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Onsdag den 17. april 2019 - Strasbourg

16.9. Visumkodeks (A8-0434/2018 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (afstemning)

- Avant le vote:

  Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Rapporteur. – Madam President, it will only be a minute, because this is the final vote of an important piece of European law – the visa code – serving the area of liberty, justice and security, and with this occasion it is customary here to take the occasion before the plenary with all of the Members sitting here to express gratitude for the good, constructive cooperation throughout the years, because it has been – wow! – quite a time. It’s been four years of hard work for the shadow rapporteurs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), which pushed it forward under the leadership of our colleague and Chair of the LIBE Committee, Claude Moraes. But since this is also the last plenary session of this mandate of the European Parliament, it is also customary to express publicly how great it has been to serve the European citizens in this House, which happens to be the only democratically-elected institution of the European architecture, and of course to take the occasion to wish everybody the very best, with all of my heart, and to say publicly that it’s been my honour to work with you all for the past five years. Thank you all, dear colleagues, thank you all.

(Applause)