5. Preparations for the European Council meeting (22 May 2013) - Fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax havens - Annual tax report: how to free the EU potential for economic growth (debate)

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Council and Commission statements: Preparations for the European Council meeting (22 May 2013) (2012/2805(RSP))

Report on Fight against Tax Fraud, Tax Evasion and Tax Havens [2013/2060(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Mojca Kleva Kekuš (A7-0162/2013)

Report on the Annual Tax report: how to free the EU potential for economic growth [2013/2025(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz (A7-0154/2013)

Lucinda Creighton (President-in-Office of the Council) and José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Martin Callanan, on behalf of the ECR Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Liisa Jaakonsaari, Jürgen Klute, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Laurence J.A.J. Stassen, Non-attached Member.

Mojca Kleva Kekuš and Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz presented their reports.

The following spoke: Algirdas Šemeta (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Bart Staes (rapporteur for the opinion of the CONT Committee), Eva Joly (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee) and Sirpa Pietikäinen.

IN THE CHAIR: Gianni PITTELLA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Enrique Guerrero Salom, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, who also replied to a blue-card question by Liisa Jaakonsaari, Philippe Lamberts, Ivo Strejček, Lorenzo Fontana, Martina Anderson, Andrew Henry William Brons, Mairead McGuinness, Olle Ludvigsson, Marielle de Sarnez, Kay Swinburne, Sampo Terho, Paul Murphy, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Herbert Reul, Pervenche Berès, Niccolò Rinaldi, Rui Tavares, Rolandas Paksas, Cornelis de Jong, Franz Obermayr, who also replied to a blue-card question by Werner Langen, Giovanni La Via, who also replied to a blue-card question by Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Elisa Ferreira, Sonia Alfano, Bas Eickhout, Frank Vanhecke, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Anni Podimata, Sylvie Goulard, Giuseppe Gargani, Olle Schmidt, Gunnar Hökmark and Anni Podimata, to put a blue-card question to Gunnar Hökmark.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Gunnar Hökmark, to reply to the blue card question by Anni Podimata, Udo Bullmann, Wolf Klinz, Marietta Giannakou, Edit Herczog, Jan Mulder, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Patrizia Toia, Sophia in 't Veld, Jean-Pierre Audy, Kathleen Van Brempt, Paulo Rangel, Ivailo Kalfin, Erik Bánki, Krišjānis Kariņš, Othmar Karas, Seán Kelly and Sven Giegold.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Milan Zver, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Satu Hassi, Oreste Rossi, Jaroslav Paška, Salvatore Iacolino, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Ana Gomes, Petru Constantin Luhan, Zita Gurmai, Ulrike Lunacek, Emilie Turunen, Victor Boştinaru, Judith A. Merkies and Sophocles Sophocleous.

The following spoke: Mojca Kleva Kekuš, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Günther Oettinger (Member of the Commission), Algirdas Šemeta and Lucinda Creighton.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 21.5.2013, item 6.15 and minutes of 21.5.2013, item 6.16.