12. Towards a European Energy Union - Making Europe's electricity grid fit for 2020 (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on Towards a European Energy Union [2015/2113(INI)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Marek Józef Gróbarczyk (A8-0341/2015)

Report on achieving the 10 % electricity interconnection target – Making Europe’s electricity grid fit for 2020 [2015/2108(INI)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Peter Eriksson (A8-0330/2015)

Evžen Tošenovský, deputising for the rapporteur, introduced the report.

IN THE CHAIR: Ioan Mircea PAŞCU
Vice-President

Peter Eriksson introduced the report.

The following spoke: Miguel Arias Cañete (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Ana Gomes (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee), Henna Virkkunen (rapporteur for the opinion of the TRAN Committee), András Gyürk, on behalf of the PPE Group, Flavio Zanonato, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ian Duncan, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jude Kirton-Darling, Morten Helveg Petersen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Maria Grapini and Tibor Szanyi, Neoklis Sylikiotis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Barbara Kappel, Claude Turmes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Zoltán Balczó, Dario Tamburrano, on behalf of the EFDD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Ivan Jakovčić, Barbara Kappel, on behalf of the ENF Group, Béla Kovács, non-attached Member, Bendt Bendtsen, who also replied to a blue-card question by Milan Zver, Soledad Cabezón Ruiz, who also replied to a blue-card question by Peter Eriksson, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Pavel Telička, Cornelia Ernst, David Coburn, who also replied to a blue-card question by Claude Turmes, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who also replied to a blue-card question by Peter Eriksson, Françoise Grossetête, Dan Nica, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, Nils Torvalds, Auke Zijlstra, Jerzy Buzek, Miroslav Poche and Jadwiga Wiśniewska.

IN THE CHAIR: Ryszard CZARNECKI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Pilar del Castillo Vera, who also replied to a blue-card question by Peter Eriksson, Jeppe Kofod, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Theresa Griffin, Lefteris Christoforou, Csaba Molnár, Maria Spyraki, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Adam Gierek, Lara Comi, Martina Werner and Krišjānis Kariņš.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Franc Bogovič, Nicola Caputo, Notis Marias, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Davor Škrlec, Eleftherios Synadinos, Brian Hayes, José Blanco López, Ruža Tomašić, Gesine Meissner, Claudia Tapardel and Julie Ward.

The following spoke: Miguel Arias Cañete, Evžen Tošenovský and Peter Eriksson.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 15.12.2015, item 4.21 and minutes of 15.12.2015, item 4.22.