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• The European Parliament’s Open Data Portal (API v2): sittings, decisions and vote results, members and their group memberships, documents and their texts, procedures, plenary speeches. Licensed CC BY 4.0 — source: European Parliament.
• Every object page links its official source: the roll-call results of the sitting, the text on the Parliament’s site, the Legislative Observatory (OEIL) page, the member’s profile.
• Positions are as the Parliament recorded them; later corrections of voting intention are not applied. How each figure is computed: Methods.

New sittings are picked up within the hour after the Parliament publishes their results; the whole dataset is fetched again every night. Data as of 24 Sept 2026, 05:54 UTC (votes last indexed). The footer of every page shows the same date.

• Only in labelled panels, marked “Written by AI from the official text — check the source”, with the model and date, collapsed on object pages: summaries of decisions and texts, the day’s and the week’s brief, notes on what changed between two versions of a text.
• Never numbers. Every count, date, result and figure comes from the official data; AI text never appears in a table cell.
• Topics and running issues are model-assigned and not checked by hand; they are labelled as such wherever they filter or group results. The lead committee is offered as the standard classifier.

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Amendment

A proposed change to the text, voted on before the final vote.

Budget procedure (BUD)

Budget procedure (BUD): Parliament and the Council adopt the EU’s annual budget together.

Clear line and majority line

How a political group’s members voted: For, Against or Abstained when at least two thirds of them voted that way, Divided when no position had two thirds. Group loyalty figures count the position most of the group took.

CNS

Consultation procedure (CNS): Parliament gives an opinion; the Council decides.

COD

Ordinary legislative procedure (COD): Parliament and the Council decide together as equals.

Committee report

A report drafted by a parliamentary committee and put to the whole Parliament.

Consent

Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.

Consent procedure (APP)

Consent procedure (APP): Parliament approves or rejects, but cannot amend.

Consultation

Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion.

Delegation

A group of MEPs that keeps up relations with the parliament of a non-EU country or region.

Eligible votes

Votes the member could have taken part in while in office.

Final vote

The last vote on a text as a whole, after all amendments. It decides whether the text is adopted.

Final vote (deciding vote)

The vote that settles a decision, usually the final vote on the whole text.

First reading

Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.

Group loyalty

Share of votes in which a member voted the same way as the majority of their political group.

INI

Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding.

Intergroup

An informal cross-party forum of MEPs on one theme. It is not a Parliament body and takes no decisions.

Joint motion

A motion for a resolution tabled together by several political groups.

Lapsed

Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.

NLE

Non-legislative procedure (NLE): for example international agreements, appointments or opinions.

Non-attached (no group)

Members who do not belong to any political group. They have no group line to follow or break.

Proposal to reject

A motion to reject the whole text without voting on its content.

Provisional agreement

A deal negotiated between Parliament and the Council. Parliament then votes it through as one text.

Rapporteur

The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.

Requested by

Political groups can ask for a roll call, or for a paragraph to be voted separately or in parts.

Roll-call vote

A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published.

RSP

Resolution on a topical subject (RSP): Parliament states its view. It is not binding.

Second reading

Parliament’s vote on the Council’s position on a proposed law, after the first reading.

Separate vote

A paragraph voted on its own, usually so a group can vote against just that part.

Shadow rapporteur

An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.

Show of hands

A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how.

Split vote

A paragraph or amendment voted in separate parts, so groups can back one part and oppose another.

Substitute

A substitute member can attend and vote in the committee or delegation when a full member of their group is absent.

Third reading

Final approval of a text agreed with the Council in the conciliation committee.

Voted against their group

Votes in which an MEP voted differently from their group: on decision pages, against a line at least two thirds of the group took; in loyalty figures, against the position most of the group took.

With the result

Share of these votes in which the group’s line matched the final result.

Written question

A question an MEP puts in writing to the Commission, the Council or the High Representative, who must answer in writing.

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