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Final vote on the draft Council decision

EU-Switzerland Agreement on the transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime

Vote
Final vote on the draft Council decision
Decision
No. 8 of the sitting of 16 Sept 2026
Result
549 for · 75 against · 30 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
16 September 2026, 14:18
More facts (6)
Effect
Consent given — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 1 of 1 on the decision
Official label
A10-0204/2026 – Jaroslav Bžoch – Draft Council decision
Text
Report A-10-2026-0204
Dossier
2025/0343(NLE)
Vote id
195855
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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Result: 549 for, 75 against, 30 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 84 % 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 11Against 27Abst. 2No vote 4 of 44Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.51
GreensFor 3Against 38Abst. 9No vote 3 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.64
S&DFor 107Against 0Abst. 6No vote 22 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.92
RenewFor 72Against 1Abst. 0No vote 5 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
EPPFor 174Against 0Abst. 0No vote 10 of 184Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 76Against 0Abst. 0No vote 8 of 84Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
PatriotsFor 77Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 84Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 16Against 2Abst. 7No vote 2 of 27Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.46
No groupFor 13Against 7Abst. 6No vote 2 of 28Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Countries × groups

How each country’s members of each group voted.

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CountryForAgainstAbst.Bar
Austria200
Belgium500
Bulgaria300
Germany900
Denmark400
Estonia100
Spain100
Finland300
France1110
Ireland300
Italy200
Lithuania200
Luxembourg100
Latvia100
Netherlands700
Poland100
Portugal200
Romania300
Sweden300
Slovenia200
Slovakia600

Members

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No vote recorded, 63

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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.
DateVoteKindResultForRequested byr · shared
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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-09-16/195855
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European Parliament (2026). “Final vote on the draft Council decision — EU-Switzerland Agreement on the transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime”. Vote, 16 September 2026. votingId 195855, reference 2025/0343(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-09-16/195855 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 16 September 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-09-16-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 16 September 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-09-16-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-09-16, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-09-16/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2026-09-16-195855,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the draft Council decision — EU-Switzerland Agreement on the transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-09-16},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-09-16/195855}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-09-16/195855},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 195855, reference 2025/0343(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-09-16-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-09-16-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-09-16 (CC BY 4.0)}
}