19. Annual accounts of certain types of companies as regards micro-entities (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies as regards micro-entities [COM(2009)0083 - C6-0074/2009- 2009/0035(COD)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Klaus-Heiner Lehne (A7-0011/2010)

Klaus-Heiner Lehne introduced the report.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Dirk Sterckx (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Tadeusz Zwiefka, on behalf of the PPE Group, Françoise Castex, on behalf of the S&D Group, Alexandra Thein, on behalf of the ALDE Group, William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, to put a 'blue card' question to Françoise Castex, who replied, Kay Swinburne, on behalf of the ECR Group, Cornelis de Jong, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also answered a 'blue card' question by Dirk Sterckx, Diogo Feio, Evelyn Regner, Jaroslav Paška, Othmar Karas, Marianne Thyssen, Hella Ranner, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš and Lara Comi.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Monika Hohlmeier, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Seán Kelly, Georgios Papanikolaou and Zigmantas Balčytis.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier and Klaus-Heiner Lehne.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 10.3.2010, item 7.1.