23. Accounting rules and action plans on greenhouse gas emissions and removals resulting from activities related to land use ***I - Mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and other information relevant to climate change ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on accounting rules and action plans on greenhouse gas emissions and removals resulting from activities related to land use, land use change and forestry [2012/0042(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Kriton Arsenis (A7-0317/2012)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at national and Union level relevant to climate change [2011/0372(COD)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Bas Eickhout (A7-0191/2012)

Kriton Arsenis and Bas Eickhout presented their reports.

The following spoke: Connie Hedegaard (Member of the Commission).

IN THE CHAIR: Georgios PAPASTAMKOS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Åsa Westlund (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee) and Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, on behalf of the PPE Group, Marita Ulvskog, on behalf of the S&D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Zbigniew Ziobro, Theodoros Skylakakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Satu Hassi, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Richard Seeber, Christa Klaß and Bogusław Sonik.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Romana Jordan, Miroslav Mikolášik, Marek Józef Gróbarczyk, João Ferreira, Elena Băsescu and Erik Bánki.

The following spoke: Connie Hedegaard, Kriton Arsenis and Bas Eickhout.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 12.3.2013, item 8.3 and minutes of 12.3.2013, item 8.4.