Decision

EU-Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union

Effect: Consent given
Result: 525 for · 5 against · 34 abstained roll call
Date: 12 March 2025, 12:03
Kind: International agreement · Consent procedure

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Margin: by an overwhelming majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0017
Dossier: 2023/0341(NLE)
Source: Committee report
Topics: Trade & customs Economy & single market Foreign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting: Wednesday 12 March 2025
Final vote: 172115

Margin: by an overwhelming majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0017
Dossier: 2023/0341(NLE)
Source: Committee report
Topics: Trade & customs Economy & single market Foreign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting: Wednesday 12 March 2025
Final vote: 172115

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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.

Consent given by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament gave its consent.

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

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).
Group	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Majority line	Clear line	Cohesion
The Left	For 1	Against 5	Abst. 27	No vote 13 of 46	Majority line Abstained	Clear line Abstained	Cohesion 0.73
Greens	For 40	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 13 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 101	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 35 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Renew	For 63	Against 0	Abst. 1	No vote 11 of 75	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.98
EPP	For 146	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 42 of 188	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
ECR	For 64	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 16 of 80	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Patriots	For 73	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 13 of 86	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
ESN	For 18	Against 0	Abst. 2	No vote 6 of 26	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.85
No group	For 19	Against 0	Abst. 4	No vote 6 of 29	Majority line —	Clear line No line	Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS 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, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 9

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.

The Left line Abstained · 6 voted for or against of 33 who voted
Voted for or against (6)
- Dario TAMBURRANO Italy
- Gaetano PEDULLA' Italy
- Marc BOTENGA Belgium
- Mario FURORE Italy
- Pernando BARRENA ARZA Spain
- Valentina PALMISANO Italy
Renew line For · 1 abstained of 64 who voted
Abstained (1)
- Ciaran MULLOOLY Ireland
ESN line For · 2 abstained of 20 who voted
Abstained (2)
- Ivan DAVID Czechia
- Milan UHRÍK Slovakia

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).
Country	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Cohesion
Austria	16	0	0	4	1.00
Belgium	16	0	1	5	0.91
Bulgaria	13	0	0	4	1.00
Cyprus	3	0	1	2	—
Czechia	15	0	1	5	0.91
Germany	76	0	3	17	0.94
Denmark	11	0	1	3	0.88
Estonia	6	0	0	1	—
Spain	46	1	2	11	0.91
Finland	11	0	3	1	0.68
France	56	0	6	19	0.85
Greece	11	0	5	5	0.53
Croatia	9	0	0	3	—
Hungary	15	0	0	6	1.00
Ireland	9	0	4	1	0.54
Italy	50	4	0	22	0.89
Lithuania	8	0	0	3	—
Luxembourg	3	0	0	3	—
Latvia	6	0	0	3	—
Malta	1	0	0	5	—
Netherlands	23	0	1	7	0.94
Poland	48	0	1	4	0.97
Portugal	14	0	2	5	0.81
Romania	24	0	0	9	1.00
Sweden	16	0	2	3	0.83
Slovenia	8	0	0	1	—
Slovakia	11	0	1	3	0.88

Members

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Debate speakers and how they voted

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. **Speeches**: how many times they took the floor. **Final vote**: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
Member	Group	Speeches	Spoke	Final vote
Roberts ZĪLE Latvia	ECR	Speeches1	12 Mar 2025 (verbatim report, official site)	No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 1

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.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
1	Final vote on the draft Council decision A10–0017/2025 – Željana Zovko - Draft Council decision	Roll call	525 for, 5 against, 34 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0017

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The agreement adjusts EU tariff-rate quotas with Norway after the UK's withdrawal from the EU, following WTO rules.

Parliament gave its consent, allowing the Council to adopt the decision and the agreement to enter into force.

The changes revise shares for pig meat and skimmed-milk powder quotas, based on updated trade data.

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The text in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source

The committee report recommends that Parliament give its consent to the conclusion of the agreement with Norway amending the EU's WTO tariff rate quotas following the UK's withdrawal.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2023/0341(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway amending the Agreement of the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 4 April 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier

Referred to committee · 16 December 2024 (done)
Committee work · Report adopted 20 February 2025 (done)
Tabled for plenary · 24 February 2025 (done)
Plenary vote · Adopted 12 March 2025 (done)
Adopted by the Council · 4 April 2025 (done)

Lead committee: INTA · Rapporteur: Željana ZOVKO (EPP)

Connections

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

Show 6 connections: Running issue: EU-UK relations

Running issue: EU-UK relations

Issue EU-UK relations Running issue · Agreement 16 Sept 2026
Decision EU-UK Agreement regarding cooperation on the application of their respective competition laws International agreement · report by Eero Heinäluoma 16 Sept 2026 Consent given
Decision EU-Pakistan Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV International agreement · report by Saskia Bricmont 17 Jun 2026 Consent given
Decision EU-China Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV International agreement · report by Jérémy Decerle 26 Mar 2026 Consent given
Decision Brexit Adjustment Reserve New EU law · report by Pascal Arimont 16 Dec 2025 Passed
Decision Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement Resolution · report by Thijs Reuten, Nina Carberry 27 Nov 2025 Adopted

Sources & citation

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

Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/1
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 12 March 2025 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 12 March 2025 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-03-12
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2025). “EU-Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union”. Decision, 12 March 2025. votingId 172115, document A-10-2025-0017, reference 2023/0341(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 12 March 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-03-12-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 12 March 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-03-12-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-03-12, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-03-12/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2025-03-12-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{EU-Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-03-12},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 172115, document A-10-2025-0017, reference 2023/0341(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-03-12-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-03-12-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-03-12 (CC BY 4.0)}
}