13. Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding ***I - Precarious women workers (debate)

Verbatim reports

Second report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 92/85/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding [COM(2008)0637 - C6-0340/2008- 2008/0193(COD)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.Rapporteur: Edite Estrela (A7-0032/2010)

Report on precarious women workers [2010/2018(INI)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.Rapporteur: Britta Thomsen (A7-0264/2010)

Edite Estrela and Britta Thomsen introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).

IN THE CHAIR: Roberta ANGELILLI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Rovana Plumb (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Thomas Händel (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Anna Záborská, on behalf of the PPE Group, Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Siiri Oviir, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marina Yannakoudakis, on behalf of the ECR Group, Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Mara Bizzotto, on behalf of the EFD Group, Edit Bauer, Silvia Costa, Antonyia Parvanova, Marije Cornelissen, Tadeusz Cymański, Jacky Hénin, Giancarlo Scottà, Licia Ronzulli, Zita Gurmai, Elizabeth Lynne, Andrea Češková, Joe Higgins, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, who also answered two blue-card questions by Marije Cornelissen and Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Emine Bozkurt, Nadja Hirsch, Julie Girling, Christa Klaß, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Gesine Meissner, Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Jutta Steinruck, Sari Essayah, Olle Ludvigsson, Astrid Lulling, who also answered a blue-card question by Marc Tarabella, Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă, Thomas Mann, Anna Hedh, Barbara Matera, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Anne Delvaux and Sylvie Guillaume.

IN THE CHAIR: Silvana KOCH-MEHRIN
Vice-President

The following spoke: Regina Bastos, Iratxe García Pérez, Godfrey Bloom, Salvatore Iacolino, Nicole Sinclaire, Ria Oomen-Ruijten and Pascale Gruny.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu, Rovana Plumb, Frédérique Ries, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Cornelia Ernst, Angelika Werthmann, Seán Kelly, Marita Ulvskog, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska and Izaskun Bilbao Barandica.

The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič, Miroslav Mikolášik, on the conduct of the catch-the-eye procedure, Edite Estrela and Britta Thomsen.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 20.10.2010, item 6.5 and minutes of 19.10.2010, item 8.8.