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The Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law report

2021/2180(INI)·9th term·AFCO / BUDG / CONT / JURI / LIBE / PETI·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Principles common to the Member States, EU values
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): REINTKE Terry (Verts/ALE)
Summary

This own-initiative report addresses the Commission's 2021 Rule of Law report. Amendments debate the values in Article 2 TEU, the primacy of EU law versus national constitutions (citing rulings of Constitutional Courts in Romania and Poland), and democratic deficits in emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic; they also cover judicial independence, digitalisation of justice systems, lawyers in the EU Justice Scoreboard, and the Commission's periodic monitoring.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    21 Jan 2022 – 1 Mar 2022
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    19 May 2022 · On the motion for a resolution — the text as a whole
  3. Procedure completed
716
Amendments
distinct, in window
121
Members
tabled at least one
6
Committee(s)
21 Jan 2022 – 1 Mar 2022
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. 19 May 2022Failedoutcome from totals
    On the motion for a resolution — amendment 1
    Official label: Proposition de résolution de remplacement - Am 1 · what was voted ↗
    120 for462 against14 abstentions109 did not vote
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    Against
    Abst.

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  2. 19 May 2022Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the motion for a resolution — the text as a whole
    Official label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗
    429 for131 against34 abstentions111 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

Official amendment documents

PE703.030 ↗PE703.216 ↗PE704.560 ↗PE704.661 ↗PE719.707 ↗PE719.809 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

121 Members · by amendment count
1🇷🇴
Cristian TERHEŞ
European Conservatives & Reformists · Romania
70(57 solo)
2🇪🇸
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA
Patriots for Europe · Spain
63(49 solo)
3🇩🇪
Gunnar BECK
Identity & Democracy · Germany
48
4🇫🇷
Sylvie GUILLAUME
Socialists & Democrats · France
41
5🇷🇴
Ramona STRUGARIU
Renew Europe · Romania
39
6🇩🇪
Nicolaus FEST
Identity & Democracy · Germany
38
7🇸🇰
Vladimír BILČÍK
European People's Party (EPP) · Slovakia
36(5 solo)
8🇪🇸
Maite PAGAZAURTUNDÚA
Renew Europe · Spain
36
9🇧🇬
Emil RADEV
European People's Party (EPP) · Bulgaria
36(15 solo)
10🇧🇪
Olivier CHASTEL
Renew Europe · Belgium
36
11🇮🇹
Franco ROBERTI
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
35(11 solo)
12🇸🇰
Michal ŠIMEČKA
Renew Europe · Slovakia
33
13🇳🇱
Thijs REUTEN
Socialists & Democrats · Netherlands
33(1 solo)
14🇭🇺
Balázs HIDVÉGHI
Non-attached · Hungary
33(33 solo)
15🇧🇬
Angel DZHAMBAZKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Bulgaria
32(9 solo)
16🇩🇪
Katarina BARLEY
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
31
17🇫🇷
Nathalie COLIN-OESTERLÉ
European People's Party (EPP) · France
29(29 solo)
18🇮🇹
Giuliano PISAPIA
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
29
19🇳🇱
Sophia IN 'T VELD
Renew Europe · Netherlands
29
20🇷🇴
Dragoş TUDORACHE
Renew Europe · Romania
28(5 solo)
21🇦🇹
Bettina VOLLATH
Socialists & Democrats · Austria
28
22🇱🇺
Marc ANGEL
Socialists & Democrats · Luxembourg
27
23🇩🇪
Terry REINTKE
Greens / EFA · Germany
27(11 solo)
24🇵🇱
Łukasz KOHUT
European People's Party (EPP) · Poland
26
25🇫🇷
Pierre KARLESKIND
Renew Europe · France
24

The amendments, in full text

716 amendments

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

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