RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport, and amending Directive 2009/16/EC

31.3.2015 - (17086/1/2014 – C8-0072/2015 – 2013/0224(COD)) - ***II

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Rapporteur: José Inácio Faria

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport, and amending Directive 2009/16/EC

(17086/1/2014 – C8-0072/2015 – 2013/0224(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

–       having regard to the Council position at first reading (17086/1/2014 – C8-0072/2015),

–       having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 16 October 2013[1],

–       having regard to its position at first reading[2] on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2013)0480),

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

–       having regard to Rule 76 of its Rules of Procedure,

–       having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A8-0122/2015),

1.      Approves the Council position at first reading;

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

3.      Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with 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, the Commission and the national parliaments.

• [1]               OJ C 67, 6.3.2014, p. 70.
• [2]               Texts adopted of 16 April 2014, P7_TA(2014)0424.

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This proposal introduces a system for monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport.

The Parliament adopted its first reading position on 16 April 2014. On 24 September 2014 the ENVI Committee took the decision according to Rule 74 of the Rules of Procedure to open inter-institutional negotiations. The Parliament's and Council's negotiating teams, with the participation of the Commission, reached an informal agreement on the file on 18 November 2014. The text of the agreement was presented to the ENVI Committee for a vote of approval on 3 December 2014, and was approved by an overwhelming majority. Following legal-linguistic verification, Council adopted its first reading position confirming the agreement on 5 March 2015.

As Council's first reading position is in conformity with the agreement reached in the trilogues, your Rapporteur recommends to the Committee to accept it without further amendments.

PROCEDURE

Title	Monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport and amendment of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013
References	17086/1/2014 – C8-0072/2015 – 2013/0224(COD)
Date of Parliament’s first reading – P number	16.4.2014                     T7-0424/2014
Commission proposal	COM(2013)0480 - C7-0201/2013
Receipt of Council position at first reading announced in plenary	12.3.2015
Committee responsible        Date announced in plenary	ENVI 12.3.2015
Rapporteurs        Date appointed	José Inácio Faria 5.9.2013
Discussed in committee	18.3.2015
Date adopted	26.3.2015
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	58 0 3
Members present for the final vote	Marco Affronte, Margrete Auken, Zoltán Balczó, Catherine Bearder, Ivo Belet, Biljana Borzan, Nessa Childers, Alberto Cirio, Birgit Collin-Langen, Miriam Dalli, Seb Dance, Angélique Delahaye, Ian Duncan, Stefan Eck, Bas Eickhout, Eleonora Evi, José Inácio Faria, Karl-Heinz Florenz, Iratxe García Pérez, Elisabetta Gardini, Jens Gieseke, Sylvie Goddyn, Matthias Groote, Andrzej Grzyb, Jytte Guteland, György Hölvényi, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Benedek Jávor, Karin Kadenbach, Giovanni La Via, Peter Liese, Norbert Lins, Valentinas Mazuronis, Susanne Melior, Massimo Paolucci, Gilles Pargneaux, Bolesław G. Piecha, Pavel Poc, Michèle Rivasi, Annie Schreijer-Pierik, Renate Sommer, Tibor Szanyi, Nils Torvalds, Glenis Willmott, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Damiano Zoffoli
Substitutes present for the final vote	Simona Bonafè, Marie-Christine Boutonnet, Nicola Caputo, Herbert Dorfmann, Linnéa Engström, Luke Ming Flanagan, Jan Huitema, Karol Karski, Anthea McIntyre, James Nicholson, Aldo Patriciello, Marit Paulsen, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Dubravka Šuica, Tom Vandenkendelaere
Date tabled	1.4.2015