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Urban wastewater treatment. Recast

2022/0345(COD)·9th term·ENVI·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·CompletedProcedure completed

Subjects: Water control and management, pollution of waterways, water pollution

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): TORVALDS Nils (Renew)

Summary

This procedure recasts the rules on urban wastewater treatment. It runs under the ordinary legislative procedure, in which Parliament and the Council of the EU decide jointly to adopt binding EU law. The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee handled it, in the area of water management and pollution of waterways. The amendments set sampling frequencies and discharge limits (for total phosphorus, total nitrogen and micro-pollutants), require monitoring of micro-pollutants and micro-plastics in sludge for larger agglomerations, and mandate broad chemical screening to identify substances of concern, naming PFAS and chlorothalonil. Others create national implementation programmes, public access to data through a Union-wide database, and dated obligations to set up datasets on discharges, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use and treatment technologies.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
9 May 2023 – 10 May 2023
Plenary vote — Passed
5 Oct 2023 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Plenary vote — Adopted
10 Apr 2024 · On the provisional agreement negotiated with the Council (the trilogue deal) — amendment 268
Procedure completed

1,360

Amendments

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71

Members

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1

Committee(s)

9 May 2023 – 10 May 2023

Dates

Plenary votes

14 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 →

Where each group stood at the decisive votes

Group			Shift
EPP	For96%	For99%	consistent
S&D	For99%	For96%	consistent
Renew	For94%	For97%	consistent
Greens/EFA	For100%	For100%	consistent
ECR	Abstained79%	Against46%	Abstained → Against
The Left	Abstained58%	For88%	Abstained → For
ID	Against65%	Against63%	consistent
Non-attached	For44%	For54%	consistent

Milestones are the votes that adopt or reject text (not every amendment vote) — the percentage is the share of the group’s Members behind that position. Click a column heading to open the vote below.

Show the 11 earlier votes
1. 5 Oct 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 253 (part 1 of a split vote) — text to be inserted after paragraph 4 — article 7
  Official label: Article 7, après le § 4 - Am 253/1 · what was voted ↗
  256 for298 against2 abstentions149 did not vote
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2. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 95 — paragraph 1 — article 8
  Official label: Article 8, § 1, sous § 1 - Am 95 · what was voted ↗
  396 for137 against12 abstentions160 did not vote
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3. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 96 — paragraph 1 — article 8
  Official label: Article 8, § 1, sous § 2 - Am 96 · what was voted ↗
  421 for133 against11 abstentions140 did not vote
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4. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 108 — paragraph 1 — article 9 — subparagraph 1
  Official label: Article 9, § 1, après l'alinéa 1 - Am 108 · what was voted ↗
  316 for225 against24 abstentions140 did not vote
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5. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 267 — text to be inserted after paragraph 2 — article 11
  Official label: Article 11, après le § 2 - Am 267 · what was voted ↗
  274 for273 against15 abstentions143 did not vote
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6. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 15 (part 2 of a split vote) — recital 13
  Official label: Considérant 13 - Am 15/2 · what was voted ↗
  423 for129 against8 abstentions145 did not vote
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7. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 15 (part 3 of a split vote) — recital 13
  Official label: Considérant 13 - Am 15/3 · what was voted ↗
  324 for154 against82 abstentions145 did not vote
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8. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 19 (part 2 of a split vote)
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - votes séparés - Am 19/2 · what was voted ↗
  330 for135 against101 abstentions139 did not vote
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9. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 36 (part 2 of a split vote)
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - votes séparés - Am 36/2 · what was voted ↗
  330 for133 against102 abstentions140 did not vote
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10. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 92 (part 2 of a split vote)
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - votes séparés - Am 92/2 · what was voted ↗
  322 for224 against17 abstentions142 did not vote
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11. 5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 109
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - votes séparés - Am 109 · what was voted ↗
  247 for208 against105 abstentions145 did not vote
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5 Oct 2023Passedoutcome from totals
On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 237 (part 2 of a split vote)
Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - votes séparés - Am 237/2 · what was voted ↗
291 for257 against19 abstentions138 did not vote
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5 Oct 2023Main votePassedoutcome from totals
On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Official label: Proposition de la Commission · what was voted ↗
420 for62 against84 abstentions139 did not vote
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10 Apr 2024Main voteAdopted
On the provisional agreement negotiated with the Council (the trilogue deal) — amendment 268
Official label: Accord provisoire - Am 268 · what was voted ↗
481 for79 against26 abstentions119 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

PE746.950 ↗PE747.010 ↗PE748.961 ↗PE748.962 ↗PE748.963 ↗PE748.982 ↗

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Full record

Members who amended this procedure

71 Members · by amendment count

Greens / EFA · Denmark

European Conservatives & Reformists · Italy

Marian-Jean MARINESCU

European People's Party (EPP) · Romania

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN

The Left (GUE/NGL) · Denmark

The Left (GUE/NGL) · Netherlands

Socialists & Democrats · Portugal

Aurélia BEIGNEUX

Identity & Democracy · France

Marek Paweł BALT

Socialists & Democrats · Poland

Mohammed CHAHIM

Socialists & Democrats · Netherlands

European People's Party (EPP) · Poland

Jessica POLFJÄRD

European People's Party (EPP) · Sweden

Massimiliano SALINI

European People's Party (EPP) · Italy

Danilo Oscar LANCINI

Identity & Democracy · Italy

Patriots for Europe · Italy

Matteo ADINOLFI

Identity & Democracy · Italy

Identity & Democracy · Italy

Identity & Democracy · Italy

European People's Party (EPP) · Ireland

Dolors MONTSERRAT

European People's Party (EPP) · Spain

Gianantonio DA RE

Identity & Democracy · Italy

European People's Party (EPP) · Slovenia

European People's Party (EPP) · Bulgaria

European People's Party (EPP) · Ireland

European People's Party (EPP) · Ireland

Socialists & Democrats · Austria

The amendments, in full text

1,360 amendments

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

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