RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a programme for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and European statistics (Single Market Programme) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 99/2013, (EU) No 1287/2013, (EU) No 254/2014 and (EU) No 652/2014

26.4.2021 - (14281/1/2020 – C9‑0133/2021 – 2018/0231(COD)) - ***II

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Rapporteur: Brando Benifei

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a programme for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and European statistics (Single Market Programme) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 99/2013, (EU) No 1287/2013, (EU) No 254/2014 and (EU) No 652/2014

(14281/1/2020 – C9‑0133/2021 – 2018/0231(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the Council position at first reading (14281/1/2020 – C9‑0133/2021),

– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 17 October 2018[1] ,

– having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 5 December 2018[2]

– having regard to its position at first reading[3] on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2018)0441),

– having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (A9-0142/2021),

1. Approves the Council position at first reading;

2. Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position;

3. Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

4. Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

5. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

SHORT JUSTIFICATION

On 7 June 2018 the Commission submitted the proposal for a Regulation on establishing a Single Market Programme to the Council and the European Parliament. On 12 February 2019 the European Parliament adopted its first reading position.

 

The interistitutional negotiations started with the newly elected Parliament on 23 October 2019 with a view to reaching an early second reading agreement. They were successfully concluded on 8 December 2020. The provisionally agreed text was confirmed by COREPER on 18 December 2020 and endorsed by the IMCO Committee on 11 January 2021.

 

Since the Council’s first reading position adopted on 13 April 2021 fully reflects the agreement reached in early second reading interinstitutional negotiations, your rapporteur recommends that it be endorsed by the European Parliament without amendments, so that the Regulation can be adopted swiftly and enter into force as soon as possible.

PROCEDURE – COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

Title	Establishing the Programme for single market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and European statistics
References	14281/1/2020 – C9-0133/2021 – 2018/0231(COD)
Date of Parliament’s first reading – P number	12.2.2019 T8-0073/2019
Commission proposal	COM(2018)0441 - C8-0254/2018
Committee responsible  Date announced in plenary	IMCO
Rapporteurs  Date appointed	Brando Benifei 19.6.2018
Previous rapporteurs	Nicola Danti
Discussed in committee	2.12.2020	11.1.2021
Date adopted	26.4.2021
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	40 1 3
Members present for the final vote	Alex Agius Saliba, Andrus Ansip, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Alessandra Basso, Brando Benifei, Adam Bielan, Biljana Borzan, Markus Buchheit, Anna Cavazzini, Dita Charanzová, Deirdre Clune, David Cormand, Carlo Fidanza, Evelyne Gebhardt, Alexandra Geese, Sandro Gozi, Maria Grapini, Svenja Hahn, Virginie Joron, Eugen Jurzyca, Arba Kokalari, Kateřina Konečná, Andrey Kovatchev, Jean-Lin Lacapelle, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Morten Løkkegaard, Adriana Maldonado López, Antonius Manders, Beata Mazurek, Leszek Miller, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Miroslav Radačovský, Christel Schaldemose, Andreas Schwab, Tomislav Sokol, Ivan Štefanec, Róża Thun und Hohenstein, Tom Vandenkendelaere, Kim Van Sparrentak, Marion Walsmann, Marco Zullo
Substitutes present for the final vote	Jordi Cañas, Claude Gruffat

 

FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

40	+
ECR	Adam Bielan, Carlo Fidanza, Beata Mazurek
ID	Alessandra Basso
NI	Miroslav Radačovský
PPE	Pablo Arias Echeverría, Deirdre Clune, Arba Kokalari, Andrey Kovatchev, Antonius Manders, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu, Andreas Schwab, Tomislav Sokol, Ivan Štefanec, Róża Thun und Hohenstein, Tom Vandenkendelaere, Marion Walsmann
Renew	Andrus Ansip, Jordi Cañas, Dita Charanzová, Sandro Gozi, Svenja Hahn, Morten Løkkegaard, Marco Zullo
S&D	Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Biljana Borzan, Evelyne Gebhardt, Maria Grapini, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Adriana Maldonado López, Leszek Miller, Christel Schaldemose
The Left	Kateřina Konečná, Anne-Sophie Pelletier
Verts/ALE	Anna Cavazzini, David Cormand, Alexandra Geese, Claude Gruffat, Kim Van Sparrentak

 

1	-
ECR	Eugen Jurzyca

 

3	0
ID	Markus Buchheit, Virginie Joron, Jean-Lin Lacapelle

 

Key to symbols:

+ : in favour

- : against

0 : abstention

 

 

 

• [1]  OJ C 62, 15.2.2019, p. 40.
• [2]  OJ C 86, 7.3.2019, p. 259.
• [3]  Texts adopted of 12.2.2019, P8_TA(2019)0073