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 amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics

22.4.2015 - (05161/2/2015 – C8‑0073/2015 – 2012/0084(COD)) - ***II

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Rapporteur: Hugues Bayet

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 amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics

(05161/2/2015 – C8‑0073/2015 – 2012/0084(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

–       having regard to the Council position at first reading (05161/2/2015 – C8‑0073/2015),

–       having regard to the reasoned opinions submitted, within the framework of Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, by the Spanish Congress of Deputies and the Spanish Senate and the Austrian Federal Council, asserting that the draft legislative act does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity,

–       having regard to the opinion of the European Central Bank of 6 November 2012[1],

–       having regard to its position at first reading[2] on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2012)0167),

–       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 Economic and Monetary Affairs (A8-0137/2015),

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 374, 4.12.2012, p. 2.
• [2]           Texts adopted of 21.11.2013, P7_TA(2013)0505.

PROCEDURE

Title	European statistics
References	05161/2/2015 – C8-0073/2015 – 2012/0084(COD)
Date of Parliament’s first reading – P number	21.11.2013                     T7-0505/2013
Commission proposal	COM(2012)0167 - C7-0101/2012
Receipt of Council position at first reading announced in plenary	12.3.2015
Committee responsible        Date announced in plenary	ECON 12.3.2015
Rapporteurs        Date appointed	Hugues Bayet 18.9.2014
Date adopted	20.4.2015
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	51 0 8
Members present for the final vote	Gerolf Annemans, Burkhard Balz, Hugues Bayet, Pervenche Berès, Udo Bullmann, Esther de Lange, Fabio De Masi, Anneliese Dodds, Markus Ferber, Elisa Ferreira, Sven Giegold, Sylvie Goulard, Roberto Gualtieri, Brian Hayes, Gunnar Hökmark, Danuta Maria Hübner, Cătălin Sorin Ivan, Georgios Kyrtsos, Alain Lamassoure, Philippe Lamberts, Werner Langen, Sander Loones, Bernd Lucke, Olle Ludvigsson, Ivana Maletić, Notis Marias, Marisa Matias, Costas Mavrides, Bernard Monot, Luděk Niedermayer, Stanisław Ożóg, Molly Scott Cato, Peter Simon, Ernest Urtasun, Marco Valli, Tom Vandenkendelaere, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Jakob von Weizsäcker, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Marco Zanni, Sotirios Zarianopoulos
Substitutes present for the final vote	Richard Corbett, Mady Delvaux, Sophia in ‘t Veld, Eva Kaili, Barbara Kappel, Rina Ronja Kari, Jeppe Kofod, Thomas Mann, Morten Messerschmidt, Siegfried Mureșan, Tibor Szanyi, Nils Torvalds, Miguel Urbán Crespo
Substitutes under Rule 200(2) present for the final vote	Mark Demesmaeker, Eleonora Evi, Jens Geier, Dominique Riquet, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, Jarosław Wałęsa, Marco Zullo
Date tabled	22.4.2015