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EP Plenary session - Voting session

MEPs vote on the following topics: European Parliament/European Central Bank (ECB) Interinstitutional Agreement: structuring the practices for interaction in the area of central banking, Salvatore DE MEO (EPP, IT); Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT); Arrangement with the Republic of Iceland on the modalities of its participation in the European Asylum Support Office, Jeroen LENAERS (EPP, NL); EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, Delara BURKHARDT (S&D, DE); Sexual harassment in the EU and MeToo evaluation, Michal ŠIMEČKA (Renew Europe, SK); Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation, Sandra KALNIETE (EPP, LV).

Voting session: EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation

MEPs vote on establishing the Act in Support of Ammunition Production to urgently deliver ammunition and missiles to Ukraine and to help Member States refill their stocks. By introducing targeted measures including financing, the Act aims at ramping up the EU's production capacity and addressing the current shortage of ammunition and missiles as well as their components.

Voting session: Act in Support of Ammunition Production

MEPs vote on the following topics: request for the waiver of the immunity of Maria Spyraki - Ilana CICUREL (Renew, FR); request for the waiver of the immunity of Alexis Georgoulis - Andrzej HALICKI (EPP, PL).

Voting session: request for the waiver of the immunity of Maria Spyraki; request for the waiver of the immunity of Alexis Georgoulis

MEPs call for a coordinated strategy against foreign interference and information manipulation to protect the European elections and increase the EU’s resilience and discuss the report by the Special Committee on foreign interference. The report includes recommendations for a coordinated EU strategy and addresses issues such as interference on online platforms, protection of critical infrastructure and strategic sectors. Extracts from the debate, extracts from the vote. In a statement, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN (S&D, FR), Chair of INGE2 Special Committee, explains how the Special Committee worked on this new report, what should be the concrete measures to fight against foreign interference and the urgency of applying the new Democracy Defense package before the European Elections in 2024.

Foreign interference in democratic processes, election integrity and resilience build-up towards European elections 2024: extracts from the debate, from the vote and statement by Raphaël GLUCKSMANN (S&D, FR), Chair of INGE2 Special Committee

MEPs on the Environment Committee vote on their position on the revision of EU industrial emissions rules that currently cover over 30,000 large industrial plants and 20,000 intensive livestock farms. The revision aims to stimulate the green transition of large industries, with significant health and environmental benefits. Statement by Radan KANEV (PPE, BG) and extracts from the vote. The transcription is the result of an automated process.

Amending directive on EU industrial emissions: statement by Radan KANEV (PPE, BG) and extracts from the vote - ENVI Committee

MEPs of LIBE Committee vote on Parliament's mandate on the revision of the EU rules on criminal asset recovery and confiscation. The draft bill would extend the scope of the EU's confiscation rules, ensure that all member states can quickly and effectively seize criminal assets, and close loopholes in the existing rules. Extracts from the vote and statement by Loránt VINCZE (EPP, RO), Rapporteur.

Criminal asset recovery and confiscation: extracts from the vote and statement by Loránt VINCZE (EPP, RO), Rapporteur

MEPs vote on the following topics: Empowering consumers for the green transition - Biljana BORZAN (S&D, HR); Objection pursuant to Rule 112(2) and (3): Genetically modified cotton 281-24-236 x 3006-210-23. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Voting session, including the empowering consumers for the green transition

MEPs vote on the following topics: 2022 Commission Report on Serbia - Vladimír BILČÍK (EPP,SK); 2022 Commission Report on Kosovo - Viola VON CRAMON-TAUBADEL (Greens/EFA, DE); Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Johan VAN OVERTVELDT (ECR,BE); Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe - José Manuel FERNANDES (EPP, PT) and Valérie HAYER (Renew, FR); Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Łukasz KOHUT (S&D, PL) and Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE); Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement - Łukasz KOHUT (S&D, PL) and Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE).

Voting session, including the EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on violence against women

Six years after the EU signed the Convention - the first legally binding international instrument for preventing and combating violence against women and girls - and despite Parliament’s multiple calls to this end, it has still not ratified it because of the refusal of a few member states. However, the EU Court of Justice’s opinion of 6 October 2021 confirmed that the European Union can ratify the Istanbul Convention even without having the agreement of all member states. MEPs debate the matter and vote. Extracts from the debate, the vote and statement by Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE), Rapporteur.

EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on violence against women: extracts from the debate (09/05), extracts from the vote and statement by Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE), Rapporteur

MEPs vote on the following topics: Modification of concessions on the tariff rate quotas as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal - Jordi CAÑAS (Renew, ES); Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2022/003 ES/Alu Ibérica - Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL (S&D, ES); The New EU Urban Mobility Framework - Andrey NOVAKOV (EPP, BG); Critical technologies for security and defence - Riho TERRAS (EPP,EE); Co-management of fisheries in the EU for the implementation of management measures - Clara AGUILERA (S&D, ES); Standardisation strategy for the single market - Adam BIELAN (ECR,PL); Amending Council Decision (EU) 2019/1754 on the accession of the EU to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications - Marion WALSMANN (EPP,DE); Role of cohesion policy in addressing environmental challenges in the Mediterranean Basin - François ALFONSI (Greens/EFA,FR).

Voting session, including the New EU Urban Mobility Framework

MEPs vote on the following topics: Application of Union tariff rate quotas to certain products transferred to Northern Ireland - Seán KELLY (EPP, IE); Rules relating to medicinal products for human use on the market of Northern Ireland - Pascal CANFIN (Renew, FR); Specific rules relating to the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods - Pascal CANFIN (Renew, FR) and Martin HLAVÁČEK (Renew, CZ); Macro-financial assistance to Moldova - Markéta GREGOROVÁ (Greens/EFA, CZ); EU/Euratom/Ukraine Association Agreement: temporary trade liberalisation supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products - Sandra KALNIETE (EPP, LV).

Voting session, including a temporary trade liberalisation supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products

MEPs from the ENVI (Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) Committee vote on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. The European Parliament calls for binding EU legislation to guarantee that fashion is not produced at the cost of environmental destruction and human lives. Requirements should be set that prevent unsold clothes from being shredded or sent to landfill just because they are no longer in fashion or the warehouse is full. Only textiles that meet a minimum standard of sustainability requirements should be imported into the EU or produced within the EU. Extracts from the vote in committee and statement by Delara BURKHARDT (S&D, DE), Rapporteur.

Vote on EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles: extracts from the vote and statement by Delara BURKHARDT (S&D, DE), Rapporteur

The Special Committee on Foreign Interference adopt its proposals to fight against malicious foreign actors, particularly Russia and China, using information manipulation to interfere in democratic processes. It is expected that foreign interference and disinformation will continue with increasing intensity in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in 2024. Statement by Sandra KALNIETE (EPP, LV), Rapporteur. This transcription is a result of an atutomatic process. Please check against delivery.

Vote on Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation: extracts from the vote and statement by Sandra KALNIETE (EPP, LV), Rapporteur

MEPs of the Legal Affairs Committee adopt their EP mandate position on the so-called Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive. The draft legislation aims at obliging companies to identify, and where necessary prevent, end or mitigate the negative impact of their activities, including that of their business partners, on human rights and the environment. This includes child labour, slavery, labour exploitation, pollution, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Extracts from the vote and statement by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL), Rapporteur.

Vote on Corporate Sustainability: extracts from the vote and statement by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL), Rapporteur

MEPs vote on: the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents (recast) - Damian BOESELAGER (Greens/EFA, DE); Markets in Crypto-assets, and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 - Stefan BERGER (EPP, DE); Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets - Ernest URTASUN (Greens/EFA, ES) and Assita KANKO (ECR, BE); Parliament's estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2024 - Nils UŠAKOVS (S&D, LV); Universal decriminalisation of homosexuality in light of recent developments in Uganda.

Voting session (part 3)

MEPs vote on the following legislative texts before starting insteristitutional negotiations with the Council of the EU: addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum - Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D, ES); Introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders and amending Regulations - Birgit SIPPEL (S&D, DE); Establishing a centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third-country nationals and stateless persons - Birgit SIPPEL (S&D, DE); Asylum and migration management and amending Council Directive - Tomas TOBÉ (EPP, SE).

Voting session (part 2)

MEPs vote on: the crackdown on the right to education and education rights activists in Afghanistan, including the case of Matiullah Wesa; the repression in Russia, in particular the cases of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Aleksey Navalny; the risk of death penalty and execution of singer Yahaya Sharif Aminu for blasphemy in Nigeria.

Voting session (part 1)

MEPs vote on the following subjects: Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning question time, the central rostrum, the blue-card procedure, the explanations of votes, the transparency register and the Ombudsman; Protocol Amending the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization; Deforestation regulation; Methods and procedure for making available own resources based on the Emissions Trading System, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and reallocated profits and on the measures to meet cash requirements; Combating discrimination in the EU - the long-awaited horizontal anti-discrimination directive - Motions for resolutions; Challenges facing the Republic of Moldova- Motions for resolutions; Rule of Law in Greece - Motions for resolutions; Rule of Law in Spain - Motions for resolutions; Rule of Law in Malta - Motions for resolutions

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