(The sitting was suspended at 20.35 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

16. Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis - Assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men and forward looking recommendations - Charter for Women's Rights - follow up (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis [2009/2204(INI)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Rapporteur: Raül Romeva i Rueda (A7-0155/2010)

Report on assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men, and forward-looking recommendations [2009/2242(INI)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Rapporteur: Ilda Figueiredo (A7-0156/2010)

Oral question (O-0059/2010) by Zita Gurmai and Britta Thomsen, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ilda Figueiredo and Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Antonyia Parvanova, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Marije Cornelissen, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, to the Commission: Charter for Women's Rights - follow up (B7-0305/2010)

Raül Romeva i Rueda and Ilda Figueiredo introduced the reports.

Zita Gurmai, Eva-Britt Svensson, Antonyia Parvanova and Marije Cornelissen moved the oral question.

The following spoke: Isabel Martínez Lozano (President-in-Office of the Council) and Viviane Reding (Vice-President of the Commission), who answered the oral question.

The following spoke: Lívia Járóka, on behalf of the PPE Group, Edite Estrela, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Marina Yannakoudakis, on behalf of the ECR Group, Charalampos Angourakis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Angelika Werthmann, Non-attached Member, Barbara Matera, Iratxe García Pérez, Siiri Oviir, Krisztina Morvai, Anna Záborská and Marc Tarabella.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Roberta Angelilli, Olga Sehnalová, Regina Bastos, Rovana Plumb, Seán Kelly, Silvia Costa, Elisabeth Köstinger, Evelyn Regner, Mariya Nedelcheva, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Hella Ranner and Karin Kadenbach.

The following spoke: Isabel Martínez Lozano, Viviane Reding, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Ilda Figueiredo.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 16.6.2010, item 7.6 and minutes of 16.6.2010, item 7.7.