About Check Some Votes

Title. A vote card shows the title of the procedure file in the Parliament's Legislative Observatory (OEIL) when there is one. We look up the procedure behind the document number through the Parliament's open-data API and take its title in all 24 languages. Where no procedure file exists, the title from the roll-call list is shown instead.

Topic tags. The tags below the title are the subject keywords attached to the document. They come from EuroVoc, the EU's multilingual thesaurus; we read them from the document in the open-data API and show them in your language, or in English where there is no translation. A click filters the list by that keyword. We add no tags of our own and do not guess topics from titles.

Place tags. The place tags above the title are not a second source: they are the keywords from the same list that belong to the EuroVoc domain "Geography" (72) of the official thesaurus. Only explicit tags count. We infer no place from the title, from an MEP's country or from broader and narrower terms. Because places have their own row, they are not repeated among the topic tags.

Limits. The tags are only as complete as the Observatory's record. A vote without a place tag simply has none attached; it does not show up under the region filter, and that does not mean it has nothing to do with any place.

Every vote refers to a Parliament document with a number like A10-0226/2026. It is made up of the document type, the parliamentary term (10 = the current one, since 2024), a serial number and the year.

A – Report

The text a committee has prepared for the plenary, including recommendations.

B – Motion for a resolution

Tabled by a committee, a political group or Members, for example to conclude a debate.

C – Other institution

A document from another institution, such as a proposal of the European Commission or a Council text.

RC – Joint motion for a resolution

Replaces several motions on the same subject that groups tabled together. The number starts with RC-.