18. Statute for a European private company * - Cross-border transfers of companies' registered offices - Small Business Act - Workers' participation in companies with a European Statute (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the proposal for a Council regulation on the Statute for a European private company [COM(2008)0396 - C6-0283/2008 - 2008/0130(CNS)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Klaus-Heiner Lehne (A6-0044/2009)

Report: on recommendations to the Commission on the cross-border transfer of the registered office of a company [2008/2196(INI)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Klaus-Heiner Lehne (A6-0040/2009)

Report: on Small Business Act [2008/2237(INI)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0074/2009)

Commission statement: Workers' participation in companies with a European Statute

Klaus-Heiner Lehne introduced the reports.

Edit Herczog introduced the report.

Ján Figeľ (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Gunnar Hökmark (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Harald Ettl (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Donata Gottardi (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Harald Ettl (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Anja Weisgerber (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Othmar Karas (rapporteur for the opinion of the JURI Committee), Nicole Fontaine, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Ieke van den Burg, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jean Marie Beaupuy, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the UEN Group, Francis Wurtz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Roberto Fiore, Non-attached Member, Georgios Papastamkos and Manuel Medina Ortega.

IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU
Vice-President

The following spoke: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Eoin Ryan, Georgios Toussas, Jim Allister, Kurt Lechner, Juan Fraile Cantón, Patrizia Toia, Ewa Tomaszewska, Vladimír Remek, Tadeusz Zwiefka, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Olle Schmidt, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Giles Chichester, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Dragoş Florin David, Zsolt László Becsey, Jacques Toubon and Martí Grau i Segú (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee).

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Richard Corbett and Ieke van den Burg.

The following spoke: Ján Figeľ, Klaus-Heiner Lehne and Edit Herczog.

The motions for resolutions to be tabled under Rule 103(2) would be announced in the House at a later time.

The debate closed.

Vote:minutes of 10.03.2009, item 8.13, minutes of 10.03.2009, item 8.5, minutes of 10.03.2009, item 8.19, and minutes of 12.03.2009, item 7.7.