Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 - Strasbourg

4.13. Requirements for budgetary frameworks of Member States (A7-0184/2011 - Vicky Ford) (vote)

Before the vote:

  Olli Rehn, Member of the Commission. − Mr President, I would like to make a statement as adopted by the Commission.

‘The Commission recalls its commitment towards ensuring that Member States establish correlation tables linking the transposition measures they adopt with the EU directive and communicate them to the Commission in the framework of transposing EU legislation, in the interest of citizens, better law-making and increasing legal transparency and to assist the examination of the conformity of national rules with EU provisions.

‘The Commission regrets the lack of support for the provision included in the proposal for a Council directive on requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States which aimed at rendering the establishment of correlation tables obligatory.

‘The Commission, in a spirit of compromise and in order to ensure the immediate adoption of that proposal, can accept the substitution of the obligatory provision on correlation tables included in the text with the provisions encouraging Member States to follow this practice. However, the position followed by the Commission in this file shall not be considered a precedent.

‘The Commission will continue its efforts with a view to finding together with the European Parliament and the Council an appropriate solution to this horizontal institutional issue.’

After the vote:

  President. – Thank you, Ms Ford, and please accept my congratulations.

We have finished voting on the ‘six pack’. I would like once again to congratulate all the rapporteurs from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, because it has put in an enormous amount of work, and I would also like to congratulate the committees which submitted an opinion on these reports. I think it was a huge task, and the rapporteurs together with all the Members of this House who put so much effort into the task and have achieved a good result deserve once again the applause of the entire Chamber.

(Applause)