Plenary sitting, Tuesday, 23 April 2024
30 decisions: 28 adopted, 2 rejected. 112 ballots in all, 44 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 13:12 and 14:01.
Tightest result: Commission delegated regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 as regards the amount of the visa fees — rejected 271 to 309.
New EU laws · 23
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Measures to reduce the cost of deploying gigabit electronic communications networks (Gigabit Infrastructure Act)
Committee report by Alin Mituța · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 594 for · 7 against · 15 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 2:The transfer of proceedings in criminal matters
Committee report by Assita Kanko · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 604 for · 2 against · 6 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 3:Amendments to the Solvency II Directive
Committee report by Markus Ferber · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 549 for · 56 against · 9 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and ESN.
Decision 4:Establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of insurance and reinsurance undertakings
Committee report by Markus Ferber · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a large majority 475 for · 37 against · 99 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by ESN; The Left and Verts/ALE mostly abstained.
Decision 5:Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures
Committee report by Maria Spyraki · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 533 for · 11 against · 65 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and PfE; ECR and ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 6:Payment services and electronic money services in the Internal Market
Committee report by Ondřej Kovařík · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a large majority 484 for · 8 against · 118 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; The Left, Verts/ALE and ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 7:Payment services in the internal market and amending Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Committee report by Marek Belka · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 511 for · 22 against · 75 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and PfE; opposed by ESN; ECR mostly abstained.
Decision 8:Combating late payment in commercial transactions
Committee report by Róża Thun und Hohenstein · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 43 ballots, incl. 6 amendments
Adopted by a large majority 459 for · 96 against · 54 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 9:Amending Directive 2014/62/EU as regards certain reporting requirements
Committee report by Juan Fernando López Aguilar · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 2 ballots
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 602 for · 3 against · 2 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 10:Access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point
Committee report by Emil Radev · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 571 for · 18 against · 17 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by ESN.
Decision 11:Regulation on import, export and transit measures for firearms, their essential components and ammunition (recast)
Committee report by Bernd Lange · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 537 for · 40 against · 28 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 12:Ecodesign Regulation
Committee report by Alessandra Moretti · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a large majority 455 for · 99 against · 54 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR and ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 13:Temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the EU/Euratom/Ukraine Association Agreement
Committee report by Sandra Kalniete · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 2 ballots
Adopted by a large majority 428 for · 131 against · 44 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by The Left, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 14:Visa exemption for holders of Serbian passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate
Committee report by Matjaž Nemec · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a large majority 406 for · 97 against · 94 abstainedBacked by The Left, S&D, Renew, PPE and PfE; opposed by Verts/ALE and ESN; ECR mostly abstained.
Decision 15:Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution
Committee report by João Albuquerque · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 11 ballots, incl. 5 amendments
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 538 for · 32 against · 31 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by ESN.
Decision 16:Common rules promoting the repair of goods
Committee report by René Repasi · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 584 for · 3 against · 14 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; ESN split.
Decision 17:Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market
Committee report by Samira Rafaela, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 555 for · 6 against · 45 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 18:Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Committee report by Malin Björk, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 563 for · 7 against · 17 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 19:Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance
Committee report by Markus Ferber, Margarida Marques · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 2 ballots, incl. 1 amendment
Adopted by a clear majority 367 for · 161 against · 69 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, PfE and ESN.
Decision 20:Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending regulation
Committee report by Markus Ferber, Margarida Marques · Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion. · 2 ballots
Adopted by a clear majority 368 for · 166 against · 64 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, PfE and ESN.
Decision 21:Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending directive
Committee report by Markus Ferber, Margarida Marques · Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion. · 2 ballots
Adopted by a clear majority 359 for · 166 against · 61 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, PfE and ESN.
Decision 22:Gradual roll-out of Eudamed, information obligation in case of interruption of supply and the transitional provisions for certain in vitro diagnostic medical devices
Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by show of hands, no counts recordedDecision 23:Union retail investor protection rules
Committee report · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a clear majority 352 for · 230 against · 21 abstainedNo roll call, so how each group voted is not recorded.
International agreements & consent · 1
Treaties and agreements Parliament can only approve or refuse as a whole — no amendments are possible.
Decision 24:Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement: participation of Egypt in Union programmes
Committee report by Michael Gahler · Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Adopted by a large majority 456 for · 53 against · 90 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and ESN; Verts/ALE mostly abstained.
Budget & emergency funds · 1
Budget decisions: the annual budget, amending budgets, solidarity and adjustment funds, and discharge (approving how a budget was spent).
Decision 25:Discharge 2022: EU general budget – European Council and Council
Committee report by Luke Ming Flanagan · 6 ballots, incl. 1 amendment
Adopted by a large majority 435 for · 92 against · 77 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by PfE and ESN; ECR mostly abstained.
Objections to Commission measures · 3
Parliament can object to technical rules the Commission adopts on its own. Against a delegated act an adopted objection is a veto; against most implementing measures (such as GMO authorisations) it is a call on the Commission to withdraw the measure, which is not legally binding.
Objection under Rule 111(3)
Decision 26:Deleting Gibraltar from the table in Point I of the Annex to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675
Motion for a resolution · 21 ballots
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 490 for · 64 against · 56 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; PfE and ESN mostly abstained.
Objection under Rule 111(3)
Decision 27:Feedstock for the production of biofuels and biogas
Motion for a resolution
Rejected by a small majority 245 for · 331 against · 31 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE and S&D; opposed by Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; ESN mostly abstained.
Objection under Rule 111(3)
Decision 28:Commission delegated regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 as regards the amount of the visa fees
Motion for a resolution
Rejected by a small majority 271 for · 309 against · 31 abstainedNo roll call, so how each group voted is not recorded.
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 29:Recommendation for a decision not to oppose a delegated act: rules on the ratio for GAEC Standard 1
Motion for a resolution
Adopted by a large majority 417 for · 162 against · 25 abstainedBacked by Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE and S&D.
Decision 30:Appointment of Karen Braun-Munzinger as a new member of the Single Resolution Board
Committee report
Adopted by a large majority 435 for · 49 against · 105 abstainedSecret ballot, so how each group voted is not recorded.
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).