Plenary sitting, Tuesday, 6 October 2026
9 decisions: 9 adopted. 70 ballots in all, 36 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 13:32 and 13:52.
Tightest result: Psychosocial risks, stress and mental health at work — adopted 413 to 210.
Parliament set out its position on several new EU laws, covering defence innovation, worker protection, economic governance and environmental data, and also adopted resolutions and a consent decision.
New EU laws · 5
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)
Committee report by Tonino Picula, Ivars Ijabs · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 29 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The proposal would set up the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE), a new programme to give rapid, agile and targeted support to small and medium-sized enterprises, including innovative start-ups and scaleups, to develop innovative defence solutions.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 536 for · 101 against · 16 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and ESN.
Decision 2:Protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances at work
Committee report by Liesbet Sommen · 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 text supports the sixth revision of the carcinogens and mutagens directive, which extends protection to workers in sectors such as manufacturing, construction, healthcare, emergency services, waste management and the circular economy.
Adopted by a large majority 499 for · 49 against · 104 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and PfE; opposed by ESN; ECR mostly abstained.
Decision 3:Alignment with the EU economic governance framework and further simplification of that framework
Committee report by Markus Ferber, Carla Tavares · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 2 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament considered a proposal to amend two existing regulations so they fit with the EU's economic governance framework and to simplify that framework.
Adopted by a large majority 450 for · 135 against · 75 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, PfE and ESN.
Decision 4:Economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States in the euro area experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability
Committee report by Markus Ferber, Carla Tavares · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 2 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The proposal updates the surveillance rules to align them with the 2024 reform of the Union's economic governance framework, including the national medium-term fiscal-structural plans, and to simplify and streamline the legislation.
Adopted by a large majority 458 for · 138 against · 61 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left, PfE and ESN.
Decision 5:Simplification of certain requirements for spatial information infrastructure in the Union (INSPIRE) (Omnibus VIII on environmental legislation)
Committee report by Emma Wiesner · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 4 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 proposal would amend the INSPIRE Directive, which set up a European Spatial Data Infrastructure for sharing environmental spatial information between public sector organisations and improving public access to spatial data across the Union.
Adopted by a large majority 515 for · 108 against · 35 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by PfE and ESN.
International agreements & consent · 1
Treaties and agreements Parliament can only approve or refuse as a whole — no amendments are possible.
Decision 6:Funding arrangements and the use of a diversified funding strategy
Committee report by Markus Ferber, Carla Tavares · Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament considered a draft Council regulation that would change the funding arrangements for a European Union loan instrument and allow a diversified funding strategy.
Adopted by a large majority 462 for · 121 against · 75 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by PfE and ESN; The Left mostly abstained.
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 7:Psychosocial risks, stress and mental health at work
Committee report by Estelle Ceulemans · 28 ballots, incl. 7 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. By adopting the text, Parliament made it its official position, setting out its view that the current European Union occupational safety and health framework, notably Directive 89/391/EEC, does not provide sufficiently specific, binding or harmonised provisions on work-related psychosocial risks.
Adopted by a large majority 413 for · 210 against · 29 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 8:The EU’s approach to corporate tax policy in a changing international environment
Committee report by Kinga Kollár · 2 ballots, incl. 1 amendment
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament set out its position on the European Union's approach to corporate tax policy in a changing international environment, a report covering rules such as the global minimum tax for large multinational groups and the anti-tax-avoidance directive.
Adopted by a clear majority 364 for · 69 against · 162 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ESN; The Left, ECR and PfE mostly abstained.
Parliamentary immunity · 1
Requests from national authorities to lift an MEP’s immunity so legal proceedings can go ahead, or from an MEP to defend it.
Decision 9:Request for the waiver of the immunity of Matteo Ricci
Committee report
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament considered a request from the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Pesaro in Italy to waive the immunity of MEP Matteo Ricci, elected in Italy, in connection with criminal proceedings concerning alleged offences committed while he was Mayor of Pesaro.
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).