17. Safety rules and standards for passenger ships ***I - Registration of persons sailing on board passenger ships operating to or from ports of the Member States ***I - System of inspections for the safe operation of ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft in regular service ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2009/45/EC on safety rules and standards for passenger ships [COM(2016)0369 - C8-0208/2016 - 2016/0170(COD)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Daniela Aiuto (A8-0167/2017)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 98/41/EC on the registration of persons sailing on board passenger ships operating to or from ports of the Member States of the Community and amending Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States [COM(2016)0370 - C8-0209/2016 - 2016/0171(COD)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Izaskun Bilbao Barandica (A8-0168/2017)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a system of inspections for the safe operation of ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft in regular service and amending Directive 2009/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control and repealing Council Directive 1999/35/EC [COM(2016)0371 - C8-0210/2016 - 2016/0172(COD)] - Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Dominique Riquet (A8-0165/2017)

Daniela Aiuto, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica and Dominique Riquet introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Joëlle Bergeron (rapporteur for the opinion of the JURI Committee), Helga Stevens (rapporteur for the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Wim van de Camp, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kosma Złotowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Gesine Meissner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, James Carver, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Konstantinos Papadakis, non-attached Member, Werner Kuhn, Isabella De Monte, Ruža Tomašić, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Seán Kelly, Janusz Zemke, Notis Marias, Nicola Caputo and Maria Grapini.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: José Inácio Faria and Georgios Epitideios.

The following spoke: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Daniela Aiuto, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica and Dominique Riquet.

The debate closed.

Vote: item 9.6, item 9.7 and minutes of 4.10.2017, item 9.8.