Plenary sitting, Tuesday, 16 December 2025
15 decisions: 13 adopted, 1 rejected, 1 without a single recorded result. 140 ballots in all, 85 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 12:46 and 13:15.
Tightest result: Request for the waiver of the immunity of Elisabetta Gualmini — adopted 382 to 254.
Parliament adopted positions on several new EU laws, including trade safeguards, defence investment incentives, and agricultural subsidy reforms, while rejecting a proposal on consumer dispute resolution.
New EU laws · 9
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products
Committee report by Gabriel Mato · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 70 ballots, incl. 45 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The law aims to protect sensitive EU agricultural sectors by allowing swift, proportionate measures when imports from Mercosur countries cause or threaten serious injury to EU producers.
Adopted by a large majority 431 for · 161 against · 70 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ESN; opposed by The Left and PfE; ECR mostly abstained.
Decision 2:Amending the Directive on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes
Committee report by Laura Ballarín Cereza · 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 proposal updates EU rules on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes after the European Online Dispute Resolution Platform was discontinued.
Rejected by a large majority 122 for · 470 against · 69 abstainedBacked by PfE and ESN; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; ECR mostly abstained.
Decision 3:Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations
Committee report by Adrián Vázquez Lázara · Parliament’s vote on the Council’s position on a proposed law, after the first reading. · 3 ballots, incl. 3 amendments
No single decisive vote · 0 of 3 ballots adopted
Decision 4:Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan
Committee report by Rihards Kols · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 6 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The law amends several EU funding programmes to support defence technologies, dual-use research, and military mobility, without creating new instruments.
Adopted by a large majority 519 for · 119 against · 25 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and ESN.
Decision 5:Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties
Committee report by André Rodrigues · 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 amendments cover conditionality, direct payments, sector interventions, and annual performance reporting, as well as data governance and payment suspensions.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 629 for · 17 against · 16 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 6:Providing macro-financial assistance to Jordan
Committee report by Céline Imart · 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 European Parliament adopted its position on a proposal to provide Jordan with macro-financial assistance of up to EUR 500 million in loans.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 585 for · 34 against · 45 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; The Left mostly abstained.
Decision 7:Brexit Adjustment Reserve
Committee report by Pascal Arimont · 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 adjustment is a technical, financial and legal change that aligns the fund's regulation with a reduction agreed during the mid-term revision of the EU's long-term budget, without affecting funds already paid out or transferred.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 619 for · 6 against · 37 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 8:Corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements
Committee report by Jörgen Warborn · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 38 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The proposal aims to simplify and reduce the burden on EU enterprises, while maintaining human rights and environmental standards.
Adopted by a large majority 428 for · 218 against · 17 abstainedBacked by Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE and S&D.
Decision 9:Establishing the Reparations Loan to Ukraine
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 recorded
Budget & emergency funds · 1
Budget decisions: the annual budget, amending budgets, solidarity and adjustment funds, and discharge (approving how a budget was spent).
Decision 10:Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden
Committee report by Aura Salla · 7 ballots, incl. 1 amendment
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The decision releases EU money for personalised services such as job-search help, training, business start-up support and allowances for the affected workers.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 578 for · 54 against · 30 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by ESN.
Objections to Commission measures · 2
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 115(2) and (3) · implementing measure
Decision 11:Genetically modified maize NK603
Motion for a resolution
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament objected to a Commission plan to renew the authorisation of genetically modified maize NK603, which is tolerant to glyphosate, for use in food, feed and other products, excluding cultivation.
Adopted by a large majority 479 for · 173 against · 8 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by Renew and PPE.
Objection under Rule 115(2) and (3) · implementing measure
Decision 12:Genetically modified sugar beet KWS20-1
Motion for a resolution
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament objected to a Commission draft decision that would authorise selling food, food ingredients and feed made from genetically modified sugar beet KWS20-1 in the EU.
Adopted by a large majority 455 for · 169 against · 8 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by Renew and PPE.
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 13:Relations between the EU and Saudi Arabia
Committee report by Hana Jalloul Muro · 7 ballots, incl. 4 amendments
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 Strategic Partnership Agreement to give a legally binding framework to ties, covering areas such as energy, trade, security and human rights.
Adopted by a large majority 417 for · 131 against · 108 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and Verts/ALE; ESN mostly abstained.
Parliamentary immunity · 2
Requests from national authorities to lift an MEP’s immunity so legal proceedings can go ahead, or from an MEP to defend it.
Decision 14:Request for the waiver of the immunity of Alessandra Moretti
Committee report
Adopted by a large majority 497 for · 139 against · 15 abstainedNo roll call, so how each group voted is not recorded.
Decision 15:Request for the waiver of the immunity of Elisabetta Gualmini
Committee report
Adopted by a clear majority 382 for · 254 against · 19 abstainedNo roll call, so how each group voted is not 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.
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- A sitting
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- The ballots
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- 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
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- Group badges
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