Decision

EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol

Effect: Passed
Result: 605 for · 26 against · 2 abstained roll call
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:01
Kind: New EU law · Consultation

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Margin: by an overwhelming majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0202
Dossier: 2025/0199(NLE)
Source: Committee report by Kinga Kollár
Topics: Economy & single market Foreign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting: Thursday 13 November 2025
Final vote: 180627

Margin: by an overwhelming majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0202
Dossier: 2025/0199(NLE)
Source: Committee report by Kinga Kollár
Topics: Economy & single market Foreign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting: Thursday 13 November 2025
Final vote: 180627

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Votes on this decision

Members on the final vote

Result

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Passed by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by 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 40	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 6 of 46	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Greens	For 45	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 8 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 119	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 17 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Renew	For 63	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 12 of 75	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
EPP	For 172	Against 0	Abst. 1	No vote 15 of 188	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.99
ECR	For 70	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 9 of 79	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Patriots	For 76	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 8 of 84	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
ESN	For 0	Against 22	Abst. 1	No vote 4 of 27	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 0.93
No group	For 20	Against 4	Abst. 0	No vote 6 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, 2

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.

EPP line For · 1 abstained of 173 who voted
Abstained (1)
- Hanna GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ Poland
ESN line Against · 1 abstained of 23 who voted
Abstained (1)
- Petras GRAŽULIS Lithuania

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	19	0	0	1	1.00
Belgium	22	0	0	0	1.00
Bulgaria	13	1	0	3	0.89
Cyprus	4	0	0	2	—
Czechia	20	0	0	1	1.00
Germany	68	14	0	14	0.74
Denmark	13	0	0	2	1.00
Estonia	7	0	0	0	—
Spain	53	1	0	6	0.97
Finland	13	0	0	2	1.00
France	72	1	0	8	0.98
Greece	17	2	0	2	0.84
Croatia	12	0	0	0	1.00
Hungary	16	1	0	4	0.91
Ireland	11	0	0	3	1.00
Italy	63	0	0	13	1.00
Lithuania	9	0	1	1	0.85
Luxembourg	4	0	0	2	—
Latvia	9	0	0	0	—
Malta	4	0	0	2	—
Netherlands	27	0	0	3	1.00
Poland	43	4	1	5	0.84
Portugal	19	0	0	2	1.00
Romania	26	0	0	7	1.00
Sweden	20	0	0	1	1.00
Slovenia	9	0	0	0	—
Slovakia	12	2	0	1	0.79

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	Speeches1	13 Nov 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 A10-0202/2025 – Kinga Kollár – Proposal for a Council decision	Roll call	605 for, 26 against, 2 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0202

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Parliament approved the Amending Protocol to the EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information, which aims to improve international tax compliance.

The protocol updates the agreement to align with the revised Common Reporting Standard, extends mutual assistance to VAT recovery, and updates data protection references.

Parliament urges member states and Switzerland to explore extending mutual assistance to other tax claims within four years.

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Parliament approves the conclusion of the Amending Protocol to the EU-Switzerland agreement on automatic exchange of financial account information, which updates the agreement to align with international standards and EU rules.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0199(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Amending Protocol to the Agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation on the automatic exchange of financial account information to improve international tax compliance

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 5 December 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier

Referred to committee · 6 October 2025 (done)
Committee work · Report adopted 13 October 2025 (done)
Tabled for plenary · 20 October 2025 (done)
Plenary vote · Adopted 13 November 2025 (done)
Adopted by the Council · 5 December 2025 (done)

Lead committee: ECON · Rapporteur: Kinga KOLLÁR (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/2025-11-13/10
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 13 November 2025 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 13 November 2025 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-13
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2025). “EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol”. Decision, 13 November 2025. votingId 180627, document A-10-2025-0202, reference 2025/0199(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-13/10 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 13 November 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-13-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 13 November 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-13-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-13, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-11-13/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2025-11-13-10,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-11-13},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-13/10}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-13/10},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 180627, document A-10-2025-0202, reference 2025/0199(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-13-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-13-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-13 (CC BY 4.0)}
}