Plenary sitting, Wednesday, 7 February 2024
9 decisions: 9 adopted. 299 ballots in all, 86 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 12:52 and 13:35.
Tightest result: Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed — adopted 307 to 263.
New EU laws · 6
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Temporary derogation: combating online child sexual abuse
Committee report by Birgit Sippel · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a large majority 496 for · 111 against · 22 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and Verts/ALE; ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 2:Empowering the French Republic to negotiate, sign and conclude an international agreement on the safety and interoperability requirements within the Channel Fixed Link
Committee report by Petar Vitanov · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 636 for · 2 against · 3 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 3:Amendments to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to the Directive relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITSD)
Committee report by Isabel Benjumea Benjumea · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 576 for · 40 against · 19 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left; ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 4:Instant payments in euro
Committee report by Michiel Hoogeveen · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 599 for · 7 against · 35 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; The Left and ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 5:Limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates
Committee report by Nikolaj Villumsen · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 589 for · 10 against · 40 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; ESN split.
Decision 6:Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed
Committee report by Jessica Polfjärd · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 287 ballots, incl. 70 amendments
Adopted by a small majority 307 for · 263 against · 41 abstainedBacked by Renew, PPE and PfE; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE and S&D; ECR and ESN split.
International agreements & consent · 1
Treaties and agreements Parliament can only approve or refuse as a whole — no amendments are possible.
Decision 7:Conclusion of the Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Angola
Committee report by Joachim Schuster · Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Adopted by a large majority 488 for · 39 against · 108 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left; Verts/ALE mostly abstained; ESN split.
Resolutions & reports · 2
Non-binding texts in which Parliament states its position on a topic. They carry political weight but do not create law.
Decision 8:Norway’s recent decision to advance seabed mining in the Arctic
Motion for a resolution · 3 ballots, incl. 1 amendment
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 523 for · 34 against · 59 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; PfE and ESN split.
Decision 9:Rule of law and media freedom in Greece
Motion for a resolution · 3 ballots, incl. 1 amendment
Adopted by a small majority 330 for · 254 against · 26 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D and Renew; opposed by PPE, ECR and PfE; ESN split.
New here? How plenary voting works
- A sitting
- One day of voting in plenary. Each subject is a report, resolution, agreement or objection; they are grouped by kind of decision, and each group says what “adopted” means there.
- The ballots
- Members vote on amendments and on parts of the text first, then on the text as a whole. That final, decisive vote is the result shown at the top of each subject.
- Who voted how
- Only roll-call votes record each Member’s vote — open one for every name and the breakdown by group. A show of hands records the outcome only.
- Document & procedure
- Each subject rests on a document (a committee report, a motion, a Council or Commission text) and belongs to a procedure, the whole file that can span years.
- Group badges
- How most of a group voted: ✓ For · ✗ Against · – Abstained · ~ Split (no majority).