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Plenary sitting, Wednesday, 23 October 2024

5 decisions: 3 adopted, 1 rejected, 1 without a single recorded result. 267 ballots in all, 140 by , between 13:09 and 13:52.

Tightest result: General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections — rejected 233 to 360.

✦ The day in brief · AI briefing

The European Parliament held a voting day focused on employment, the EU budget, and medical devices, adopting positions on employment guidelines and medical device rules while rejecting the 2025 budget.

New EU laws · 2

Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.

  1. Decision 1:Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States

    Committee report · · 19 ballots, incl. 10 amendments

    The adopted text approves the Commission proposal as amended, meaning the guidelines will reflect Parliament's requested changes.

    Adopted by a large majority 444 for · 179 against · 20 abstained

    Backed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR, PfE and ESN.

  2. Decision 2:Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application

    Adopted Request for urgent procedure by show of hands, no counts recorded

Budget & emergency funds · 2

Budget decisions: the annual budget, amending budgets, solidarity and adjustment funds, and discharge (approving how a budget was spent).

  1. Decision 3:Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sections

    78 ballots, incl. 17 amendments

    No single decisive vote · 36 of 78 ballots adopted

  2. Decision 4:General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections

    Committee report · 152 ballots, incl. 75 amendments

    The Parliament's resolution had called for a people-centred budget with investments in areas like public health, housing, and the environment, and for support to Ukraine and agriculture.

    Rejected by a clear majority 233 for · 360 against · 59 abstained

    Backed by PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PfE and ESN.

Resolutions & reports · 1

Non-binding texts in which Parliament states its position on a topic. They carry political weight but do not create law.

  1. Decision 5:Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation

    Motion for a resolution · 17 ballots

    The revision should address implementation challenges, consider stakeholders' views, and focus on timely availability of medical technologies, a more predictable system, and less administrative burden for manufacturers.

    Adopted by show of hands, no counts recorded

✦ AI: one-sentence summaries written by an AI from the text voted on; the outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Each decision’s page shows every ballot, the full text and the procedure.

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).

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