9. Order of business

Verbatim reports

The final draft agenda for the part-session (PE 568.311/PDOJ ) had been distributed.

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, to ask the President to write to the Venezuelan authorities protesting at the imprisonment of the opposition leader Leopoldo López (the President undertook to do so).

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The President announced that he had received from the Commission a request to apply the urgent procedure to the proposal for a Council decision establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy, Greece and Hungary (COM(2015)0451 – 2015/0209(NLE)). The LIBE Committee had been duly notified.

In agreement with the President of the Commission, and after consulting the Chair of the LIBE Committee, the President proposed that the urgent procedure be applied in accordance with Rule 154.

Reason for request:

The current migratory pressure made it urgent to find a solution at EU level.

The following spoke: Claude Moraes (Chair of the LIBE Committee), to move the request, Manfred Weber, in favour of the request, and Bernd Lucke, against the request.

Parliament adopted the request.

The President proposed that the current part-session should continue to 11.00 on the following day, Thursday 17 September 2015, to enable Parliament to vote on the Commission proposal.

The following spoke: Marco Zanni and Alain Lamassoure (Chair of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect), to ask that the next day's sitting be scheduled to take account of their committee's timetable.

The President therefore proposed to bring the start of following day's sitting forward to 10.00.

Parliament approved the proposal.

The following deadlines had been set

—   amendments to the Commission proposal: 18.00;

—   requests for separate votes, split votes and roll-call votes: 21.00.

The order of business was thus established.

The following spoke: Miloslav Ransdorf and Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski.