Decision

Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations

Effect: No final vote
Result: No final vote
Date: 16 December 2025, 13:06–13:07
Kind: New EU law · 2nd reading

More facts (7)

Text: Report A-10-2025-0246
Dossier: 2023/0129(COD)
Source: Committee report by Adrián Vázquez Lázara
Topics: Economy & single market Trade & customs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 3 votes · 3 roll calls · 3 amendments
Requested by: ESN (1 roll call)
Sitting: Tuesday 16 December 2025

Text: Report A-10-2025-0246
Dossier: 2023/0129(COD)
Source: Committee report by Adrián Vázquez Lázara
Topics: Economy & single market Trade & customs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 3 votes · 3 roll calls · 3 amendments
Requested by: ESN (1 roll call)
Sitting: Tuesday 16 December 2025

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Result

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MEPs decided on 3 amendments (3 rejected).

This decision had no final vote on the text; the votes taken are listed under All votes.

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	16 Dec 2025 (verbatim report, official site)	no roll call

All votes on this decision, 3

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	Amendment 1, adding text after Article 4; Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 A10-0246/2025 – Adrián Vázquez Lázara – After Article 4; Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 – Am 1	Roll call	131 for, 472 against, 58 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
2	Amendment 2 to Article 5 A10-0246/2025 – Adrián Vázquez Lázara – Article 5 – after § 3; Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 – Am 2	Roll call	132 for, 467 against, 61 abstained Rejected
3	Amendment 3 to Article 15 A10-0246/2025 – Adrián Vázquez Lázara – Article 15 – after § 3; Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 – Am 3	Roll call	128 for, 454 against, 57 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN

Roll call requested by ESN.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0246

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Parliament approves the Council position on a regulation on compulsory licensing for crisis management, amending Regulation (EC) No 816/2006.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2023/0129(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) 816/2006

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 30 December 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier

Referred to committee · 13 November 2025 (done)
Committee work · Report adopted 3 December 2025 (done)
Tabled for plenary · 4 December 2025 (done)
Plenary vote · Voted 16 December 2025 (done)
Negotiations with the Council · Deal approved in committee 24 June 2025 (done)
Published as law · 30 December 2025 (done)

Lead committee: JURI · Rapporteur: Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA (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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Running issue: Medicine supply security

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Sources & citation

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-16/3
Official source: Results of votes, sitting of 16 December 2025 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-12-16
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2025). “Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations”. Decision, 16 December 2025. document A-10-2025-0246, reference 2023/0129(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-16/3 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Results of votes, sitting of 16 December 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-16-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-12-16, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-12-16/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2025-12-16-3,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-12-16},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-16/3}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-16/3},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. document A-10-2025-0246, reference 2023/0129(COD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-16-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-12-16 (CC BY 4.0)}
}