024. It will apply from 12 June 2026, with the exception of Article 26, which will apply from 12 June 2029.
Complete version
- June 2024: Recast Eurodac Regulation (4th edition)
| Amended proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of ‘Eurodac’ for the comparison of biometric data for the effective application of Regulation (EU) xxx/xxx [Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management] and of Regulation (EU) xxx/xxx [Resettlement Regulation], for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States’ law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1240 and (EU) 2019/818 | ||
| Committee responsible: | Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) | COM(2020) 614 of 23.9.2020, COM(2016) 272 of 4.5.2016 |
| Rapporteur: | Jorge Buxadé Villalba (ECR, Spain) | procedure ref.: 2016/0132(COD) |
| Shadow rapporteurs: | Karlo Ressler (EPP, Croatia)
Isabel Santos (S&D, Portugal) Hilde Vautmans (Renew, Belgium) Tom Vandendriessche (ID, Belgium) Saskia Bricmont (Greens/EFA, Belgium) Malin Björk (The Left, Sweden). |
Ordinary legislative procedure (COD)
(Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’) |
| Procedure complete | Regulation (EU) 2024/1358
OJ L, 2024/1358, 22.5.2024 |
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