10. Council positions at first reading

The President announced under Rule 64(1) that the following positions had been received from the Council, together with the reasons which had led to their adoption, and the Commission's position on:

- Position of the Council at first reading with view to the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning type-approval requirements for the deployment of the eCall in-vehicle system based on the 112 service and amending Directive 2007/46/EC (05130/3/2015 - C8-0063/2015 – 2013/0165(COD) – COM(2015)0126)

referred to responsible: IMCO, LIBE (Rule 54)

- Position of the Council at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 94/62/EC as regards reducing the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags (05094/1/2015 - C8-0064/2015 – 2013/0371(COD) – 06605/2015 – 06375/2015 – COM(2015)0124)

referred to responsible: ENVI;

- Position of the Council at first reading with a view to the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport, and amending Directive 2009/16/EC (17086/1/2014 - C8-0072/2015 – 2013/0224(COD) – 06572/2015 – COM(2015)0128)

referred to responsible: ENVI;

- Position of the Council at first reading with a view to the adoption of a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (05161/2/2015 - C8-0073/2015 – 2012/0084(COD)06582/2015 – COM(2015)0125)

referred to responsible: ECON;

The three-month period available to Parliament to adopt its position would therefore begin the following day (13 March 2015).