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Plenary sitting, Wednesday, 27 November 2024

7 decisions: 5 adopted, 2 rejected. 11 ballots in all, 11 by , between 12:20 and 12:29.

Tightest result: Election of the Commission — adopted 370 to 282.

✦ The day in brief · AI briefing

Parliament dealt with visa rules, disaster aid, the 2025 budget, and fishing protections, adopting most items by large majorities.

New EU laws · 1

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

  1. Decision 1:Amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 as regards Vanuatu

    Committee report by Paulo Cunha ·

    The proposal amends Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 to remove Vanuatu from the list of countries whose nationals are exempt from the visa requirement for short stays in the EU.

    Adopted by an overwhelming majority 627 for · 6 against · 37 abstained

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

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 2:Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Germany and Italy relating to floods occurred in 2024

    Committee report by Giuseppe Lupo

    The decision releases financial aid to help with recovery from the flood damage in the affected regions.

    Adopted by an overwhelming majority 660 for · 11 against · 4 abstained

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

  2. Decision 3:Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

    Committee report by Siegfried Mureşan

    The budget includes a net increase of EUR 44.5 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 2.95 billion in payment appropriations, partly covered by fines and penalties.

    Adopted by a large majority 525 for · 75 against · 81 abstained

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

Objections to Commission measures · 1

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.

  1. Objection under Rule 114(3) · delegated act

    Decision 4:Measures to reduce incidental catches of common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and other small cetaceans in the Bay of Biscay

    Motion for a resolution

    Rejected by a large majority 123 for · 511 against · 42 abstained

    Backed by ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE 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 5:2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text

    Committee report by Victor Negrescu, Niclas Herbst

    The adoption makes the budget law, and Parliament's President will declare it definitively adopted and publish it in the Official Journal.

    Adopted by a large majority 418 for · 185 against · 67 abstained

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

Other decisions · 2

Elections, appointments and internal decisions of the Parliament.

  1. Decision 6:Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme

    5 ballots

    Rejected by a large majority 154 for · 507 against · 19 abstained

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

  2. Decision 7:Election of the Commission

    Adopted by a small majority 370 for · 282 against · 36 abstained

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

✦ 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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