← Votes·2024-04-10

Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Directive) ***I

Vote ID 167827Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

Medium importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Some political group division
✓Some national delegation divergence
✓Close result
✓High participation
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+5 / 5

Vote type+0 / 25

Close vote+10 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+10 / 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 “Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Directive) ***I”. S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA, NI and Left voted mostly in favour, while EPP, ECR, PfE and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (315 for, 286 against, 8 abstentions).

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

Why it matters

This is a substantive vote (such as an amendment or resolution) that contributes to shaping the final position of the Parliament on a dossier. It reflects the political direction taken on specific provisions. The outcome was close, which makes individual choices and absences especially consequential.

Result analysis

For

315

Against

286

Abstain

Margin of victory

29 votes

Turnout (cast)

609

Absent

Participation rate

86.4%

⚠️This was a close vote — the margin was small relative to the votes cast.

Close vote analysis

The margin was 29 votes. 96 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (96) was larger than the 29-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Absences larger than the margin are numerically significant but do NOT imply the outcome would have changed. That would require modelling how each absent member would have voted, which this analysis does not do.

By political group

EPP179 MEPs

For 12Against 141Abstain 2Absent 24

S&D136 MEPs

For 113Against 3Abstain 0Absent 20

Renew100 MEPs

For 72Against 17Abstain 0Absent 11

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 67Against 0Abstain 0Absent 3

ECR65 MEPs

For 1Against 55Abstain 1Absent 8

PfE64 MEPs

For 0Against 49Abstain 0Absent 15

NI46 MEPs

For 18Against 15Abstain 4Absent 9

The Left38 MEPs

For 32Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 3Abstain 1Absent 0

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany47
France43
Spain36
Portugal13
Belgium11

Most against

Poland35
Italy32
Czech Republic15
Netherlands15
Hungary11

Divided delegations

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Finland
Germany
Greece
Hungary

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 9Against 9Abstain 0Absent 1

Belgium21 MEPs

For 11Against 9Abstain 1Absent 0

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 6Against 8Abstain 0Absent 3

Croatia12 MEPs

For 4Against 2Abstain 0Absent 6

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 1

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 5Against 15Abstain 1Absent 0

Denmark14 MEPs

For 10Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Estonia7 MEPs

For 5Against 2Abstain 0Absent 0

Finland14 MEPs

For 8Against 6Abstain 0Absent 0

France79 MEPs

For 43Against 23Abstain 0Absent 13

Germany96 MEPs

For 47Against 46Abstain 0Absent 3

Greece21 MEPs

For 6Against 5Abstain 3Absent 7

Hungary21 MEPs

For 6Against 11Abstain 0Absent 4

Ireland13 MEPs

For 7Against 5Abstain 0Absent 1

Italy76 MEPs

For 27Against 32Abstain 0Absent 17

Latvia8 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 1

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 6Against 2Abstain 0Absent 3

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 1

Malta6 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 13Against 15Abstain 0Absent 1

Poland52 MEPs

For 11Against 35Abstain 0Absent 6

Portugal21 MEPs

For 13Against 7Abstain 0Absent 1

Romania33 MEPs

For 11Against 7Abstain 0Absent 15

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 6Against 5Abstain 3Absent 0

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 4Against 3Abstain 0Absent 1

Spain59 MEPs

For 36Against 18Abstain 0Absent 5

Sweden21 MEPs

For 10Against 11Abstain 0Absent 0

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