Plenary sitting, Tuesday, 21 October 2025
12 decisions: 9 adopted, 3 without a single recorded result. 42 ballots in all, 24 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 13:17 and 13:33.
Tightest result: Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group — adopted 327 to 256.
Parliament adopted its positions on five new EU laws, covering chemicals oversight, data protection enforcement, and political party funding, all backed by broad majorities.
New EU laws · 10
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals
Committee report by Dimitris Tsiodras · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The law aims to strengthen the knowledge base on chemicals, facilitate data exchange between regulatory bodies, and streamline assessments while ensuring early detection of emerging risks.
Adopted by a large majority 469 for · 126 against · 50 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 2:Common data platform on chemicals, establishing a monitoring and outlook framework for chemicals
Committee report by Dimitris Tsiodras · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The proposed law would create a common EU data platform on chemicals, making the data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, and set up a monitoring and outlook framework for chemicals.
Adopted by a large majority 471 for · 123 against · 48 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 3:Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks to the European Chemicals Agency
Committee report by Dimitris Tsiodras · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted by a large majority 477 for · 93 against · 76 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR and ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 4:General Data Protection Regulation: additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the Regulation
Committee report by Markéta Gregorová · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The rules aim to streamline cross-border procedures, clarify rights of parties, and introduce deadlines for legal certainty.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 533 for · 43 against · 68 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 5:Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations
Committee report by Loránt Vincze, Charles Goerens · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 9 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The text updates rules on funding sources, reporting, and transparency for these bodies ahead of the 2024 European elections.
Adopted by a large majority 446 for · 162 against · 35 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 6:Monitoring framework for resilient European forests
Committee report by Emma Wiesner, Eric Sargiacomo · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 11 ballots
Adopted the whole text was rejected outright 370 for · 264 against · 9 abstainedBacked by PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D and Renew.
Decision 7:Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group
Committee report by Emma Wiesner, Pekka Toveri · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 12 ballots, incl. 3 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The adopted text includes amendments to the committee's tasks and structure, aiming to improve its functioning.
Adopted by a small majority 327 for · 256 against · 58 abstainedBacked by Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D and ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 8:Dates of application and transitional provisions for chemical products
Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
Adopted Request for urgent procedure by show of hands, no counts recordedDecision 9:Driving licences
Committee report · Parliament’s vote on the Council’s position on a proposed law, after the first reading.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The directive updates EU rules on driving licences, introducing mutually recognised EU mobile driving licences and clarifying minimum age requirements.
Result not yet in Parliament’s recordDecision 10:Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications
Committee report · Parliament’s vote on the Council’s position on a proposed law, after the first reading.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The text establishes an EU system for sharing information and recognising driving disqualifications across member states for major offences such as drink or drug driving, excessive speeding, or causing death or serious injury.
Result not yet in Parliament’s record
Resolutions & reports · 1
Non-binding texts in which Parliament states its position on a topic. They carry political weight but do not create law.
Decision 11:A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition
Committee report by David Cormand
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The text calls for a mandatory digital product passport for all goods, including second-hand items, to give consumers and authorities clearer information.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 505 for · 62 against · 47 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Other decisions · 1
Elections, appointments and internal decisions of the Parliament.
Decision 12:Parliament’s calendar of part-sessions – 2027
2 ballots
No single decisive vote · 1 of 2 ballots adopted
✦ 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).