16. Laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) ***II - Application for international protection lodged in a Member State by a third-country national or a stateless person (recast version) ***II - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints ***I - Granting and withdrawing international protection (recast) ***II (debate)

Verbatim reports

Recommendation for second reading on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) [14654/2/2012 – C7-0165/2013 – 2008/0244(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Antonio Masip Hidalgo (A7-0214/2013)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (recast) [15605/3/2012 – C7-0164/2013 – 2008/0243(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Cecilia Wikström (A7-0216/2013)

Report on the amended proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EC) No […/…] (establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person) and to request comparisons with EURODAC data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes and amending Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011 establishing a European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (recast) [COM(2008)0825 - C6-0475/2008- 2008/0242(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Monica Luisa Macovei (A7-0432/2012)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (recast) [08260/2/2013 - C7-0163/2013- 2009/0165(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Sylvie Guillaume (A7-0217/2013)

Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Cecilia Wikström, Monica Luisa Macovei and Sylvie Guillaume presented their recommendations for second reading and the report.

The following spoke: Lucinda Creighton (President-in-Office of the Council) and Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Georgios Papanikolaou, on behalf of the PPE Group, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, on behalf of the S&D Group, Renate Weber, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Krisztina Morvai, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, Monika Hohlmeier, Claude Moraes, Sarah Ludford, Franziska Keller, Ryszard Czarnecki, Lorenzo Fontana, Cornelis de Jong, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bruno Gollnisch, Andrew Henry William Brons, Manfred Weber, Sylvie Guillaume, Nadja Hirsch, Hélène Flautre, Frank Vanhecke, Auke Zijlstra, Véronique Mathieu Houillon, Ioan Enciu and Judith Sargentini.

IN THE CHAIR: László SURJÁN
Vice-President

The following spoke: Mara Bizzotto, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Carmen Romero López, Nikos Chrysogelos, Roberta Metsola, Birgit Sippel, Carlo Casini, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Hubert Pirker, who also replied to a blue-card question by Franz Obermayr, Dimitrios Droutsas, who also replied to a blue-card question by Krisztina Morvai, Salvatore Iacolino, Anna Hedh, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Josef Weidenholzer and Ismail Ertug, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Ana Miranda, Claudio Morganti, Claudette Abela Baldacchino, Jaroslav Paška, Franz Obermayr and Petru Constantin Luhan.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström, Lucinda Creighton, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Cecilia Wikström, Monica Luisa Macovei and Sylvie Guillaume.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 12.6.2013, item 8.5, minutes of 12.6.2013, item 8.6, minutes of 12.6.2013, item 8.9 and minutes of 12.6.2013, item 8.7.