5. Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities as regards the European External Action Service ***I - Amendment of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of those Communities ***I - Draft amending budget No 6/2010: Section II - European Council and Council; Section III - Commission; Section X - European External Action Service (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities as regards the European External Action Service [COM(2010)0085 - C7-0086/2010- 2010/0054(COD)] - Committee on Budgets, Committee on Budgetary Control. Co-rapporteurs: Ingeborg Gräßle, Crescenzio Rivellini (A7-0263/2010)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of those Communities [COM(2010)0309 - C7-0146/2010- 2010/0171(COD)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Bernhard Rapkay (A7-0288/2010)

Report on Council's position on Draft amending budget 6/2010 of the European Union for the financial year 2010, Section II - European Council and Council, Section III - Commission, Section X - European External Action Service [13475/2010 - C7-0262/2010- 2010/2094(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Co-rapporteurs: Roberto Gualtieri, László Surján (A7-0283/2010)

The President made a brief introductory statement.

Ingeborg Gräßle, Crescenzio Rivellini, Bernhard Rapkay, Roberto Gualtieri and László Surján introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Knut Fleckenstein, who informed the House that there had been a terrorist attack on the Chechen Parliament that morning (the President once again condemned terrorism in all its forms and passed on a message of Parliament's solidarity to the victims' families).

The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission), Janusz Lewandowski (Member of the Commission), Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and Olivier Chastel (President-in-Office of the Council).

IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT
Vice-President

The following spoke: Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee) (A7-0288/2010), Göran Färm (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee) (A7-0263/2010), Filip Kaczmarek (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee) (A7-0288/2010), Véronique De Keyser (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee) A7-0263/2010), Kader Arif (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee) (A7-0263/2010), Nadezhda Neynsky (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee) (A7-0288/2010), Edit Herczog (rapporteur for the opinion of the CONT Committee) (A7-0288/2010), Zigmantas Balčytis (rapporteur for the opinion of the CONT Committee)(A7-0283/2010), Tadeusz Zwiefka, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Cecilia Wikström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Franziska Katharina Brantner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Zbigniew Ziobro, on behalf of the ECR Group, Willy Meyer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Angelika Werthmann, Non-attached Member, Elmar Brok, Adrian Severin, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Charles Tannock, Jiří Maštálka, Marta Andreasen, Lucas Hartong, Jan Kozłowski, Kristian Vigenin, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Mirosław Piotrowski and Raffaele Baldassarre.

IN THE CHAIR: Silvana KOCH-MEHRIN
Vice-President

The following spoke: Zoran Thaler, Marek Siwiec and Monika Flašíková Beňová.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elisabeth Köstinger, Richard Howitt, Ivo Vajgl, Franziska Keller, Jaroslav Paška and Francisco Sosa Wagner.

The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.

The following spoke: Janusz Lewandowski, Maroš Šefčovič, Bernhard Rapkay and Roberto Gualtieri.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 20.10.2010, item 4.3, minutes of 20.10.2010, item 4.4 and minutes of 20.10.2010, item 4.5.