IN THE CHAIR: Antonio TAJANI
Vice-President

10. Long-term shareholder engagement and corporate governance statement ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2007/36/EC as regards the encouragement of long-term shareholder engagement and Directive 2013/34/EU as regards certain elements of the corporate governance statement [COM(2014)0213 - C7-0147/2014 - 2014/0121(COD)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Sergio Gaetano Cofferati (A8-0158/2015)

Sergio Gaetano Cofferati introduced the report.

The following spoke: Věra Jourová (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Olle Ludvigsson (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Tadeusz Zwiefka, on behalf of the PPE Group, Evelyn Regner, on behalf of the S&D Group, Morten Messerschmidt, on behalf of the ECR Group, Cecilia Wikström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Pascal Durand, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Laura Ferrara, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Steeve Briois, on behalf of the ENF Group, Axel Voss, Richard Howitt, Ashley Fox, Mario Borghezio, Heinz K. Becker, Jutta Steinruck, Beatrix von Storch, who refused to reply to a blue-card question from Tadeusz Zwiefka, Gilles Lebreton, Andreas Schwab, who also replied to a blue-card question by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Neena Gill, Daniel Buda and Victor Negrescu.

IN THE CHAIR: Mairead McGUINNESS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Bendt Bendtsen, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jeppe Kofod, Paul Tang, Georgi Pirinski, Virginie Rozière, Jeppe Kofod, Ana Gomes and Anneliese Dodds.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Patricija Šulin, Nicola Caputo, Ruža Tomašić, Ivan Jakovčić, Miguel Viegas, Igor Šoltes, Barbara Kappel, Seán Kelly and Notis Marias.

The following spoke: Věra Jourová and Sergio Gaetano Cofferati.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 8.7.2015, item 4.6.