(The sitting was suspended at 19.50 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Pál SCHMITT
Vice-President

14. Implementation of the first railway package Directives (debate)

Verbatim reports

Oral question (O-0030/2010) by Brian Simpson, on behalf of the TRAN Committee, to the Commission: Implementation of the First Railway Package Directives (2001/12/EC, 2001/13/EC and 2001/14/EC) (B7-0204/2010)

Brian Simpson moved the oral question.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the oral question.

The following spoke: Mathieu Grosch, on behalf of the PPE Group, Saïd El Khadraoui, on behalf of the S&D Group, Gesine Meissner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Isabelle Durant, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Oldřich Vlasák, on behalf of the ECR Group, Jaromír Kohlíček, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Mike Nattrass, on behalf of the EFD Group, Georges Bach, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Ryszard Czarnecki, Jacky Hénin, Jaroslav Paška, Antonio Cancian and Inés Ayala Sender.

The following spoke: Brian Simpson who made a personal statement in response to the remarks by Mike Nattrass.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Herbert Dorfmann, João Ferreira and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

The following spoke: Siim Kallas.

The debate closed.