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Shipments of waste: export of mixed municipal waste for recovery to Switzerland

Effect
Passed
Result
559 for · 7 against · 5 abstained roll call
Date
18 June 2026, 13:14
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (5)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Topics
Climate & environmentForeign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting
Thursday 18 June 2026
Final vote
194546
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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: 559 for, 7 against, 5 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, 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 37Against 0Abst. 1No vote 7 of 45Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 43Against 0Abst. 0No vote 10 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 106Against 2Abst. 0No vote 27 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
RenewFor 62Against 0Abst. 0No vote 16 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 142Against 0Abst. 0No vote 43 of 185Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 64Against 1Abst. 0No vote 17 of 82Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
PatriotsFor 63Against 0Abst. 2No vote 20 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.95
ESNFor 24Against 0Abst. 0No vote 3 of 27Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 18Against 4Abst. 2No vote 5 of 29Majority 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, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 6

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
Austria180021.00
Belgium160061.00
Bulgaria130041.00
Cyprus1005—
Czechia180031.00
Germany7810170.98
Denmark140011.00
Estonia5002—
Spain4801110.97
Finland110041.00
France6010200.98
Greece112080.77
Croatia9003—
Hungary140071.00
Ireland120021.00
Italy6000161.00
Lithuania6005—
Luxembourg5001—
Latvia8001—
Malta5001—
Netherlands300011.00
Poland420380.90
Portugal180031.00
Romania1821120.79
Sweden200011.00
Slovenia7002—
Slovakia121020.88

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
1Final vote C10-0108/2026 – Commission proposal Roll call559 for, 7 against, 5 abstained Adopted

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.

No connections found for this decision.

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-06-18/1
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Shipments of waste: export of mixed municipal waste for recovery to Switzerland”. Decision, 18 June 2026. votingId 194546. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-06-18/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 18 June 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-06-18-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 18 June 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-06-18-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-06-18, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-06-18/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2026-06-18-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Shipments of waste: export of mixed municipal waste for recovery to Switzerland}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-06-18},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-06-18/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-06-18/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 194546. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-06-18-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-06-18-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-06-18 (CC BY 4.0)}
}