Text · Plenary report
On the verification of credentials
Report A-10-2025-0016 · 2024/2100(REG)
- Kind
- Plenary report A-10-2025-0016
- Date
- 24 February 2025
- Committee
- Committee on Legal Affairs
- Rapporteur
- Ilhan Kyuchyuk
- Dossier
- 2024/2100(REG)
More facts (4)
- Voted
- 11 Mar 2025 Adopted 643 for, 10 against, 15 abstained
- Formats
- Official page PDF Word
- Subject matter
- INST
- Reference
- 2024/2100(REG)
In short
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Parliament declares valid the mandates of the Members listed in Annex I, subject to any decisions by national authorities on disputed election results. It repeats its request for member states to provide names of substitutes and calls on them to complete examinations of disputes and notify Parliament.
Key points
- Declares valid the mandates of Members whose election was notified and who made required declarations, subject to national decisions on disputes.
- Repeats request to member states to inform Parliament of substitutes and their ranking.
- Calls on competent authorities of member states to complete examination of disputes and notify Parliament of results.
Who is affected
- Members of the European Parliament listed in Annex I, whose mandates are declared valid.
- Competent national authorities of member states, which must provide substitute lists and complete dispute examinations.
Legal basis. Articles 10(1), 14(2) and 14(3) of the Treaty on European Union
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Proposal for a european parliament decision
–having regard to the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage of 20 September 1976,
–having regard to its Decision 2005/684/EC, Euratom of 28 September 2005 adopting the Statute for Members of the European Parliament, in particular Articles 2(1) and 3(1) thereof,
– having regard to Council Directive 93/109/EC of 6 December 1993 laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament for citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals,
– having regard to European Council Decision (EU) 2023/2061 of 22 September 2023 establishing the composition of the European Parliament,
having regard to the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 7 July 2005, 30 April 2009, 19 December 2019 and 26 September 2024,
–having regard to the official notifications from the competent authorities of the Member States of the results of the election to the European Parliament,
A.whereas, pursuant to Article 12 of the Act of 20 September 1976, Parliament is obliged to verify the credentials of Members of the European Parliament and for this purpose it must take note of the results declared officially by the Member States and rule on any disputes that may arise out of the provisions of the 1976 Act other than those arising out of the national provisions to which that 1976 Act refers;
B.whereas Article 7(1) and (2) of the Act of 20 September 1976 sets out the offices that are incompatible with the office of Member of the European Parliament;
C.whereas all Member States have notified Parliament of the names of elected Members pursuant to Rule 3(1) of the Rules of Procedure;
D.whereas some Member States were late in forwarding, and others have not yet forwarded at all, the lists of any substitutes, together with their ranking in accordance with the results of the vote, as required under Rule 3(3) of the Rules of Procedure;
E.whereas objections to the election of some Members of the European Parliament may be considered in Member States in accordance with national legislation and these procedures could result in the annulment of the election of the Members concerned; whereas no disputes arose before Parliament pursuant to the provisions of the Act of 20 September 1976;
F.whereas, according to Article 3 of European Council Decision (EU) 2023/2061 of 22 September 2023, the number of representatives in the European Parliament allocated to Spain is currently 61, while the notification from the Spanish competent authorities only contains 60 names; whereas, in accordance with Articles 8 and 12 of the Act of 20 September 1976, as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union, Parliament takes note of the list of Members elected in Spain in the elections held on 9 June 2024, communicated to it by the Junta Electoral Central; whereas the Junta Electoral Central has not notified Parliament of the name of one of the Members elected in Spain;
G.whereas, in accordance with Rule 3(2) of and Annex I to the Rules of Procedure, Members are required to declare in writing that they do not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, as well as providing written declarations of private interests and of assets, failing any of which the validity of the mandate of the Member concerned may not be confirmed;
1.Declares valid, subject to any decisions by the competent authorities of Member States in which the election results have been disputed, the mandate of the Members of the European Parliament listed in Annex I to this decision whose election has been notified by the competent national authorities and who have made the written declarations required on the basis of Article 7(1) and (2) of the Act of 20 September 1976 and of Rule 3 of, and Annex I to the Rules of Procedure;
2.Repeats its request to the authorities of the Member States to inform it of the names of substitutes, together with their ranking in accordance with the results of the vote;
3.Calls on the competent authorities of the Member States to complete without delay the examination of the possible disputes referred to them and to notify Parliament of the result;
Back matter, 3
Parts that accompany the text rather than belong to it: explanatory statement, annexes, opinions appended by other committees. Collapsed.
ANNEX I: List of Members of the European Parliament whose mandate is declared valid 793 blocks
(*) Mandate valid with effect from 1 August 2024, i.e. the date indicated in the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Mr Tomáš KUBÍN to replace Mr Martin HLAVÁČEK.
(*) Mandate valid with effect from 27 September 2024, i.e. the date indicated in the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Mr Christophe BAY to replace Mr Gaëtan DUSSAUSAYE.
(***) Mandate valid with effect from 27 September 2024, i.e. the date indicated in the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Ms Séverine WERBROUCK to replace Ms Sylvie JOSSERAND.
(*) Mandate valid with effect from 5 September 2024, i.e. the date of the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Mr Marko VEŠLIGAJ to replace Mr Predrag Fred MATIĆ.
(**) Mandate valid with effect from 3 December 2024, the date indicated in the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Ms Martine KEMP to replace Mr Christophe HANSEN.
(*) Mandate valid with effect from 22 September 2024, i.e. the date indicated in the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Mr Csaba DÖMÖTÖR to replace Mr Balázs GYŐRFFY.
(*) Mandate valid with effect from 10 October 2024, i.e. the date indicated in the notification by the competent national authority of the election of Ms Hanna GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ to replace Mr Marcin KIERWIŃSKI.
| BE | 11.07.2024 |
| BG | 21.06.2024 |
| CZ | 24.06.2024 |
| DK | 25.06.2024 |
| DE | 09.07.2024; 10.07.2024 |
| EE | 19.06.2024 |
| IE | 18.06.2024 |
| GR | 17.06.2024 |
| ES | 01.07.2024; 03.07.2024 |
| FR | 05.07.2024; 18.06.2024; 04.10.2024 |
| HR | 21.06.2024; 09.07.2024; 05.09.2024 |
| IT | 03.07.2024 |
| CY | 11.06.2024 |
| LV | 20.06.2024; 11.07.2024 |
| LT | 17.06.2024 |
| LU | 25.06.2024 |
| HU | 20.06.2024; 19.09.2024 |
| MT | 10.06.2024; 11.06.2024 |
| NL | 03.07.2024 |
| AU | 26.06.2024 |
| PL | 11.06.2024 |
| PT | 28.06.2024 |
| RO | 10.07.2024 |
| SL | 08.07.2024 |
| SK | 11.06.2024 |
| FI | 13.06.2024 |
| SV | 17.06.2024 |
Annex ii: entities or persons from whom the rapporteur has received input 1 block
Information on adoption in committee responsible 1 block
| Date adopted | 18.2.2025 | |
| Result of final vote | +: –: 0: | 19 2 0 |
| Members present for the final vote | Maravillas Abadía Jover, Tobiasz Bocheński, José Cepeda, Ton Diepeveen, Mario Furore, Mary Khan, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Sergey Lagodinsky, Mario Mantovani, Pascale Piera, René Repasi, Krzysztof Śmiszek, Dominik Tarczyński, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Axel Voss, Marion Walsmann, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Lara Wolters, Dainius Žalimas | |
| Substitutes present for the final vote | Caterina Chinnici, Leire Pajín, Alessandro Zan, Kosma Złotowski | |
| Members under Rule 216(7) present for the final vote | Niels Geuking |
Procedure pages and committee votes
How the committees handled the text and how their members voted on it. Collapsed.
Final vote by roll call by the committee responsible 3 blocks
19 · For
- ECR
- Tobiasz Bocheński, Dominik Tarczyński, Kosma Złotowski
- ESN
- Mary Khan
- EPP
- Maravillas Abadía Jover, Caterina Chinnici, Niels Geuking, Axel Voss, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Marion Walsmann, Michał Wawrykiewicz
- Renew
- Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Dainius Žalimas
- S&D
- José Cepeda, René Repasi, Krzysztof Śmiszek, Lara Wolters
- The Left
- Mario Furore
- Greens
- Sergey Lagodinsky
Connections
The dossier, the decisions on this text and its other versions.
Its dossier
- Dossier Verification of credentials 2024/2100(REG) · Rules of Procedure 11 Mar 2025 Adopted
Decisions on this text
- Decision Verification of credentials Resolution · report by Ilhan Kyuchyuk 11 Mar 2025 Adopted
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European Parliament (2025). “REPORT on the verification of credentials”. Text, 11 March 2025. docId A-10-2025-0016, reference A10-0016/2025, procId 2024-2100. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0016 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: The text on the European Parliament’s website, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-10-2025-0016_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/A-10-2025-0016 (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{REPORT on the verification of credentials}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-03-11},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0016}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0016},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId A-10-2025-0016, reference A10-0016/2025, procId 2024-2100. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-10-2025-0016\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
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