Committees and delegations

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

Committees

• Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET): Member, since 2024-07-19. Attended 24 of 41 committee meetings held during the membership
• Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 3 of 39 committee meetings held during the membership
• Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 1 of 20 committee meetings held during the membership
• Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 8 of 37 committee meetings held during the membership
• Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE): Member, since 2025-01-23. Attended 27 of 39 committee meetings held during the membership

Delegations

• Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP): Member, since 2024-09-19
• Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly (DAFR): Member, since 2024-09-19
• Delegation for relations with Palestine (DPAL): Substitute, since 2024-09-19

Reports and opinions

Reports as shadow rapporteur

Most recent 5 of 12.

• 2026-06-29 A10-0188/2026 REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) (ITRE, SEDE)
• 2026-02-27 A10-0035/2026 REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning an enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the light of the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereignty (AFET)
• 2026-02-10 A10-0014/2026 REPORT on flagship European defence projects of common interest (SEDE)
• 2026-01-28 A10-0005/2026 REPORT on EU strategic defence and security partnerships (SEDE)
• 2025-12-19 A10-0273/2025 REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EC) No 1907/2006, (EC) No 1272/2008, (EU) No 528/2012, (EU) 2019/1021 and (EU) 2021/697 as regards defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for defence industry (ENVI, ITRE, SEDE)

Opinions as shadow rapporteur

Most recent 5 of 6.

• 2026-06-30 SEDE_AD(2026)785116 OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response, and repealing Decision No 1313/2013/EU (Union Civil Protection Mechanism) (SEDE)
• 2026-06-24 SEDE_AD(2026)787638 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 (SEDE)
• 2026-04-09 SEDE_AD(2026)782488 OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695 (SEDE)
• 2025-12-08 ECON_AD(2025)778114 OPINION on tackling barriers to the single market for defence (ECON)
• 2025-11-07 ECON_AD(2025)778091 OPINION on European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needs (ECON)

Amendments by procedure

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

• 2025/0555(COD): 147 amendments, latest 2026-05-19 (ITRE)
  EP document title: OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Competitiveness Fund ('ECF’), including the specific programme for defence research and innovation activities, repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/522, (EU) 2021/694, (EU) 2021/697, (EU) 2021/783, and amending Regulations (EU) 2021/696, (EU) 2023/588, (EU)
• 2024/0061(COD): 73 amendments, latest 2025-03-31 (AFET)
  EP document title: REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’)
• 2024/2080(INI): 39 amendments, latest 2024-11-08 (AFET)
  EP document title: REPORT on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy – 2024 annual report
• 2025/2164(INI): 33 amendments, latest 2025-10-01 (AFET)
  EP document title: REPORT on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025
• 2025/0176(COD): 25 amendments, latest 2025-10-29 (SEDE, ENVI, ITRE)
  EP document title: REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EC) No 1907/2006, (EC) No 1272/2008, (EU) No 528/2012, (EU) 2019/1021 and (EU) 2021/697 as regards defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for defence industry

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

Most recent 20 of 73. Records up to 2026-09-09.

• 2026-08-03 Safeguards against perceived conflicts of interest in appointments to the CJEU (E-10-2026-003191)
• 2026-07-16 Urgent appeal for the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya (E-10-2026-003029)
• 2026-07-14 State of play of negotiations on the agreement on the exchange of personal data between Europol and Israel (E-10-2026-002925)
• 2026-07-07 Transparency regarding EU-funded infrastructure destroyed in Gaza (E-10-2026-002805)
• 2026-06-29 Is the EU complicit in the US war of aggression against Iran? (E-10-2026-002694)
• 2026-06-26 Horizon Europe: legal basis for the suspension announcement of 4 March 2022 (E-10-2026-002657)
• 2026-06-26 Suspension of cooperation and payments or termination of Israeli participation in Horizon Europe (E-10-2026-002658)
• 2026-06-26 Horizon Europe: attribution of state conduct to beneficiaries and participating entities (E-10-2026-002659)
• 2026-06-26 Horizon Europe: consistency between the Commission’s position on attribution of state conduct and the proposed suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement (E-10-2026-002660)
• 2026-06-26 Horizon Europe: case-by-case assessment versus general suspension of payments to Russian entities between 4 March and 8 April 2022 (E-10-2026-002661)
• 2026-06-18 Procedural irregularities surrounding the case of the ‘Ulm 5’ activists in Germany (E-10-2026-002533)
• 2026-06-17 Albania: defending ecosystems against Trump family mega-projects (E-10-2026-002497)
• 2026-06-17 Request that the Commission publish evidence pertaining to the non-activation of the Blocking Statute (E-10-2026-002520)
• 2026-06-16 Visa ban for (ex-)combatants of armed forces implicated in serious violations (E-10-2026-002483)
• 2026-06-03 Commission’s position on EU-Philippines relations following the Toboso massacre (E-10-2026-002279)
• 2026-06-01 Action by EU Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič regarding trade restrictions on goods from illegal Israeli settlements (E-10-2026-002215)
• 2026-04-21 Customs practices related to products imported from illegal Israeli settlements in the OPTs (E-10-2026-001633)
• 2026-04-13 Executive order by the Trump administration against Cuba and human rights (E-10-2026-001489)
• 2026-04-08 EU response to Knesset legislation on death penalty (E-10-2026-001406)
• 2026-04-08 Latest report of the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and on human rights violations by Israel (E-10-2026-001417)

Questions for oral answer

All 11, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-07.

• 2026-06-25 The recent coercive measures imposed by the United States against Cuba, their extraterritorial nature and the measures to be adopted to defend the interests of individuals and companies from EU countries (O-10-2026-000029)
• 2026-03-20 Transfer of European citizens’ biometric data to the Trump administration (O-10-2026-000015)
• 2026-03-09 Public procurement and deaths at work: choosing the best bidder in social terms and making social rights and safety at work a condition for access to contracts (O-10-2026-000011)
• 2026-01-28 Addressing the gender health gap in the new research and innovation programme (FP10) (O-10-2026-000004)
• 2025-09-22 US blockade against Cuba and the country’s inclusion on the US list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism (O-10-2025-000032)
• 2025-09-22 US blockade against Cuba and the country’s inclusion on the US list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism (O-10-2025-000033)
• 2025-05-28 EU-Israel Association Agreement (O-10-2025-000019)
• 2025-05-10 EU response to Israel’s planned illegal annexation and starvation of Gaza (O-10-2025-000015)
• 2025-02-18 Cuba on the so-called ‘list of state sponsors of terrorism’ (O-10-2025-000006)
• 2025-02-18 Cuba on the so-called ‘list of state sponsors of terrorism’ (O-10-2025-000007)
• 2024-11-26 ICC arrest warrants issued on 21 November 2024 (O-10-2024-000016)

Motions for resolutions

All 14, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-11.

• 2026-07-01 PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION requesting the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations to verify whether Europe of Sovereign Nations Party complies with the conditions laid down in Article 3(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445 (B-10-2026-0338)
• 2026-06-15 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Continued crackdown on civic space and fundamental freedoms in Burkina Faso (B-10-2026-0303)
• 2026-06-12 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (B-10-2026-0289)
• 2026-01-19 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the brutal repression against protesters in Iran (B-10-2026-0069)
• 2026-01-14 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION seeking an opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Common Market of the South, the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, of the other part, and the proposed Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union, of the one part, and the Common Market (B-10-2026-0060)
• 2025-11-24 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Escalating repression of the Baha'is in Iran (B-10-2025-0509)
• 2025-11-19 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation of 3 November 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1818 as regards the definition of prohibited weapons (B-10-2025-0499)
• 2025-11-05 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION seeking an opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Agreement on Digital Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore (B-10-2025-0479)
• 2025-10-20 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit (B-10-2025-0472)
• 2025-09-15 MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION (B-10-2025-0402)
• 2025-09-08 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (B-10-2025-0369)
• 2025-03-05 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the white paper on the future of European defence (B-10-2025-0144)
• 2025-02-11 JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 2025-02-10 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (B-10-2025-0102)

Individual motions for resolutions

All 2, most recent first. Records up to 2026-06-11.

• 2026-05-19 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on holding Israel to account for breaches of human rights and international law (B-10-2026-0267)
• 2025-04-02 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement (B-10-2025-0240)

Written explanations of vote

20 of 223, in alphabetical order. The EP lists explanations of vote without dates.

• 2023 and 2024 reports on Ukraine
• 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text
• 2025 Commission report on Ukraine
• A new vision for the European Universities alliances
• A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world
• Addressing impunity through EU sanctions, including the EU Global Human Rights sanctions regime (so-called “EU Magnitsky Act”)
• Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights
• Addressing transnational repression of human rights defenders
• Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America
• Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America
• Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road of 29 June 2022
• Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties
• Amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements
• Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism
• Amending short-stay visas regulation (EU) 2018/1806) as regards Vanuatu
• Amending the decision of 18 December 2024 on setting up a special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union, extending its term of office and adjusting its responsibilities
• Amendment of the EIB's Statute
• Amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation as regards securities financing transactions under the net stable funding ratio
• Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept
• Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

Comparison with group and country means

Counts of Marc BOTENGA set against the mean of all Members of the EP, of the The Left in the European Parliament group and of the Members from Belgium. The word in brackets says whether the count is higher than, lower than or equal to that mean.

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