During their plenary session on Thursday 14 June, MEPs gave their support (353 votes in favour, 257 votes against, with 26 abstentions) to the result of Parliament's transport committee vote on 24 May last on hiring driverless vehicles (see EUROPE 12026).
Although the compromise amendments to the report by Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar (EPP, Portugal) had effectively been approved by the transport committee, the rapporteur had been unable to obtain a mandate for the inter-institutional negotiations with the Council of the EU (‘trialogues’), due to the lack of a necessary majority. The report will therefore need to be submitted to Parliament's plenary session before being ratified.
It was indeed the text voted for on 24 May that had been retained because the amendments jointly submitted by the S&D and Greens/EFA did not receive support from Parliament. Ms Monteiro de Aguiar now has a mandate to negotiate. (Original version in French by Lucas Tripoteau)