Sander Smit

Final votes

The latest 10 of 621 final roll-call votes, newest first.

• Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector

  Abstained · most of the ECR voted for · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• Post-electoral repression in Zambia and the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• Impact of social media and the online environment on young people

  Abstained · most of the ECR voted against · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• The role of social, economic and environmental standards in safeguarding fair competition for all aquatic food products and improving food security

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders

  For · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

• Strengthening global health resilience in partner countries

  For · against most of the ECR · 17 Sept 2026 · Result: Adopted

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Where they work

• Committee on Constitutional Affairs

  Committee · Member

• Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety

  Committee · Substitute

• Committee on Fisheries

  Committee · Substitute

• Delegation for relations with South Africa

  Delegation · Substitute

• Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

  Parliamentary assembly · Member

• Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary Assembly

  Parliamentary assembly · Member

• Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and Countryside

  Intergroup / working group · Member

• Intergroup on European Cultural Heritage, Ways of Saint James and other European Cultural Routes

  Intergroup / working group · Member

• Intergroup on Sustainable Livestock

  Intergroup / working group · Member

• Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)

  Intergroup / working group · Member

• Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

  Intergroup / working group · Member

• Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages

  Intergroup / working group · Member

Dossiers they work on

• Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Fisheries Policy, to the European Ocean Pact and of the Union’s maritime and aquaculture policy as part of the National and Regional Partnership Fund set out in Regulation (EU) […] [NRP Fund] for the period from 2028 to 2034

  Rapporteur · Fisheries committee · 7 Jan 2026

• Amending Directives 2014/65/EU and (EU) 2022/2557 as regards the extension of certain mitigating measures available for small and medium sized enterprises to small mid-cap enterprises and further simplifying measures

  Rapporteur · Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee · 22 Sept 2025

• Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 on certain measures for the purpose of the conservation of fish stocks in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing - 2024/0224(COD)

  Shadow rapporteur · Fisheries committee · 16 Oct 2024

Beyond votes

Topics they work on

Counted over the dossiers they speak on, lead or amend, and their questions and motions.

• Climate & environment 28
• Agriculture, food & fisheries 25
• Foreign affairs 22
• Economy & single market 21
• EU budget & funds 13
• Justice, rule of law & rights 9
• Jobs, social affairs & equality 8
• Health 6
• EU institutions & Parliament 6
• Defence & security 5
• Energy 4
• Trade & customs 4
• Transport & tourism 4
• Digital, AI & data 3
• Migration & asylum 1