2. Request for the waiver of parliamentary immunity
The Court of First Instance of Piraeus had addressed a request to the President that the parliamentary immunity of Georgios Toussas be waived.
Pursuant to Rule 6(2), the request had been referred to the committee responsible, the JURI Committee.
3. Composition of political groups
Parliament noted the following:
- Jan Zahradil had been elected Chair of the ECR Group on 8 March 2011 to replace Michał Tomasz Kamiński;
- Anna Rosbach had joined the ECR Group as of 8 March 2011.
4. Implementing measures (Rule 88)
The following draft implementing measures falling under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny had been forwarded to Parliament:
- Draft Commission decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for personal computers (D009812/03 - 2011/2592(RPS) - deadline: 16/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for notebook computers (D009813/03 - 2011/2593(RPS) - deadline: 16/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for light sources (D011305/02 - 2011/2594(RPS) - deadline: 16/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for copying and graphic paper (D011306/02 - 2011/2595(RPS) - deadline: 16/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission Regulation on the catalogue of feed materials (D012065/03 - 2011/2603(RPS) - deadline: 24/05/2011) referred to responsible: AGRI opinion: ENVI
- Draft Commission regulation determining, pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, certain restrictions applicable to the use of international credits from projects involving industrial gases (D012390/02 - 2011/2585(RPS) - deadline: 15/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: ITRE
- Draft Commission Regulation amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for benalaxyl, boscalid, buprofezin, carbofuran, carbosulfan, cypermethrin, fluopicolide, hexythiazox, indoxacarb, metaflumizone, methoxyfenozide, paraquat, prochloraz, spirodiclofen, prothioconazole and zoxamide in or on certain products (D012442/02 - 2011/2597(RPS) - deadline: 18/04/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission Regulation amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for biphenyl, deltamethrin, ethofumesate, isopyrazam, propiconazole, pymetrozine, pyrimethanil and tebuconazole in or on certain products (D012447/02 - 2011/2598(RPS) - deadline: 19/04/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission regulation amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the maximum residue level for chlorantraniliprole (DPX E-2Y45) in or on carrots (D012450/02 - 2011/2606(RPS) - deadline: 01/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission Regulation of amending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels for nitrite, melamine, Ambrosia spp and carry-over of certain coccidiostats and histomonostats and consolidating Annexes I and II thereto (D012489/03 - 2011/2602(RPS) - deadline: 23/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: AGRI
- Draft Commission Decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to all-purpose cleaners and sanitary cleaners (D012685/03 - 2011/2624(RPS) - deadline: 04/06/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission Decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to hand dishwashing detergents (D012686/03 - 2011/2621(RPS) - deadline: 04/06/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission Decision on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to lubricants (D012687/02 - 2011/2622(RPS) - deadline: 04/06/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission regulation implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards labelling requirements for plant protection products (D012834/02 - 2011/2604(RPS) - deadline: 26/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: AGRI, IMCO
- Draft Commission Directive ../…/EC amending Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (D012856/02 - 2011/2600(RPS) - deadline: 23/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: IMCO
- Draft Commission Regulation (EU) No …/.. implementing Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides, as regards definitions and list of active substances (D012876/02 - 2011/2601(RPS) - deadline: 23/05/2011) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Draft Commission Decision on the safety requirements to be met by European standards for stationary training equipment pursuant to Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (D012981/03 - 2011/2619(RPS) - deadline: 04/06/2011) referred to responsible: IMCO opinion: ENVI
- Draft Commission Regulation (EU) No …/.. replacing Annex II and amending Annexes IV, IX and XI to Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles (Framework Directive) (D012994/02 - 2011/2618(RPS) - deadline: 03/06/2011) referred to responsible: IMCO opinion: TRAN.
5. Documents received
The following document had been received from a committee:
- Report on the draft European Council decision amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to a stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro (0033/2010 - C7-0014/2011 - 2010/0821(NLE)) - AFCO Committee – Co-rapporteurs: Elmar Brok, Roberto Gualtieri (A7-0052/2011)
6. Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (debate)
Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects
Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) made the statement.
The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Miguel Portas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Bruno Gollnisch, Non-attached Member, Ioannis Kasoulides, Ana Gomes, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Mirosław Piotrowski and Gerard Batten.
IN THE CHAIR: Gianni PITTELLA Vice-President
The following spoke: Elmar Brok, who also replied to a blue-card question from Miguel Portas, Adrian Severin, Marielle De Sarnez, Derk Jan Eppink, Mario Mauro, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Kristiina Ojuland, Paweł Robert Kowal, Michael Gahler, Sylvie Guillaume, Edward McMillan-Scott, Tokia Saïfi, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Cristian Dan Preda, Simon Busuttil, Ernst Strasser, Krzysztof Lisek, Tunne Kelam, Nadezhda Neynsky, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra and Salvatore Iacolino.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Arnaud Danjean, Richard Howitt, Sonia Alfano, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Ilda Figueiredo and Mario Borghezio.
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On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed a delegation from the Transitional National Council of Libya, headed by Mahmoud Jebril Ibrahim El-Welfali and Ali Aziz Al-Eisawi.
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The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.
The following spoke: Edward McMillan-Scott, Mario Mauro and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who put a number of supplementary questions to Catherine Ashton, to which she replied.
Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):
- Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba and Marek Henryk Migalski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the current situation in Libya (B7-0169/2011);
- Martin Schulz, Ana Gomes, Kader Arif, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Roberto Gualtieri, Vincent Peillon, Harlem Désir, Sylvie Guillaume and Kristian Vigenin, on behalf of the S&D Group, on Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular (B7-0170/2011);
- Kristiina Ojuland, Marielle De Sarnez, Marietje Schaake, Sonia Alfano, Leonidas Donskis, Edward McMillan-Scott, Alexandra Thein and Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (B7-0171/2011);
- Franziska Katharina Brantner, Hélène Flautre, Margrete Auken, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Judith Sargentini, Catherine Grèze, Yannick Jadot, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Bart Staes, Emilie Turunen, Isabelle Durant, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (B7-0172/2011);
- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Ioannis Kasoulides, Cristian Dan Preda, Mario Mauro, Marietta Giannakou, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Gabriele Albertini, Tunne Kelam, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Elena Băsescu, Michael Gahler, Alf Svensson, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Inese Vaidere, Vito Bonsignore, Simon Busuttil, Joachim Zeller, Tokia Saïfi, Michèle Striffler, Andrzej Grzyb, Krzysztof Lisek, Vytautas Landsbergis, Artur Zasada, Salvatore Iacolino, Dominique Vlasto, Alfredo Pallone, Philippe Juvin, Traian Ungureanu, Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Ernst Strasser, Roberta Angelilli, Véronique Mathieu, Nadezhda Neynsky and Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the situation in Libya (B7-0173/2011);
- Miguel Portas, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Gabriele Zimmer, Willy Meyer, Helmut Scholz, Rui Tavares, Patrick Le Hyaric, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Marisa Matias and Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (B7-0174/2011).
The debate closed.
Vote: minutes of 10.3.2011, item 9.2.
7. Amendment of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union * (debate)
Report on the draft European Council decision amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to a stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro [0033/2010 - C7-0014/2011- 2010/0821(NLE)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Co-rapporteurs: Elmar Brok and Roberto Gualtieri (A7-0052/2011)
Elmar Brok and Roberto Gualtieri introduced their report.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
The following spoke: Jean-Paul Gauzès (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Edward Scicluna (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Paulo Rangel, on behalf of the PPE Group, Enrique Guerrero Salom, on behalf of the S&D Group, Andrew Duff, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question from William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Gerald Häfner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ashley Fox, on behalf of the ECR Group, Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Godfrey Bloom, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question from Andrew Duff, Andrew Henry William Brons, Non-attached Member, Carlo Casini, Proinsias De Rossa, Sharon Bowles, Vicky Ford, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Morten Messerschmidt, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Werner Langen, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Ryszard Czarnecki, Gunnar Hökmark, Vital Moreira, Rafał Trzaskowski, Jo Leinen, Frank Engel and Sergio Gaetano Cofferati.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Zita Gurmai, Pervenche Berès, Sven Giegold and Jaroslav Paška.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič and Roberto Gualtieri.
The debate closed.
Vote: next part-session.
IN THE CHAIR: Stavros LAMBRINIDIS Vice-President
The following spoke: Robert Atkins, on the time the voting started, Derek Roland Clark, on the vote on the 2012 and 2013 calendars, and Edward McMillan-Scott, on behalf of the ALDE Group, to ask that the vote on the 2012 and 2013 calendars be held before the formal sitting scheduled for midday.
Parliament agreed to the request.
8. Voting time
Detailed voting results (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.
8.1. Parliament's calendar of part-sessions – 2012 (vote)
Parliament's calendar of part-sessions – 2012: see the proposal of the Conference of Presidents (minutes of 7.3.2011, item 5)
Parliament's calendar of part-sessions for 2012 was therefore laid down as follows:
16 - 19 January 1 and 2 February 13 - 16 February 12 - 15 March 28 and 29 March 17 - 20 April 9 and 10 May 21 - 24 May 11 - 14 June 2 - 5 July 10 - 13 September 22 and 23 October 25 and 26 October 7 and 8 November 19 - 22 November 10 - 13 December
The list of signatories to the request for a secret ballot is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 9.3.2011, annex 1). The list of Members voting is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 9.3.2011, annex 2).
8.2. Parliament's calendar of part-sessions – 2013 (vote)
Parliament's calendar of part-sessions – 2013: see the proposal of the Conference of Presidents (minutes of 7.3.2011, item 6)
Parliament's calendar of part-sessions for 2013 was therefore laid down as follows:
14 - 17 January 4 - 7 February 27 and 28 February 11 - 14 March 27 and 28 March 15 - 18 April 8 and 9 May 20 - 23 May 10 - 13 June 1 - 4 July 9 - 12 September 21 and 22 October 24 and 25 October 6 and 7 November 18 - 21 November 9 - 12 December
The list of signatories to the request for a secret ballot is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 9.3.2011, annex 3). The list of Members voting is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 9.3.2011, annex 4).
8.3. Guidelines for the 2012 budget - other sections (vote)
Report on the guidelines for the 2012 budget procedure, Section I – European Parliament, Section II – Council, Section IV – Court of Justice, Section V – Court of Auditors, Section VI – European Economic and Social Committee, Section VII – Committee of the Regions, Section VIII – European Ombudsman, Section IX – European Data Protection Supervisor, Section X - European External Action Service [2011/2017(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: José Manuel Fernandes (A7-0049/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)
Ria Oomen-Ruijten, during the vote, on the PPE Group's voting list concerning Amendment 29, and to move an oral amendment to paragraph 18, which had been accepted.
10.2. European integration process of Montenegro(vote)
Report on the EU strategy on Roma inclusion [2010/2276(INI)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Lívia Járóka (A7-0043/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 7)
ALTERNATIVE MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (tabled by the EFD Group)
10.4. Industrial policy for the globalised era (vote)
Report on an Industrial Policy for the Globalised Era [2010/2095(INI)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Bernd Lange (A7-0022/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 8)
Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 170 appear in the Verbatim Report of Proceedings for the sitting.
Oral explanations of vote:
Parliament's calendar of part-sessions – 2012 Gerard Batten, Daniel Hannan, Bruno Gollnisch and Bernd Posselt
Report: José Manuel Fernandes - A7-0049/2011 Peter Jahr
2010 progress report on Turkey - B7-0156/2011 Erminia Mazzoni
EU strategy for the Atlantic region - B7-0165/2011 Jarosław Kalinowski and Erminia Mazzoni
2010 progress report on Turkey - B7-0156/2011 Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Debora Serracchiani, Andrzej Grzyb, Adam Bielan, Markus Pieper, Hannu Takkula, Daniel Hannan and Bernd Posselt
European integration process of Montenegro - B7-0157/2011 Janusz Władysław Zemke and Bernd Posselt
Report: Lívia Járóka - A7-0043/2011 Clemente Mastella, Jens Rohde, Salvatore Iacolino, Carlo Fidanza, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Pino Arlacchi, Lara Comi, Antonello Antinoro, Roberta Angelilli, Raffaele Baldassarre, Mitro Repo, Miroslav Mikolášik and Hannu Takkula
Report: Bernd Lange - A7-0022/2011 Clemente Mastella, Erminia Mazzoni, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Miroslav Mikolášik, Adam Bielan, Cristiana Muscardini, Peter Jahr, Seán Kelly, Andrzej Grzyb and Izaskun Bilbao Barandica
12. Corrections to votes and voting intentions
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 13.45 and resumed at 15.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND Vice-President
13. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
14. EU approach towards Iran (debate)
Report on the EU's approach towards Iran [2010/2050(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Bastiaan Belder (A7-0037/2011)
Bastiaan Belder introduced the report.
The following spoke: Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy).
The following spoke: Michael Gahler, on behalf of the PPE Group, María Muñiz De Urquiza, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Barbara Lochbihler, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Sabine Lösing, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Marita Ulvskog, Marit Paulsen, Ryszard Czarnecki, Barry Madlener, Vytautas Landsbergis, Zoran Thaler, Norica Nicolai, Peter van Dalen, Nicole Sinclaire, who also replied to a blue-card question from Richard Howitt, Paweł Zalewski, Pino Arlacchi, Geoffrey Van Orden, George Sabin Cutaş and Jan Zahradil.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Tunne Kelam, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Antonyia Parvanova, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Franz Obermayr, Elena Băsescu, Mitro Repo and Peter Šťastný.
The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.
IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS Vice-President
The following spoke: Bastiaan Belder.
The debate closed.
Vote: minutes of 10.3.2011, point 9.3.
15. 16th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, 28 February to 25 March 2011) (debate)
Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: 16th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, 28 February to 25 March 2011)
Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) made the statement.
The following spoke: Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE Group, Richard Howitt, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Willy Meyer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nikolaos Salavrakos, on behalf of the EFD Group, Inese Vaidere, Jörg Leichtfried, Charles Goerens, Marek Henryk Migalski, Gay Mitchell, who also replied to two blue-card questions from Véronique De Keyser and Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Maria Eleni Koppa, Sari Essayah, Raimon Obiols and Salvatore Iacolino.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Norica Nicolai, Charles Tannock, Struan Stevenson, Diane Dodds and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra.
The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.
The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, to put a supplementary question to Catherine Ashton, who replied to it.
Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):
- Marietje Schaake, Leonidas Donskis and Marielle De Sarnez, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Parliament’s position on/priorities for the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 2011 review (B7-0158/2011);
- Richard Howitt, Véronique De Keyser, Jörg Leichtfried, Maria Eleni Koppa and Raimon Obiols, on behalf of the S&D Group, on Parliament’s position on and priorities for the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 2011 review (B7-0160/2011);
- Charles Tannock and Tomasz Piotr Poręba, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the priorities of the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 2011 review (B7-0161/2011);
- Heidi Hautala, Barbara Lochbihler, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Parliament’s position on and priorities for the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 2011 review (B7-0162/2011);
- Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Inese Vaidere, László Tőkés, Mario Mauro, Marietta Giannakou, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Gabriele Albertini and Kinga Gál, on behalf of the PPE Group, on Parliament’s position on and priorities for the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 2011 review (B7-0163/2011);
- Marie-Christine Vergiat, Eva-Britt Svensson, Miguel Portas, Rui Tavares, Marisa Matias, Willy Meyer and Elie Hoarau, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the 16th session of the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva, 28 February to 25 March 2011) (B7-0164/2011).
16. State of play of the peace process for the Middle East (debate)
Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: State of play of the peace process for the Middle East
Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) made the statement.
The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Margrete Auken, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Struan Stevenson, on behalf of the ECR Group, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Hannes Swoboda, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Patrick Le Hyaric, Fiorello Provera, Diane Dodds, Francisco José Millán Mon, Proinsias De Rossa, Chris Davies, David Campbell Bannerman, Cristian Dan Preda, David-Maria Sassoli, Marielle De Sarnez, Krzysztof Lisek, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Marietta Giannakou, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska and Cristiana Muscardini.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Pino Arlacchi, Charles Tannock, Jaroslav Paška and Hannes Swoboda.
The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.
The debate closed.
17. Agenda of the next sitting
The agenda of the next day's sitting had been established ('Agenda' PE 459.829/OJJE).