– Before the vote on Amendment 271:

  Franziska Katharina Brantner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, the amendment reads as follows: ‘for the purpose of this Regulation, “financial instruments” shall mean Union measures of financial support provided from the budget where authorised in the main sector-specific basic act, in order to address one or more specific policy objectives...’.

(The oral amendment was accepted)

– Before the vote on the legislative resolution:

  Ingeborg Gräßle, rapporteur. – (DE) Mr President, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of this House and with the agreement of the groups, I request that this matter be referred back to committee.

  Janusz Lewandowski, Member of the Commission. − Mr President, we agree, and once again I would like to express my appreciation of the dedication of the rapporteurs, Ms Gräßle and Mr Rivellini, for their work on this very complex, technically difficult dossier.

(The request to refer the report back to committee was accepted)