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Critical Medicines Act

2025/0102(COD)·10th term·ENVI / IMCO / ITRE / SANT·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·In progressAwaiting Parliament's position in 1st reading

Subjects: Public health · Medicine, diseases · Pharmaceutical products and industry · Health legislation and policy

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): SOKOL Tomislav (EPP)

Summary

The Critical Medicines Act is a draft EU regulation on the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products and medicinal products of common interest. Amendments stress reducing dependency on third-country suppliers of active substances, building or modernising Union manufacturing capacity through strategic projects, and ensuring affordability and access; some add strategic autonomy, pricing, environmental and social standards, and participatory governance with trade unions.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
5 Sep 2025 – 2 Oct 2025
Plenary vote — Rejected
20 Jan 2026 · On a motion to reject the proposal — amendment 258
Plenary vote — Adopted
20 Jan 2026 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
In progress — not yet concluded

1,794

Amendments

distinct, in window

117

Members

tabled at least one

4

Committee(s)

5 Sep 2025 – 2 Oct 2025

Dates

Plenary votes

16 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	For97%	For98%	consistent
S&D	For100%	For99%	consistent
Renew	For99%	For100%	consistent
Greens/EFA	For100%	For100%	consistent
ECR	Abstained78%	For88%	Abstained → For
The Left	For95%	For100%	consistent
Patriots	Abstained47%	For81%	Abstained → For
ESN	Against92%	Against100%	consistent
Non-attached	For65%	For79%	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. Positions are shown on the text itself: on a rejection motion, a vote for rejection counts as against the text. Click a column heading to open the vote below.

Show the 13 earlier votes
1. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 158
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - vote séparé - Am 158 · what was voted ↗
  492 for159 against14 abstentions54 did not vote
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2. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 159
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - vote séparé - Am 159 · what was voted ↗
  517 for127 against15 abstentions60 did not vote
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3. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 162
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - vote séparé - Am 162 · what was voted ↗
  494 for152 against17 abstentions56 did not vote
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4. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 163
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - vote séparé - Am 163 · what was voted ↗
  528 for123 against10 abstentions58 did not vote
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5. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On the lead committee's amendments — amendment 164
  Official label: Amendements de la commission compétente - vote séparé - Am 164 · what was voted ↗
  450 for205 against8 abstentions56 did not vote
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6. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On amendment 257 — paragraph 1 — point 5 — article 3
  Official label: Article 3, § 1, point 5 - Am 257 · what was voted ↗
  325 for284 against33 abstentions77 did not vote
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7. 20 Jan 2026Rejected
  On amendment 250 — text to be inserted after paragraph 2 — article 16
  Official label: Article 16, après le § 2 - Am 250 · what was voted ↗
  141 for516 against7 abstentions55 did not vote
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8. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On amendment 170 — article 21
  Official label: Article 21 - Am 170 · what was voted ↗
  525 for123 against14 abstentions57 did not vote
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9. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On amendment 178 — article 22
  Official label: Article 22 - Am 178 · what was voted ↗
  529 for120 against16 abstentions54 did not vote
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10. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On amendment 187 — article 23
  Official label: Article 23 - Am 187 · what was voted ↗
  527 for121 against15 abstentions56 did not vote
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11. 20 Jan 2026Rejected
  On amendment 244 — text to be inserted after recital 3
  Official label: Après le considérant 3 - Am 244 · what was voted ↗
  227 for299 against138 abstentions55 did not vote
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12. 20 Jan 2026Rejected
  On amendment 259 — recital 4
  Official label: Considérant 4 - Am 259 · what was voted ↗
  197 for454 against7 abstentions61 did not vote
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13. 20 Jan 2026Adopted
  On amendment 256 — text to be inserted after recital 12
  Official label: Après le considérant 12 - Am 256 · what was voted ↗
  362 for259 against34 abstentions64 did not vote
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20 Jan 2026Rejected
On amendment 247 — text to be inserted after recital 22
Official label: Après le considérant 22 - Am 247 · what was voted ↗
224 for424 against20 abstentions51 did not vote
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20 Jan 2026Main voteAdopted
On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
Official label: Proposition de la Commission · what was voted ↗
503 for57 against108 abstentions51 did not vote
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20 Jan 2026Main voteRejected
On a motion to reject the proposal — amendment 258
Official label: Proposition de rejet - Am 258 · what was voted ↗
44 for600 against13 abstentions62 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Statistical baseline — not a forecast

How groups usually vote on similar files

Based on 2,388 past all main roll-call votes, Jul 2019 → 2026-07-04.

EPPusually FOR88% FOR over 383,644 votes

S&Dusually FOR92% FOR over 301,645 votes

Renewusually FOR91% FOR over 207,185 votes

Greens/EFAusually FOR85% FOR over 147,703 votes

ECRusually FOR60% FOR over 146,773 votes

The Leftusually FOR64% FOR over 84,375 votes

Patriotsusually AGAINST44% FOR over 43,438 votes

IDusually AGAINST37% FOR over 106,739 votes

ESNusually AGAINST30% FOR over 13,705 votes

Non-attachedusually FOR61% FOR over 77,201 votes

Statistical baseline from past roll-call votes; not a forecast. · roll-call votes only

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Official amendment documents

PE776.912 ↗PE776.969 ↗PE778.025 ↗PE778.031 ↗PE778.032 ↗PE778.139 ↗

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Full record

Members who amended this procedure

117 Members · by amendment count

Greens / EFA · Luxembourg

Socialists & Democrats · France

Romana JERKOVIĆ

Socialists & Democrats · Croatia

Socialists & Democrats · Germany

Aleksandar NIKOLIC

Patriots for Europe · France

Marie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN

Patriots for Europe · France

Nikos PAPANDREOU

Socialists & Democrats · Greece

Patriots for Europe · Czechia

Vytenis Povilas ANDRIUKAITIS

Socialists & Democrats · Lithuania

Socialists & Democrats · Portugal

Socialists & Democrats · Austria

Estelle CEULEMANS

Socialists & Democrats · Belgium

Socialists & Democrats · Italy

Ondřej KRUTÍLEK

European Conservatives & Reformists · Czechia

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Patriots for Europe · Spain

Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Renew Europe · Slovakia

Mathilde ANDROUËT

Patriots for Europe · France

Laurent CASTILLO

Patriots for Europe · France

The Left (GUE/NGL) · France

Patriots for Europe · Czechia

Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ

Greens / EFA · Romania

Christophe CLERGEAU

Socialists & Democrats · France

Viktória FERENC

Patriots for Europe · Hungary

Aurelijus VERYGA

European Conservatives & Reformists · Lithuania

Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU

Renew Europe · Romania

The amendments, in full text

1,901 amendments

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

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