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Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data

Effect
Consent given
Result
521 for · 90 against · 45 abstained roll call
Date
12 March 2025, 12:06
Kind
International agreement · Consent procedure
More facts (8)
Margin
by a large majority
Text
Report A-10-2025-0013
Dossier
2024/0051(NLE)
Source
Committee report
Topics
Digital, AI & dataForeign affairsJustice, rule of law & rights Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Final vote
172114
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Cite this page Roll-call results (EP) (opens the official site)
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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: 521 for, 90 against, 45 abstained (roll call).

Consent given by a large majority.

Parliament gave its consent.

Backed by S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by The Left and Greens; ESN 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).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 7Against 32Abst. 3No vote 4 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.64
GreensFor 3Against 41Abst. 5No vote 4 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.76
S&DFor 121Against 3Abst. 0No vote 12 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
RenewFor 62Against 6Abst. 3No vote 4 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.81
EPPFor 172Against 0Abst. 0No vote 16 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 70Against 0Abst. 1No vote 9 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
PatriotsFor 78Against 0Abst. 0No vote 8 of 86Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 2Against 0Abst. 20No vote 4 of 26Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.86
No groupFor 6Against 8Abst. 13No vote 2 of 29Majority 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, 33

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
Austria153020.75
Belgium173020.78
Bulgaria110150.88
Cyprus5100—
Czechia173100.71
Germany51202140.33
Denmark114000.60
Estonia5101—
Spain448080.77
Finland103200.50
France6312060.76
Greece116220.37
Croatia91020.85
Hungary150150.91
Ireland104000.57
Italy6330100.93
Lithuania81110.70
Luxembourg3003—
Latvia6102—
Malta5001—
Netherlands188500.37
Poland490310.91
Portugal172020.84
Romania270061.00
Sweden165000.64
Slovenia8100—
Slovakia70800.30

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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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.
MemberGroupSpeechesSpokeFinal vote
Nikola MINCHEV BulgariaRenewSpeeches112 Mar 2025 (verbatim report, official site) For
Roberts ZĪLE LatviaECRSpeeches112 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.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Final vote on the draft Council decision A10–0013/2025 – Nikola Minchev – Draft Council decision Roll call521 for, 90 against, 45 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0013

AI: What this vote decides Written by AI from the official text — check the source

The agreement sets rules for transferring and processing airline passenger name record data between Canada and the EU to fight serious crime and terrorism.

Parliament gave its consent to the agreement, meaning the EU can conclude it.

Parliament asks that the agreement be applied with strict safeguards for fundamental rights, as recommended by the European Data Protection Supervisor.

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AI: 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 Council decision concluding the EU-Canada Agreement on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/0051(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 6 May 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 25 November 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 18 February 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 20 February 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 12 March 2025 (done)
  5. Adopted by the Council · 6 May 2025 (done)

Lead committee: LIBE · Rapporteur: Nikola MINCHEV (Renew)

Connections

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

Show 5 connections: Final votes that split the chamber the same way

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/2025-03-12/2
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data”. Decision, 12 March 2025. votingId 172114, document A-10-2025-0013, reference 2024/0051(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/2 (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-2025-03-12-2,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-03-12},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/2}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-03-12/2},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 172114, document A-10-2025-0013, reference 2024/0051(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)}
}