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Artificial intelligence: questions of interpretation and application of international law in so far as the EU is affected in the areas of civil and military uses and of state authority outside the scope of criminal justice

2020/2013(INI)·9th term·AFET / IMCO / JURI / LIBE / TRAN·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Information and communication technologies, digital technologies · Electronics, electrotechnical industries, ICT, robotics
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): LEBRETON Gilles (ID)
Summary

The dossier addresses artificial intelligence and questions of interpretation and application of international law affecting the EU in civil and military uses and of state authority outside criminal justice. Amendments revise paragraphs on AI-enabled systems in military affairs and warfare, the UN Charter and international humanitarian law, the Martens Clause, a ban on lethal autonomous weapons, accountability, testing and evaluation, arms control and surveillance.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    4 Jun 2020 – 15 Sep 2020
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    20 Jan 2021 · On the motion for a resolution
  3. Procedure completed
387
Amendments
distinct, in window
78
Members
tabled at least one
5
Committee(s)
4 Jun 2020 – 15 Sep 2020
Dates

Plenary votes

13 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. Show the 10 earlier votes
    1. 19 Jan 2021Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 1
      Official label: Am 1 · what was voted ↗
      223 for454 against16 abstentions10 did not vote
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    2. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 22 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 22/1 · what was voted ↗
      668 for2 against23 abstentions10 did not vote
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    3. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 22 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 22/2 · what was voted ↗
      386 for253 against54 abstentions10 did not vote
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    4. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 28 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 28/1 · what was voted ↗
      396 for257 against39 abstentions11 did not vote
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    5. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 28 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 28/2 · what was voted ↗
      571 for71 against51 abstentions10 did not vote
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    6. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 33
      Official label: § 33 · what was voted ↗
      396 for274 against23 abstentions10 did not vote
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    7. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 34 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 34/1 · what was voted ↗
      664 for8 against19 abstentions12 did not vote
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    8. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 34 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 34/2 · what was voted ↗
      360 for314 against19 abstentions10 did not vote
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    9. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 37
      Official label: § 37 · what was voted ↗
      362 for301 against30 abstentions10 did not vote
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    10. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 50
      Official label: § 50 · what was voted ↗
      417 for215 against61 abstentions10 did not vote
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  2. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
    On paragraph 56 (part 1 of a split vote)
    Official label: § 56/1 · what was voted ↗
    556 for103 against34 abstentions10 did not vote
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  3. 19 Jan 2021Passedoutcome from totals
    On paragraph 56 (part 2 of a split vote)
    Official label: § 56/2 · what was voted ↗
    345 for323 against25 abstentions10 did not vote
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  4. 20 Jan 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the motion for a resolution
    Official label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗
    364 for274 against52 abstentions13 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

PE652.520 ↗PE652.560 ↗PE652.622 ↗PE654.068 ↗PE657.364 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

78 Members · by amendment count
1🇪🇸
Marcos ROS SEMPERE
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
57(6 solo)
2🇪🇸
Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
51
3🇦🇹
Andreas SCHIEDER
Socialists & Democrats · Austria
28(5 solo)
4🇩🇪
Sergey LAGODINSKY
Greens / EFA · Germany
25(25 solo)
5🇱🇹
Juozas OLEKAS
Socialists & Democrats · Lithuania
15
6🇪🇸
Javi LÓPEZ
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
15
7🇪🇸
Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
15
8🇭🇺
Attila ARA-KOVÁCS
Socialists & Democrats · Hungary
15
9🇵🇱
Robert BIEDROŃ
Socialists & Democrats · Poland
15
10🇷🇴
Maria GRAPINI
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
15(2 solo)
11🇪🇸
Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
15(9 solo)
12🇪🇸
Isabel GARCÍA MUÑOZ
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
13(3 solo)
13🇵🇱
Leszek MILLER
Socialists & Democrats · Poland
13
14🇩🇰
Christel SCHALDEMOSE
Socialists & Democrats · Denmark
13
15🇪🇸
Javier NART
Renew Europe · Spain
11
16🇪🇸
Adriana MALDONADO LÓPEZ
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
11
17🇦🇹
Lukas MANDL
European People's Party (EPP) · Austria
10(10 solo)
18🇨🇿
Ondřej KOVAŘÍK
Patriots for Europe · Czechia
10
19🇳🇱
Caroline NAGTEGAAL
Renew Europe · Netherlands
10
20🇧🇬
Angel DZHAMBAZKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Bulgaria
10(10 solo)
21🇲🇹
Josianne CUTAJAR
Socialists & Democrats · Malta
10
22🇩🇪
Svenja HAHN
Renew Europe · Germany
10
23🇨🇿
Dita CHARANZOVÁ
Renew Europe · Czechia
10(1 solo)
24🇦🇹
Claudia GAMON
Renew Europe · Austria
10
25🇷🇴
Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ
Renew Europe · Romania
10

The amendments, in full text

387 amendments

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

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