RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Arrangement between the European Union and the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation on the participation by those States in the work of the committees which assist the European Commission in the exercise of its executive powers as regards the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis

13.1.2012 - (07763/2010 – C7‑0272/2011 – 2009/0168(NLE)) - ***

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Rapporteur: Timothy Kirkhope

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Arrangement between the European Union and the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation on the participation by those States in the work of the committees which assist the European Commission in the exercise of its executive powers as regards the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis

(07763/2010 – C7‑0272/2011 – 2009/0168(NLE))

(Consent)

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the draft Council decision (07763/2010),

–   having regard to the draft Arrangement between the European Union and the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation on the participation by those States in the work of the committees which assist the European Commission in the exercise of its executive powers as regards the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (07763/2010) and to the corrigendum to Article 5(1), footnote 1 of the Arrangement (13573/2011),

–   having regard to the request for consent submitted by the Council in accordance with Articles 74, 77, 79 and point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 218(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (C7‑0272/2011),

–   having regard to Rules 81 and 90(7) of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the recommendation of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A7-0013/2012),

1.  Consents to the conclusion of the Arrangement;

2.  Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States and of the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation.

RESULT OF FINAL VOTE IN COMMITTEE

Date adopted	12.1.2012
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	50 0 0
Members present for the final vote	Jan Philipp Albrecht, Sonia Alfano, Roberta Angelilli, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Arkadiusz Tomasz Bratkowski, Philip Claeys, Frank Engel, Kinga Gál, Kinga Göncz, Nathalie Griesbeck, Sylvie Guillaume, Salvatore Iacolino, Sophia in ‘t Veld, Lívia Járóka, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Timothy Kirkhope, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Svetoslav Hristov Malinov, Véronique Mathieu, Anthea McIntyre, Nuno Melo, Louis Michel, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Georgios Papanikolaou, Carmen Romero López, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Sógor, Renate Sommer, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Wim van de Camp, Axel Voss, Renate Weber, Josef Weidenholzer, Auke Zijlstra
Substitute(s) present for the final vote	Elena Oana Antonescu, Michael Cashman, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Ioan Enciu, Nadja Hirsch, Stanimir Ilchev, Franziska Keller, Jean Lambert, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Mariya Nedelcheva, Hubert Pirker, Zuzana Roithová, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Kārlis Šadurskis, Bogusław Sonik, Cecilia Wikström