Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):
- Lothar Bisky, Nikolaos Chountis, Ilda Figueiredo, Patrick Le Hyaric, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Marisa Matias, Willy Meyer, Miguel Portas, Alfreds Rubiks, Eva-Britt Svensson, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides and Sabine Wils, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on EU 2020 (B7-0266/2010)
- Guy Verhofstadt and Lena Ek, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the Europe 2020 strategy – new European Strategy for Jobs and Growth (B7-0267/2010)
- Stephen Hughes, on behalf of the S&D Group on the Europe 2020 – new European strategy for jobs and growth (B7-0268/2010)
- Corien Wortmann-Kool, Othmar Karas and Jean-Paul Gauzès, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the EU 2020 strategy (B7-0269/2010)
- Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Europe 2020 – new European strategy for jobs and growth (B7-0270/2010).
Vote: Prochaine période de session.
3. Union for the Mediterranean (debate)
Report on the Union for the Mediterranean [2009/2215(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Vincent Peillon (A7-0133/2010)
Vincent Peillon introduced the report.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Marielle De Sarnez (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Niki Tzavela (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Marietta Giannakou, on behalf of the PPE Group, Raimon Obiols, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ivo Vajgl, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Malika Benarab-Attou, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Willy Meyer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nikolaos Salavrakos, on behalf of the EFD Group, Louis Bontes, Non-attached Member, Salvatore Iacolino, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Niccolò Rinaldi, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Gerard Batten, Andreas Mölzer, Dominique Baudis, Maria Eleni Koppa, Bastiaan Belder and Francisco José Millán Mon.
The President presented the Council's apologies for absence. The following spoke: Bernd Posselt.
The following spoke: Josefa Andrés Barea, Mario Mauro, Mario Pirillo and Cristian Dan Preda.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Roberta Angelilli.
PRÉSIDENCE: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS Vice-President
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Olga Sehnalová, Lara Comi, Charles Tannock, Franz Obermayr, Raffaele Baldassarre and Diane Dodds.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle and Vincent Peillon.
4. The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (debate)
Report on the need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus [2009/2216(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Evgeni Kirilov (A7-0123/2010)
Evgeni Kirilov introduced the report.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Metin Kazak (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Anna Ibrisagic, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Norica Nicolai, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ulrike Lunacek, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Dimitar Stoyanov, Non-attached Member, Iuliu Winkler, Adrian Severin, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Bernd Posselt, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Ryszard Czarnecki, Krzysztof Lisek, George Sabin Cutaş, Paweł Robert Kowal and Andrey Kovatchev.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Andrzej Grzyb, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Graham Watson, Cristian Dan Preda, Andreas Mölzer and Jaroslav Paška.
The following spoke: Štefan Füle and Evgeni Kirilov.
The President made a statement in which he paid tribute to the victims of the recent flooding in central Europe.
6. Agenda
The President proposed, following the meeting of the Conference of Presidents which had been held that morning, that the vote on motions for resolutions tabled to wind up the debate on the Europe 2020 Strategy should be held over to the next part-session in accordance with Rule 140 (minutes of 5.5.2010, item 19).
The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, in favour of the proposal, and Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, and in agreement with the Verts/ALE and GUE/NGL Groups, against the proposal. Joseph Daul and Martin Schulz also endorsed the President's statement on the flooding in central Europe.
By EV (342 for; 270 against; 9 abstentions), Parliament approved the proposal.
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The following spoke: Jan Březina on the President's statement.
IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND Vice-President
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. Delivering a single market to consumers and citizens (Rule 138)(vote)
Report on delivering a single market to consumers and citizens [2010/2011(INI)] - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Rapporteur: Louis Grech (A7-0132/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
7.2. University Business Dialogue (Rule 138)(vote)
Report on university-business dialogue: a new partnership for the modernisation of Europe's universities [2009/2099(INI)] - Committee on Culture and Education. Rapporteur: Pál Schmitt (A7-0108/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)
Report on the proposal for a Council Regulation on Community financial assistance with respect to the decommissioning of Units 1 to 4 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria - 'Kozloduy Programme' [COM(2009)0581 - C7-0289/2009- 2009/0172(NLE)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Rebecca Harms (A7-0142/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)
7.4. Implementation of the synergies of research and innovation earmarked funds in Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 concerning the European Fund of Regional Development and the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (vote)
Report on the implementation of the synergies of research and innovation earmarked Funds in Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 concerning the European Fund of Regional Development and the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development in cities and regions as well as in the Member States and the Union [2009/2243(INI)] - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Lambert van Nistelrooij (A7-0138/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)
(before the vote) Lambert van Nistelrooij, on behalf of the PPE Group, to request a roll-call vote. (The request had been upheld.)
7.5. Long-term sustainability of public finances for a recovering economy (vote)
Report on the long-term sustainability of public finances for a recovering economy [2010/2038(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Liem Hoang Ngoc (A7-0147/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 5)
(after the vote) Liem Hoang Ngoc (rapporteur), who, in view of the outcome of the vote, withdrew his signature from the report.
7.6. Contribution of the Cohesion policy to the achievement of Lisbon and the EU2020 objectives (vote)
Report on the contribution of the Cohesion policy to the achievement of Lisbon and the EU2020 objectives - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Ricardo Cortés Lastra (A7-0129/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 6)
7.8. The need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus (vote)
Report on the need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus [2009/2216(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Evgeni Kirilov (A7-0123/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 8)
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 13.05 and resumed at 15 heures.)
IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS Vice-President
10. Council position at first reading
The President announced that, in accordance with Rule 61(1), the following position had been received from the Council, together with the reasons which had led to its adoption, and the Commission's position on:
- Position of the Council at first reading with a view to adoption of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport (06103/4/2010 - C7-0119/2010 - 2008/0263(COD)) referred to responsible: TRAN
The three-month period available to Parliament to adopt its position would therefore begin the following day (21 May 2010).
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)
Charles Tannock, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen and Joe Higgins introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE Group, Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, on behalf of the ECR Group, Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Ryszard Czarnecki, Csaba Sógor, Zbigniew Ziobro and Martin Kastler.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Michael Gahler, Heidi Hautala, Jacek Olgierd Kurski and Elena Băsescu.
The following spoke: Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission).
Marietje Schaake, Cristian Dan Preda, Véronique De Keyser, Barbara Lochbihler, Marie-Christine Vergiat and Adam Bielan introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Thomas Mann, on behalf of the PPE Group, Corina Creţu, on behalf of the S&D Group, Joe Higgins, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Monica Luisa Macovei.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Miroslav Mikolášik, Jaroslav Paška and Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris.
The following spoke: Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission).
Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Filip Kaczmarek, Véronique De Keyser, Barbara Lochbihler, Marie-Christine Vergiat and Charles Tannock introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Elena Băsescu, on behalf of the PPE Group, Ana Gomes, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Cristian Dan Preda and Eija-Riitta Korhola.
The following spoke: Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission).
Eija-Riitta Korhola, Mario Mauro, Filip Kaczmarek, Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Anna Záborská, Monica Luisa Macovei, Elena Băsescu, Sari Essayah, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, László Tőkés, Tadeusz Zwiefka, Martin Kastler and Thomas Mann, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, Adrian Severin, Hannes Swoboda, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Richard Howitt, on behalf of the S&D Group, Niccolò Rinaldi, Marietje Schaake, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Marielle De Sarnez and Kristiina Ojuland, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jean Lambert and Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Adam Bielan, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Peter van Dalen and Ryszard Antoni Legutko, on behalf of the ECR Group, Fiorello Provera and Oreste Rossi, on behalf of the EFD Group.
Cristian Dan Preda, Ioannis Kasoulides, Mario Mauro, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Filip Kaczmarek, Tunne Kelam, Bogusław Sonik, Monica Luisa Macovei, Elena Băsescu, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, László Tőkés and Thomas Mann, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser and Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Niccolò Rinaldi, Marielle De Sarnez and Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Barbara Lochbihler and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Adam Bielan, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Geoffrey Van Orden, Julie Girling, Zbigniew Ziobro, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, Ryszard Czarnecki and Edvard Kožušník, on behalf of the ECR Group, Fiorello Provera, Juozas Imbrasas and Lorenzo Fontana, on behalf of the EFD Group.
Filip Kaczmarek, Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Mario Mauro, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Bogusław Sonik, Monica Luisa Macovei, Elena Băsescu, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, László Tőkés, Csaba Sógor and Martin Kastler, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser and Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Metin Kazak, Marietje Schaake, Marielle De Sarnez, Kristiina Ojuland, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Niccolò Rinaldi and Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Barbara Lochbihler, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Adam Bielan, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Geoffrey Van Orden, Julie Girling, Zbigniew Ziobro, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, Ryszard Czarnecki and Edvard Kožušník, on behalf of the ECR Group, Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Fiorello Provera, Juozas Imbrasas and Oreste Rossi, on behalf of the EFD Group.
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.
15. Decisions concerning certain documents
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports(Rule 48)
AFET Committee - Civilian-military cooperation and the development of civilian-military capabilities (2010/2071(INI))
BUDG Committee - The Interinstitutional Agreement on cooperation in budgetary matters (2010/2073(INI)) (opinion: AFET, CONT) - Funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2010/2072(INI)) (opinion: ECON, EMPL)
DEVE Committee - Health care systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Health (2010/2070(INI)) (opinion: ENVI)
ECON Committee - Regulation of trading in financial instruments - "dark pools" etc. (2010/2075(INI)) - Basel II and revision of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD 4) (2010/2074(INI)) (opinion: JURI)
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 119(1))
JURI Committee - 26th Annual Report on Monitoring the Application of European Union Law (2008) (2010/2076(INI)) (opinion: PETI, IMCO)
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports(Rule 119)
IMCO Committee - The implementation of the Services Directive 2006/123/EC (2010/2053(INI)) (opinion: ENVI, EMPL, REGI)
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 205(2))
PETI Committee - European Ombudsman: report on 2009 annual activity report (2010/2059(INI))
Associated committees
BUDG Committee - Amendment of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (COM(2010)0071 - C7-0063/2010 - 2010/0047(COD)) Associated committees BUDG, CONT (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 12.05.2010)
- Funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2010/2072(INI)) (opinion: ECON) Associated committees BUDG, EMPL (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 12.05.2010)
ENVI Committee - Emission performance standards for new light commercial vehicles (COM(2009)0593 - C7-0271/2009 - 2009/0173(COD)) (opinion: TRAN) Associated committees ENVI, ITRE (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 12.05.2010)
TRAN Committee - Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) - Evaluation of progress made and new challenges (2010/2040(INI)) (opinion: AFET, ENVI, ITRE, REGI) Associated committees TRAN, PECH (Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 04.03.2010)
Referral to committees
AFET Committee - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports of dual-use items and technology (COM(2008)0854 - C7-0062/2010 - 2008/0249(COD)) referred to responsible: INTA opinion: AFET
Decision to draw up a report under the procedure with joint committee meetings (Rule 51)
- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, and protecting victims, repealing Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA- COM(2010)0095 final - 2010/0065 (COD) (Committees : LIBE, FEMM). (Further to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 12.05.2010.)
16. Written declarations included in the register (Rule 123)
Number of signatures obtained by the written declarations included in the register (Rule 123(3)):
Document number
Author
Signatures
3/2010
Lara Comi, Andreas Schwab, Jolanta Emilia Hibner, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Christophe Béchu
334
5/2010
Cătălin Sorin Ivan
85
7/2010
Richard Howitt, Bogusław Sonik, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Marek Siwiec, Cornelis de Jong
120
8/2010
Ryszard Czarnecki, Lajos Bokros, Jarosław Kalinowski, Janusz Wojciechowski
84
9/2010
Andreas Mölzer
19
10/2010
Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Barbara Matera, Joachim Zeller, Artur Zasada, Wojciech Michał Olejniczak
112
11/2010
Valdemar Tomaševski, Mirosław Piotrowski, Janusz Wojciechowski, Sandra Kalniete
53
12/2010
Françoise Castex, Zuzana Roithová, Alexander Alvaro, Stavros Lambrinidis
219
13/2010
Andreas Mölzer
13
14/2010
Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Cătălin Sorin Ivan, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi
40
15/2010
Véronique De Keyser, Kader Arif, Alejandro Cercas, Stephen Hughes, Stavros Lambrinidis
122
16/2010
Morten Messerschmidt
19
17/2010
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
61
18/2010
Zigmantas Balčytis
49
19/2010
Morten Messerschmidt, Anna Rosbach, Lorenzo Fontana
11
20/2010
Marc Tarabella, Barbara Matera, Marije Cornelissen, Ilda Figueiredo, Antonyia Parvanova