(The sitting was suspended at 19.50 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Oldřich VLASÁK
Vice-President

17. Revision of the current data retention framework (debate)

Verbatim reports

Oral question (O-000124/2012) by Alexander Alvaro, Sophia in 't Veld, Sarah Ludford, Renate Weber, Louis Michel, Jens Rohde and Nathalie Griesbeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, to the Commission: Revision of the current data retention framework (B7-0355/2012);

Oral question (O-000125/2012) by Judith Sargentini, Carl Schlyter, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Eva Lichtenberger, Amelia Andersdotter and Christian Engström, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, to the Commission: Revision of the current data retention framework (B7-0356/2012);

Oral question (O-000126/2012) by Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Sylvie Guillaume, Claude Moraes and Dimitrios Droutsas, on behalf of the S&D Group, to the Commission: Revision of the current data retention framework (B7-0357/2012);

Oral question (O-000128/2012) by Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, to the Commission: Revision of the current data retention framework (B7-0358/2012);

Oral question (O-000154/2012) by Axel Voss, Manfred Weber, Simon Busuttil, Véronique Mathieu, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Carlos Coelho and Salvatore Iacolino, on behalf of the PPE Group, to the Commission: Revision of the current data retention framework (B7-0362/2012).

Alexander Alvaro, Judith Sargentini, Sylvie Guillaume, Cornelia Ernst and Axel Voss, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Alexander Alvaro and Sophia in 't Veld, moved the questions.

Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission) answered the questions.

The following spoke: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jan Philipp Albrecht, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jaroslav Paška, on behalf of the EFD Group, Carlos Coelho, Dimitrios Droutsas, Carl Schlyter, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Birgit Sippel and Carmen Romero López.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elena Băsescu, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Eva Lichtenberger, Christian Engström and Phil Prendergast.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström, Carl Schlyter, on a point of order, and Cecilia Malmström to wind up the debate.

The debate closed.