15. The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures ***I - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)

CRE

Report: on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures [COM(2008)0436 - C6-0276/2008 - 2008/0147(COD)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Saïd El Khadraoui (A6-0066/2009)

Report: on greening of transport and internalisation of external costs [2008/2240(INI)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Georg Jarzembowski (A6-0055/2009)

The following spoke: Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, on behalf of the PSE Group, and Dirk Sterckx, on behalf of the ALDE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO
Vice-President

The following spoke: Roberts Zīle, on behalf of the UEN Group, Eva Lichtenberger, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Erik Meijer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Johannes Blokland, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Reinhard Rack, Brian Simpson, Paolo Costa, Seán Ó Neachtain, Sepp Kusstatscher, Ulrich Stockmann, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Michael Cramer, Luís Queiró, Inés Ayala Sender, Fiona Hall, Philip Bradbourn, Jörg Leichtfried, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Robert Evans, Christine De Veyrac, Bogusław Liberadzki, Luis de Grandes Pascual and Emanuel Jardim Fernandes.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Richard Seeber, Gilles Savary, Alexandru Nazare and Jörg Leichtfried.

The following spoke: Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission), Saïd El Khadraoui and Georg Jarzembowski.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.13 and minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.19.

(The sitting was suspended at 18.10 pending Question Time and resumed at 18.30.)