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Thursday, 8 October 2009 - Brussels
1.Opening of the sitting
 2.Documents received
 3.G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (motions for resolutions tabled)
 4.The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation (motions for resolutions tabled)
 5.Freedom of information in Italy (debate)
 6.Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
 7.Voting time
  
7.1.Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund: Italy, the Abruzzo earthquake (Rule 138) (vote)
  
7.2.Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings * (vote)
  
7.3.Appointments to the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis (vote)
  
7.4.G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (vote)
  
7.5.The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation (vote)
 8.Explanations of vote
 9.Corrections to votes and voting intentions
 10.Composition of committees and delegations
 11.Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting
 12.Dates of forthcoming sittings
 13.Adjournment of the session
 ATTENDANCE REGISTER


IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK
President

1. Opening of the sitting

The sitting opened at 9.05.


2. Documents received

The following documents had been received from committees:

- reports:

- Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund, in accordance with point 26 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (COM(2009)0445 - C7-0122/2009 - 2009/2083(BUD)) - BUDG Committee - Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (A7-0021/2009)


3. G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (motions for resolutions tabled)

Council and Commission statements: G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September)

The debate had been held on 16 September 2009 (minutes of 16.9.2009, item 4).

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):

- Udo Bullmann, Stephen Hughes, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S-D Group, on the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on 24-25 September 2009 (B7-0082/2009),

- Sylvie Goulard, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the Pittsburgh G20 Summit of 24-25 September 2009 (B7-0083/2009),

- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group on the Pittsburgh Summit of 24-25 September 2009 (B7-0084/2009),

- Lothar Bisky, Jürgen Klute, Miguel Portas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (B7-0085/2009),

- Jean-Paul Gauzès, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the Pittsburgh G20 Summit of 24/25 September 2009 (B7-0086/2009).

Vote: minutes of 8.10.2009, item 7.4.


4. The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation (motions for resolutions tabled)

Oral question:(O-0088/2009) by Eva Joly, on behalf of the DEVE Committee, to the Commission: The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation (B7-0209/2009)

The debate had been held on 14 September 2009 (minutes of 14.9.2009, item 23).

Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 115(5):

- Eva Joly, on behalf of the DEVE Committee, on the effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation (B7-0078/2009).

Vote: minutes of 8.10.2009, item 7.5.


5. Freedom of information in Italy (debate)

Commission statement: Freedom of information in Italy

Viviane Reding (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, David-Maria Sassoli, on behalf of the S-D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question from Mário David, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Cristiana Muscardini on the conduct of the debate, Judith Sargentini, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group, Patrick Le Hyaric, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Francesco Enrico Speroni, on behalf of the EFD Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Mario Mauro, who also replied to a blue-card question by Martin Schulz, Claude Moraes, Sonia Alfano, Indrek Tarand, who also replied to a blue-card question by Potito Salatto, Oreste Rossi, Frank Vanhecke, Manfred Weber and Juan Fernando López Aguilar.

IN THE CHAIR: Roberta ANGELILLI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Gianni Vattimo, Mario Borghezio, Carlo Casini, Gianluca Susta, Sylvie Goulard, Fiorello Provera, Simon Busuttil, Maria Badia i Cutchet, Sarah Ludford, Salvatore Iacolino, Rita Borsellino, Sophia in 't Veld, János Áder, Debora Serracchiani, Clemente Mastella, Anni Podimata, Alfredo Pallone, Cătălin Sorin Ivan and Elisabetta Gardini.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Licia Ronzulli, Victor Boştinaru, Cecilia Wikström, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Mary Honeyball, David Casa and Stanimir Ilchev.

The following spoke: Viviane Reding

The following spoke: Martin Schulz, who first complained about the noise in the Chamber when the Commissioner had been speaking and who asked that the Bureau should consider ways of putting an end to this type of situation, and who then made a personal statement following the speech by Manfred Weber.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, who said that Angelika Niebler had been attacked near Parliament in the late evening of 18 September 2009 and that the police still had not arrived an hour and a half after being called. He asked the President of Parliament to raise the matter with the relevant Brussels authorities.

The motions for resolutions to be tabled under Rule 110(2) would be announced in the House at a later time.

The debate closed.

Vote: next part-session.


IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS
Vice-President

6. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

Jürgen Creutzmann, Mário David, Anne Delvaux and Ádám Kósa had made it known that they had been present but that their names were not on the attendance register.

The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.


7. Voting time

Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the Results of Votes annex to the minutes.

The results of roll-call votes are available in electronic form only, as an annex to the minutes, and can be accessed via Europarl.


7.1. Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund: Italy, the Abruzzo earthquake (Rule 138) (vote)

Report Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund, pursuant to point 26 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management [2009/2083(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (A7-0021/2009)

(Qualified majority: three fifths of votes cast)

(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION and PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted by single vote (P7_TA(2009)0026)


7.2. Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings * (vote)

Report Initiative of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic and of the Kingdom of Sweden for adoption of a Council framework decision 2009/.../JHA on prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings [08535/2009 - C7-0205/2009 - 2009/0802(CNS)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Renate Weber (A7-0011/2009)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P7_TA(2009)0027)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P7_TA(2009)0027)

The following had spoken:

Renate Weber (rapporteur) had moved an oral amendment to Amendment 6, which had been accepted.


7.3. Appointments to the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis (vote)

Proposal by the Conference of Presidents: Appointments to the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis

PROPOSAL BY THE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS

(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)

Adopted

The list of members of the committee was published as an annex to the minutes of the sitting of 7 Ocotber 2009 (minutes of 7.10.2009, item 20) (P7_PV-PROV(2009)10-07(ANN))


7.4. G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) (vote)

The debate had been held on 16 September 2009 (minutes of 16.9.2009, item 4).

The announcement of motions for resolutions had taken place on 8 October 2009 (minutes of 8.10.2009, item 2).

Motions for resolution B7-0081/2009, B7-0082/2009, B7-0083/2009, B7-0084/2009, B7-0085/2009 and B7-0086/2009

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION B7-0081/2009

Rejected

JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B7-0082/2009

(replacing B7-0082/2009, B7-0083/2009 and B7-0086/2009):

tabled by the following Members:

Jean-Paul Gauzès and Corien Wortmann-Kool, on behalf of the PPE Group,

Martin Schulz, Stephen Hughes, Hannes Swoboda and Udo Bullmann, on behalf of the S-D Group,

Guy Verhofstadt and Sylvie Goulard, on behalf of the ALDE Group

Adopted (P7_TA(2009)0028)

(Motions for resolutions B7-0084/2009 and B7-0085/2009 fell.)

The following had spoken:

Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, had moved an oral amendment (which was accepted) to Amendment 13, which had then been rejected.


7.5. The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation (vote)

The debate had been held on 14 September 2009 (minutes of 14.9.2009, item 23).

The motion for a resolution had been announced on 8 October 2009 (minutes of 8.10.2009, item 3).

Motion for a resolution B7-0078/2009

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 5)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P7_TA(2009)0029)


8. Explanations of vote

Written explanations of vote:

Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 170 appear in the Verbatim Report of Proceedings for the sitting.

Oral explanations of vote:

Report: Renate Weber - A7-0011/2009
Jan Březina, Philip Claeys

G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh (24-25 September) - RC-B7-0082/2009
Zigmantas Balčytis, Daniel Hannan, Lena Ek

The effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation - B7-0078/2009
Zigmantas Balčytis, Krisztina Morvai, Siiri Oviir, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Daniel Hannan, Philip Claeys, Edward Scicluna


9. Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Corrections to votes and voting intentions appear on the 'Séance en direct' website under 'Votes'/'Results of votes'/'Roll-call votes'. They are published in hard copy in the Result of roll-call votes annex.

The electronic version on Europarl will be regularly updated for a maximum of two weeks after the day of the vote concerned.

After the two-week deadline has passed, the list of corrections to votes and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.

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Werner Langen and Mario Mauro had informed the Chair that their voting machines had not worked during the vote on the report by Reimer Böge - A7-0021/2009.

Csaba Sógor had informed the Chair that his voting machine had not worked during the vote on the report by Renate Weber - A7-0011/2009.


10. Composition of committees and delegations

At the request of the PPE Group, Parliament ratified the following proposal:

Euronest delegation: Miroslav Mikolášik was no longer a member.


11. Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting

Pursuant to Rule 179(2), the minutes of that day's sitting would be submitted to Parliament for its approval at the beginning of the next sitting.

With Parliament's agreement, the texts that had been adopted would be forwarded forthwith to the bodies named therein.


12. Dates of forthcoming sittings

The next sittings would be held from 19 October 2009 to 22 October 2009.


13. Adjournment of the session

The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.

The sitting closed at 11.45.

Klaus Welle

Jerzy Buzek

Secretary-General

President


ATTENDANCE REGISTER

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