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Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders

Effect
Passed
Result
405 for · 242 against · 8 abstained roll call
Date
17 December 2025, 12:25
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (6)
Margin
by a clear majority
Topics
Climate & environmentAgriculture, food & fisheries Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
2 votes · 2 roll calls
Requested by
The Left (1 roll call)
Sitting
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Final vote
182886
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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: 405 for, 242 against, 8 abstained (roll call).

Passed by a clear majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

A proposal to reject the whole text was defeated first.

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

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 42Abst. 0No vote 4 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 0Against 48Abst. 0No vote 5 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 7Against 112Abst. 4No vote 13 of 136Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.87
RenewFor 34Against 33Abst. 1No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.25
EPPFor 170Against 2Abst. 1No vote 15 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
ECRFor 75Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
PatriotsFor 78Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 23Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 27Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 18Against 5Abst. 2No vote 5 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, 14

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
Austria136010.53
Belgium118030.37
Bulgaria94040.54
Cyprus4200—
Czechia191010.93
Germany5931060.48
Denmark68010.36
Estonia4120—
Spain2924070.32
Finland47220.31
France4037040.28
Greece911010.33
Croatia74010.45
Hungary112080.77
Ireland74030.45
Italy4133020.33
Lithuania74000.45
Luxembourg3210—
Latvia8100—
Malta2301—
Netherlands1612030.36
Poland424250.81
Portugal99030.25
Romania179070.48
Sweden155010.63
Slovenia5400—
Slovakia86100.30

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, 2

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 C10-0263/2025 – Proposal for rejection – Am 135= 136= Roll call138 for, 512 against, 6 abstained Rejected
2Final vote on the provisional agreement C10-0263/2025 – Provisional agreement – Am 137 Roll call405 for, 242 against, 8 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by The Left.

Text

The text voted on.

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

Connections

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

Show 17 connections: Running issue: EU Deforestation Regulation · Running issue: 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU Deforestation Regulation

Running issue: 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals

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/2025-12-17/4
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Data source
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Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders”. Decision, 17 December 2025. votingId 182886. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-17/4 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 17 December 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-17-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 17 December 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-17-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-12-17, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-12-17/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-12-17-4,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-12-17},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-17/4}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-12-17/4},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 182886. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-17-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-17-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-12-17 (CC BY 4.0)}
}