(The sitting was suspended at 20.00 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

15. Parliament's new role and responsibilities in implementing the Lisbon Treaty - Institutional balance of the European Union - Relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon - Financial aspects of the Lisbon Treaty - Implementation of the citizens' initiative (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the Parliament's new role and responsibilities implementing the Treaty of Lisbon [2008/2063(INI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Jo Leinen (A6-0145/2009)

Report on the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the development of the institutional balance of the European Union [2008/2073(INI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Jean-Luc Dehaene (A6-0142/2009)

Report on the development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon [2008/2120(INI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Elmar Brok (A6-0133/2009)

Report on the financial aspects of the Lisbon Treaty [2008/2054(INI)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Catherine Guy-Quint (A6-0183/2009)

Report requesting the Commission to submit a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the implementation of the citizens’ initiative [2008/2169(INI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (A6-0043/2009)

Jo Leinen, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Elmar Brok, Catherine Guy-Quint and Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Margot Wallström (Vice-President of the Commission).

The President said that he would propose to the President and the Bureau that a joint publication be produced of the Treaty of Lisbon and the five reports forming the subject of the joint debate, along with the corresponding interventions by the rapporteurs and Margot Wallström.

The following spoke: Michael Gahler (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee), Andrew Duff (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee), Thijs Berman (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Danutė Budreikaitė (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Georgios Papastamkos (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Evelyne Gebhardt (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Oldřich Vlasák (rapporteur for the opinion of the REGI Committee), Johannes Voggenhuber (rapporteur for the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Carlos Carnero González (rapporteur for the opinion of the PETI Committee), Maria da Assunção Esteves, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jo Leinen, on behalf of the PSE Group, Andrew Duff, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Johannes Voggenhuber, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Tobias Pflüger, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Roger Helmer, Non-attached Member, Alain Lamassoure and Adrian Severin.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Andrzej Wielowieyski, Milan Horáček, Bastiaan Belder, Jana Bobošíková, Richard Corbett, Anne E. Jensen, Michael Henry Nattrass, Roberto Fiore, Paul Rübig, Libor Rouček, Kyösti Virrankoski, Elmar Brok, Proinsias De Rossa, Costas Botopoulos, Justas Vincas Paleckis and Avril Doyle.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Siiri Oviir, Zita Pleštinská, Daniel Hannan, Paul Rübig, Richard Corbett, Bernard Wojciechowski, Ewa Tomaszewska and Syed Kamall.

The following spoke: Margot Wallström, Jo Leinen, Jean-Luc Dehaene and Catherine Guy-Quint.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 7.5.2009, item 9.2, minutes of 7.5.2009, item 9.16, minutes of 7.5.2009, item 9.17, minutes of 7.5.2009, item 9.3 and minutes of 7.5.2009, item 9.18.