The resolution calls on EU member states to sign and ratify the Convention before 1 August, to promote the Convention among states that have not joined; to implement the Convention and provide assistance to other states to implement it; not to support a cluster munitions protocol to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) that would be incompatible with the Convention on Cluster Munitions; to consider that the ban on cluster munitions should be a standard clause in agreements with third countries, alongside the one on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to participate in the First Meeting of States Parties, which will be hosted in Lao PDR in November 2010.

Twenty out of 27 EU member states have signed the Convention and 11 have already ratified, including Belgium, which assumed the rotating six-month EU presidency on 1 July. The nine EU member states that have signed but not yet ratified are: Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Hungary; Italy; Lithuania; the Netherlands; Portugal; and Sweden. The seven that have not yet signed are: Estonia; Finland; Greece; Latvia; Poland; Romania; and Slovakia.
 
The resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of 558 votes to 30 (mainly from Finnish and Polish Members of the European Parliament), with 24 abstentions (mainly from Romanian Members of the European Parliament).