Every amendment put to the vote on 17 June 2026 was rejected, each by a comfortable margin of at least 63 votes. The winning coalition on all twelve votes was the same: EPP, PfE, Renew and ECR voted against, while S&D, The Left, Greens/EFA and most non-attached members voted in favour. The text therefore passes to the next stage without any of these additions. All twelve amendments sought to add or tighten traceability, detection-method and labelling requirements for plants obtained by new genomic techniques (NGTs). The defeated amendments would have inserted explicit sampling and quantification methods for category 1 NGT plants into Articles 6, 7, 9 and 27; broadened product labelling from reproductive material alone to all products containing NGT material; mandated document-based traceability codes at every market stage; and added recitals emphasising the importance of validated detection methods for consumer confidence and enforcement. Because none of these changes was adopted, the underlying legislative text remains as agreed without these additions. This vote takes place at second reading of an ordinary legislative procedure, meaning Parliament's position has direct legal significance in the co-decision process with the Council. Although this dossier is listed as a non-legislative own-initiative context in framing, the underlying file is a legislative regulation in the making, so the rejection of these amendments removes them from Parliament's second-reading position and narrows the scope of the traceability and labelling framework that will be forwarded. The consistent coalition pattern across all twelve votes — with EPP, PfE and Renew aligned against, and S&D, The Left and Greens/EFA in favour — revealed a stable left-right division of views on how strictly NGT plants should be tracked and labelled, with the political centre and right preferring the existing text over the proposed additions.
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