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Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency ***I

Health65%★

Confidence: 65%

Assigned by: rule-based classifier

Evidence:

title/description contains "medicine"

Reviewed: no

Methodology: topic-rules-v0.1

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Vote ID 167787Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

Medium importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Procedural or paragraph vote
✓Strong political group division
✓Some national delegation divergence
✓High participation
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+8 / 15

Turnout+4 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+0 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+12 / 15

Country division+8 / 15

Methodology: importance-v0.1 · The Importance Score is a prioritisation indicator. It does not judge whether a vote is good or bad.

What was this vote about?

This vote concerned “Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency ***I”. PfE and ESN voted mostly in favour, while EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly against. ECR mostly abstained. The motion was rejected by a comfortable margin (62 for, 443 against, 59 abstentions).

Automated summary generated from official vote metadata and observed voting patterns. Not a legal interpretation.

Why it matters

This is a procedural vote — it concerns how Parliament organises its work rather than a substantive policy decision. It is generally of lower public-interest weight, though procedural votes can still signal political alignments.

Result analysis

For

Against

443

Abstain

Margin of victory

381 votes

Turnout (cast)

564

Absent

141

Participation rate

80.0%

✓This was not a close vote — the margin was comfortable.

By political group

EPP179 MEPs

For 1Against 133Abstain 2Absent 43

S&D136 MEPs

For 1Against 112Abstain 0Absent 23

Renew100 MEPs

For 1Against 86Abstain 0Absent 13

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 1Against 62Abstain 0Absent 7

ECR65 MEPs

For 10Against 1Abstain 42Absent 12

PfE64 MEPs

For 35Against 6Abstain 6Absent 17

The Left38 MEPs

For 1Against 28Abstain 1Absent 8

NI46 MEPs

For 6Against 14Abstain 8Absent 18

ESN4 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 0

Country angle

Most in favour

None.

Most against

Germany79
France49
Spain45
Italy33
Netherlands20

Divided delegations

Czech Republic

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 3Against 15Abstain 0Absent 1

Belgium21 MEPs

For 0Against 15Abstain 3Absent 3

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 0Against 10Abstain 2Absent 5

Croatia12 MEPs

For 0Against 5Abstain 0Absent 7

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 4Abstain 0Absent 2

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 6Against 9Abstain 4Absent 2

Denmark14 MEPs

For 1Against 10Abstain 0Absent 3

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 5Abstain 0Absent 1

Finland14 MEPs

For 2Against 10Abstain 0Absent 2

France79 MEPs

For 18Against 49Abstain 1Absent 11

Germany96 MEPs

For 1Against 79Abstain 3Absent 13

Greece21 MEPs

For 0Against 6Abstain 1Absent 14

Hungary21 MEPs

For 0Against 5Abstain 11Absent 5

Ireland13 MEPs

For 0Against 11Abstain 1Absent 1

Italy76 MEPs

For 15Against 33Abstain 7Absent 21

Latvia8 MEPs

For 0Against 6Abstain 1Absent 1

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 0Against 9Abstain 0Absent 2

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 0Against 5Abstain 0Absent 1

Malta6 MEPs

For 0Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 3Against 20Abstain 3Absent 3

Poland52 MEPs

For 1Against 17Abstain 20Absent 14

Portugal21 MEPs

For 0Against 20Abstain 0Absent 1

Romania33 MEPs

For 0Against 18Abstain 0Absent 15

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 3Against 11Abstain 0Absent 0

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 0Against 6Abstain 0Absent 2

Spain59 MEPs

For 6Against 45Abstain 1Absent 7

Sweden21 MEPs

For 2Against 18Abstain 1Absent 0

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