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Final vote on the draft Council decision

Protection of the environment through criminal law

Vote
Final vote on the draft Council decision
Decision
No. 2 of the sitting of 8 Jul 2026
Result
499 for · 99 against · 69 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
8 July 2026, 13:21
More facts (6)
Effect
Consent given — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 1 of 1 on the decision
Official label
A10-0156/2026 – Ilhan Kyuchyuk – Draft Council decision
Text
Report A-10-2026-0156
Dossier
2025/0244(NLE)
Vote id
194904
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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Result: 499 for, 99 against, 69 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 75 % of the votes cast were for.

This was the final vote on the decision: Consent given.

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 40Against 1Abst. 0No vote 4 of 45Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 50Against 0Abst. 0No vote 3 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 126Against 0Abst. 0No vote 9 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 74Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 171Against 0Abst. 1No vote 13 of 185Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 4Against 15Abst. 59No vote 6 of 84Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.63
PatriotsFor 15Against 54Abst. 5No vote 11 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.59
ESNFor 0Against 25Abst. 1No vote 1 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.94
No groupFor 19Against 4Abst. 3No vote 1 of 27Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group.

Countries × groups

How each country’s members of each group voted.

No group members by country who voted for, against or abstained (group at the date of the vote).
CountryForAgainstAbst.Bar
Cyprus100
Czechia200
Germany710
Spain100
France100
Greece112
Luxembourg010
Poland010
Romania001
Slovakia600

Members

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No vote recorded, 52

Members in office that day without a recorded position. No vote recorded is not the same as absent: leave, illness or chairing the sitting look the same.

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Roll calls that split the chamber the most similarly: r is the correlation of members’ positions, over the members who voted in both. Other votes on the same decision are left out.

Result: for–against–abstained. For: share of the votes cast. Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call.
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22 Jan 2026Recital Q — part 1 Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in LithuaniaSplit vote421 for, 150 against, 35 abstained Adopted For 69 %Requested by Renewr · shared0.86 566 voters
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The decision

Sources & citation

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-07-08/194904
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Final vote on the draft Council decision — Protection of the environment through criminal law”. Vote, 8 July 2026. votingId 194904, reference 2025/0244(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-07-08/194904 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 8 July 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-08-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 8 July 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-08-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-07-08, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-07-08/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2026-07-08-194904,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the draft Council decision — Protection of the environment through criminal law}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-07-08},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-07-08/194904}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-07-08/194904},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 194904, reference 2025/0244(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-08-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-08-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-07-08 (CC BY 4.0)}
}