Video of the voting [europa.eu] is available on the EP website.
The agenda item starts at 10:27, and the voting runs from 10:31 to 10:51.
The amendment in question appears to be "Compromise 20", voted on at 10:39, which is indeed rejected by 12 votes to 14.
This was an all-party amendment that the centre-right EPP party then withdrew support from, because they were not entirely happy with the wording, according to one of their MEPs at the start of the meeting. (10:29).
As the video shows, the EP tends to machine-gun through amendment votes, which are held in one swoop after months of discussion.
You really need the papers for the meeting and your preferred faction's voting guide to turn them into an acceptable spectator sport.
One of the extra votes could perhaps have been the chairman's casting vote; but it's not clear how there could have been two.
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a copy of the "Compromise Amendments", including the disputed amendment in question, "Compromise 20". One of the MEPs complains in the video at the end of the agenda item (10:51) that the text of these were only circulated on the night before the meeting.
It's not unusual for new texts to appear as heads get bashed together in the days immediately before the actual voting (in fact, it is an essential part of the system); but in this case they don't appear to have been placed on the website, or at any rate I didn't know where to find them.
The amended report from JURI, consolidating the results of these votes, appears now to have been formally prepared with the document reference A7-0055/2012, though I couldn't find the text of it yet on the Parliament website. This will now go forward for a short debate before the whole parliament, before voting on the amendments proposed by JURI, the amendments proposed by the other two committees, and any other amendments to the Commission text proposed by a sufficient number of MEPs.
Text of Compromise 20 (AMC 20) can be found on page 28 of this document [europa.eu] which I found on publications page of JURI [europa.eu] under "Votes".
Video of the voting (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Video of the voting (Score:5, Informative)
It includes the following documents for this dossier:
* Text proposed by the EU Commission [europa.eu]
* Committee rapporteur's draft report, with her proposed amendments [europa.eu] (1 to 48)
* Amendments proposed by other members of the committee [europa.eu] (49 to 170)
* Opinion of the Culture committee (CULT), and their proposed amendments [europa.eu] (CULT 1 to CULT 55)
* Opinion of the committee on the Internal Market (IMCO), and their proposed amendments [europa.eu] (IMCO 1 to 41).
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a copy of the "Compromise Amendments", including the disputed amendment in question, "Compromise 20". One of the MEPs complains in the video at the end of the agenda item (10:51) that the text of these were only circulated on the night before the meeting.
It's not unusual for new texts to appear as heads get bashed together in the days immediately before the actual voting (in fact, it is an essential part of the system); but in this case they don't appear to have been placed on the website, or at any rate I didn't know where to find them.
The amended report from JURI, consolidating the results of these votes, appears now to have been formally prepared with the document reference A7-0055/2012, though I couldn't find the text of it yet on the Parliament website. This will now go forward for a short debate before the whole parliament, before voting on the amendments proposed by JURI, the amendments proposed by the other two committees, and any other amendments to the Commission text proposed by a sufficient number of MEPs.
Re:Video of the voting (Score:4, Informative)