19. EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

Verbatim reports

Interim report on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion, by the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence [COM(2016)0109 - 2016/0062(NLE)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Rapporteurs: Christine Revault d'Allonnes Bonnefoy and Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (A8-0266/2017)

Christine Revault D'Allonnes Bonnefoy and Anna Maria Corazza Bildt introduced the report.

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

The following spoke: Jiří Maštálka (rapporteur for the opinion of the JURI Committee), Barbara Matera, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, Helga Stevens, on behalf of the ECR Group, Angelika Mlinar, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Kostadinka Kuneva, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Terry Reintke, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Margot Parker, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Mylène Troszczynski, on behalf of the ENF Group, Eleftherios Synadinos, non-attached Member, Anna Záborská, Josef Weidenholzer, who declined a blue-card question from Marek Jurek, Julie Girling, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, João Pimenta Lopes, Daniela Aiuto, Franz Obermayr, Carlos Coelho, Maria Noichl, Branislav Škripek, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Ángela Vallina, John Stuart Agnew, Pavel Svoboda, Soraya Post, Jadwiga Wiśniewska and Csaba Sógor.

IN THE CHAIR: Bogusław LIBERADZKI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Liliana Rodrigues, Rikke Karlsson, Péter Niedermüller, Ulrike Trebesius, Marc Tarabella, Caterina Chinnici, Biljana Borzan and Anna Hedh, who also replied to a blue-card question by Anna Maria Corazza Bildt.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Michaela Šojdrová, Olga Sehnalová, Notis Marias, Gesine Meissner, Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez, Marijana Petir, Tibor Szanyi, Ruža Tomašić, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Julie Ward, Marek Jurek and Nicola Caputo.

The following spoke: Věra Jourová, Christine Revault d'Allonnes Bonnefoy and Anna Maria Corazza Bildt.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 12.9.2017, item 7.14.