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Wednesday, 14 December 2016 - Strasbourg

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1. Insolvency proceedings and insolvency practitioners ***I

2. EC-Uzbekistan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and bilateral trade in textiles ***

3. EC-Uzbekistan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and bilateral trade in textiles (resolution)

4. EU-Colombia and Peru Trade Agreement (accession of Ecuador) ***

5. EU-Norway Agreement on reciprocal access to fishing in the Skagerrak ***

6. EU-Norway Agreement on reciprocal access to fishing in the Skagerrak (resolution)

7. Agreement on Operational and Strategic Cooperation between Georgia and Europol *

8. Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2016/004 ES/Comunidad Valenciana automotive

9. Normalisation of the accounts of railway undertakings ***II

10. Domestic passenger transport services by rail ***II

11. Single European railway area ***II

12. Market access to port services and financial transparency of ports ***I

13. Nomination of a Member of the Court of Auditors - Juhan Parts

14. Research programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel *

15. Annual Report on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter 2015

Report: Josef Weidenholzer (A8-0355/2016)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
§ 6	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
After § 10	1	+ 40 Members	RCV		-		261, 388, 58
§ 35	§	original text	RCV		+		464, 212, 23
§ 36	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		686, 16, 3
			2/RCV		+		510, 176, 19
§ 40	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2/RCV		+		386, 239, 84
§ 44	§	original text	sep		+
§ 45	§	original text	sep		+
§ 50	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 51	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 52	§	original text	sep		+
§ 55	§	original text	sep		-
§ 56	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2/EV		+		364, 326, 11
§ 58	§	original text	sep		+
§ 60	§	original text	sep		+
§ 61	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 63	§	original text	sep		+
§ 64	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 78	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 87	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 89	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 96	§	original text	sep		+
§ 98	§	original text	sep		-
§ 104	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 108	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 109	§	original text	sep		+
§ 117	§	original text	sep		+
§ 119	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		-
§ 124	§	original text	sep		+
§ 126	§	original text	sep		+
§ 129	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		-
§ 136	§	original text	sep		+
§ 140	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		-
§ 141	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 148	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		626, 33, 45
			2/RCV		+		382, 281, 31
Recital U	§	original text	sep		+
Recital AG	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
Recital AM	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2/EV		-		337, 356, 15
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		463, 115, 113


Requests for roll-call votes
EFDD:	§§ 35, 36
PPE:	§§ 40 (2nd part), 148, Amendment 1


Requests for separate votes
Verts/ALE:	§ 55
PPE:	§§ 63, 96, 124, 126
S&D:	§§ 55, 56, 98, 148
ENF:	§§ 44, 45, 52, 58, 60, 63, 109, 117, 136, recital U
ALDE:	§§ 98, 140


Requests for split votes
Verts/ALE:
§ 36
First part	‘Stresses that migrant smuggling is linked to human trafficking and is a serious violation of human rights;’
Second part	‘points out that CSDP missions such as European Union Naval Force – Mediterranean Operation Sophia (EUNAVFOR MED) are an effective way of tackling migrant smuggling; calls on the EU to continue and step up operations of this kind;’
§ 56
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘in order to increase the efficiency of readmissions and to ensure the coherence of returns at a European level, it will be necessary to adopt new’ and ‘which’
Second part	those words
§ 64
First part	‘specific de-radicalisation’
Second part	those words
§ 87
First part	‘Reiterates that attention needs to be drawn to the special features of SMEs, which mainly operate at local and regional level inside specific sectors; considers it essential, therefore, for Union CSR policies, including national CSR action plans, to take proper account of the specific requirements of SMEs,’
Second part	‘to be in keeping with the 'think small first' principle, and to recognise the informal, intuitive SME approach to CSR; voices again its opposition to all measures that could result in additional administrative or financial constraints for SMEs, and its support for measures enabling SMEs to take joint action;’
§ 140
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘to prepare new international binding rules conceived to re-adapt IHL to the new reality of wars’
Second part	those words
PPE:
§ 6
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘(with human rights strategies on the promotion and protection of the rights of LGBTI people being crucial to this end),’
Second part	those words
§ 40
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘condemns the fact that seats on the UNHRC are often occupied by countries with proven track record of grave human rights violations, and calls on the EU Member States to publicise their UNHRC votes;’
Second part	those words
§ 89
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘and on which such conclusion is made conditional as a fundamental part of the agreement’
Second part	those words
§ 104
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘and the protection of sexual and reproductive rights’, ‘including safe abortion’, ‘and safe abortion’
Second part	‘and the protection of sexual and reproductive rights’
Third part	‘including safe abortion’, ‘and safe abortion’
§ 141
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘calls on the Member States to consider accepting Guantanamo inmates in the EU;’
Second part	those words
Recital AG
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘including LGBTI people’
Second part	those words
S&D:
§ 129
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘national’ (3x)
Second part	those words
ENF:
§ 51
First part	‘Highlights the need to strengthen cooperation with countries of origin and transit with a view to facilitating both the structured management of migration flows and action to address the underlying causes of emigration; stresses that it is vital to combat the groups involved in migrant smuggling;’
Second part	‘points out that the EU needs to encourage the countries concerned to sign the Palermo Protocol against migrant smuggling; recalls the commitments agreed on at the Valletta summit;’
§ 78
First part	‘Is concerned about any attempts to use funding earmarked for action to combat poverty and foster development – which also gives practical effect to policies whose ultimate aim is to uphold human rights – for non-development-related purposes; believes that in order to ensure the transparency of EU aid and the accountability of the recipient countries, an anti-corruption clause should be introduced in all development programmes, and that consolidation of the rule of law, good governance, institutional capacities with the use of budget support, democratic participation and representative decision-making, stability, social justice, and inclusive and sustainable growth, allowing fair redistribution of the wealth produced, should be key objectives of all EU external policies;’
Second part	‘warns against populism, extremism and constitutional abuses that legitimise breaches of human rights;’


ALDE:
§ 119
First part	‘Is deeply concerned that the rapidly growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threat is expected to become the world's largest cause of death, victimising in particular the vulnerable and the weak in developing countries; calls on the Commission to develop without delay a truly effective public health strategy’
Second part	‘that includes the following: – identification of the causes of diseases, diagnostics and the ways of distribution of resistant bacteria through tourism and trade, – identification of optimal international, national and regional emergency response actions following an 'outbreak' of unstoppable bacteria, and the integrated and coordinated preparation of such actions, – development of the toughest volume-oriented regulations on the use of antibiotics in all world regions, combined with adequate and effective enforcement measures; – development and implementation of the largest-ever information programme on the threat of AMR using all resources and, in particular, social media;’
Recital AM
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘most basic human rights such as’
Second part	those words
PPE, ENF:
§ 50
First part	‘Underlines the fact that conflicts, wars, failures of governance and the lack of respect for human rights and democracy constitute key causes for migration and displacement;’
Second part	stresses that full access to free, public and quality education and healthcare services, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and access to the labour market, and to housing that meets the needs of refugees, should be provided by host countries; emphasises that the migrants’ and refugees’ willingness to integrate, together with appropriate welfare policies, are key to integration; calls on the EU to increase efforts to support Lebanon and Jordan, which shelter unprecedented numbers of refugees, who often face multiple threats; without the words: 'and rights'
Third part	'and rights'
§ 61
First part	Calls on the Member States to respect and fully implement the adopted EU common asylum package and the common migration legislation, particularly to safeguard vulnerable asylum seekers such as children, women, elderly people and LGBTI people, against violence and discrimination during the asylum process, and to provide appropriate training to Member States to enable appropriate and sensible proceedings; calls on the Member States to participate in resettlement programmes, giving access to family reunification and granting humanitarian visas;’ without the words: ‘and LGBTI people’
Second part	‘and LGBTI people’
Third part	‘stresses the importance of addressing administrative and political obstacles to a speedy implementation of relocation commitments; understands that the safe return of those who, following individual assessment of their asylum application, are not eligible for protection in the Union must be carried out;’
§ 108
First part	‘Welcomes the adoption, and supports the implementation, of the UN Security Council’s recent Resolution 2242 making women a central component in all efforts to address global challenges and calling for additional efforts to integrate the women, peace and security agendas in all the different dimensions of peacekeeping; stresses the importance of women’s equal, full and active participation in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, and in the peace negotiation and peace-building process;’
Second part	‘recommends that a quota system be introduced in order to provide a way of promoting women's participation at all political levels;’
§ 148
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘Christians are currently the religious group most harassed and intimidated in countries throughout the world, including in Europe, where Christian refugees routinely suffer religiously motivated persecution, and that’
Second part	those words
PPE, ALDE:
§ 108
First part	‘Welcomes the adoption, and supports the implementation, of the UN Security Council’s recent Resolution 2242 making women a central component in all efforts to address global challenges and calling for additional efforts to integrate the women, peace and security agendas in all the different dimensions of peacekeeping; stresses the importance of women’s equal, full and active participation in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, and in the peace negotiation and peace-building process;’
Second part	‘recommends that a quota system be introduced in order to provide a way of promoting women's participation at all political levels;’
Verts/ALE, ALDE:
§ 148
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘Christians are currently the religious group most harassed and intimidated in countries throughout the world, including in Europe, where Christian refugees routinely suffer religiously motivated persecution, and that’
Second part	those words

16. Implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (Article 36 TEU)

Report: Elmar Brok (A8-0360/2016)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
§ 1	14	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		69, 616, 15
	§	original text	RCV		+		498, 98, 111
§ 3	§	original text	RCV		+		450, 184, 70
§ 7	§	original text	RCV		+		514, 140, 48
§ 10	§	original text	RCV		+		559, 120, 27
§ 12	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		593, 66, 50
			2		+
§ 14	§	original text	RCV		+		508, 127, 70
§ 17	15	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		127, 558, 20
	§	original text	RCV		+		544, 142, 19
§ 18	§	original text	RCV		+		479, 140, 76
§ 19	16D	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		195, 495, 12
	1	Verts/ALE			-
	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		432, 255, 18
			2/RCV		+		407, 261, 26
			3/RCV		+		505, 169, 17
§ 20	17D	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		136, 503, 68
	2	Verts/ALE			-
	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		473, 188, 44
			2/RCV		+		438, 235, 23
§ 23	3	Verts/ALE			-
	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 25	5	Verts/ALE			-
	§	original text	RCV		+		422, 262, 22
§ 27	18D	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		194, 437, 76
	7	Verts/ALE			-
	§	original text	RCV		+		389, 248, 69
After § 27	19	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		116, 529, 53
After § 28	9	Verts/ALE			+
§ 30	§	original text	RCV		+		489, 135, 73
§ 33	§	original text	sep		+
§ 34	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 35	§	original text	sep		+
§ 47	11	Verts/ALE			-
§ 51	§	original text	RCV		+		520, 133, 51
§ 62	§	original text	RCV		+		484, 172, 41
§ 64	§	original text	RCV		+		480, 162, 51
After § 65	13	Verts/ALE			-
Citation 7	§	original text	sep		+
Citation 10	§	original text	sep		+
Recital C	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2/EV		+		349, 327, 28
Recital E	§	original text	sep		+
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		433, 174, 93


Requests for roll-call votes
EFDD:	§§ 1, 7, 10, 12 (1st part), 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, 51, 62, 64
GUE/NGL:	Amendments 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and § 3, 14, 30


Requests for separate votes
S&D:	§ 27
EFDD:	Recital E
Verts/ALE:	§§ 20, 30
ENF:	§§ 10, 33, 35, citations 7, 10, recital E


Requests for split votes
EFDD:
§ 12
First part	‘Points out how recent crises have shown the limits of the United Nations; calls on the EU and its Member States to bring all their weight to bear in an attempt to reform the Security Council,’
Second part	‘in particular with a view to removing the veto with regard to mass atrocities;’
§ 23
First part	‘Regrets that the comprehensive tasking exercises resulting from the November 2013 Foreign Affairs Council and the European Councils of 2013 and 2015 have not yet been fully implemented by the Commission, the EEAS, the EDA and the Member States; calls on the VP/HR and the Commissioner on Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs to present an assessment of the implementation of previous decisions to Parliament before suggesting new tasking; encourages the speeding up of the ongoing work on the European Defence Action Plan and the Commission’s efforts to maximise defence cooperation,’
Second part	‘including through incentives in areas such as the internal market, public procurement, research, transport, space, cyber, energy and industrial policies; notes the proposal by the French President for a European Security and Defence Fund, and supports the development of new and innovative financing and investment concepts, including through the European Investment Bank and public-private partnerships;’
S&D:
§ 20
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘the creation of a permanent civilian and military headquarter, with an equally important Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) and Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC), which would strengthen strategic and operational planning across the entire planning cycle, enhance civil-military cooperation and improve the EU’s ability to react speedily to crises;’
Second part	those words
Recital C
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘massive refugee flows’
Second part	those words
Verts/ALE, ENF:
§ 19
First part	‘Is convinced that in view of an already underfinanced EU budget, additional efforts for operations, administrative costs, preparatory actions and pilot projects under the Common Security and Defence Policy, additional funding from the Member States, as well as efforts to enhance synergies, are also needed; calls on the Commission and the Member States to seize the opportunity of the current revision/review of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) to address the budgetary needs for the growing security challenges; calls on the Member States to increase their defence expenditure so as to meet the NATO capacity goals which require a minimum level of defence spending of two percent of GDP;’ without the words: ‘additional funding from the Member States’
Second part	‘additional funding from the Member States’
Third part	‘underlines that better coordination and reduced overlap between EU and Member State activities would enable savings and a reallocation of funds;’
§ 34
First part	‘Takes the view that it is time to define a new, more realistic strategy for the EU’s relations with Russia, based on credible deterrence but also on dialogue in areas of common interest, such as counter-terrorism, non-proliferation and trade; underlines at the same time the importance of investing more into cooperation with and support to Russian civil society, so as to strengthen the long-term basis of EU-Russia relations;’
Second part	‘stresses that sanctions were needed as a reaction to, and have proven to be an effective means of deterring, further Russian aggression in Ukraine; recalls that the suspension of the related sanctions is conditional upon the full implementation of the Minsk agreements; fully supports the EU’s imposition of restrictive measures against individuals and entities in Russia in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and deliberate destabilisation of Ukraine, and insists that the EU should keep open the option of further gradual sanctions, in particular against high-technology products in the oil and gas, IT and armaments sectors, if Russia continues to violate international law;’
Third part	‘believes it is in the common interest of the EU and Russia to achieve a better relationship, provided international law is applied;’
EFDD, ENF:
§ 34
First part	‘Takes the view that it is time to define a new, more realistic strategy for the EU’s relations with Russia, based on credible deterrence but also on dialogue in areas of common interest, such as counter-terrorism, non-proliferation and trade; underlines at the same time the importance of investing more into cooperation with and support to Russian civil society, so as to strengthen the long-term basis of EU-Russia relations;’
Second part	‘stresses that sanctions were needed as a reaction to, and have proven to be an effective means of deterring, further Russian aggression in Ukraine; recalls that the suspension of the related sanctions is conditional upon the full implementation of the Minsk agreements; fully supports the EU’s imposition of restrictive measures against individuals and entities in Russia in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and deliberate destabilisation of Ukraine, and insists that the EU should keep open the option of further gradual sanctions, in particular against high-technology products in the oil and gas, IT and armaments sectors, if Russia continues to violate international law;’
Third part	‘believes it is in the common interest of the EU and Russia to achieve a better relationship, provided international law is applied;’

Miscellaneous

The Verts/ALE Group had withdrawn its amendments 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.

17. CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets

Report: Angélique Delahaye (A8-0339/2016)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
§ 1	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 4	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 12	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 15	§	original text	sep		+
§ 25	1	rapporteur			+
	§	original text	sep		↓
After § 26	2	rapporteur			+
§ 31	§	original text	sep		+
§ 34	§	original text	sep		+
§ 37	§	original text	sep		+
§ 39	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 49	§	original text	sep		+
§ 59	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 62	§	original text	sep		+
§ 63	§	original text	sep		+
Recital B	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
Recital F	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
Recital G	§	original text	RCV		+		647, 9, 36
Recital K	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
Recital L	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		445, 148, 89


Requests for roll-call votes
ENF:	Recital G


Requests for separate votes
GUE/NGL:	§§ 34, 37, 39
ECR	§§ 25, 31, 49, 62
Verts/ALE:	§§ 4, 15, 34, 63


Requests for split votes
GUE/NGL:
Recital B
First part	‘whereas agriculture must meet the major challenge of world population growth,’
Second part	‘while a large part of the planet's population remains malnourished, and the volatility of agricultural markets to variations in production and imbalances between supply and demand will continue to increase;’
Recital F
First part	‘whereas every region in the world has its own production models, as well as different measures in place with regard to environment and animal welfare, which can have serious implications for the cost-price of production,’
Second part	‘and whereas European farmers should be able to compete on the world market;’
ECR
§ 1
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘the globalisation and sophistication of agricultural markets;’
Second part	those words
§ 4
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘very considerable and’
Second part	those words
§ 59
First part	Text as a whole excluding the word: ‘binding’
Second part	this word
Recital K
First part	‘whereas agricultural markets, as the meeting-point of supply and demand, are inherently unstable, and whereas the presence of financial actors tends to reinforce this instability, and the limited elasticity of global food demand and agricultural product supply contributes to an increase in the effect of real or perceived imbalances on market participants,’ without ‘and whereas the presence of financial actors tends to reinforce this instability’
Second part	‘whereas the presence of financial actors tends to reinforce this instability’
Third part	‘with a sometimes shocking impact on agricultural product prices;’
Recital L
First part	‘whereas the financialisation of the global economy and the accompanying speculation might have an impact on agricultural markets and may contribute to increasing their imbalance and the volatility of prices,’
Second part	‘with agricultural raw materials being used simply as financial assets; as was highlighted by the dreadful hunger riots in 2008, this excessive financialisation can be devastating and ethically reprehensible if it threatens the food security of the poorest, least well-nourished people on the planet;’
Verts/ALE:
§ 12
First part	Text as a whole without the words: ‘the threat of’
Second part	those words
§ 39
First part	‘Calls also on the Commission to take initiatives by offering incentives to set up such funds,’
Second part	‘while guaranteeing that any future risk management scheme must comply with, and where necessary complete, insurance systems adopted at national level by Member States;’

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