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Javier ZARZALEJOS

Spain Spain EPP – European People's Party Partido Popular

Javier ZARZALEJOS is a Member of the European Parliament from Spain, representing Partido Popular in the European People's Party (EPP) group. In the 10th parliamentary term (2024–2029), Javier has submitted 132 amendments, delivered 50 speeches, authored 5 reports as rapporteur and 1 as shadow rapporteur, asked 16 questions, and filed 5 motions. Vote participation stands at 94.9% (5623 out of 5928 recorded roll-call votes within the Member's mandate period). All counts shown are raw figures from official European Parliament records, not adjusted for mandate length.

Parliamentary Activity

Activity Count EP Avg vs Avg EP Rank Country Group
Amendments 132 811.1 -679 670th/743 56th/60 173rd/193
Speeches 50 44.4 +6 187th/743 26th/60 38th/193
Reports (Rapporteur) 5 0.8 +4 11th/743 1st/60 3rd/193
Reports (Shadow) 1 3.8 -3 464th/743 37th/60 69th/193
Questions 16 39.7 -24 528th/743 49th/60 95th/193
Motions 5 19.6 -15 323rd/743 26th/60 76th/193
Opinions (Rapporteur) 1 0.6 +0 85th/743 11th/60 30th/193
Opinions (Shadow) 0 2.7 -3 490th/743 38th/60 97th/193
Explanations of Vote 0 43.0 -43 394th/743 34th/60 88th/193
Vote Participation 94.9% 86.3% – 185th/745 11th/60 55th/193

Each row orders Members by a single recorded metric; tied values share the same rank. Counts are raw and are not adjusted for mandate length; vote participation is the share of roll-call votes cast within each Member's mandate period. EP Avg = mean across all 745 tracked Members of the 10th term, including former Members. Data: European Parliament term 10 (2024–2029).

Roles and Memberships

Committees

Substitute PECH – Committee on Fisheries
Chair LIBE – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Substitute JURI – Committee on Legal Affairs

Delegations

Member DCAB – Delegation to the Caribbean-EU Parliamentary Assembly
Member DACP – Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Substitute DLAT – Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

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Committees and delegations

Javier ZARZALEJOS holds the committee and delegation roles listed below in the 10th term (2024–2029).

Committees

  • Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI): Substitute, since 2024-09-16. Attended 3 of 37 committee meetings held during the membership
  • Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE): Chair, since 2024-07-23. Attended 31 of 36 committee meetings held during the membership
  • Committee on Fisheries (PECH): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 0 of 29 committee meetings held during the membership

Delegations

  • Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP): Member, since 2024-09-19
  • Delegation to the Caribbean-EU Parliamentary Assembly (DCAB): Member, since 2024-09-19
  • Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT): Substitute, since 2025-05-19

Reports and opinions

Reports as rapporteur

All 5, most recent first.

  • 2026-02-25 A10-0027/2026 REPORT on the appointment of the European Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (LIBE)
  • 2025-12-15 A10-0267/2025 REPORT on the proposal for the appointment of a Member of the Executive Board of the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (ECON, LIBE)
  • 2025-07-24 A10-0152/2025 REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1727 as regards the extension of the timeframe for the establishment of the Eurojust case management system (LIBE)
  • 2024-12-17 A10-0032/2024 REPORT on the proposal for the appointment of the Chair of the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (ECON, LIBE)
  • 2024-03-25 A9-0157/2024 REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA (FEMM, LIBE)

Reports as shadow rapporteur

All 1, most recent first.

  • 2026-03-03 A10-0040/2026 REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application (LIBE)

Opinions as rapporteur

All 1, most recent first.

  • 2026-06-24 LIBE_AD(2026)786702 OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 (LIBE)

Amendments by procedure

Procedures with the most amendments Javier ZARZALEJOS has tabled as author or co-author in the 10th term. Amendments are counted per procedure reference.

  • 2025/2239(INI): 36 amendments, latest 2025-12-15 (LIBE)
    EP document title: REPORT on the Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report
  • 2023/0439(COD): 35 amendments, latest 2025-04-30 (LIBE)
  • 2025/2060(INI): 19 amendments, latest 2025-07-10 (IMCO)
    EP document title: REPORT on the protection of minors online
  • 2024/2078(INI): 15 amendments, latest 2025-02-19 (LIBE)
    EP document title: REPORT on the Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law Report
  • 2024/0035(COD): 9 amendments, latest 2024-11-15 (LIBE)
    EP document title: REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)

Questions, motions and explanations of vote

Records as published on the European Parliament website, including co-signed texts. Each list says how far its records reach.

Written questions

All 15, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-09.

  • 2026-09-04 Direct applicability of the regulations comprising the Migration and Asylum Pact (P-10-2026-003509)
  • 2026-08-27 Urgent enhancement of maritime surveillance, European cooperation to tackle the use of high-powered vessels by criminal human and drug trafficking networks (E-10-2026-003351)
  • 2026-07-13 Missing and runaway children as an indicator of violence, abuse and grooming (E-10-2026-002868)
  • 2026-07-09 Mass granting of Spanish citizenship by descent, document authenticity and governance of the Schengen area (E-10-2026-002849)
  • 2026-07-09 Document fraud in extraordinary regularisation processes and protecting the integrity of the Schengen area (E-10-2026-002850)
  • 2026-06-24 Timeline and scope of the forthcoming simplification package on fisheries legislation to support the competitiveness of the EU fleet (E-10-2026-002596)
  • 2026-06-04 Possible misappropriation of campaign funds for the 2024 European Parliament elections (E-10-2026-002309)
  • 2026-05-27 Politicians and senior officials’ corruption and incompatibilities within the rule of law in Spain (E-10-2026-002151)
  • 2026-05-11 Improving security at the EU’s southern border in the face of criminal networks (E-10-2026-001936)
  • 2026-03-13 Simplifying cross-border sales in the internal market (E-10-2026-001058)
  • 2026-01-29 Extraordinary regularisation of immigrants in Spain (E-10-2026-000366)
  • 2025-03-13 Impact of national restrictions on strategic autonomy and uranium supply in the EU (E-10-2025-001097)
  • 2025-01-24 Nuclear energy in the European Union (E-10-2025-000320)
  • 2025-01-23 Potential security risks and geopolitical implications of the Iran-Venezuela alliance for the EU (E-10-2025-000309)
  • 2024-09-17 EU action in relation to migration pressure on the Canary Islands (P-10-2024-001727)

Questions for oral answer

All 1, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-07.

Motions for resolutions

All 5, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-11.

  • 2026-06-10 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the recruitment of children by organised crime (B-10-2026-0275)
  • 2026-05-13 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (B-10-2026-0245)
  • 2025-12-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the European citizens’ initiative entitled ‘My Voice, My Choice: For Safe and Accessible Abortion’ (B-10-2025-0557)
  • 2025-07-02 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation of 10 June 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add Algeria, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Monaco, Namibia, Nepal and Venezuela to the list of high-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with the FATF, and to remove Barbados, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, Uganda an (B-10-2025-0318)
  • 2025-01-22 JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages

Comparison with group and country means

Counts of Javier ZARZALEJOS set against the mean of all Members of the EP, of the European People's Party group and of the Members from Spain. The word in brackets says whether the count is higher than, lower than or equal to that mean.

ActivityCountEP meanEPP meanSpain mean
Amendments132811.1 (lower)732.9 (lower)1021.3 (lower)
Speeches5044.4 (higher)40.8 (higher)57.2 (lower)
Reports (Rapporteur)50.8 (higher)1.0 (higher)0.9 (higher)
Reports (Shadow)13.8 (lower)1.5 (lower)2.8 (lower)
Questions1639.7 (lower)21.4 (lower)44.5 (lower)
Motions519.6 (lower)23.1 (lower)12.1 (lower)
Opinions (Rapporteur)10.6 (higher)0.7 (higher)0.7 (higher)
Opinions (Shadow)02.7 (lower)1.3 (lower)2.1 (lower)
Explanations of Vote043.0 (lower)31.5 (lower)49.8 (lower)
Vote Participation94.9%86.3% (higher)86.1% (higher)86.7% (higher)

Means are taken over all tracked Members of the 10th term, former Members included. Counts are raw and not adjusted for mandate length.