6. Citizens’ initiative (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the citizens’ initiative [COM(2010)0119 - C7-0089/2010- 2010/0074(COD)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Co-rapporteurs: Zita Gurmai and Alain Lamassoure (A7-0350/2010)

Zita Gurmai and Alain Lamassoure introduced the report.

The following spoke: Gerald Häfner (rapporteur for the opinion of the PETI Committee).

The following spoke: Olivier Chastel (President-in-Office of the Council) and Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein (rapporteur for the opinion of the CULT Committee), Kinga Göncz and Cecilia Wikström (rapporteurs for the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, on behalf of the PPE Group, Enrique Guerrero Salom, on behalf of the S&D Group, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Indrek Tarand, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Emma McClarkin, on behalf of the ECR Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Morten Messerschmidt, on behalf of the EFD Group, Bruno Gollnisch, Non-attached Member, Mariya Nedelcheva, Victor Boştinaru, Andrew Duff, Marek Henryk Migalski, Bairbre de Brún, Daniël van der Stoep, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Hannes Swoboda, Tadeusz Cymański, Diane Dodds, Paulo Rangel, Roberto Gualtieri, Erminia Mazzoni, Matthias Groote, György Schöpflin, Sylvie Guillaume, Carlo Casini and Jo Leinen.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Ioan Enciu, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Oreste Rossi, Andrew Henry William Brons, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Kriton Arsenis, Constance Le Grip and Judith A. Merkies.

The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič, Olivier Chastel, Zita Gurmai and Alain Lamassoure.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 15.12.2010, item 9.5.