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The implementation of the principle of primacy of EU law

2022/2143(INI)·9th term·AFCO / JURI·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed

Subjects: Implementation of EU law

Rapporteurs (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): ENGERER Cyrus (S&D), TOOM Yana (Renew)

Summary

Own-initiative report on the implementation of the principle of primacy of EU law. The amendments rework citations to TEU articles, Member State constitutions, the Costa v E.N.E.L. judgment and CJEU case-law, and recitals debating whether the principle of primacy is enshrined in the Treaties, its relation to the conferral of competences and to equality before the law, and its role in the effective and uniform application of EU law.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
6 Sep 2023
Plenary vote — Passed
21 Nov 2023 · On the motion for a resolution — the text as a whole
Procedure completed

254

Amendments

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25

Members

tabled at least one

2

Committee(s)

6 Sep 2023

Dates

Plenary votes

18 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 →

Show the 15 earlier votes
1. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 2 — text to be inserted after paragraph 1
  Official label: Après le § 1 - Am 2 · what was voted ↗
  86 for479 against65 abstentions72 did not vote
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2. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 3 — text to be inserted after paragraph 1
  Official label: Après le § 1 - Am 3 · what was voted ↗
  71 for512 against31 abstentions88 did not vote
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3. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 12 — text to be inserted after paragraph 1
  Official label: Après le § 1 - Am 12 · what was voted ↗
  145 for453 against15 abstentions89 did not vote
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4. 21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 4
  Official label: § 4 · what was voted ↗
  384 for187 against14 abstentions117 did not vote
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5. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 13 — text to be inserted after paragraph 5
  Official label: Après le § 5 - Am 13 · what was voted ↗
  138 for456 against10 abstentions98 did not vote
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6. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 14 — text to be inserted after paragraph 5
  Official label: Après le § 5 - Am 14 · what was voted ↗
  144 for466 against12 abstentions80 did not vote
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7. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 16 — text to be inserted after paragraph 8
  Official label: Après le § 8 - Am 16 · what was voted ↗
  143 for464 against12 abstentions83 did not vote
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8. 21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 18
  Official label: § 18 · what was voted ↗
  407 for184 against27 abstentions84 did not vote
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9. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 7 — text to be inserted after paragraph 18
  Official label: Après le § 18 - Am 7 · what was voted ↗
  172 for442 against11 abstentions77 did not vote
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10. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 19 — paragraph 24
  Official label: § 24 - Am 19 · what was voted ↗
  140 for448 against16 abstentions98 did not vote
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11. 21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 24
  Official label: § 24 · what was voted ↗
  376 for204 against36 abstentions86 did not vote
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12. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 9 — text to be inserted after recital A
  Official label: Après le considérant A - Am 9 · what was voted ↗
  166 for445 against13 abstentions78 did not vote
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13. 21 Nov 2023Failedoutcome from totals
  On amendment 1 — text to be inserted after recital D
  Official label: Après le considérant D - Am 1 · what was voted ↗
  132 for448 against43 abstentions79 did not vote
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14. 21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital E
  Official label: Considérant E/1 · what was voted ↗
  494 for61 against65 abstentions82 did not vote
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15. 21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital E
  Official label: Considérant E/2 · what was voted ↗
  432 for171 against19 abstentions80 did not vote
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21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
On recital J
Official label: Considérant J/1 · what was voted ↗
476 for129 against20 abstentions77 did not vote
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21 Nov 2023Passedoutcome from totals
On recital J
Official label: Considérant J/2 · what was voted ↗
573 for38 against9 abstentions82 did not vote
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21 Nov 2023Main 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 ↗
430 for172 against29 abstentions71 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

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Members who amended this procedure

25 Members · by amendment count

Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA

Patriots for Europe · Spain

Gilles LEBRETON

Identity & Democracy · France

Socialists & Democrats · Germany

João PIMENTA LOPES

The Left (GUE/NGL) · Portugal

Emmanuel MAUREL

The Left (GUE/NGL) · France

European People's Party (EPP) · Romania

Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI

European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland

Sophia IN 'T VELD

Renew Europe · Netherlands

Renew Europe · Romania

Charles GOERENS

Renew Europe · Luxembourg

Renew Europe · France

Renew Europe · France

Socialists & Democrats · Malta

Greens / EFA · Germany

Damian BOESELAGER

Greens / EFA · Germany

European People's Party (EPP) · Portugal

European People's Party (EPP) · Germany

European People's Party (EPP) · Ireland

Renew Europe · Estonia

Jiří POSPÍŠIL

European People's Party (EPP) · Czechia

Brice HORTEFEUX

European People's Party (EPP) · France

Identity & Democracy · Germany

The Left (GUE/NGL) · Germany

Victor NEGRESCU

Socialists & Democrats · Romania

Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Socialists & Democrats · Spain

The amendments, in full text

254 amendments

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

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