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Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process

Effect
Passed
Result
543 for · 72 against · 22 abstained roll call
Date
13 November 2025, 11:51–11:52
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (9)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Text
Report A-10-2025-0188
Dossier
2025/0108(COD)
Source
Committee report by Kris Van Dijck
Topics
Foreign affairsTrade & customsEconomy & single market Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
5 votes · 5 roll calls · 4 amendments
Requested by
Greens (1 roll call)
Sitting
Thursday 13 November 2025
Final vote
180979
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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: 543 for, 72 against, 22 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

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

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

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 28Against 9Abst. 3No vote 6 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.55
GreensFor 46Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 121Against 2Abst. 0No vote 13 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
RenewFor 63Against 1Abst. 0No vote 11 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
EPPFor 170Against 2Abst. 0No vote 16 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
ECRFor 63Against 5Abst. 1No vote 10 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.87
PatriotsFor 20Against 49Abst. 7No vote 8 of 84Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.47
ESNFor 16Against 2Abst. 5No vote 4 of 27Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.54
No groupFor 16Against 2Abst. 6No vote 6 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, 30

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
Austria140510.61
Belgium183100.73
Bulgaria140031.00
Cyprus2022—
Czechia152310.63
Germany7740150.93
Denmark131010.89
Estonia7000—
Spain478050.78
Finland130021.00
France3540060.30
Greece142320.61
Croatia120001.00
Hungary170041.00
Ireland110031.00
Italy5570140.83
Lithuania100011.00
Luxembourg5001—
Latvia8100—
Malta4002—
Netherlands270031.00
Poland433340.82
Portugal161220.76
Romania260071.00
Sweden200011.00
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia110310.68

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 MaltaEPPSpeeches113 Nov 2025 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 5

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
1Amendment 3 to Article 1 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Article 1 – § 1 – before point 1 – Am 3 Roll call79 for, 539 against, 9 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
2Amendment 2 to Article 1– paragraph 1 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Article 1– § 1 – point 1– after point b – Am 2 Roll call106 for, 507 against, 9 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
3Amendment 4 to Article 1 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Article 1 – § 1 – after point 4 – Am 4 Roll call80 for, 544 against, 10 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
4Amendment 1, adding text after recital 5 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – after recital 5 – Am 1 Roll call73 for, 548 against, 11 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
5Final vote A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Commission proposal Roll call543 for, 72 against, 22 abstained Adopted
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Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Amendment 2 to Article 1– paragraph 1 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Article 1– § 1 – point 1– after point b – Am 2 Roll call106 for, 507 against, 9 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
3Amendment 4 to Article 1 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Article 1 – § 1 – after point 4 – Am 4 Roll call80 for, 544 against, 10 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
4Amendment 1, adding text after recital 5 A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – after recital 5 – Am 1 Roll call73 for, 548 against, 11 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Greens
5Final vote A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Commission proposal Roll call543 for, 72 against, 22 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by Greens.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0188

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

The EU is updating its exceptional trade measures for countries linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process, which cover duty suspensions for certain fruits and vegetables and tariff quotas for wine.

Parliament adopted its position on the law, endorsing the Commission's proposal to extend these measures until 2030 and to remove an obsolete reference to fisheries.

The measures have supported EU-Western Balkans trade, which exceeded EUR 83 billion in 2024, and the extension maintains conditionality on democratic principles and human rights.

Parliament asks the Commission to refer the matter back if it substantially amends its proposal, and will forward its position to the Council, Commission, and national parliaments.

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Parliament adopts its position at first reading on the proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2024/823 on exceptional trade measures for the Western Balkans, taking over the Commission proposal without amendments.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0108(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/823 of 28 February 2024 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 December 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 16 June 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 6 October 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 9 October 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 13 November 2025 (done)
  5. Negotiations with the Council (done)
  6. Published as law · 22 December 2025 (done)

Lead committee: INTA · Rapporteur: Kris VAN DIJCK (ECR)

Connections

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

Show 10 connections: Running issue: EU association agreements · Other decisions of the part-session on INTA dossiers · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU association agreements

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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/2025-11-13/4
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process”. Decision, 13 November 2025. votingId 180979, document A-10-2025-0188, reference 2025/0108(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-13/4 (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-2025-11-13-4,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-11-13},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-13/4}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-13/4},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 180979, document A-10-2025-0188, reference 2025/0108(COD). 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)}
}