5. Sanctions against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council providing for sanctions against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals [COM(2007)0249 - C6-0143/2007 - 2007/0094(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Claudio Fava (A6-0026/2009)

Claudio Fava introduced the report.

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

The following spoke: Edit Bauer (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Esther De Lange (rapporteur for the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Simon Busuttil, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Stavros Lambrinidis, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Inger Segelström and Ignasi Guardans Cambó.

IN THE CHAIR: Luisa MORGANTINI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Ewa Tomaszewska, Mary Lou McDonald, Johannes Blokland, Philip Claeys, Carlos Coelho, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Alexander Alvaro, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Panayiotis Demetriou, Catherine Boursier, Olle Schmidt, Maria da Assunção Esteves, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Donata Gottardi, Patrick Gaubert, Genowefa Grabowska, Jörg Leichtfried, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Yannick Vaugrenard, Richard Falbr, Corina Creţu and Sebastiano Sanzarello (rapporteur for the opinion of the AGRI Committee).

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zuzana Roithová, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Colm Burke, Genowefa Grabowska and Czesław Adam Siekierski.

The following spoke: Jacques Barrot and Claudio Fava.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 04.02.2009, item 7.1.