3. Third countries whose nationals are subject to or exempt from a visa requirement: Georgia ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (Georgia) [COM(2016)0142 - C8-0113/2016 - 2016/0075(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Mariya Gabriel (A8-0260/2016)

Mariya Gabriel introduced the report.

The following spoke: Dimitris Avramopoulos (Member of the Commission).

IN THE CHAIR: Ryszard CZARNECKI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Andrejs Mamikins (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee), Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Birgit Sippel, on behalf of the S&D Group, Anna Elżbieta Fotyga, on behalf of the ECR Group, Nathalie Griesbeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Bodil Valero, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the EFDD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Andrejs Mamikins, Vicky Maeijer, on behalf of the ENF Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Steven Woolfe, non-attached Member, Michał Boni, Ana Gomes, Sajjad Karim, Bronis Ropė, Lampros Fountoulis, Jaromír Štětina and Victor Boştinaru.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Csaba Sógor, Nicola Caputo, Notis Marias, Petras Auštrevičius, Kinga Gál and Michaela Šojdrová.

The following spoke: Dimitris Avramopoulos and Mariya Gabriel.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 2.2.2017, item 7.5.