- * Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the European Year of Volunteering (2011) (COM(2009)0254 - C7-0054/2009 - 2009/0072(CNS)) - CULT Committee - Rapporteur: Marco Scurria (A7-0077/2009)
(2) from Members, motions for resolution (Rule 120)
- Cristiana Muscardini. Motion for a resolution on the VITA project to combat sudden death by cardiac arrest (B7-0156/2009) referred to responsible: ENVI
3. Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 2008 (debate)
Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira, President of the Court of Auditors, presented the annual report of his institution.
The following spoke: Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission).
The following spoke: Ingeborg Gräßle, on behalf of the PPE Group, Bogusław Liberadzki, on behalf of the S&D Group, Luigi de Magistris, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Bart Staes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group, Søren Bo Søndergaard, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Marta Andreasen, on behalf of the EFD Group, Daniël van der Stoep, Non-attached Member, Jan Olbrycht, Inés Ayala Sender, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Reinhard Bütikofer, Kay Swinburne, Cornelis de Jong, Bastiaan Belder, Philip Claeys, Jean-Pierre Audy, Jens Geier, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Vicky Ford, Hans-Peter Martin, Tamás Deutsch, Edit Herczog, Olle Schmidt, Esther de Lange, Barbara Weiler, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Georgios Stavrakakis, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Christel Schaldemose, Monika Hohlmeier, Andrea Cozzolino, Mairead McGuinness and Peter Jahr, who also answered a 'blue card' question by Ingeborg Gräßle.
IN THE CHAIR: Isabelle DURANT Vice-President
The following spoke: Sophie Briard Auconie.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Ville Itälä, Seán Kelly, Ivailo Kalfin, Jean-Pierre Audy (to express regret that the Council was not present), Bart Staes and Edit Herczog.
The following spoke: Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira, Siim Kallas and Hans-Peter Martin, who made a personal statement in response to a 'blue card' question by Ingeborg Gräßle.
The debate closed.
4. Google's project to digitise the world's book heritage (debate)
Oral question (O-0101/2009) by Klaus-Heiner Lehne, on behalf of the JURI Committee, to the Commission: Google's project to digitise the world's book heritage (B7-0224/2009)
Angelika Niebler (deputising for the author) moved the oral question.
Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the oral question.
The following spoke: Róża, Gräfin von Thun Und Hohenstein, on behalf of the PPE Group, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, on behalf of the S&D Group, Liam Aylward, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Eva Lichtenberger, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Emma Mcclarkin, on behalf of the ECR Group, Patrick Le Hyaric, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bruno Gollnisch, Non-attached Member, Tadeusz Zwiefka, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Nessa Childers.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Georgios Papanikolaou, Edit Herczog, Helga Trüpel, Rui Tavares, Zoltán Balczó, Piotr Borys and Seán Kelly
The following spoke: Siim Kallas.
The debate closed.
(The sitting was suspended at 11.50 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS Vice-President
5. Signature of acts adopted under codecision
The President announced that, on Monday, the President of Parliament and the President of the Council would sign the following acts adopted under the codecision procedure in accordance with Rule 74:
- Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of trans-European networks (codified version) (03682/2009/LEX - C7-0302/2009 - 2009/0037(COD))
- Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds (codified version) (03681/2009/LEX - C7-0301/2009 - 2009/0043(COD))
- Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work (codified version) (03680/2009/LEX - C7-0300/2009 - 2006/0222(COD))
- Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels (codified version) (03679/2009/LEX - C7-0299/2009 - 2007/0225(COD))
- Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors: technical requirements (codified version) (03678/2009/LEX - C7-0298/2009 - 2008/0213(COD))
- Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on cosmetic products (recast) (03623/2009/LEX - C7-0297/2009 - 2008/0035(COD))
6. 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.
6.1. European Year of Volunteering (2011) * (Rule 138) (vote)
Report Proposal for a Council decision on the European Year of Volunteering (2011) [COM(2009)0254 - C7-0054/2009 - 2009/0072(CNS)] - Committee on Culture and Education. Rapporteur: Marco Scurria (A7-0077/2009)
(Simple majority)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
Marco Scurria made a statement under Rule 138(4).
COMMISSION PROPOSAL, AMENDMENTS and DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION
6.2. EC/Ukraine agreement for scientific and technological cooperation * (Rule 138) (vote)
Report Proposal for a Council decision concerning the renewal of the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and Ukraine [COM(2009)0182 - C7-0018/2009 - 2009/0062(CNS)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Herbert Reul (A7-0074/2009)
6.3. Terms of Reference for the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC) and the Memorandum concerning the hosting by the International Energy Agency of the Secretariat to the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation * (Rule 138) (vote)
Report Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing of the 'Terms of Reference for the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation' (IPEEC) and the 'Memorandum concerning the hosting by the International Energy Agency of the Secretariat to the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation' by the European Community [COM(2009)0438 - C7-0219/2009 - 2009/0119(CNS)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Herbert Reul (A7-0075/2009)
On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed a delegation of members of the Sabor (Parliament of Croatia) - led by Mario Zubović - who had taken their seats in the distinguished visitors' gallery.
Michael Gahler, Filip Kaczmarek, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Arnaud Danjean, Mario Mauro and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group Adrian Severin, Saïd El Khadraoui, Roberto Gualtieri and Eider Gardiazábal Rubial, on behalf of the S&D Group Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, on behalf of the ALDE Group Geoffrey Van Orden, Paweł Robert Kowal, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Adam Bielan and Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group Niki Tzavela and Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group
Csaba Őry and Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, on behalf of the PPE Group Alejandro Cercas, on behalf of the S&D Group Marian Harkin, on behalf of the ALDE Group Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Mairead McGuinness and Filip Kaczmarek, on behalf of the PPE Group Thijs Berman, Véronique De Keyser, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos and Ricardo Cortés Lastra, on behalf of the S&D Group Charles Goerens, Louis Michel, Marielle De Sarnez and George Lyon, on behalf of the ALDE Group Martin Häusling and José Bové, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group James Nicholson, on behalf of the ECR Group
Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 170 appear in the Verbatim Report of Proceedings for the sitting.
Oral explanations of vote:
Enlargement strategy 2009 concerning the countries of the western Balkans, Iceland and Turkey (B7-0185/2009) Cristian Dan Preda, María Paloma Muñiz De Urquiza and Dimitar Stoyanov
IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND Vice-President
Enlargement strategy 2009 concerning the countries of the western Balkans, Iceland and Turkey (B7-0185/2009) Hannu Takkula and Martin Kastler
Elimination of violence against women (B7-0139/2009) Filip Kaczmarek, Tiziano Motti, Lena Ek, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt and Zbigniew Ziobro.
A political solution with regard to the piracy off the Somalian coast (RC-B7-0158/2009) Louis Bontes
Smoke-free environments (B7-0164/2009) Anna Záborská, Axel Voss, Anja Weisgerber, Marian Harkin, Bruno Gollnisch and Janusz Wojciechowski
FAO World Summit on Food Security - Eradicating hunger from the face of the earth (RC-B7-0168/2009) Anna Záborská
10. 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.
(The sitting was suspended at 12.55 and resumed at 15.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Libor ROUČEK Vice-President
11. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
12. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate)
Bogusław Sonik, Adam Bielan and Johannes Cornelis van Baalen introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Tunne Kelam, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Jürgen Klute.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Ioannis Kasoulides, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Gesine Meissner, Charles Tannock and Reinhard Bütikofer.
The following spoke: Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission).
Véronique De Keyser, Thomas Mann and Heidi Hautala introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Cristian Dan Preda, on behalf of the PPE Group, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, on behalf of the S&D Group, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, on behalf of the ECR Group, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Marc Tarabella and Ryszard Czarnecki.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mario Mauro, Zbigniew Ziobro and Charles Tannock.
The following spoke: Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission).
Véronique De Keyser, Joe Higgins, Laima Liucija Andrikienė and Barbara Lochbihler introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Crescenzio Rivellini, on behalf of the PPE Group, Bernd Posselt, on the conduct of the debate, Ana Gomes, on behalf of the S&D Group, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Filip Kaczmarek, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Eva Lichtenberger, Bernd Posselt, Reinhard Bütikofer.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Martin Schulz, László Tőkés, Gesine Meissner and Jacek Olgierd Kurski.
The following spoke: Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission).
Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Mario Mauro, Cristian Dan Preda, Monica Luisa Macovei, Laima Liucija Andrikienė and Bogusław Sonik, on behalf of the PPE Group Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Renate Weber and Frédérique Ries, on behalf of the ALDE Group Charles Tannock, Edvard Kožušník, Adam Bielan and Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group
The following spoke before the vote: Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, to state that their respective groups would not take part in the vote on Nicaragua, and Eija-Riitta Korhola on the conduct of the preceding debates.
Eija-Riitta Korhola, Bernd Posselt, Cristian Dan Preda, Tunne Kelam, Filip Kaczmarek, Mario Mauro, Monica Luisa Macovei and Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE Group Véronique De Keyser and Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the S&D Group Sarah Ludford and Marielle De Sarnez, on behalf of the ALDE Group Christian Engström, Emilie Turunen, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Gerald Häfner and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group
László Tőkés, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Csaba Sógor, Cristian Dan Preda, Filip Kaczmarek, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Bernd Posselt, Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska, Thomas Mann, Mario Mauro, Tunne Kelam, Monica Luisa Macovei and Tadeusz Zwiefka, on behalf of the PPE Group Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group Jelko Kacin, Marielle De Sarnez, Marietje Schaake and Frédérique Ries, on behalf of the ALDE Group Heidi Hautala, Barbara Lochbihler, Eva Lichtenberger, Helga Trüpel and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Bernd Posselt to make a linguistic clarification to paragraph 3.
14. 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.
Members present but not voting:
Giles Chichester
15. Decisions concerning certain documents
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 48)
AFET Committee
- EU Policies in favour of Human Rights Defenders (2009/2199(INI))
- The implementation of the European Security Strategy in the context of ESDP (2009/2198(INI))
AGRI Committee
- Evaluation and assessment of the Animal Welfare Action Plan 2006-2010 (2009/2202(INI))
ECON Committee
- Report on the 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area and Public Finances (2009/2203(INI))
FEMM Committee
- The role of women in an ageing society (2009/2205(INI))
- Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis (2009/2204(INI))
INTA Committee
- Corporate and social responsibility in international trade agreements (2009/2201(INI)) (opinion: EMPL)
- Trade and economic relations with Turkey (2009/2200(INI))
Referral to committees
PETI Committee
- SOLVIT (2009/2138(INI)) referred to responsible: IMCO opinion: PETI
16. Written declarations included in the register (Rule 123)
Number of signatures obtained by the written declarations included in the register (Rule 123(3)):