IN THE CHAIR: Othmar KARAS
Vice-President

5. Economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability in the euro area ***I - Monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability in the euro area [COM(2011)0819 - C7-0449/2011- 2011/0385(COD)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Jean-Paul Gauzès (A7-0172/2012)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common provisions for monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area [COM(2011)0821 - C7-0448/2011- 2011/0386(COD)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Elisa Ferreira (A7-0173/2012)

Jean-Paul Gauzès and Elisa Ferreira presented their reports.

The following spoke: Margrethe Vestager (President-in-Office of the Council) and Olli Rehn (Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: Tamás Deutsch (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Frédéric Daerden (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Marianne Thyssen, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Derk Jan Eppink, on behalf of the ECR Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Sampo Terho, on behalf of the EFD Group, Jürgen Klute, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Barry Madlener, Non-attached Member, who also replied to a blue-card question by Derk Jan Eppink, Corien Wortmann-Kool, who also replied to a blue-card question by Barry Madlener, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Sylvie Goulard, Philippe Lamberts, Kay Swinburne, Claudio Morganti, Marisa Matias, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Werner Langen, Anni Podimata, Olle Schmidt, Roberts Zīle, Marta Andreasen, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Mario Mauro, Roberto Gualtieri, Wolf Klinz, Jacek Włosowicz, Diogo Feio, Pervenche Berès, Gunnar Hökmark, Liem Hoang Ngoc, Othmar Karas, Edward Scicluna, Sławomir Witold Nitras, Olle Ludvigsson, Astrid Lulling, Markus Ferber, Alfredo Pallone and Krišjānis Kariņš.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Zigmantas Balčytis, Ana Miranda, Paul Murphy, Jaroslav Paška, Antonio Cancian, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Charles Goerens, Inês Cristina Zuber, Antonio Masip Hidalgo and Andrew Henry William Brons.

The following spoke: Olli Rehn, Margrethe Vestager, Jean-Paul Gauzès and Elisa Ferreira.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 13.6.2012, item 7.4 and minutes of 13.6.2012, item 7.5.