Parliament adopted the objection to the Commission's delegated act by 388 votes to 248 , with 24 abstentions, formally challenging the trajectory that would reduce the renewable-energy contribution of biofuels, bioliquids and biomass-based fuels judged to carry a high risk of indirect land-use change (ILUC). The resolution was carried by the EPP, ECR, PfE, ESN and most of the NI, alongside a minority of S&D members; the Greens/EFA and The Left voted against, S&D voted mostly against, and Renew was split with a large group of abstentions. As a non-legislative objection, the resolution has no direct legal force of its own, but it is Parliament's formal political position and, if backed by the required majority, is intended to press the Commission to withdraw or revise the delegated act and to reconsider its methodology and observation period for classifying high ILUC-risk feedstocks such as soy. Seven amendments seeking to add further reasoning to the objection — questioning the Commission's modelling, treating EU-grown soy as low-risk, invoking the limits on delegated powers under Article 290 TFEU, and defending first-generation biofuels — were all rejected, each drawing support only from ECR, ESN, PfE and part of the NI while the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and The Left voted them down. The amendment votes divided along a consistent line, with the objection's additional recommendations losing by margins of roughly 250 to 280 votes, before the underlying resolution passed on a different coalition when the EPP and PfE aligned.
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