Plenary sitting, Tuesday, 20 October 2026
11 decisions: 10 adopted, 1 rejected. 59 ballots in all, 28 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 13:12 and 13:30.
Tightest result: Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget — adopted 357 to 274.
A voting day in which MEPs set Parliament's position on methane rules, cross-border protection of adults, cities and high-speed rail, and rejected an objection to carbon farming certification rules.
New EU laws · 7
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Amendments to the Critical Raw Materials Act
Committee report by Mohammed Chahim · 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 amends Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 on critical raw materials, for example by having the Commission set cut-off dates for Strategic Project calls at least twice per year and by strengthening data collection and monitoring across the value chain.
Adopted by a large majority 470 for · 83 against · 108 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by The Left and ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 2:Suspending the application of the rules on extended producer responsibility for waste, waste electrical and electronical equipment and single use plastic waste (Omnibus VIII on environmental legislation)
Committee report by Ingeborg Ter Laak · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 11 ballots, incl. 6 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The proposal concerns a directive that would temporarily suspend rules requiring companies to appoint authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility for waste, waste electrical and electronic equipment and single-use plastic waste.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 612 for · 8 against · 39 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; The Left mostly abstained.
Decision 3:Suspending the application of the rules on extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste (Omnibus VIII on environmental legislation)
Committee report by Ingeborg Ter Laak · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 16 ballots, incl. 7 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The amendments limit the suspension to micro and small enterprises active across borders, keep it strictly temporary until the future Circular Economy Act applies, and maintain the current framework for producers established in third countries.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 616 for · 9 against · 39 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; The Left mostly abstained.
Decision 4:Public interface connected to the Internal Market Information System for the declaration of posting of workers
Committee report by Johan Danielsson, Andreas Schwab · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 12 ballots
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 558 for · 93 against · 18 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by PfE and ESN.
Decision 5:Transport: enforcement of passenger rights in the Union
Committee report by Matteo Ricci · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 9 ballots
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 652 for · 2 against · 8 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 6:Protection of adults: jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of measures and cooperation
Committee report by Jana Toom · 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 draft regulation sets out European Union rules on which country's authorities handle, and which law applies to, protection measures for adults and their representatives in cross-border situations.
Adopted by a large majority 531 for · 93 against · 41 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by PfE and ESN.
Decision 7:Reduction of methane emissions in the energy sector: postponement of certain obligations
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
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.
Objection under Rule 114(3) · delegated act
Decision 8:Certification methodologies for carbon farming activities
Motion for a resolution
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The text concerns a Commission delegated regulation that sets out certification methodologies for carbon farming activities under Regulation (EU) 2024/3012, the Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products.
Rejected by a large majority 199 for · 407 against · 45 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE and S&D; opposed by Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Resolutions & reports · 3
Non-binding texts in which Parliament states its position on a topic. They carry political weight but do not create law.
Decision 9:Cohesion policy – the driving force in implementing the EU agenda for cities
Committee report by Denis Nesci
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The report concerns cohesion policy as the main framework for integrated urban development and welcomes the Commission's EU agenda for cities, which aims to strengthen the urban dimension of EU policies.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 601 for · 20 against · 36 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 10:Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget
Committee report by Ondřej Knotek · 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 report concerns value added tax (VAT) fraud, in particular cross-border carousel fraud, and how well cooperation between member states and EU anti-fraud bodies works against it.
Adopted by a small majority 357 for · 274 against · 31 abstainedBacked by PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D and Renew; ESN mostly abstained.
Decision 11:Connecting Europe through high-speed rail
Committee report by Vicent Marzà Ibáñez
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The text is a parliamentary resolution on connecting Europe through high-speed rail, responding to the Commission's communication of 5 November 2025 on the same topic.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 558 for · 23 against · 73 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; The Left and ESN mostly abstained.
✦ 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).