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Discharge 2023: Agencies

Effect
Discharge decision adopted
Result
476 for · 99 against · 72 abstained roll call
Date
22 October 2025, 14:58–14:59
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (10)
Margin
by a large majority
Counts are for
the proposal for a discharge decision
Text
Report A-10-2025-0169
Dossier
2024/2030(DEC)
Source
Committee report by Erik Marquardt
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
6 votes · 5 roll calls · 4 amendments
Requested by
ESN (1 roll call)
Sitting
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Final vote
179841
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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: 476 for, 99 against, 72 abstained (roll call).

Discharge decision adopted by a large majority.

Parliament voted on its discharge decision for this budget; whether discharge was granted, refused or postponed is set out in the report.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 4 amendments (4 rejected).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew and EPP; opposed by ECR and ESN; Patriots 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 39Against 2Abst. 0No vote 5 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.93
GreensFor 48Against 0Abst. 0No vote 5 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 117Against 1Abst. 0No vote 18 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
RenewFor 71Against 1Abst. 0No vote 3 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
EPPFor 168Against 1Abst. 3No vote 16 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
ECRFor 3Against 63Abst. 0No vote 13 of 79Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.93
PatriotsFor 8Against 6Abst. 65No vote 6 of 85Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.73
ESNFor 3Against 19Abst. 1No vote 4 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.74
No groupFor 19Against 6Abst. 3No 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, 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, 29

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
Austria136010.53
Belgium211000.93
Bulgaria134000.65
Cyprus5100—
Czechia84810.10
Germany7414080.76
Denmark131010.89
Estonia6100—
Spain444480.77
Finland141000.90
France4262940.32
Greece144210.55
Croatia7104—
Hungary601140.47
Ireland120021.00
Italy35178160.38
Lithuania82100.59
Luxembourg5100—
Latvia5211—
Malta5001—
Netherlands251230.84
Poland2819240.36
Portugal170220.84
Romania195180.64
Sweden163020.76
Slovenia8010—
Slovakia131010.89

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
Roberta METSOLA MaltaEPPSpeeches222 Oct 2025 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 6

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
1Proposals for decisions Show of hands Adopted
2Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 6 A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – After § 6 – Am 2 Roll call198 for, 429 against, 5 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
3Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 10 A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – After § 10 – Am 3 Roll call191 for, 441 against, 5 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
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Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 6 A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – After § 6 – Am 2 Roll call198 for, 429 against, 5 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
3Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 10 A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – After § 10 – Am 3 Roll call191 for, 441 against, 5 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
4Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 15 A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – After § 15 – Am 4 Roll call182 for, 437 against, 20 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
5Amendment 1 to recital A A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – Recital A – Am 1 Roll call180 for, 449 against, 8 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
6Final vote — text as a whole A10-0169/2025 – Erik Marquardt – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call476 for, 99 against, 72 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by ESN.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0169

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Parliament decided to grant discharge to the European Union Agency for Asylum for its 2023 budget, approving the spending.

It also approved the closure of the agency's accounts for that financial year.

Parliament calls on the agency and OLAF to make an anonymised summary of the OLAF report publicly available.

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The report grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum for the 2023 budget and approves closure of its accounts, with observations in a resolution.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/2030(DEC) · Discharge procedure

2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Agencies

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 13 January 2026 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 17 September 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 24 September 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 29 September 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 22 October 2025 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: CONT · Rapporteur: Erik MARQUARDT (Greens)

Other decisions on this dossier

Connections

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

Show 13 connections: Other decisions on this dossier · Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure · Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Other decisions on this dossier

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Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure

Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

See all: Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

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/2025-10-22/5
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Discharge 2023: Agencies”. Decision, 22 October 2025. votingId 179841, document A-10-2025-0169, reference 2024/2030(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-22/5 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 22 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-22-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 22 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-22-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-22, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-10-22/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-10-22-5,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Discharge 2023: Agencies}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-10-22},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-22/5}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-22/5},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 179841, document A-10-2025-0169, reference 2024/2030(DEC). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-22-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-22-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-22 (CC BY 4.0)}
}