7. Consumer product safety ***I - Market surveillance of products ***I - Protection of consumers in utilities services (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on consumer product safety and repealing Council Directive 87/357/EEC and Directive 2001/95/EC [COM(2013)0078 - C7-0042/2013 - 2013/0049(COD)] - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Rapporteur: Christel Schaldemose (A7-0355/2013)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on market surveillance of products and amending Council Directives 89/686/EEC and 93/15/EEC, and Directives 94/9/EC, 94/25/EC, 95/16/EC, 97/23/EC, 1999/5/EC, 2000/9/EC, 2000/14/EC, 2001/95/EC, 2004/108/EC, 2006/42/EC, 2006/95/EC, 2007/23/EC, 2008/57/EC, 2009/48/EC, 2009/105/EC, 2009/142/EC, 2011/65/EU, Regulation (EU) No 305/2011, Regulation (EC) No 764/2008 and Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council [COM(2013)0075 - C7-0043/2013 - 2013/0048(COD)] - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Rapporteur: Sirpa Pietikäinen (A7-0346/2013)

Report on consumer protection – protection of consumers in utilities services [2013/2153(INI)] - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Rapporteur: Josef Weidenholzer (A7-0163/2014)

Christel Schaldemose, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Josef Weidenholzer presented their reports.

The following spoke: Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission) and Neven Mimica (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: George Sabin Cutaş (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Cristiana Muscardini (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Patrizia Toia (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Jiří Maštálka (rapporteur for the opinion of the JURI Committee), Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, on behalf of the PPE Group, Evelyne Gebhardt, on behalf of the S&D Group, Michael Theurer, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Heide Rühle, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ashley Fox, on behalf of the ECR Group, Matteo Salvini, on behalf of the EFD Group, Andrew Henry William Brons, Non-attached Member, Andreas Schwab, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Eduard-Raul Hellvig, Isabelle Durant, Malcolm Harbour, Claudio Morganti, Franz Obermayr, Catherine Stihler, Olle Schmidt, who also replied to a blue-card question by Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Edvard Kožušník, who also replied to a blue-card question by Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Sylvana Rapti, Niccolò Rinaldi, Pablo Arias Echeverría, María Irigoyen Pérez and Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Lara Comi, Phil Prendergast, Salvatore Iacolino, Ruža Tomašić, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris and Zofija Mazej Kukovič.

The following spoke: Neven Mimica, Antonio Tajani, Christel Schaldemose, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Josef Weidenholzer.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 15.4.2014, item 17.5,, minutes of 15.4.2014, item 17.6 and minutes of 15.4.2014, item 8.2.

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The following spoke: Nicole Sinclaire, on the 25th anniversary of the disaster at Hillsborough football stadium in England.

IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ
President

The following spoke: Michael Cashman, to announce his resignation as Chair of the Conference of Delegation Chairs, following the decision adopted by the Conference of Presidents (the President took note of his resignation and, while regretting this, emphasised that the decision had been a unanimous one).