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Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)

Effect
Passed
Result
220 for · 341 against · 10 abstained roll call
Date
23 October 2025, 13:08
Kind
New EU law · 2nd reading
More facts (10)
Margin
by a clear majority
Counts are for
the motion to reject the Council’s position
Text
Report A-10-2025-0204
Dossier
2023/0232(COD)
Source
Committee report by Martin Hojsík
Topics
Climate & environment Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Requested by
Greens (1 roll call) · Members (1 roll call)
Sitting
Thursday 23 October 2025
Final vote
180520
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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: 220 for, 341 against, 10 abstained (roll call).

Passed by a clear majority.

No majority rejected the Council’s position, so it stands: the law is adopted.

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

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 0Against 33Abst. 0No vote 13 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 0Against 45Abst. 0No vote 8 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 1Against 99Abst. 0No vote 36 of 136Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.98
RenewFor 8Against 53Abst. 1No vote 13 of 75Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.78
EPPFor 73Against 72Abst. 3No vote 40 of 188Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.24
ECRFor 46Against 18Abst. 1No vote 14 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.56
PatriotsFor 59Against 10Abst. 0No vote 16 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.78
ESNFor 23Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 27Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 10Against 11Abst. 5No vote 4 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, 39

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
Austria118010.37
Belgium512320.40
Bulgaria59030.46
Cyprus2004—
Czechia513210.47
Germany53271150.48
Denmark012120.88
Estonia3400—
Spain6420120.81
Finland311010.68
France38321100.30
Greece25113—
Croatia2703—
Hungary02019—
Ireland012021.00
Italy8490190.79
Lithuania56000.32
Luxembourg1500—
Latvia1701—
Malta2202—
Netherlands1214050.31
Poland2619170.35
Portugal215040.82
Romania1520160.82
Sweden710040.38
Slovenia5301—
Slovakia113010.89

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
Javi LÓPEZ SpainS&DSpeeches123 Oct 2025 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded
Martin HOJSÍK SlovakiaRenewSpeeches123 Oct 2025 (verbatim report, official site) Against

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
1Proposal to reject the text Final vote A10-0204/2025 – Martin Hojsík – Proposal for rejection – Am 1= 2= 3= Roll call220 for, 341 against, 10 abstained Rejected

Roll calls requested by Greens, Members.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0204

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

The proposal is a directive on soil monitoring and resilience, known as the Soil Monitoring Law.

Parliament rejected the Council's position at first reading, meaning the proposal was not approved.

The rejection was based on the committee's recommendation for second reading.

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Parliament approves the Council position at first reading on the Soil Monitoring Law directive, concluding the legislative process.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2023/0232(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 26 November 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 9 October 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 20 October 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 20 October 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Rejected 23 October 2025 (done)
  5. Negotiations with the Council · Deal approved in committee 4 June 2025 (done)
  6. Published as law · 26 November 2025 (done)

Lead committee: ENVI · Rapporteur: Martin HOJSÍK (Renew)

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

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

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/2
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)”. Decision, 23 October 2025. votingId 180520, document A-10-2025-0204, reference 2023/0232(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/2 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 23 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 23 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-23, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-10-23/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-10-23-2,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-10-23},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/2}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/2},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 180520, document A-10-2025-0204, reference 2023/0232(COD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-23 (CC BY 4.0)}
}