Committee on Transport and Tourism Extraordinary meeting
22 October 2026
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TRAN European Parliament
Follow its sittings03:45 - 04:27
Speaker 3
Okay. Let's let's start. Please take your seat and let's let's let's start our meeting so that we are on time for the votes and for announcement of the Sakharov Prize. Okay, dear colleagues, I'd like to welcome you all to this extraordinary TRAN committee meeting. Due to a prior important commitment, the chair can unfortunately not be here today, so it's my pleasure to to replace her.
04:27 - 04:31
Speaker 1
Roman, you want to have your minute now or you will give me a little bit?
04:31 - 04:34
Speaker 2
I want to I want to raise a point of order.
04:34 - 04:48
Speaker 3
Okay. Good. Okay. Good. Please, you have a minute for the point of order.
04:48 - 05:23
Speaker 5
Yeah, thank you. I raise a point of order under Rule 202 of the Rules of Procedure. Rule 190, paragraph 2, clearly states if two or more mutually exclusive amendments have been tabled to the same part of a text, the amendment that departs furthest from the original text shall have priority and shall be put to the vote first. However, the voting list before us shows a different order. I understand that the chair has invoked Rule 190, paragraph 3, that allows him to change the order.
05:23 - 06:14
Speaker 4
However, that paragraph 3 is a provision, provision intended solely to facilitate a quicker and more orderly vote. This rule must not be used to grant political preferential treatment to particular amendments. Applying it on political rather than purely procedural grounds leads the provision ad absurdum and actively undermines its very purpose. Since the voting list makes it clear that that change of the rules does not facilitate an orderly vote, I therefore formally request that the voting order be revised so that it fully complies with the Rules of Procedure and that the amendment which departs furthest from the original text is put to the vote first.
I further request that my intervention and your response and explanation for your change of order is recorded in the minutes.
06:14 - 07:53
Speaker 3
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you for request. Anyone else? No.
Let me then reply. Dear Roman, dear colleagues, the voting list on our opinion on CO2 standards for cars has been prepared observing the established TRAN working practices and the existing rules as per the Parliament's rules of procedure. The general line is that as for normal amendments, the order of vote between original and alternative compromises follows the principle of voting first the one departing furthest from the Commission text.
However, and in this case of doubt or in case where that would facilitate the vote, a chair have according to the rules and specifically rule 190, exactly, paragraphs 2 and 3, the final authority to decide on the order of amendments in the voting list. And the chair received a request from the rapporteur to use an order for the compromises and alternatives on the basis of which one secures highest majority, which would ultimately facilitate the vote on this opinion, and I have therefore decided to follow that line, which is fully in compliance with the rules. And this would not be the first time that we actually follow that line, like for instance the vote on the driving license. Now we can proceed. Thank you very much.
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