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European Parliament votes · European Parliament plenary votes
European Parliament adopted a text it titles “Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget”
On 20 October 2026 the European Parliament recorded a final vote as adopted, with 357 in favour, 274 against and 31 abstentions.
662 votes recorded in total, by electronic roll-call vote.
Identified as the final vote by Parliament’s own marker, “Motion for a resolution (as a whole)”.
This is the count Parliament recorded, and nothing more: it does not establish
what the text does, how any member voted, what majority was required, or that
anything is now in force.
Parliament recorded the result as adopted, with 357 votes in favour, 274 against and 31 abstentions — 662 votes recorded in total.
Parliament records this decision under “Motion for a resolution (as a whole)”, which is how the final vote on the text is identified here. The vote was taken by electronic roll-call vote.
Parliament records the procedure as: Report: Ondřej Knotek (A10-0213/2026) (Majority of votes cast required)
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Event occurred
20 October 2026, 12:00 UTC (as recorded by the source)
Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget
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Reported as the title Parliament gave the document. The title is not adopted as this service's own description.
Document reference
A10-0213/2026
calculation
'A-10-2026-0002' -> 'A10-0002/2026'
Vote date
2026-10-20
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How the final vote was identified
Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
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Finality comes from Parliament's own whole-text marker. It is never inferred from vote counts or from a session having only one decision.
Recorded decision
adopted
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Votes in favour
357
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Votes against
274
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Abstentions
31
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Votes recorded in total
662
calculation
favour + against + abstentions
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Revision history
22 October 2026, 20:23 UTC — The source revised its record
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Final plenary votes on a text as a whole, where Parliament's own record identifies the document explicitly and reports both an outcome and aggregate counts. Amendment votes, split and separate votes, procedural motions, votes taken by show of hands without recorded counts, and sittings where no single whole-text vote can be identified with certainty are all excluded, and the excluded cases are the majority. How individual members voted is discarded at ingestion and never stored, so this service cannot answer questions about it. A document's title is reproduced as Parliament's title, to identify the record; it is not this service's description of the subject, and a vote does not establish that anything the document says is correct.
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