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Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal

Effect
Adopted
Result
334 for · 294 against · 11 abstained roll call
Date
25 November 2025, 12:24
Kind
Other decision
More facts (6)
Margin
by a small majority
Topics
Digital, AI & dataJustice, rule of law & rightsEconomy & single market Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Requested by
EPP (1 roll call)
Sitting
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Final vote
181828
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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: 334 for, 294 against, 11 abstained (roll call).

Adopted by a small majority.

Adopted.

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D and Renew; opposed by 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).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 34Against 1Abst. 1No vote 10 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.92
GreensFor 49Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 116Against 6Abst. 0No vote 14 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.93
RenewFor 56Against 10Abst. 0No vote 9 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.77
EPPFor 30Against 129Abst. 5No vote 24 of 188Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.68
ECRFor 22Against 49Abst. 1No vote 7 of 79Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.52
PatriotsFor 6Against 72Abst. 1No vote 6 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.87
ESNFor 0Against 23Abst. 0No vote 4 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 21Against 4Abst. 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, 83

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
Austria200001.00
Belgium136210.43
Bulgaria78020.30
Cyprus4200—
Czechia713100.43
Germany6525060.58
Denmark86010.36
Estonia4300—
Spain24260100.28
Finland57120.31
France3338280.28
Greece79230.25
Croatia57000.38
Hungary212070.79
Ireland93020.63
Italy31321120.25
Lithuania6302—
Luxembourg3201—
Latvia4401—
Malta4002—
Netherlands1214050.31
Poland2128040.36
Portugal89130.25
Romania1513140.28
Sweden416010.70
Slovenia3501—
Slovakia103020.65

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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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
1Decision to maintain the action Final vote Roll call334 for, 294 against, 11 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by EPP.

Text

The text voted on.

Parliament’s vote records link no text to this decision.

Connections

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Show 5 connections: Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Sources & citation

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/15
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal”. Decision, 25 November 2025. votingId 181828. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/15 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 25 November 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 25 November 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-25, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-11-25/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-11-25-15,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-11-25},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/15}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/15},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 181828. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-25 (CC BY 4.0)}
}