- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (COM(2012)0131 - C7-0086/2012 - 2012/0061(COD)) The President would consult the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on this proposal, in accordance with Rule 124(1) and Rule 125(1).
referred to
responsible:
EMPL
opinion:
IMCO
- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators as regards the placing on the market of portable batteries and accumulators containing cadmium intended for use in cordless power tools (COM(2012)0136 - C7-0087/2012 - 2012/0066(COD)) The President would consult the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on this proposal, in accordance with Rule 124(1) and Rule 125(1).
referred to
responsible:
ENVI
opinion:
ITRE, JURI
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 1999/4/EC, 2000/36/EC, 2001/111/EC, 2001/113/EC and 2001/114/EC as regards the powers to be conferred on the Commission (COM(2012)0150 - C7-0089/2012 - 2012/0075(COD)) The President would consult the European Economic and Social Committee on this proposal, in accordance with Rule 124(1).
referred to
responsible:
ENVI
opinion:
DEVE, AGRI, JURI
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 of 18 September 2007 establishing a multi-annual plan for the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks (COM(2012)0155 - C7-0090/2012 - 2012/0077(COD)) The President would consult the European Economic and Social Committee on this proposal, in accordance with Rule 124(1).
referred to
responsible:
PECH
opinion:
ENVI
- Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in accordance with point 28 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (EGF/2012/000 TA 2012 - Technical assistance at the initiative of the Commission) (COM(2012)0160 - C7-0091/2012 - 2012/2058(BUD))
referred to
responsible:
BUDG
opinion:
EMPL, INTA
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council simplifying the transfer of motor vehicles registered in another Member State within the Single Market (COM(2012)0164 - C7-0092/2012 - 2012/0082(COD)) The President would consult the European Economic and Social Committee on this proposal, in accordance with Rule 124(1).
referred to
responsible:
IMCO
opinion:
ENVI, ITRE, LIBE, TRAN
- Special Report No 1/ 2012 (2011 discharge) – Effectiveness of European Union development aid for food security in sub-Saharan Africa (N7-0051/2012 - C7-0093/2012 - 2012/2059(DEC))
referred to
responsible:
CONT
opinion:
DEVE
- Special Report No 2/2012 (2011 discharge) — Financial instruments for SMEs co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (N7-0052/2012 - C7-0094/2012 - 2012/2060(DEC))
referred to
responsible:
CONT
opinion:
ITRE, ECON, REGI
- Proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 06/2012 - Section III – Commission (N7-0053/2012 - C7-0100/2012 - 2012/2070(GBD))
referred to
responsible:
BUDG
2) Interinstitutional agreements (Rule 127) - following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 15 March 2012
- Interinstitutional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council concerning the forwarding to and handling by the European Parliament of classified information held by the Council on matters other than those in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy - (2012/2069 ACI)
referred to
responsible:
AFCO
3. Coordination of social security systems ***I (debate)
Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 [COM(2010)0794 - C7-0005/2011- 2010/0380(COD)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Milan Cabrnoch (A7-0043/2012)
Milan Cabrnoch introduced the report.
The following spoke: Sari Essayah, on behalf of the PPE Group.
The following spoke: László Andor (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Alejandro Cercas, on behalf of the S&D Group, Siiri Oviir, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marina Yannakoudakis, on behalf of the ECR Group, Tadeusz Cymański, on behalf of the EFD Group, Inês Cristina Zuber, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Angelika Werthmann, Non-attached Member, Csaba Őry, Jutta Steinruck, Ryszard Czarnecki, Jaroslav Paška, Franz Obermayr and Ole Christensen.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Miroslav Mikolášik, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Elena Băsescu, Gerard Batten, Petru Constantin Luhan, Monika Flašíková Beňová and Andrew Henry William Brons.
The following spoke: László Andor and Milan Cabrnoch.
The debate closed.
Vote: 18 April 2012.
IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT Vice-President
4. Commission Question Time
Workers' rights in a Europe of open borders
Olli Rehn (Vice-President of the Commission) and László Andor (Member of the Commission)
Olli Rehn and László Andor answered the questions from the following Members: Anne Delvaux, Evelyn Regner, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Renate Weber, Elisabeth Schroedter, Cornelis de Jong, Roberta Angelilli, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Jaroslav Paška, Ádám Kósa and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.
The following spoke: Alejandro Cercas on the conduct of Question Time.
Olli Rehn and László Andor answered the questions by the following Members: Phil Bennion, who also commented on the conduct of Question Time, Erminia Mazzoni, Pervenche Berès, Emilie Turunen and Georgios Papanikolaou.
Commission Question Time closed.
IN THE CHAIR: Anni PODIMATA Vice-President
5. Fish as a common good (written declaration)
Written declaration 0047/2011, tabled by Guido Milana, Kriton Arsenis, Corinne Lepage, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves and Raül Romeva i Rueda on fish as a common good, had been signed by a majority of Parliament's component Members and therefore, pursuant to Rule 123(3) and (4), would be forwarded to the addressees and published with the texts adopted at that sitting (P7_TA(2012)0129), with a record in the minutes of the names of the signatories (minutes of 18.4.2012, annex 1).
The following spoke: Guido Milana.
6. Children with Down syndrome (written declaration)
Written declaration 0052/2011, tabled by George Sabin Cutaş, Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă, Norica Nicolai, Marc Tarabella and Thomas Ulmer on children with Down syndrome, had been signed by a majority of Parliament's component Members and therefore, pursuant to Rule 123(3) and (4), would be forwarded to the addressees and published with the texts adopted at that sitting (P7_TA(2012)0130), with a record in the minutes of the names of the signatories (minutes of 18.4.2012, Annex 2).
The following spoke: George Sabin Cutaş.
7. 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.
7.1. Coordination of social security systems ***I (Rule 138)(vote)
Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 [COM(2010)0794 - C7-0005/2011- 2010/0380(COD)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Milan Cabrnoch (A7-0043/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
COMMISSION PROPOSAL, AMENDMENTS and DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION
7.2. Accession of the European Union to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia *** (Rule 138)(vote)
Recommendation on the draft Council decision on the accession of the European Union to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia [07434/2012 - C7-0085/2012- 2012/0028(NLE)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Elmar Brok (A7-0139/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)
Parliament consented to the Union's accession to the Treaty.
7.3. Draft Protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon (consent) *** (Rule 138)(vote)
Recommendation on the European Council's proposal not to convene a Convention for the addition of a Protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon, to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union [00092/2011 - C7-0388/2011- 2011/0816(NLE)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Paulo Rangel (A7-0065/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)
Parliament consented to the European Council's proposal not to convene a Convention;.
7.4. Draft Protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon (consultation) * (Rule 138)(vote)
Report on the draft protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 48(3) of the Treaty on European Union) [00092/2011 - C7-0387/2011- 2011/0815(NLE)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Paulo Rangel (A7-0064/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)
7.5. The role of Cohesion Policy in the outermost regions of the European Union in the context of EU 2020 (Rule 138)(vote)
Report on the role of Cohesion Policy in the outermost regions of the European Union in the context of EU 2020 [2011/2195(INI)] - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Nuno Teixeira (A7-0084/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 5)
7.6. Human rights in the world and the EU's policy on the matter (vote)
Report on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World and the European Union's policy on the matter, including implications for the EU's strategic human rights policy [2011/2185(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Richard Howitt (A7-0086/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 6)
Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris to move an oral amendment after paragraph 101, which was not accepted as more than 40 members objected.
Rui Tavares to move an oral amendment to paragraph 112, which was accepted.
IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ President
8. Formal sitting - Jordan
From 12.00 to 12.25, a formal sitting of Parliament was held on the occasion of the speech by His Majesty King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
IN THE CHAIR: Anni PODIMATA Vice-President
9. Voting time (continued)
9.1. Negotiations of the EU-Azerbaijan Association Agreement (vote)
Report containing the European Parliament's recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the European External Action Service on the negotiations of the EU-Azerbaijan Association Agreement [2011/2316(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Anneli Jäätteenmäki (A7-0071/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 7)
Vytautas Landsbergis to move an oral amendment to Amendment 1, which was accepted.
9.2. Negotiations of the EU-Armenia Association Agreement(vote)
Report containing the European Parliament's recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the European External Action Service on the negotiations of the EU-Armenia Association Agreement [2011/2315(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Tomasz Piotr Poręba (A7-0079/2012)
(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:
Report: Milan Cabrnoch - A7-0043/2012 Kay Swinburne, Adam Bielan, Marek Józef Gróbarczyk, Daniel Hannan, Csaba Sógor, Charles Tannock, Peter Jahr, David Campbell Bannerman, Syed Kamall, Gay Mitchell and Antonello Antinoro
Report: Richard Howitt - A7-0086/2012 Ewald Stadler, Kay Swinburne, Daniel Hannan, Iva Zanicchi, Paul Murphy, Mitro Repo, Marina Yannakoudakis, Miroslav Mikolášik, Ryszard Czarnecki, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Diane Dodds, Gay Mitchell, Hannu Takkula, David Campbell Bannerman and Bruno Gollnisch
Report: Anneli Jäätteenmäki - A7-0071/2012 Daniel Hannan, Kay Swinburne, Adam Bielan, Ryszard Czarnecki, Mitro Repo, Charles Tannock, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Miroslav Mikolášik, Hannu Takkula and Graham Watson
Report: Tomasz Piotr Poręba - A7-0079/2012 Daniel Hannan, Ewald Stadler, Kay Swinburne, Adam Bielan, Mitro Repo, Mario Pirillo, Charles Tannock and Elena Băsescu
11. 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 13.30 and resumed at 15.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ
President
12. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
13. Means to overcome the economic crisis, in particular in the Eurozone (debate)
Statement by the President of the Commission: Means to overcome the economic crisis, in particular in the Eurozone
José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Sven Giegold, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Martin Callanan, on behalf of the ECR Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Bruno Gollnisch, Non-attached Member.
IN THE CHAIR: László SURJÁN Vice-President
The following spoke: Marisa Matias, to put a blue-card question to Bruno Gollnisch, who replied, Luis de Grandes Pascual, who also replied to a blue-card question by Raül Romeva i Rueda, Elisa Ferreira, Sharon Bowles, Nikos Chrysogelos, Kay Swinburne, Mario Borghezio, Paul Murphy, Andrew Henry William Brons, Marietta Giannakou, Pervenche Berès, Wolf Klinz, Vicky Ford, Alfredo Pallone, Robert Goebbels, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Anni Podimata, Theodoros Skylakakis, Udo Bullmann, who also replied to a blue-card question by Liisa Jaakonsaari, Juan Fernando López Aguilar and Leonardo Domenici.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Roberta Angelilli, Gianni Pittella, Georgios Papastamkos, Roberto Gualtieri, Marije Cornelissen, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Zigmantas Balčytis, John Bufton, Mario Mauro, João Ferreira and Edite Estrela.
The following spoke: Olli Rehn (Vice-President of the Commission).
The debate closed.
14. Call for concrete ways to combat tax fraud and tax evasion (debate)
Council and Commission statements: Call for concrete ways to combat tax fraud and tax evasion
Nicolai Wammen (President-in-Office of the Council) and Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission) made the statements.
The following spoke: Pablo Zalba Bidegain, on behalf of the PPE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by María Muñiz De Urquiza, Elisa Ferreira, on behalf of the S&D Group, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.
IN THE CHAIR: Jacek PROTASIEWICZ Vice-President
The following spoke: Juozas Imbrasas, on behalf of the EFD Group, Cornelis de Jong, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Anni Podimata and Udo Bullmann.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu, Janusz Władysław Zemke, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Angelika Werthmann and Georgios Papanikolaou.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta and Nicolai Wammen.
Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):
- Jean-Paul Gauzès, on behalf of the PPE Group, Elisa Ferreira, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sylvie Goulard, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Cornelis de Jong, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the call for concrete ways to combat tax fraud and tax evasion (B7-0203/2012).
15. Legal security of European investments outside the European Union (debate)
Council and Commission statements: Legal security of European investments outside the European Union
Nicolai Wammen (President-in-Office of the Council) and Antonio Tajani (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.
The following spoke: Jaime Mayor Oreja, on behalf of the PPE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Raül Romeva i Rueda, Enrique Guerrero Salom, on behalf of the S&D Group, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ana Miranda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Salvador Garriga Polledo, Patrick Le Hyaric, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Francisco Sosa Wagner, Non-attached Member.
The following spoke: Antonio Tajani and Nicolai Wammen.
The motions for resolutions to be tabled under Rule 110(2) would be announced in the House at a later time.
16. Common consolidated corporate tax base * (debate)
Report on the proposal for a Council directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) [COM(2011)0121 - C7-0092/2011- 2011/0058(CNS)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Marianne Thyssen (A7-0080/2012)
Marianne Thyssen introduced the report.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Olle Schmidt (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Jean-Paul Gauzès, on behalf of the PPE Group, Liem Hoang Ngoc, on behalf of the S&D Group, Carl Haglund, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ivo Strejček, on behalf of the ECR Group, Godfrey Bloom, on behalf of the EFD Group, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, who also replied to a blue-card question by William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Derk Jan Eppink, Diogo Feio, George Sabin Cutaş, Ashley Fox, Krišjānis Kariņš, Edvard Kožušník, Zuzana Roithová and Gay Mitchell.
IN THE CHAIR: Georgios PAPASTAMKOS Vice-President
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Nadezhda Neynsky, Petri Sarvamaa, Monika Flašíková Beňová and Andrew Henry William Brons.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta and Marianne Thyssen.
17. Taxation of energy products and electricity * (debate)
Report on the proposal for a Council Directive amending Council Directive 2003/96/EC restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity [COM(2011)0169 - C7-0105/2011- 2011/0092(CNS)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Astrid Lulling (A7-0052/2012)
Astrid Lulling introduced the report.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Angelika Werthmann (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Kathleen Van Brempt (rapporteur for the opinion of the ENVI Committee), Béla Kovács (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Werner Langen, on the conduct of the debate, Inés Ayala Sender (rapporteur for the opinion of the TRAN Committee), Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto (rapporteur for the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Markus Ferber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Olle Ludvigsson, on behalf of the S&D Group, and Philippe De Backer, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Martin, Hans-Peter and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Evžen Tošenovský, on behalf of the ECR Group, Claudio Morganti, on behalf of the EFD Group, Sabine Wils, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Mario Mauro, Marita Ulvskog, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Bas Eickhout, Roger Helmer, Anne Delvaux, Bernd Lange and Sven Giegold.
IN THE CHAIR: Alexander ALVARO Vice-President
The following spoke: Gunnar Hökmark, Sławomir Witold Nitras, Richard Seeber, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bernd Lange, and Werner Langen.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Spyros Danellis, Cristian Silviu Buşoi, Paul Rübig and Monika Flašíková Beňová.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta and Astrid Lulling.
18. Risk sharing instruments for Member States ***I (debate)
Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 as regards certain provisions relating to risk sharing instruments for Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability [COM(2011)0655 - C7-0350/2011- 2011/0283(COD)] - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Danuta Maria Hübner (A7-0067/2012)
Danuta Maria Hübner introduced the report.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Crescenzio Rivellini (rapporteur for the opinion of the CONT Committee), Georgios Papastamkos, on behalf of the PPE Group, Mojca Kleva, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Elisabeth Schroedter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Oldřich Vlasák, on behalf of the ECR Group, John Bufton, on behalf of the EFD Group, Ewald Stadler, Non-attached Member, Iosif Matula, Georgios Stavrakakis, Nikos Chrysogelos, Nuno Teixeira, Joachim Zeller, Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid, Iliana Ivanova and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Petru Constantin Luhan, Jaroslav Paška, João Ferreira and Elena Băsescu.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta and Danuta Maria Hübner.
Annex 1 - Fish as a common good (written declaration)
Written declaration 0047/2011 by Guido Milana, Kriton Arsenis, Corinne Lepage, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves and Raül Romeva i Rueda on fish as a common good (minutes of 18.4.2012, item 5 et P7_TA-PROV(2012)0129), signed by390 Members:
János Áder, Gabriele Albertini, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Sonia Alfano, Magdi Cristiano Allam, Alexander Alvaro, Luís Paulo Alves, Josefa Andrés Barea, Roberta Angelilli, Antonello Antinoro, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Kader Arif, Pino Arlacchi, Kriton Arsenis, John Attard-Montalto, Sophie Auconie, Margrete Auken, Inés Ayala Sender, Liam Aylward, Pilar Ayuso, Georges Bach, Maria Badia i Cutchet, Zoltán Bagó, Zigmantas Balčytis, Raffaele Baldassarre, Francesca Balzani, Paolo Bartolozzi, Regina Bastos, Catherine Bearder, Sandrine Bélier, Malika Benarab-Attou, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Sergio Berlato, Luigi Berlinguer, Jean-Paul Besset, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Vito Bonsignore, Mario Borghezio, Rita Borsellino, José Bové, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Arkadiusz Tomasz Bratkowski, Frieda Brepoels, Alain Cadec, Wim van de Camp, Antonio Cancian, Pascal Canfin, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Salvatore Caronna, Maria Da Graça Carvalho, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Françoise Castex, Jean-Marie Cavada, Alejandro Cercas, Nessa Childers, Nikolaos Chountis, Ole Christensen, Nikos Chrysogelos, Yves Cochet, Carlos Coelho, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Lara Comi, Marije Cornelissen, María Auxiliadora Correa Zamora, António Fernando Correia de Campos, Silvia Costa, Andrea Cozzolino, Michael Cramer, Corina Creţu, Rosario Crocetta, Tarja Cronberg, Joseph Cuschieri, George Sabin Cutaş, Tadeusz Cymański, Frédéric Daerden, Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă, Spyros Danellis, Mário David, Chris Davies, Francesco De Angelis, Paolo De Castro, Véronique De Keyser, Karima Delli, Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, Proinsias De Rossa, Harlem Désir, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Leonardo Domenici, Leonidas Donskis, Dimitrios Droutsas, Isabelle Durant, Robert Dušek, Bas Eickhout, Saïd El Khadraoui, Ioan Enciu, Ismail Ertug, Edite Estrela, Tanja Fajon, Richard Falbr, Diogo Feio, José Manuel Fernandes, Elisa Ferreira, João Ferreira, Carlo Fidanza, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Hélène Flautre, Knut Fleckenstein, Lorenzo Fontana, Gaston Franco, Michael Gahler, Pat the Cope Gallagher, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Dolores García-Hierro Caraballo, Iratxe García Pérez, Eider Gardiazábal Rubial, Elisabetta Gardini, Giuseppe Gargani, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Marietta Giannakou, Sven Giegold, Adam Gierek, Bruno Gollnisch, Ana Gomes, Louis Grech, Estelle Grelier, Catherine Grèze, Marek Józef Gróbarczyk, Françoise Grossetête, Roberto Gualtieri, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Zita Gurmai, Mikael Gustafsson, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Gerald Häfner, Carl Haglund, Fiona Hall, Małgorzata Handzlik, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Satu Hassi, Martin Häusling, Edit Herczog, Esther Herranz García, Jolanta Emilia Hibner, Jim Higgins, Nadja Hirsch, Elie Hoarau, Monika Hohlmeier, Mary Honeyball, Stephen Hughes, Salvatore Iacolino, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Vincenzo Iovine, María Irigoyen Pérez, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Cătălin Sorin Ivan, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Yannick Jadot, Peter Jahr, Lívia Járóka, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Eva Joly, Romana Jordan, Philippe Juvin, Filip Kaczmarek, Karin Kadenbach, Jarosław Kalinowski, Ioannis Kasoulides, Franziska Keller, Seán Kelly, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Mojca Kleva, Jürgen Klute, Maria Eleni Koppa, Ádám Kósa, Georgios Koumoutsakos, Béla Kovács, Edvard Kožušník, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Werner Kuhn, Jean Lambert, Philippe Lamberts, Vytautas Landsbergis, Giovanni La Via, Agnès Le Brun, Stéphane Le Foll, Constance Le Grip, Jörg Leichtfried, Jo Leinen, Corinne Lepage, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Bogusław Liberadzki, Eva Lichtenberger, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Krzysztof Lisek, Barbara Lochbihler, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Isabella Lövin, Sarah Ludford, Astrid Lulling, Ulrike Lunacek, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Monica Luisa Macovei, Marian-Jean Marinescu, David Martin, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Jiří Maštálka, Clemente Mastella, Barbara Matera, Véronique Mathieu, Marisa Matias, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Iosif Matula, Mario Mauro, Kyriakos Mavronikolas, Erminia Mazzoni, Gesine Meissner, Nuno Melo, Judith A. Merkies, Alajos Mészáros, Willy Meyer, Louis Michel, Guido Milana, Ana Miranda, Alexander Mirsky, Gay Mitchell, Andreas Mölzer, Claude Moraes, Vital Moreira, Claudio Morganti, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Tiziano Motti, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Paul Murphy, Cristiana Muscardini, Norbert Neuser, Katarína Neveďalová, Norica Nicolai, Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Raimon Obiols, Jan Olbrycht, Wojciech Michał Olejniczak, Younous Omarjee, Siiri Oviir, Ivari Padar, Chrysoula Paliadeli, Alfredo Pallone, Vladko Todorov Panayotov, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Georgios Papanikolaou, Georgios Papastamkos, Gilles Pargneaux, Antonyia Parvanova, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Jaroslav Paška, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Aldo Patriciello, Vincent Peillon, Andres Perello Rodriguez, Alojz Peterle, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Mario Pirillo, Gianni Pittella, Pavel Poc, Anni Podimata, Maurice Ponga, Miguel Portas, Konstantinos Poupakis, Cristian Dan Preda, Phil Prendergast, Vittorio Prodi, Fiorello Provera, Miloslav Ransdorf, Sylvana Rapti, Evelyn Regner, Vladimír Remek, Mitro Repo, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Niccolò Rinaldi, Dominique Riquet, Michèle Rivasi, Crescenzio Rivellini, Robert Rochefort, Ulrike Rodust, Zuzana Roithová, Carmen Romero López, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Licia Ronzulli, Anna Rosbach, Oreste Rossi, Alfreds Rubiks, Heide Rühle, Tokia Saïfi, Potito Salatto, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Matteo Salvini, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Judith Sargentini, Amalia Sartori, David-Maria Sassoli, Carl Schlyter, Helmut Scholz, Elisabeth Schroedter, Martin Schulz, Werner Schulz, Marco Scurria, Salvador Sedó i Alabart, Olga Sehnalová, Joanna Senyszyn, Debora Serracchiani, Adrian Severin, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Brian Simpson, Csaba Sógor, Renate Sommer, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Ewald Stadler, Bart Staes, Georgios Stavrakakis, Jutta Steinruck, Struan Stevenson, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Michèle Striffler, Gianluca Susta, Hannes Swoboda, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu, Marc Tarabella, Salvatore Tatarella, Rui Tavares, Keith Taylor, Nuno Teixeira, Alexandra Thein, Eleni Theocharous, Britta Thomsen, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Patrice Tirolien, Patrizia Toia, Catherine Trautmann, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Rafał Trzaskowski, Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Claude Turmes, Emilie Turunen, Niki Tzavela, Giommaria Uggias, Viktor Uspaskich, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Ivo Vajgl, Kathleen Van Brempt, Gianni Vattimo, Derek Vaughan, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Bernadette Vergnaud, Dominique Vlasto, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Henri Weber, Renate Weber, Josef Weidenholzer, Angelika Werthmann, Sabine Wils, Jacek Włosowicz, Janusz Wojciechowski, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Anna Záborská, Iva Zanicchi, Andrea Zanoni, Artur Zasada, Tatjana Ždanoka, Joachim Zeller, Janusz Władysław Zemke, Gabriele Zimmer, Milan Zver.
Annex 2 – Children with Down syndrome (written declaration)
Written declaration 0052/2011 by George Sabin Cutaş, Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă, Norica Nicolai, Marc Tarabella and Thomas Ulmer on children with Down syndrome (minutes of 18.4.2012, item 6 et P7_TA-PROV(2012)0130), signed by 386 Members:
John Stuart Agnew, Gabriele Albertini, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Sonia Alfano, François Alfonsi, Luís Paulo Alves, Amelia Andersdotter, Josefa Andrés Barea, Roberta Angelilli, Elena Oana Antonescu, Kader Arif, Pino Arlacchi, Kriton Arsenis, John Attard-Montalto, Jean-Pierre Audy, Margrete Auken, Inés Ayala Sender, Liam Aylward, Pilar Ayuso, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Georges Bach, Maria Badia i Cutchet, Zigmantas Balčytis, Burkhard Balz, Francesca Balzani, Elena Băsescu, Edit Bauer, Catherine Bearder, Bastiaan Belder, Ivo Belet, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Slavi Binev, Mara Bizzotto, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Rita Borsellino, Victor Boştinaru, José Bové, Sharon Bowles, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Arkadiusz Tomasz Bratkowski, Elmar Brok, Zuzana Brzobohatá, John Bufton, Udo Bullmann, Cristian Silviu Buşoi, Jerzy Buzek, Alain Cadec, Pascal Canfin, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Salvatore Caronna, David Casa, Michael Cashman, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Alejandro Cercas, Nessa Childers, Nikolaos Chountis, Ole Christensen, Nikos Chrysogelos, Yves Cochet, Carlos Coelho, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Lara Comi, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Marije Cornelissen, António Fernando Correia de Campos, Ricardo Cortés Lastra, Silvia Costa, Emer Costello, Michael Cramer, Corina Creţu, Jürgen Creutzmann, Rosario Crocetta, Tarja Cronberg, Joseph Cuschieri, George Sabin Cutaş, Ryszard Czarnecki, Frédéric Daerden, Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă, Spyros Danellis, Joseph Daul, Mário David, Bairbre de Brún, Véronique De Keyser, Karima Delli, Anne Delvaux, Harlem Désir, Nirj Deva, Diane Dodds, Leonardo Domenici, Leonidas Donskis, Dimitrios Droutsas, Isabelle Durant, Robert Dušek, Christian Ehler, Saïd El Khadraoui, Ioan Enciu, Cornelia Ernst, Ismail Ertug, Sari Essayah, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Edite Estrela, Tanja Fajon, Richard Falbr, Diogo Feio, José Manuel Fernandes, Elisa Ferreira, Carlo Fidanza, Santiago Fisas Ayxela, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Lorenzo Fontana, Michael Gahler, Pat the Cope Gallagher, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Iratxe García Pérez, Eider Gardiazábal Rubial, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Sven Giegold, Adam Gierek, Kinga Göncz, Louis Grech, Catherine Grèze, Nathalie Griesbeck, Mathieu Grosch, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Zita Gurmai, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, Gerald Häfner, Carl Haglund, Fiona Hall, Małgorzata Handzlik, Marian Harkin, Martin Häusling, Edit Herczog, Esther Herranz García, Jim Higgins, Elie Hoarau, Monika Hohlmeier, Mary Honeyball, Richard Howitt, Stephen Hughes, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Salvatore Iacolino, Stanimir Ilchev, Juozas Imbrasas, Sophia in 't Veld, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Vincenzo Iovine, María Irigoyen Pérez, Cătălin Sorin Ivan, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Yannick Jadot, Lívia Járóka, Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska, Elisabeth Jeggle, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Kent Johansson, Romana Jordan, Philippe Juvin, Jelko Kacin, Karin Kadenbach, Ivailo Kalfin, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Martin Kastler, Metin Kazak, Tunne Kelam, Franziska Keller, Seán Kelly, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Evgeni Kirilov, Mojca Kleva, Wolf Klinz, Jürgen Klute, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Maria Eleni Koppa, Ádám Kósa, Georgios Koumoutsakos, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, Philippe Lamberts, Vytautas Landsbergis, Bernd Lange, Jörg Leichtfried, Bogusław Liberadzki, Eva Lichtenberger, Peter Liese, Krzysztof Lisek, Barbara Lochbihler, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Sarah Ludford, Petru Constantin Luhan, Ulrike Lunacek, Elizabeth Lynne, Arlene McCarthy, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Monica Luisa Macovei, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Riikka Manner, Marian-Jean Marinescu, David Martin, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Jiří Maštálka, Marisa Matias, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Iosif Matula, Mario Mauro, Kyriakos Mavronikolas, Hans-Peter Mayer, Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Erminia Mazzoni, Gesine Meissner, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Alajos Mészáros, Willy Meyer, Louis Michel, Marek Henryk Migalski, Miroslav Mikolášik, Guido Milana, Ana Miranda, Alexander Mirsky, Gay Mitchell, Andreas Mölzer, Claude Moraes, Claudio Morganti, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Krisztina Morvai, Jan Mulder, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Paul Murphy, Mike Nattrass, Katarína Neveďalová, Norica Nicolai, Rareş-Lucian Niculescu, Raimon Obiols, Kristiina Ojuland, Wojciech Michał Olejniczak, Younous Omarjee, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Siiri Oviir, Ivari Padar, Rolandas Paksas, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Chrysoula Paliadeli, Vladko Todorov Panayotov, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Georgios Papanikolaou, Georgios Papastamkos, Antonyia Parvanova, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Jaroslav Paška, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Aldo Patriciello, Marit Paulsen, Vincent Peillon, Andres Perello Rodriguez, Alojz Peterle, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Mario Pirillo, Gianni Pittella, Rovana Plumb, Anni Podimata, Maurice Ponga, Bernd Posselt, Konstantinos Poupakis, Cristian Dan Preda, Phil Prendergast, Vittorio Prodi, Fiorello Provera, Miloslav Ransdorf, Sylvana Rapti, Vladimír Remek, Mitro Repo, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Niccolò Rinaldi, Michèle Rivasi, Ulrike Rodust, Zuzana Roithová, Carmen Romero López, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Licia Ronzulli, Anna Rosbach, Oreste Rossi, Alfreds Rubiks, Tokia Saïfi, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Potito Salatto, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Petri Sarvamaa, David-Maria Sassoli, Vilja Savisaar-Toomast, Marietje Schaake, Christel Schaldemose, Olle Schmidt, Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, Helmut Scholz, Werner Schulz, Giancarlo Scottà, Salvador Sedó i Alabart, Olga Sehnalová, Debora Serracchiani, Adrian Severin, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Peter Simon, Brian Simpson, Theodoros Skylakakis, Alyn Smith, Monika Smolková, Csaba Sógor, Renate Sommer, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Ewald Stadler, Bart Staes, Georgios Stavrakakis, Jutta Steinruck, Catherine Stihler, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Michèle Striffler, Gianluca Susta, Hannes Swoboda, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Hannu Takkula, Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu, Marc Tarabella, Indrek Tarand, Rui Tavares, Keith Taylor, Alexandra Thein, Eleni Theocharous, Britta Thomsen, Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Patrizia Toia, László Tőkés, Valdemar Tomaševski, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Rafał Trzaskowski, Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Claude Turmes, Niki Tzavela, Giommaria Uggias, Thomas Ulmer, Traian Ungureanu, Vladimir Urutchev, Inese Vaidere, Ivo Vajgl, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Kathleen Van Brempt, Gianni Vattimo, Derek Vaughan, Bernadette Vergnaud, Kristian Vigenin, Axel Voss, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Graham Watson, Henri Weber, Manfred Weber, Renate Weber, Josef Weidenholzer, Angelika Werthmann, Cecilia Wikström, Sabine Wils, Hermann Winkler, Iuliu Winkler, Jacek Włosowicz, Janusz Wojciechowski, Marina Yannakoudakis, Anna Záborská, Boris Zala, Paweł Zalewski, Andrea Zanoni, Tatjana Ždanoka, Joachim Zeller, Gabriele Zimmer, Zbigniew Ziobro, Milan Zver.