RECOMMENDATION on the draft Decision of the Council of the European Union on the admission of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union

22.11.2011 - (17142/11 – C7-0252/2011 – 2011/0805(NLE)) - ***

Committee on Foreign Affairs
Rapporteur: Hannes Swoboda

Procedure : 2011/0805(NLE)
Document stages in plenary
Document selected :  
A7-0390/2011

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the draft Decision of the Council of the European Union on the admission of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union

(17142/11 – C7-0252/2011 – 2011/0805(NLE))

(Consent)

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the application by the Republic of Croatia to become a member of the European Union,

–   having regard to the request for consent submitted by the Council pursuant to Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union (17142/11 – C7-0252/2011),

–   having regard to the opinion of the Commission (COM(2011)0667),

–   having regard to the draft Treaty concerning the Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, the Protocol and the Final Act,

–   having regard to Rules 74c and 81 of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (A7-0390/2011),

A. whereas the conditions for the admission of the applicant country and the modifications which its accession entails are set out in the draft Treaty concerning the Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, and whereas Parliament should be consulted on any substantial modifications to the draft Treaty,

B.  whereas the Commission must monitor further preparations for accession with rigour and objectivity and help the Croatian authorities to fulfil their commitments and obligations as entered into in the negotiations; whereas the Commission must keep Parliament regularly informed of the extent to which the Croatian authorities honour their commitments in order to fully assume their membership obligations upon accession on 1 July 2013,

1.  Consents to the accession to the European Union of the Republic of Croatia and notably the Council decision accepting the application for accession;

2.  Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, and the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the Republic of Croatia.

RESULT OF FINAL VOTE IN COMMITTEE

Date adopted

17.11.2011

 

 

 

Result of final vote

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65

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Members present for the final vote

Gabriele Albertini, Pino Arlacchi, Bastiaan Belder, Elmar Brok, Arnaud Danjean, Mário David, Michael Gahler, Marietta Giannakou, Ana Gomes, Andrzej Grzyb, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Anna Ibrisagic, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Jelko Kacin, Othmar Karas, Ioannis Kasoulides, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Evgeni Kirilov, Maria Eleni Koppa, Andrey Kovatchev, Paweł Robert Kowal, Eduard Kukan, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Vytautas Landsbergis, Krzysztof Lisek, Sabine Lösing, Ulrike Lunacek, Mario Mauro, Kyriakos Mavronikolas, Francisco José Millán Mon, Alexander Mirsky, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Norica Nicolai, Raimon Obiols, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Alojz Peterle, Bernd Posselt, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Cristian Dan Preda, Fiorello Provera, Tokia Saïfi, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Werner Schulz, Marek Siwiec, Hannes Swoboda, Kristian Vigenin, Boris Zala

Substitute(s) present for the final vote

Charalampos Angourakis, Adam Bielan, Véronique De Keyser, Andrew Duff, Göran Färm, Hélène Flautre, Roberto Gualtieri, Doris Pack, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Helmut Scholz, György Schöpflin, Alf Svensson, Traian Ungureanu, Ivo Vajgl

Substitute(s) under Rule 187(2) present for the final vote

Marije Cornelissen, Rui Tavares, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells