IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU
Vice-President

16. System of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States * - Compatibility of the German and British tax agreements with Switzerland with the EU savings tax directive (debate)

CRE

Report on the proposal for a Council directive on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States (recast) [COM(2010)0784 - C7-0030/2011- 2010/0387(CNS)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Sven Giegold (A7-0314/2011)

Oral question (O-000229/2011) by Sharon Bowles, on behalf of the ECON Committee, to the Commission: Compatibility of the German and British Tax Agreements with Switzerland with the EU Savings Tax Directive (B7-0635/2011)

Sven Giegold introduced the report and moved the oral question.

Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission) answered the oral question.

The following spoke: Werner Langen, on behalf of the PPE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Sven Giegold, Liem Hoang Ngoc, on behalf of the S&D Group, Olle Schmidt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Werner Langen, Jürgen Klute, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, John Bufton, on behalf of the EFD Group, Astrid Lulling, who also replied to a blue-card question by Werner Langen, Saïd El Khadraoui, Jaroslav Paška and Sławomir Witold Nitras.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu.

The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta and Sven Giegold.

The debate closed.

Vote: 26 October 2011.