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Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application

Effect
Passed
Result
546 for · 97 against · 7 abstained roll call
Date
17 December 2024, 12:56
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (5)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Topics
Climate & environmentAgriculture, food & fisheries Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
2 votes · 1 roll call
Sitting
Tuesday 17 December 2024
Final vote
171182
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Votes on this decision
Members on the final vote

Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Final vote: 546 for, 97 against, 7 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

Backed by S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR, Patriots and ESN; opposed by The Left and Greens.

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Majority line: the most common position. Clear line: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. Cohesion: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 1Against 41Abst. 1No vote 3 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.93
GreensFor 2Against 45Abst. 1No vote 5 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.91
S&DFor 120Against 3Abst. 0No vote 13 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
RenewFor 73Against 1Abst. 0No vote 3 of 77Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
EPPFor 166Against 1Abst. 1No vote 20 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
ECRFor 64Against 1Abst. 1No vote 12 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.95
PatriotsFor 78Against 0Abst. 0No vote 8 of 86Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 20Against 0Abst. 2No vote 3 of 25Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.86
No groupFor 22Against 5Abst. 1No vote 2 of 30Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Diego SOLIER changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Fernand KARTHEISER changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Malika SOREL changed group, Milan MAZUREK changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 15

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast, at least 10 members voting) of the group they sat in that day. A group without a clear line is divided and not counted.

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

Votes by country (27 delegations)
Members' votes by country. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Cohesion: Agreement Index of the delegation, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all the same; it reflects the mix of groups (method).
CountryForAgainstAbst.No voteCohesion
Austria172010.84
Belgium135040.58
Bulgaria120051.00
Cyprus4200—
Czechia190110.93
Germany67181100.67
Denmark95010.46
Estonia6001—
Spain478050.78
Finland94020.54
France6314040.73
Greece115140.47
Croatia91020.85
Hungary161130.83
Ireland113000.68
Italy54110110.75
Lithuania91010.85
Luxembourg5100—
Latvia6102—
Malta5001—
Netherlands237010.65
Poland460250.94
Portugal171120.84
Romania292020.90
Sweden164010.70
Slovenia8100—
Slovakia150001.00

Members

Each member’s recorded position on the final roll call, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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All votes on this decision, 2

In voting order. Result: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Final vote on the provisional agreement C10-0119/2024 – Provisional agreement (Commission proposal – unamended) Roll call546 for, 97 against, 7 abstained Adopted
2Commission statement Show of hands Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Parliament’s vote records link no text to this decision.

Connections

What this decision touches: the procedural chain, the same text, running issues, votes that split the chamber the same way.

Show 11 connections: Running issue: EU Deforestation Regulation · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU Deforestation Regulation

Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/1
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2024). “Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application”. Decision, 17 December 2024. votingId 171182. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 17 December 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 17 December 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-17, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2024-12-17/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2024-12-17-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application}},
  year = {2024},
  date = {2024-12-17},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 171182. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-17 (CC BY 4.0)}
}