The following draft implementing measures falling under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny had been forwarded to Parliament:
- Commission Decision amending Decision 2000/96/EC as regards tick-borne encephalitis and the category of vector-borne communicable diseases (D016030/04 - 2012/2650(RPS) - deadline: 14/08/2012) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Commission Regulation No .../.. implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for household tumble driers (D016743/03 - 2012/2668(RPS) - deadline: 17/08/2012) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: ITRE
- Commission Regulation No .../.. laying down technical requirements and administrative procedures related to air operations pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (D018166/02 - 2012/2666(RPS) - deadline: 17/08/2012) referred to responsible: TRAN
- Commission Directive ../…/EU amending Council Directive 96/98/EC on marine equipment (D019952/02 - 2012/2667(RPS) - deadline: 17/08/2012) referred to responsible: TRAN
- Commission Regulation No .../.. of XXX amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of Talc (E 553b) and Carnauba wax (E 903) on unpeeled coloured boiled eggs and the use of Shellac (E904) on unpeeled boiled eggs (D020181/02 - 2012/2644(RPS) - deadline: 09/07/2012) referred to responsible: ENVI
- Commission Regulation No .../.. on transitional measures concerning the Union list of flavourings and source materials set out in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 (D020215/02 - 2012/2637(RPS) - deadline: 08/08/2012) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: AGRI, ITRE, IMCO
- Commission Decision amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks (D020218/02 - 2012/2649(RPS) - deadline: 11/08/2012) referred to responsible: ITRE
- Commission Regulation (EU) No …/.. amending Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 to list an auction platform to be appointed by Germany and correcting Article 59(7) thereof (D020477/02 - 2012/2652(RPS) - deadline: 14/08/2012) referred to responsible: ENVI opinion: ITRE
- Draft Commission Regulation (EU) No .../.. implementing Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), as regards the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown (D020576/01 - 2012/2665(RPS) - deadline: 17/08/2012) referred to responsible: REGI
- Commission Directive ../…/EU amending, for the purpose of adapting its technical provisions, Council Directive 86/297/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the power take-offs of tractors and their protection (D020584/01 - 2012/2664(RPS) - deadline: 16/08/2012) referred to responsible: ITRE opinion: AGRI
3. Common system for taxing financial transactions * (debate)
Report on the proposal for a Council directive on a common system of financial transaction tax and amending Directive 2008/7/EC [COM(2011)0594 - C7-0355/2011- 2011/0261(CNS)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Anni Podimata (A7-0154/2012)
Anni Podimata introduced the report.
The following spoke: Margrethe Vestager (President-in-Office of the Council) and Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Ricardo Cortés Lastra (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Anne E. Jensen (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Frank Engel (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Sirpa Pietikäinen, on behalf of the PPE Group, Elisa Ferreira, on behalf of the S&D Group, Wolf Klinz, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ivo Strejček, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Frank Engel and Bogusław Liberadzki, Godfrey Bloom, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Vicky Ford and Vladimír Maňka, Marisa Matias, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Jean-Paul Gauzès, who also replied to a blue-card question by Ashley Fox, Pervenche Berès, Sylvie Goulard, Emilie Turunen, Kay Swinburne, who also replied to a blue-card question by Hans-Peter Martin, Marta Andreasen, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Vicky Ford and Arlene McCarthy, Jürgen Klute, who also replied to a blue-card question by Werner Langen, Barry Madlener, Werner Langen, Enrique Guerrero Salom, who also replied to a blue-card question by Kay Swinburne, Olle Schmidt, who also replied to a blue-card question by Arlene McCarthy, Isabelle Durant, Konrad Szymański, Claudio Morganti, Younous Omarjee, Diane Dodds, Alfredo Pallone and Arlene McCarthy.
IN THE CHAIR: Oldřich VLASÁK Vice-President
The following spoke: Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Vicky Ford, Jaroslav Paška, Ewald Stadler, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Patrizia Toia, Carl Haglund, Diogo Feio, Liem Hoang Ngoc, Jörg Leichtfried on the conduct of the debate, Astrid Lulling, António Fernando Correia de Campos, Gunnar Hökmark, Leonardo Domenici, Markus Ferber, Antolín Sánchez Presedo and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou.
On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed a delegation of Members of the Mexican Parliament and Senate who had taken their seats in the distinguished visitors' gallery.
5. Common system for taxing financial transactions * (continuation of debate)
Report on the proposal for a Council directive on a common system of financial transaction tax and amending Directive 2008/7/EC [COM(2011)0594 - C7-0355/2011- 2011/0261(CNS)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Anni Podimata (A7-0154/2012)
The following spoke: Ivailo Kalfin, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Jörg Leichtfried, Othmar Karas, Evelyn Regner, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Alain Lamassoure and David Casa.
The following spoke: Margrethe Vestager (President-in-Office of the Council).
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Seán Kelly, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Ana Miranda, Roberta Angelilli, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Alajos Mészáros, Bogusław Liberadzki and Inês Cristina Zuber.
The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission) and Anni Podimata.
6. European Parliament's right of inquiry (debate)
Report on a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament on the detailed provisions governing the exercise of the European Parliament's right of inquiry and repealing Decision 95/167/EC, Euratom, ECSC of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission [2009/2212(INI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: David Martin (A7-0352/2011)
David Martin introduced the report.
The following spoke: Nicolai Wammen (President-in-Office of the Council) and Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).
The following spoke: Rainer Wieland, on behalf of the PPE Group, Roberto Gualtieri, on behalf of the S&D Group, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Gerald Häfner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ashley Fox, on behalf of the ECR Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Andrew Henry William Brons, Non-attached Member, Rafał Trzaskowski, Enrique Guerrero Salom and Andrew Duff.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Miroslav Mikolášik and Mairead McGuinness.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič and Nicolai Wammen.
IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT Vice-President
7. Statement by the President
The President made a statement commemorating the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and their bodyguards Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro.
Parliament observed a minute's silence.
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.
The following spoke: Victor Boştinaru, in commemoration of the bus crash in Albania on 21 May 2012, and William (The Earl of) Dartmouth.
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8.1. Bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean ***I (vote)
Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 302/2009 concerning a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean [COM(2011)0330 - C7-0154/2011- 2011/0144(COD)] - Committee on Fisheries. Rapporteur: Raül Romeva i Rueda (A7-0449/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
8.2. Double-hull or equivalent design requirements for single-hull oil tankers ***I (vote)
Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accelerated phasing-in of double-hull or equivalent design requirements for single-hull oil tankers (recast) [COM(2011)0566 - C7-0269/2011- 2011/0243(COD)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Dominique Riquet (A7-0034/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)
8.3. Fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for by the EU-Mozambique Fisheries Partnership Agreement *** (vote)
Recommendation on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Mozambique [18059/2011 - C7-0028/2012- 2011/0378(NLE)] - Committee on Fisheries. Rapporteur: Dolores García-Hierro Caraballo (A7-0147/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)
Parliament consented to the conclusion of the protocol.
8.4. Common system for taxing financial transactions * (vote)
Report on the proposal for a Council directive on a common system of financial transaction tax and amending Directive 2008/7/EC [COM(2011)0594 - C7-0355/2011- 2011/0261(CNS)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Anni Podimata (A7-0154/2012)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)
8.6. European Parliament's right of inquiry (vote)
Report on a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament on the detailed provisions governing the exercise of the European Parliament's right of inquiry and repealing Decision 95/167/EC, Euratom, ECSC of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission [2009/2212(INI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: David Martin (A7-0352/2011)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 6)
Véronique De Keyser, saying she did not have the most recent voting list.
David Martin (rapporteur), asking for the vote on the draft legislative resolution to be postponed.
Parliament agreed to the request.
The vote on the draft legislative resolution was thus held over to a later part-session.
9. Explanations of vote
Written explanations of vote:
Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 170 appear in the Verbatim Report of Proceedings for the sitting.
Oral explanations of vote:
ReportRaül Romeva i Rueda - A7-0449/2011 Giovanni La Via, Iva Zanicchi, Andrea Zanoni, Peter Jahr, Julie Girling, Diane Dodds and Charles Tannock
Report Anni Podimata - A7-0154/2012 Joseph Cuschieri, Jens Rohde, Marina Yannakoudakis, George Lyon, Ewald Stadler, Andrea Češková, Janusz Władysław Zemke, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Peter Jahr, Giommaria Uggias, Emma McClarkin, Norica Nicolai, Julie Girling, Erminia Mazzoni, Adam Bielan, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Iva Zanicchi, Seán Kelly, Charles Tannock, Glenis Willmott and Arlene McCarthy
Report Marielle de Sarnez - A7-0141/2012 Cristiana Muscardini, Francesco De Angelis, Oreste Rossi, Marco Scurria, Iva Zanicchi, Claudio Morganti, Roberta Angelilli, Emma McClarkin, Norica Nicolai, Julie Girling, Jim Higgins, Charles Tannock, Adam Bielan, Petri Sarvamaa, Seán Kelly and Morten Løkkegaard
ReportDavid Martin - A7-0352/2011 Julie Girling, Charles Tannock and Elena Băsescu
10. 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 13.35 and resumed at 15.00.)
IN THE CHAIR: Georgios PAPASTAMKOS Vice-President
11. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
Christian Ehler said that he had not been able to vote on Tuesday 22 May because of a technical problem.
12. Sudan and South Sudan(debate)
Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Sudan and South Sudan
Nicolai Wammen (President-in-Office of the Council) made the statement on behalf of Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy).
The following spoke: Gay Mitchell, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, Charles Goerens, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Judith Sargentini, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Sabine Lösing, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Mariya Nedelcheva, Ana Gomes, Niccolò Rinaldi, Fiorello Provera, Willy Meyer, Filip Kaczmarek, Marielle de Sarnez, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Cristian Dan Preda, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Sari Essayah, Tunne Kelam, Michael Gahler and Bogusław Sonik.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Charles Tannock, Janusz Władysław Zemke, Elena Băsescu, Jaroslav Paška, Franz Obermayr and Andrew Henry William Brons.
The following spoke: Nicolai Wammen.
The debate closed.
13. Guinea-Bissau (debate)
Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Guinea-Bissau
Nicolai Wammen (President-in-Office of the Council) made the statement on behalf of Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy).
The following spoke: Paulo Rangel, on behalf of the PPE Group, Ana Gomes, on behalf of the S&D Group, Rui Tavares, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Diogo Feio, Peter Šťastný, Filip Kaczmarek and João Ferreira.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu.
The following spoke: Nicolai Wammen.
IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND Vice-President
The debate closed.
14. Request for the waiver of parliamentary immunity
The competent Polish authorities had sent the President a request for waiver of the immunity of Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa.
Pursuant to Rule 6(2), the request had been referred to the committee responsible, the JURI Committee.
15. Composition of committees and delegations
The President had received the following proposals for nominations from the S&D and GUE/NGL Groups:
BUDG Committee: Alda Sousa
EMPL Committee: Minodora Cliveti
Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee: Minodora Cliveti
Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee: Minodora Cliveti to replace Cătălin Sorin Ivan
Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union: Alda Sousa
Delegation for relations with Iraq: Alda Sousa
The appointments would be deemed ratified if there were no objections before the approval of these minutes.
16. A resource-efficient Europe (debate)
Report on a resource-efficient Europe [2011/2068(INI)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (A7-0161/2012)
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy introduced the report.
The following spoke: Janez Potočnik (Member of the Commission).
The following spoke: Salvatore Iacolino (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee), Kent Johansson (rapporteur for the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Derek Vaughan (rapporteur for the opinion of the REGI Committee), Karl-Heinz Florenz, on behalf of the PPE Group, Judith A. Merkies, on behalf of the S&D Group, Vladko Todorov Panayotov, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Bas Eickhout, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Miroslav Ouzký, on behalf of the ECR Group, Oreste Rossi, on behalf of the EFD Group, Lucas Hartong, Non-attached Member, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Richard Seeber, Adam Gierek, Holger Krahmer, who also replied to a blue-card question by Richard Seeber, Satu Hassi, Anna Rosbach, Juozas Imbrasas, Angelika Werthmann, Gaston Franco, George Sabin Cutaş, Riikka Manner, Reinhard Bütikofer, Marina Yannakoudakis, Tadeusz Cymański, Elisabetta Gardini, who also replied to a blue-card question by Reinhard Bütikofer, Matthias Groote, Andrea Zanoni, Konrad Szymański, Jolanta Emilia Hibner, Marita Ulvskog, Julie Girling, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Jo Leinen, who also replied to a blue-card question by Judith A. Merkies, and Christa Klaß.
IN THE CHAIR: Othmar KARAS Vice-President
The following spoke: Karin Kadenbach, Romana Jordan, Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu, Alojz Peterle, Andres Perello Rodriguez, Seán Kelly, Kriton Arsenis, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Zofija Mazej Kukovič and Bogusław Sonik.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, João Ferreira, Andrew Henry William Brons, Mairead McGuinness, Iosif Matula, Miroslav Mikolášik and Petru Constantin Luhan.
The following spoke: Janez Potočnik and Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy.
Oral question (O-000106/2012) by Pervenche Berès, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, to the Commission: Youth Opportunities Initiative (B7-0113/2012)
Pervenche Berès moved the oral question.
László Andor (Member of the Commission) answered the oral question.
The following spoke: Heinz K. Becker, on behalf of the PPE Group, Alejandro Cercas, on behalf of the S&D Group, Riikka Manner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Emilie Turunen, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.
IN THE CHAIR: Roberta ANGELILLI Vice-President
The following spoke: Milan Cabrnoch, on behalf of the ECR Group, Juozas Imbrasas, on behalf of the EFD Group, Thomas Händel, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nicole Sinclaire, Non-attached Member, Thomas Mann, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, Phil Bennion, Anthea McIntyre, Derek Roland Clark, Younous Omarjee, Jutta Steinruck, to put a blue-card question to Derek Roland Clark, who replied, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Jutta Steinruck, Hannu Takkula, Emer Costello, Frédéric Daerden, Andrea Cozzolino, Sylvana Rapti, Kinga Göncz, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, Iliana Malinova Iotova and Sergio Gaetano Cofferati.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Evelyn Regner, Luís Paulo Alves, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Elena Oana Antonescu, Georgios Papanikolaou, Inês Cristina Zuber, Jaroslav Paška, Josef Weidenholzer, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Petru Constantin Luhan, Iosif Matula and Anna Záborská.
The following spoke: László Andor.
Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 115(5):
- Pervenche Berès, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, on the Youth Opportunities Initiative (B7-0233/2012).