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Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament
8th parliamentary term - March 2019
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CONTENTS
APPENDIX
NOTE TO THE READER
COMPENDIUM OF THE MAIN LEGAL ACTS RELATED TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE

TITLE VII : SESSIONS
CHAPTER 5 : QUORUM, AMENDMENTS AND VOTING

Rule 169 : Tabling and presenting amendments (1)

1.   Amendments for consideration in Parliament may be tabled by the committee responsible, a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold. The names of all co-signatories shall be published.

Amendments shall be tabled in writing and signed by their authors.

Amendments to proposals for legally binding acts may be accompanied by a short justification. Such justifications shall be the responsibility of the author and shall not be put to the vote.

2.   Subject to the limitations laid down in Rule 170, an amendment may seek to change any part of a text. It may be directed to deleting, adding or replacing words or figures.

In this Rule and Rule 170, the term "text" means the whole of a motion for a resolution/draft legislative resolution, of a proposal for a decision or of a proposal for a legally binding act.

3.   The President shall set a deadline for the tabling of amendments.

4.   An amendment may be presented during the debate by its author or by any other Member appointed by the author to replace him or her.

5.   Where an amendment is withdrawn by its author, it shall fall unless it is immediately taken over by another Member.

6.   Amendments shall be put to the vote only after they have been made available in all the official languages, unless Parliament decides otherwise. Parliament may not decide otherwise if at least 40 Members object. Parliament shall avoid taking decisions which would place Members who use a particular language at an unacceptable disadvantage.

Where fewer than 100 Members are present, Parliament may not decide otherwise if at least one tenth of the Members present object.

On a proposal from the President, an oral amendment, or any other oral modification, shall be treated in the same way as an amendment not made available in all the official languages. If the President considers that it is admissible under Rule 170(2), and save in the case of objection under Rule 169(6), it shall be put to the vote in accordance with the order of voting established.

In committee, the number of votes needed to object to such an amendment or such a modification is established on the basis of Rule 209 proportionally to that applicable in plenary, rounded up, where necessary, to the nearest complete number.

(1) Rule 169 applies mutatis mutandis to committees (see Rule 209).
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