4. Dimensions and weights of road vehicles circulating within the Community ***II (debate)

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Recommendation for second reading on the Council position at first reading with view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 96/53/EC laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorised dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorised weights in international traffic [11296/3/2014 - C8-0294/2014 - 2013/0105(COD)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Jörg Leichtfried (A8-0032/2015)

Jörg Leichtfried introduced the recommendation..

The following spoke: Violeta Bulc (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Markus Ferber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Ismail Ertug, on behalf of the S&D Group, Peter van Dalen, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Lucy Anderson, Gesine Meissner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Merja Kyllönen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Keith Taylor, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Peter van Dalen, Peter Lundgren, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Marie-Christine Arnautu, non-attached Member, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gesine Meissner, Wim van de Camp, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bogusław Liberadzki, Jens Nilsson, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bill Etheridge, Jacqueline Foster, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gesine Meissner, Philippe De Backer, Jill Seymour, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jacqueline Foster, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Bogusław Liberadzki, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, who also replied to a blue-card question by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Petr Mach, who also replied to a blue-card question by Maria Grapini, Andor Deli, Olga Sehnalová, Kosma Złotowski, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Lucy Anderson, who also replied to a blue-card question by Peter Lundgren, Henna Virkkunen, István Ujhelyi, and Dubravka Šuica, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gesine Meissner.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Seán Kelly, Claudia Tapardel, Notis Marias, Bill Etheridge and Angel Dzhambazki.

The following spoke: Violeta Bulc and Jörg Leichtfried.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 10.3.2015, item 10.6.