By June 2023, the European Parliament had adopted reports on most of the reform proposals – although the draft report on the proposal on instrumentalisation of migration is still being discussed. In line with the gradual approach proposed by the French Presidency of the Council in 2022, the Member States focused on reform aspects related to the screening and registration of migrants arriving at the border. In June 2022, the Council adopted a negotiating mandate on the proposed screening regulation and the recast Eurodac Regulation, as well as a general approach on the revision of the Schengen Borders Code. Eighteen Member States (as well as Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein) endorsed a political Solidarity Declaration establishing a temporary solidarity mechanism intended to provide a concrete response to the migratory difficulties faced by the Member States of first entry. Based on the 2018 provisional agreement, in December 2022, the Council amended its negotiating mandates for three proposals from the CEAS package: a regulation establishing a Union Resettlement Framework, a regulation on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, and the recast of the directive laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection.
Following an agreement in the Council in June 2023 on two key proposals, the negotiations between the Parliament and the Council resumed, leading to a political agreement on five major reform files in December 2023. On 8 February 2024, the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (Coreper) approved the agreement. The files will now have to be formally adopted by the Parliament and the Council. It is expected that the reform will be finalised before the 2024 European elections, as previously agreed by the co-legislators.
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