RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading for adopting a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision No 573/2007/EC establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2008 to 2013 by removing funding for certain Community actions and altering the limit for funding such actions

12.4.2010 - (16627/1/2009 – C7‑0051/2010 – 2009/0026(COD)) - ***II

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Rapporteur: Claude Moraes

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the Council position at first reading for adopting a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision No 573/2007/EC establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2008 to 2013 by removing funding for certain Community actions and altering the limit for funding such actions

(16627/1/2009 – C7‑0051/2010 – 2009/0026(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the Council position at first reading (16627/1/2009 – C7‑0051/2010),

–   having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2009)0067),

–   having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 63, first paragraph, point (2)(b) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0070/2009),

–   having regard to its position at first reading[1],

–   having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council entitled "Consequences of the entry into fore of the Treaty of Lisbon for ongoing interinstitutional decision-making procedures" (COM(2009)0665),

–   having regard to Article 294(7) and Article 78(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

–   having regard to Rule 72 of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A7‑0117/2010),

1.  Approves the Council's position;

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

3.  Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council pursuant to 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, to the Commission and to the national Parliaments.

• [1]       Texts adopted, 7.5.2009, P7_TA(2009)0375.

PROCEDURE

Title	European Refugee Fund for the period 2008-2013 (amendment of Decision No 573/2007/EC)
References	16627/1/2009 – C7-0051/2010 – 2009/0026(COD)
Date of Parliament’s first reading – P number	7.5.2009                     T6-0375/2009
Commission proposal	COM(2009)0067 - C6-0070/2009
Date receipt of common position announced in plenary	11.3.2010
Committee responsible        Date announced in plenary	LIBE 11.3.2010
Rapporteur(s)        Date appointed	Claude Moraes 16.3.2010
Discussed in committee	16.3.2010		8.4.2010
Date adopted	8.4.2010
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	41 4 0
Members present for the final vote	Jan Philipp Albrecht, Roberta Angelilli, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Louis Bontes, Rita Borsellino, Simon Busuttil, Philip Claeys, Carlos Coelho, Cornelis de Jong, Cornelia Ernst, Hélène Flautre, Nathalie Griesbeck, Sylvie Guillaume, Anna Hedh, Salvatore Iacolino, Sophia in ‘t Veld, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Timothy Kirkhope, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Baroness Sarah Ludford, Clemente Mastella, Véronique Mathieu, Nuno Melo, Louis Michel, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jacek Protasiewicz, Carmen Romero López, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Sógor, Renate Sommer, Rui Tavares, Valdemar Tomaševski, Wim van de Camp, Axel Voss, Renate Weber, Tatjana Ždanoka
Substitute(s) present for the final vote	Elena Oana Antonescu, Michael Cashman, Ioan Enciu, Nadja Hirsch, Jean Lambert, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Mariya Nedelcheva, Cecilia Wikström