8. Conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of seasonal employment (continuation of debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of seasonal employment [COM(2010)0379 - C7-0180/2010- 2010/0210(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Claude Moraes (A7-0428/2013)

(Start of the debate: minutes of 5.2.2014, item 6)

The following spoke: Alejandro Cercas (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Britta Thomsen (rapporteur for the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Véronique Mathieu Houillon, on behalf of the PPE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, on behalf of the S&D Group, Jan Mulder, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Judith Sargentini, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Paul Nuttall, on behalf of the EFD Group, Carlos Coelho, Sylvie Guillaume, Jean Lambert, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Mara Bizzotto, Auke Zijlstra, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Philip Claeys, Edit Bauer, Pervenche Berès, Hubert Pirker, Ioan Enciu, Salvatore Iacolino and Anna Hedh.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Elisabeth Schroedter and Andrew Henry William Brons.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission) and Claude Moraes.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 5.2.2014, item 9.1.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.35 and resumed at 12.00.)