3. Credit requirements directives: Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC ***I - Community programme for financial services, financial reporting and auditing ***I

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC as regards banks affiliated to central institutions, certain own funds items, large exposures, supervisory arrangements, and crisis management [COM(2008)0602 - C6-0339/2008 - 2008/0191(COD)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Othmar Karas (A6-0139/2009)

Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Community programme to support specific activities in the field of financial services, financial reporting and auditing [COM(2009)0014 - C6-0031/2009 - 2009/0001(COD)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt (A6-0246/2009)

Othmar Karas introduced the report.

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO
Vice-President

Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt introduced the report.

The following spoke: Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Gary Titley (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), John Purvis, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Pervenche Berès, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sharon Bowles, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Konstantinos Droutsas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Sergej Kozlík, Non-attached Member, Zsolt László Becsey, Elisa Ferreira, Wolf Klinz, Werner Langen, Ieke van den Burg, Udo Bullmann and Antolín Sánchez Presedo.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Margarita Starkevičiūtė and Miloslav Ransdorf.

The following spoke: Charlie McCreevy, Othmar Karas and Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 6.5.2009, item 6.9 and minutes of 6.5.2009, item 6.10.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.50 pending voting time and resumed at 12.05.)