The following documents had been received from the Council and Commission
- Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union (02074/2011 - C7-0090/2011 - 2011/0901(COD))
referred to
responsible :
JURI
- Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to temporary judges of the European Union civil service tribunal (01923/2011 - C7-0091/2011 - 2011/0902(COD))
referred to
responsible :
JURI
- Proposal for a Council directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) (COM(2011)0121 - C7-0092/2011 - 2011/0058(CNS))
referred to
responsible :
ECON
opinion :
IMCO
3. EIB annual report for 2009 (debate)
Report on the 2009 Annual Report of the European Investment Bank [2010/2248(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: George Sabin Cutaş (A7-0073/2011)
George Sabin Cutaş introduced the report.
The following spoke: Philippe Maystadt (President of the European Investment Bank) and Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
The following spoke: Jean-Pierre Audy (rapporteur for the opinion of the CONT Committee), Danuta Maria Hübner, on behalf of the PPE Group, Thijs Berman, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sylvie Goulard, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Pascal Canfin, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Kay Swinburne, on behalf of the ECR Group, Jürgen Klute, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Hans-Peter Martin, Godfrey Bloom, on behalf of the EFD Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, James Elles, Claudio Morganti, Dimitar Stoyanov, Alfredo Pallone, Olle Ludvigsson and Struan Stevenson.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Jaroslav Paška, Elena Băsescu, Antonio Cancian, Alfreds Rubiks, Iosif Matula and Werner Kuhn.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič, Philippe Maystadt and George Sabin Cutaş.
Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2000/75/EC as regards vaccination against bluetongue [COM(2010)0666 - 05499/2011 - C7-0032/2011- 2010/0326(COD)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Janusz Wojciechowski (A7-0121/2011)
Janusz Wojciechowski introduced the report.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
The following spoke: Elisabeth Jeggle, on behalf of the PPE Group, John Stuart Agnew, on the previous speech, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marit Paulsen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and James Nicholson, on behalf of the ECR Group.
IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT Vice-President
The following spoke: John Stuart Agnew, on behalf of the EFD Group, Diane Dodds, Non-attached Member, Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Paolo De Castro, Liam Aylward, Julie Girling, Elisabeth Köstinger, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Horst Schnellhardt and Marc Tarabella.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Oldřich Vlasák, Giommaria Uggias and Peter Jahr.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič and Janusz Wojciechowski.
Oral question (O-000040/2011) by Erminia Mazzoni, on behalf of the PETI Committee, to the Commission: Petition 1565/2009 by José Maria Pozancos (Spanish) on EU tomato imports from Morocco (B7-0211/2011)
Erminia Mazzoni moved the oral question.
Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the oral question.
The following spoke: Esther Herranz García, on behalf of the PPE Group, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, João Ferreira, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Josefa Andrés Barea, Paolo De Castro and Iratxe García Pérez.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Giovanni La Via, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Peter Jahr and Michel Dantin.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič.
The debate closed.
(The sitting was suspended at 11.35 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS Vice-President
6. 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.
° ° ° °
The following spoke: Nigel Farage, asking whether the Commission, pursuant to Rule 110(1), was proposing to make a statement on the situation in Portugal.
6.1. Vaccination against bluetongue ***I (vote)
Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2000/75/EC as regards vaccination against bluetongue [COM(2010)0666 - 05499/2011 - C7-0032/2011- 2010/0326(COD)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Janusz Wojciechowski (A7-0121/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
Corien Wortmann-Kool, Pilar del Castillo Vera and Peter Liese, on behalf of the PPE Group, Marita Ulvskog, on behalf of the S&D Group, Lena Ek, Fiona Hall and Leonidas Donskis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marisa Matias, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Bairbre de Brún and Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Ioannis Kasoulides, Gabriele Albertini, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Dominique Baudis, Angelika Niebler, Cristian Dan Preda, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Vito Bonsignore, Andrzej Grzyb, Tokia Saïfi, Michael Gahler, Filip Kaczmarek, Dominique Vlasto, Krzysztof Lisek, Monica Luisa Macovei, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska and Bogusław Sonik, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, Hannes Swoboda, Kristian Vigenin, Kader Arif, Pino Arlacchi, Harlem Désir, Roberto Gualtieri, Richard Howitt, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Vincent Peillon and Boris Zala, on behalf of the S&D Group, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Marielle De Sarnez, Edward McMillan-Scott, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Kristiina Ojuland, Sonia Alfano, Marietje Schaake and Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Frieda Brepoels, Hélène Flautre, Margrete Auken, Malika Benarab-Attou, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Isabelle Durant, Catherine Grèze, Heidi Hautala, Barbara Lochbihler, Ulrike Lunacek, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Judith Sargentini, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Ashley Fox, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki, Adam Bielan and Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the ECR Group.
Eleni Theocharous, Filip Kaczmarek, Gay Mitchell, Michèle Striffler, Maurice Ponga and Alf Svensson, on behalf of the PPE Group, Thijs Berman, Michael Cashman, Corina Creţu and Patrice Tirolien, on behalf of the S&D Group, Charles Goerens and Marielle De Sarnez, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Judith Sargentini and Catherine Grèze, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jan Zahradil, on behalf of the ECR Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group
Before the vote, Nikolaos Salavrakos, requesting that the vote be adjourned and Kristian Vigenin, opposing that request (Parliament rejected the request).
Eduard Kukan, proposing that the final vote be taken by roll-call.
Kristian Vigenin on the vote on paragraph 1.
Before the final vote, Gerard Batten, drawing attention to the Rules of Procedure in connection with the roll-call vote on the resolution.
Cristian Dan Preda, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Filip Kaczmarek, Michèle Striffler, Dominique Baudis, Bernd Posselt, Alain Cadec, Monica Luisa Macovei, Elena Băsescu and Alf Svensson, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, Thijs Berman, Harlem Désir, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Kader Arif, Vincent Peillon and Patrice Tirolien, on behalf of the S&D Group, Charles Goerens, Marielle De Sarnez, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Marietje Schaake, Kristiina Ojuland and Sonia Alfano, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Judith Sargentini, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Jan Zahradil, Geoffrey Van Orden, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group.
Edit Bauer, Elmar Brok, Mario Mauro, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, László Tőkés, Elena Băsescu, Cristian Dan Preda, Monica Luisa Macovei, Traian Ungureanu, Roberta Angelilli, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Elisabeth Jeggle and Tokia Saïfi, on behalf of the PPE Group, Britta Thomsen, Maria Eleni Koppa, Véronique De Keyser, Emine Bozkurt, Richard Howitt, Ana Gomes and Carmen Romero López, on behalf of the S&D Group, Antonyia Parvanova, Marielle De Sarnez, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Kristiina Ojuland, Sarah Ludford, Giommaria Uggias, Edward McMillan-Scott, Sonia Alfano and Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Barbara Lochbihler, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Judith Sargentini, Malika Benarab-Attou, Hélène Flautre, Ulrike Lunacek, Jean Lambert, Heidi Hautala and Frieda Brepoels, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, Marina Yannakoudakis and Andrea Češková, on behalf of the ECR Group, Eva-Britt Svensson, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Cornelia Ernst and Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group.
Report on the 2009 Annual Report of the European Investment Bank [2010/2248(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: George Sabin Cutaş (A7-0073/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 11)
Lessons to be drawn for nuclear safety in Europe following the nuclear accident in Japan - RC-B7-0236/2011
Ville Itälä, Bernd Lange, Sergej Kozlík, Mitro Repo, Miroslav Mikolášik, Paul Murphy, Francesco De Angelis, Filip Kaczmarek, Giommaria Uggias, Peter Jahr, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Hannu Takkula, Gay Mitchell
Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy - Eastern Dimension - B7-0198/2011
Ville Itälä, Adam Bielan
Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy - Southern Dimension - B7-0199/2011
Cristiana Muscardini
8. 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 13.20 and resumed at 15.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Libor ROUČEK Vice-President
9. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
10. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate)
Guy Verhofstadt introduced motion for a resolution B7-0274/2011.
The following spoke: Bernd Posselt.
Rui Tavares, Charles Tannock, Cristian Dan Preda, Heidi Hautala and Ana Gomes introduced the other motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Sari Essayah, on behalf of the PPE Group, Rosario Crocetta, on behalf of the S&D Group, Kristiina Ojuland, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Eva Lichtenberger, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Paul Murphy, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bernd Posselt, Mitro Repo and Seán Kelly.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Peter Jahr and Gesine Meissner.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
Jaroslav Paška, Charles Tannock, Eva Lichtenberger, Kristiina Ojuland, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Thomas Mann introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Elena Băsescu, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kriton Arsenis, on behalf of the S&D Group, Nathalie Griesbeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Rui Tavares, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Monica Luisa Macovei.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Sari Essayah, Seán Kelly and Mitro Repo.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
Jaroslav Paška, Geoffrey Van Orden, Judith Sargentini, Kristiina Ojuland, Ana Gomes, Seán Kelly and Rui Tavares introduced motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Filip Kaczmarek, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kriton Arsenis, on behalf of the S&D Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, and Cristian Dan Preda.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Sari Essayah, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Cristian Silviu Buşoi, Elena Băsescu, Mitro Repo and Albert Deß.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
Cristian Dan Preda, Mario Mauro, Filip Kaczmarek, Krzysztof Lisek, Sari Essayah, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Monica Luisa Macovei, Elena Băsescu, Thomas Mann, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Bogusław Sonik and László Tőkés, on behalf of the PPE Group;
Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group;
Edward McMillan-Scott, Guy Verhofstadt and Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group;
Helga Trüpel, Heidi Hautala, Eva Lichtenberger, Pascal Canfin, Philippe Lamberts, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rebecca Harms and Barbara Lochbihler, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group;
Charles Tannock, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Roberts Zīle, Ryszard Czarnecki, Adam Bielan, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Geoffrey Van Orden, on behalf of the ECR Group;
Rui Tavares, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group;
Fiorello Provera.
Adopted(P7_TA(2011)157)
11.2. Ban on the elections for the Tibetan government in exile in Nepal (vote)
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Thomas Mann, Mario Mauro, Cristian Dan Preda, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Csaba Sógor, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Filip Kaczmarek, Monica Luisa Macovei, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Elena Băsescu, Sari Essayah, Bogusław Sonik, Tadeusz Zwiefka and László Tőkés, on behalf of the PPE Group;
Véronique De Keyser and Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, on behalf of the S&D Group;
Kristiina Ojuland, Norica Nicolai, Marielle De Sarnez, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Leonidas Donskis, Marietje Schaake and Sonia Alfano, on behalf of the ALDE Group;
Eva Lichtenberger, Heidi Hautala, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group;
Charles Tannock, Geoffrey Van Orden, Roberts Zīle, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Marek Henryk Migalski, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group;
Alain Cadec, Michael Gahler, Mario Mauro, Cristian Dan Preda, Filip Kaczmarek, Bernd Posselt, Tunne Kelam, Monica Luisa Macovei, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Elena Băsescu, Sari Essayah, Thomas Mann, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Csaba Sógor and Bogusław Sonik, on behalf of the PPE Group;
Véronique De Keyser, Thijs Berman, Michael Cashman and Ana Gomes, on behalf of the S&D Group;
Marielle De Sarnez, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Sarah Ludford, Kristiina Ojuland, Sonia Alfano and Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group;
Judith Sargentini, Barbara Lochbihler and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group;
Geoffrey Van Orden, Jan Zahradil, Charles Tannock, Nirj Deva, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group;
Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group;
Fiorello Provera.
Adopted(P7_TA(2011)159)
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.
13. Decisions concerning certain documents
Amendment of the Rules of Procedure (Rule 212)
AFCO Committee
- Transitional comitology measures adopted by the Conference of Presidents (2009/2195(REG))
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports(Rule 48)
AGRI Committee
- The CAP towards 2020: Meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future (2011/2051(INI)) (opinion: DEVE, ENVI, ITRE, REGI)
EMPL Committee
- The European Platform against poverty and social exclusion (2011/2052(INI)) (opinion: FEMM, CULT, ENVI, BUDG, ITRE, ECON, REGI)
FEMM Committee
- A 2020 Perspective for Women in Turkey (2011/2066(INI))
Referral to committees
AFET Committee
- Attacks against information systems and repealing Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA (COM(2010)0517 - C7-0293/2010 - 2010/0273(COD)) referred to responsible: LIBE opinion: AFET, BUDG, ITRE
14. 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
0001/2011
Jean Lambert, Marian Harkin, Olle Ludvigsson, Peter Skinner, Gabriele Zimmer
156
0002/2011
Mara Bizzotto
27
0003/2011
Romana Jordan Cizelj, Ana Gomes, Corinne Lepage, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Indrek Tarand
338
0004/2011
Angelika Werthmann, Evelyn Regner, Ulrike Lunacek
56
0005/2011
Dieter-Lebrecht Koch
48
0006/2011
Françoise Castex, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Carlos Coelho, Stavros Lambrinidis, Diana Wallis
122
0007/2011
Georgios Papastamkos, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Gay Mitchell, Gianluca Susta, Tadeusz Zwiefka
237
0008/2011
Ioan Enciu, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Antonyia Parvanova, Zuzana Roithová, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides
88
0009/2011
Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Marta Andreasen, Santiago Fisas Ayxela, Oriol Junqueras Vies
129
0010/2011
Marina Yannakoudakis, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Françoise Grossetête, Charles Tannock, Cecilia Wikström
232
0011/2011
Oreste Rossi
44
0012/2011
Cristiana Muscardini, Niccolò Rinaldi, Gianluca Susta, Pablo Zalba Bidegain
36
0013/2011
Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Tanja Fajon, Carl Haglund, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Krzysztof Lisek
24
0014/2011
Konstantinos Poupakis, Richard Howitt, Ádám Kósa, Eva Lichtenberger, Cecilia Wikström
83
0015/2011
Françoise Castex, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Vincent Peillon, Cristian Dan Preda, Ivo Vajgl
52
0016/2011
Geoffrey Van Orden, Gabriele Albertini, Alexander Alvaro, Frédérique Ries, Hannu Takkula
19
0017/2011
Richard Seeber, Ole Christensen, Carl Haglund, Isabella Lövin, Anna Rosbach
39
15. Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting
Pursuant to Rule 179(2), the minutes of that day's sitting would be submitted to Parliament for its approval at the beginning of the next sitting.
With Parliament's agreement, the texts that had been adopted would be forwarded forthwith to the bodies named therein.
16. Dates of forthcoming sittings
The next sittings would be held from 9 May 2011 to 12 May 2011.
17. Adjournment of the session
The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.