Abstain votes in Council casted by United Kingdom

This page shows a full list of all the votes concerning acts adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure in the Council of the European Union where United Kingdom voted Abstain. The list is sorted by date. To obtain further information on the different proposals you can look them up in the official EU-database PreLex.

Vote title	Date
 Voting result  Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union action for the European Heritage Label [First reading] (LA) - Adoption (a) of the Council's position (b) of the statement of the Council reasons 3108th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Agriculture/Fisheries) Brussels, Tuesday 19 July 2011	2011-07-20
 Voting result  a) Draft amending budget n° 1 to the general budget for 2011 - Statement of expenditure by Section - Section III - Commission b) Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund  Adoption of the Council position 3076th session of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Economic and Financial Affairs) Brussels, Tuesday 15 March 2011	2011-03-15
 Voting result  Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) n° 377/2004 on the creation of an immigration liaison officers network [First reading]  Adoption of the legislative act 3075th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Environment) Brussels, Monday 14 March 2011	2011-03-15
 Voting result  Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the citizens' initiative (first reading)  Adoption of the legislative act 3066th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Education, Youth, Culture and Sport) Brussels, Monday 14 February 2011	2011-02-14
 Voting result  Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers (first reading)  Adoption of the legislative act 3066th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Education, Youth, Culture and Sport) Brussels, Monday 14 February 2011	2011-02-14
 Voting result  Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation (first reading)  Adoption of – the Council's position at first reading – the statement of reasons 3057th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Competitiveness – Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) Brussels, Friday 10 December 2010	2010-12-15
- Voting result - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006 on establishing a financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (first reading) - Adoption of – the Council's position at first reading – the statement of reasons 3057th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Competitiveness – Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) Brussels, Friday 10 December 2010	2010-12-14
- Voting result - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation (first reading) - Adoption of – the Council's position at first reading – the statement of reasons 3057th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Competitiveness – Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) Brussels, Friday 10 December 2010	2010-12-14
 Voting result  Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity and repealing Directive 86/613/ EEC (second reading) (LA+S) - Approbation of EP amendments  3024th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Transport, Telecommunications and Energy) Luxembourg, 24 June 2010	2010-06-24
 Voting result  Draft amending budget No 4 to the general budget for 2010 - General statement of revenue - Adoption of the Council's position 3021st meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Environment) Luxembourg, Friday 11 June 2010	2010-06-14
 Voting result  Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 concerning general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund as regards simplification of certain requirements and as regards certain provisions relating to financial management (first reading ) (LA + S) - Adoption of the legislative act  3018th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Justice and Home Affairs) Luxembourg, Thursday 3 and Friday 4 June 2010	2010-06-07
- Voting result - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods, amending Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 258/97 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1852/2001 (First reading) - Adoption of (a) the Council's position (b) the statement of the Council reasons - 3002nd meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Environment) Brussels, Monday 15 March 2010	2010-03-22
 Voting result  Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity and repealing Directive 86/613/EEC (First reading)  Adoption of the Council's position  3000th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs) Brussels, Monday 8 March 2010	2010-03-08
- Voting result - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market (First reading) (LA+S) - Adoption of a) the Council's position b) the statement of the Council reasons - 2999th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Competitiveness - Internal Market, Industry and Research) Brussels, 1 and 2 March 2010 This information note sets out the result of the vote on the above–mentioned legislation act, which took place at the aforementioned Council session. Reference documents: 5885/10 AGRI 31 ENV 50 FORETS 17 CODEC 75 DEVGEN 40 RELEX 102 JUR 52 UD 26 WTO 26 PROBA 13 + COR 1 (sv) + COR 2 (de) + COR 3 (de) + REV 1 (cs) + REV 2 (lt) + REV 3 (it) 5885/10 ADD 1 AGRI 31 ENV 50 FORETS 17 CODEC 75 DEVGEN 40 RELEX 102 JUR 52 UD 26 WTO 26 PROBA 13 + ADD 1 REV 1 (fi) 6527/1/10 REV 1 CODEC 121 AGRI 48 ENV 79 FORETS 21 DEVGEN 50 RELEX 138 JUR 96 UD 50 WTO 39 PROBA 14 + ADD 1 REV 1 + ADD 1 REV 1 COR 1 (fi) approved by COREPER, Part 1, on 24.02.10 Any statements and/or explanations of voting are available on the Council website on the internet, under "Documents", "Legislative Transparency", "Summary of Council acts": http://www.consilium.europa.eu. ________________________	2010-03-01
Voting result Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on reciprocal recognition of navigability licences for inland waterway vessels (Codified version) (LA) (First reading) - Adoption of legislative act 2956th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Agriculture and Fisheries) Brussels, Monday 13 July 2009	2009-07-14
Voting result Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods and amending Regulation (EC) No XXX/XXXX [common procedure] (LA) (First reading) - Political agreement 2952nd meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Agriculture) Luxembourg, 22 and 23 June 2009	2009-06-26
Voting result Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 on establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (LA) (First reading) - Adoption of legislative act 2949th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Transport, Telecommunications and Energy)… Luxembourg, 11 June 2009	2009-06-14
Voting result Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (Recast) (LA) (First reading) - Adoption of legislative act 2937th meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Agriculture) Luxembourg, Thursday 23 and Friday 24 April 2009	2009-04-26
Voting result – Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2002/21/EC on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services, 2002/19/EC on access to, and interconnection of electronic communications networks and services, and 2002/20/EC on the authorisation of electronic communications networks and services (LA+S) (First reading) - Adoption (a) of the common position (b) of the statement of the Council''s reasons – 2923rd meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Education, Youth and Culture), Brussels, Monday 16 February 2009	2009-02-17
Voting result Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down Community procedures for the establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 (LA+S) (First reading) – Adoption	2009-01-14
Voting result Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (LA) (first reading)	2008-09-16
Voting result|Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security (LA + S) (Third reading)|Adoption of the legislative act	2008-03-05
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on driving licences (Recast) (LA+S) (First reading)	2006-09-24
Proposal for a Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of minors and human dignity and on the right of reply in relation to the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and on-line information services industry (LA+S) (First reading)	2006-09-20

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