What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Removed:DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Added:P10_TA(2025)0257

Removed:on the draft Council decision amending the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, annexed to Council Decision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20 September 1976

Added:Proxy voting in plenary for Members during pregnancy and after giving birth

Removed:(06708/2026 – C10-0078/2026 – 2025/0900(APP))

Added:Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Removed:(Special legislative procedure – consent)

Added:PE778.275

Added:European Parliament legislative resolution of 13 November 2025 on the amendment of the European Electoral act, allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth (2025/2195(INL) – 2025/0900(APP))

The European Parliament,

Removed:– having regard to the draft Council decision (06708/2026),

Added:– having regard to the Treaties, and in particular Articles 9, 10, 14 and 17(7) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Articles 20, 22, 223(1) and 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and Article 2 of Protocol No 1 on the role of national parliaments in the European Union,

Changed:– having regard to the request for consent submitted by the Council in accordance with Article 223(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to Article 106a(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (C10-0078/2026),Community,

Changed:– having regard to its legislative resolutionthe ofAct 13concerning Novemberthe 2025election onof the amendmentmembers of the European ElectoralParliament act,by allowingdirect Membersuniversal suffrage (“the Electoral Act”), annexed to voteCouncil indecision plenary76/787/ECSC, byEEC, proxyEuratom votingof during20 pregnancySeptember 1976, as amended, and afterin givingparticular birth,Article 6 thereof,

Change 1

Removed:– having regard to Rule 107(1) and (4) of its Rules of Procedure,

Added:– having regard to Article 5 of the Decision of the European Parliament of 28 September 2005 adopting the Statute for Members of the European Parliament,

Removed:– having regard to the recommendation of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (A10-0123/2026),

Added:– having regard to its previous resolutions on the European Parliament’s electoral procedure, and in particular its resolution of 15 July 1998 on a draft electoral procedure incorporating common principles for the election of Members of the European Parliament, its resolution of 22 November 2012 on the elections to the European Parliament in 2014, its resolution of 4 July 2013 on improving the practical arrangements for the holding of the European elections in 2014, its resolution of 11 November 2015 on the Reform of the electoral law of the EU and its resolution of 3 May 2022 on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, repealing Council Decision (76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom) and the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage annexed to that Decision,

Removed:1. Gives its consent to the draft Council decision;

Added:– having regard to the Framework Agreement of 20 October 2010 on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission, as modified on 17 February 2018,

Removed:2. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

Added:– having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and in particular Article 33 thereof,