12. Security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States [COM(2007)0619 - C6-0359/2007 - 2007/0216(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Carlos Coelho (A6-0500/2008)

Carlos Coelho introduced the report.

The following spoke: Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: Urszula Gacek, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martine Roure, on behalf of the PSE Group, Gérard Deprez, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the UEN Group, Tatjana Ždanoka, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, Esther De Lange, Stavros Lambrinidis, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Bogusław Rogalski, Adamos Adamou, Andreas Mölzer, Edit Bauer, Armando França, Mihael Brejc, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Dushana Zdravkova, Genowefa Grabowska and Robert Evans.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Milan Gaľa, Nicolae Vlad Popa, Martine Roure, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Marios Matsakis and Hubert Pirker.

The following spoke: Jacques Barrot and Carlos Coelho.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 14.01.2009, item 4.1.