Procedure

The Commission’s 2020 Rule of law report - COM(2020)0580

2021/2025(INI)·9th term·AFCO / CONT / JURI / LIBE / PETI·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): RUIZ DEVESA Domènec (S&D)
Summary

Own-initiative report on the Commission's 2020 Rule of Law Report. Amendments range from welcoming the report as an addition to the EU's toolbox to disputing the Commission's competence and the scope of the Treaties, and debate its four pillars (judicial independence, anti-corruption, media pluralism, checks and balances), the Article 7 TEU procedure, situations in Poland and Hungary, and proposals for country-specific recommendations and a single monitoring mechanism.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    20 Apr 2021 – 29 Apr 2021
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    24 Jun 2021 · On the motion for a resolution
  3. Procedure completed
556
Amendments
distinct, in window
130
Members
tabled at least one
5
Committee(s)
20 Apr 2021 – 29 Apr 2021
Dates

Plenary votes

2 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

  1. 24 Jun 2021Failedoutcome from totals
    On amendment 1
    Official label: Am 1 · what was voted ↗
    147 for542 against4 abstentions12 did not vote
    For
    Against
    Abst.

    Click a group to see each Member’s position.

  2. 24 Jun 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the motion for a resolution
    Official label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗
    509 for152 against28 abstentions16 did not vote
    For
    Against
    Abst.

    Click a group to see each Member’s position.

Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Full record

Members who amended this procedure

130 Members · by amendment count
1🇷🇴
Cristian TERHEŞ
European Conservatives & Reformists · Romania
73(17 solo)
2🇸🇰
Michal ŠIMEČKA
Renew Europe · Slovakia
69
3🇪🇸
Maite PAGAZAURTUNDÚA
Renew Europe · Spain
67
4🇷🇴
Ramona STRUGARIU
Renew Europe · Romania
64
5🇳🇱
Tineke STRIK
Greens / EFA · Netherlands
64(26 solo)
6🇪🇸
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA
Patriots for Europe · Spain
63(8 solo)
7🇧🇪
Olivier CHASTEL
Renew Europe · Belgium
62
8🇪🇸
Domènec RUIZ DEVESA
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
55(3 solo)
9🇦🇹
Lukas MANDL
European People's Party (EPP) · Austria
53(1 solo)
10🇧🇪
Hilde VAUTMANS
Renew Europe · Belgium
52
11🇩🇪
Moritz KÖRNER
Renew Europe · Germany
50
12🇬🇷
Konstantinos ARVANITIS
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Greece
49(12 solo)
13🇵🇱
Patryk JAKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
47
14🇵🇱
Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
47
15🇵🇱
Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
47
16🇵🇱
Beata KEMPA
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
47
17🇵🇱
Łukasz KOHUT
European People's Party (EPP) · Poland
47
18🇳🇱
Sophia IN 'T VELD
Renew Europe · Netherlands
45
19🇲🇹
Cyrus ENGERER
Socialists & Democrats · Malta
43
20🇩🇪
Dietmar KÖSTER
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
43
21🇧🇬
Elena YONCHEVA
Socialists & Democrats · Bulgaria
40
22🇮🇹
Pietro BARTOLO
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
40
23🇫🇷
Raphaël GLUCKSMANN
Socialists & Democrats · France
40
24🇩🇪
Katarina BARLEY
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
39
25🇪🇸
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
39

The amendments, in full text

556 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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