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Waste & circular economy

Decisions about waste, recycling, packaging, the circular economy or product durability.

Decisions
6 on 4 sitting days
Outcomes
5 adopted · 0 rejected
Period
10 Jul 2025 – 18 Jun 2026
Assigned by
A model, not checked by hand
More facts (4)
Roll-call votes
4
By kind
New laws 6
Key
climate/waste
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Decisions, 6

Export

The latest decisions on this subtopic, newest first; the export holds all of them.

Effect: what the decision did. Final vote: for–against–abstained, and how it was recorded.
DateDecisionKindEffectFinal vote
18 Jun 2026Shipments of waste: export of mixed municipal waste for recovery to Switzerland (No. 1, 18 Jun 2026) New lawsPassed559 for, 7 against, 5 abstained by roll call
18 Jun 2026Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (No. 2, 18 Jun 2026) New lawsPassed437 for, 112 against, 20 abstained by roll call
16 Jun 2026Shipments of waste: export of mixed municipal waste for recovery to Switzerland (No. 5, 16 Jun 2026) New lawsUrgent procedure agreedshow of hands — no count
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (No. 1, 9 Sept 2025) New lawsPassed431 for, 145 against, 76 abstained by roll call
9 Sept 2025Waste Framework Directive: textiles and food waste New lawsApproved without a voteshow of hands — no count
10 Jul 2025Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as regards obligations of economic operators concerning battery due diligence policies New lawsPassed542 for, 97 against, 12 abstained by roll call

Dossiers, 3

The dossiers these decisions belong to, the one voted on most recently first.

Decisions: decisions on the dossier counted here. Latest decision: its date and outcome.
DossierDecisionsLatest decision
Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles 2023-0284Decisions218 Jun 2026 · Adopted
Waste Framework Directive: textiles and food waste 2023-0234Decisions19 Sept 2025
Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as regards obligations of economic operators concerning battery due diligence policies 2025-0129Decisions110 Jul 2025 · Adopted

These dossiers in the register

Group lines

How each group voted on the final votes of this subtopic: its clear line or divided.

The last 4 final roll-call votes. Each group’s line on the final votes, with members counted in the group they sat in on the day; a clear line = at least two thirds of the group’s votes with at least 10 members voting (method). For / Against / Abstained: its clear line. Divided: no clear line. With the outcome: votes where its majority line matched the result. Votes: finals the group voted on.
GroupForAgainstAbstainedDividedWith the outcomeVotes
The LeftFor2Against1Abst.0Divided1With outcome2of4
GreensFor2Against1Abst.1Divided0With outcome2of4
S&DFor4Against0Abst.0Divided0With outcome4of4
RenewFor4Against0Abst.0Divided0With outcome4of4
EPPFor4Against0Abst.0Divided0With outcome4of4
ECRFor3Against0Abst.0Divided1With outcome4of4
PatriotsFor2Against2Abst.0Divided0With outcome2of4
ESNFor2Against2Abst.0Divided0With outcome2of4

Connections

Topics and issues that come up together with this one, and its main dossiers.

Topics that come up with it

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Running issues

Sources & citation

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

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Waste & circular economy”. Topic (model-assigned). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/climate?sub=waste (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-topic-climate-waste,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Waste \& circular economy}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/climate?sub=waste}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/climate?sub=waste},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Topic (model-assigned). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}