Citizenship and residence by investment schemes
On 29 April 2021, the European Parliament decided to draw up a legislative own-initiative report on Citizenship and Residence by Investment Schemes, including the rights and obligations attached thereto and the way they combine with EU law and principles, to be prepared by its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). Work was carried out under the rapporteurship of Sophia IN’T VELD (Renew).
The rapporteur and shadow rapporteurs addressed the topic under different angles, spelled out in a series of working documents published below. On 9 March 2022, the European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the legislative initiative report.
- Citizenship and residence by investment schemes - Draft Report
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Working Documents
- Sincere cooperation and the limits of national competences in the field of RBI/CBI (Konstantinos ARVANITIS) (PDF - 250 KB)
- The role of commercial intermediaries and the applicability of EU market and consumer law (Patryk JAKI) (PDF - 328 KB)
- Common standards for security checks and diligence, with a particular view to corruption risks and administrative cooperation in the AFSJ (Elena YONCHEVA) (PDF - 266 KB)
- Residency requirements (Vladimír BILCIK) (PDF - 353 KB)
- Third countries: the link between CBI and visa free travel to the EU (Sophia IN'T VELD) (PDF - 173 KB)
- The Specificity of regulating Residence By Investment under EU law (Elena YONCHEVA) (PDF - 203 KB)
- Anti-Money Laundering legislation as a tool to regulate RBI/CBI schemes (Saskia BRICMONT) (PDF - 392 KB)
- Legislative initiative procedure - Citizenship and residence by investment schemes, 2021/2026(INL)
- Motion for a European Parliament Resolution with proposals to the Commission on Citizenship and residence by investment schemes
- European Parliament resolution of 9 March 2022 with proposals to the Commission on citizenship and residence by investment schemes
Press releases
Background documents
European Parliament - Resolutions
- European Parliament resolution of 29 April 2021 on the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the rule of law in Malta (2021/2611(RSP))
- European Parliament resolution of 16 January 2014 on EU citizenship for sale (2013/2995(RSP))
- European Parliament resolution of 18 December 2019 on the rule of law in Malta following the recent revelations surrounding the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (2019/2954(RSP))
- European Parliament resolution of 10 July 2020 on a comprehensive Union policy on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing – the Commission’s Action Plan and other recent developments (2020/2686(RSP))
- European Parliament resolution of 17 December 2020 on the EU Security Union Strategy (2020/2791(RSP))
European Parliament - Studies
- Avenues for EU action on citizenship and residence by investment schemes - European Added Value Assessment
- Legal migration policy and law - European added value assessment
- Legal migration policy and law Annex I to the European added value assessment
- Citizenship by Investment (CBI) and Residency by Investment (RBI) schemes in the EU State of play, issues and impacts
- The Legal and Political Context for Setting Up a European Identity Document
- Links to various other documents (PDF - 246 KB)