Decision

Inland waterway transport: River Information Systems (RIS)

Effect: Passed
Result: 636 for · 10 against · 4 abstained roll call
Date: 7 October 2025, 13:26
Kind: New EU law · 1st reading

More facts (8)

Margin: by an overwhelming majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0033
Dossier: 2024/0011(COD)
Source: Committee report by Tom Berendsen
Topics: Economy & single market Transport & tourism Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting: Tuesday 7 October 2025
Final vote: 179221

Margin: by an overwhelming majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0033
Dossier: 2024/0011(COD)
Source: Committee report by Tom Berendsen
Topics: Economy & single market Transport & tourism Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting: Tuesday 7 October 2025
Final vote: 179221

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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.

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

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

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 38	Against 1	Abst. 0	No vote 7 of 46	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.96
Greens	For 47	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 6 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 120	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 16 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Renew	For 68	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 7 of 75	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
EPP	For 172	Against 1	Abst. 0	No vote 15 of 188	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.99
ECR	For 67	Against 6	Abst. 0	No vote 6 of 79	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.88
Patriots	For 79	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 6 of 85	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
ESN	For 20	Against 0	Abst. 2	No vote 5 of 27	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.86
No group	For 25	Against 2	Abst. 2	No vote 1 of 30	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, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER 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, 10

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 For · 1 voted against of 39 who voted
Voted against (1)
- Per CLAUSEN Denmark
EPP line For · 1 voted against of 173 who voted
Voted against (1)
- Reinhold LOPATKA Austria
ECR line For · 6 voted against of 73 who voted
Voted against (6)
- Beatrice TIMGREN Sweden
- Bert-Jan RUISSEN Netherlands
- Charlie WEIMERS Sweden
- Dick ERIXON Sweden
- Kristoffer STORM Denmark
- Sebastian TYNKKYNEN Finland
ESN line For · 2 abstained of 22 who voted
Abstained (2)
- Milan MAZUREK Slovakia
- 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	17	1	0	2	0.92
Belgium	18	0	0	4	1.00
Bulgaria	17	0	0	0	1.00
Cyprus	6	0	0	0	—
Czechia	19	0	0	2	1.00
Germany	87	0	0	9	1.00
Denmark	12	2	0	1	0.79
Estonia	7	0	0	0	—
Spain	55	0	0	5	1.00
Finland	13	1	0	1	0.89
France	72	0	0	9	1.00
Greece	17	2	0	2	0.84
Croatia	12	0	0	0	1.00
Hungary	19	0	0	2	1.00
Ireland	13	0	0	1	1.00
Italy	74	0	0	2	1.00
Lithuania	10	0	0	1	1.00
Luxembourg	6	0	0	0	—
Latvia	7	0	0	2	—
Malta	4	0	0	2	—
Netherlands	25	1	0	5	0.94
Poland	48	0	1	4	0.97
Portugal	12	0	0	9	1.00
Romania	26	0	1	6	0.94
Sweden	18	3	0	0	0.79
Slovenia	9	0	0	0	—
Slovakia	13	0	2	0	0.80

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
Roberta METSOLA Malta	EPP	Speeches2	7 Oct 2025 (verbatim report, official site)	No vote recorded
Tom BERENDSEN Netherlands	EPP	Speeches1	7 Oct 2025 (verbatim report, official site)	For

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 provisional agreement A10-0033/2025 – Tom Berendsen – Provisional agreement – Am 54	Roll call	636 for, 10 against, 4 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0033

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

Parliament adopted its position on a proposal to update EU rules on harmonised river information services (RIS) for inland waterway transport.

The position includes changes to reduce administrative burden, improve implementation, and avoid premature interconnection with other systems.

It also limits the scope to cross-border waterways, allowing voluntary application elsewhere, and calls for cooperation with third countries.

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

Parliament's amended version of the proposed directive updating EU rules on harmonised river information services (RIS) for inland waterways. It focuses RIS on TEN-T waterways, allows voluntary extension, and adds cross-border cooperation.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/0011(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Amending Directive 2005/44/EC on harmonised river information services (RIS) on inland waterways in the Community

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 12 December 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier

Referred to committee · 29 February 2024 (done)
Committee work · Report adopted 18 March 2025 (done)
Tabled for plenary · 20 March 2025 (done)
Negotiations with the Council · Deal approved in committee 16 July 2025 (done)
Plenary vote · Adopted 7 October 2025 (done)
Published as law · 12 December 2025 (done)

Lead committee: TRAN · Rapporteur: MEP #197778 (EPP)

Connections

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

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Sources & citation

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-07/2
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 7 October 2025 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 7 October 2025 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-07
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Inland waterway transport: River Information Systems (RIS)”. Decision, 7 October 2025. votingId 179221, document A-10-2025-0033, reference 2024/0011(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-07/2 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 7 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-07-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 7 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-07-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-07, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-10-07/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2025-10-07-2,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Inland waterway transport: River Information Systems (RIS)}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-10-07},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-07/2}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-07/2},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 179221, document A-10-2025-0033, reference 2024/0011(COD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-07-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-07-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-07 (CC BY 4.0)}
}