16. Guarantee Fund for external actions ***I - EU guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under financing operations supporting investment projects outside the Union ***I

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009 establishing a Guarantee Fund for external actions [COM(2016)0582 - C8-0374/2016- 2016/0274(COD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (A8-0132/2017)

Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Decision No 466/2014/EU granting an EU guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under financing operations supporting investment projects outside the Union [COM(2016)0583 - C8-0376/2016- 2016/0275(COD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (A8-0135/2017)

Eider Gardiazabal Rubial introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Nirj Deva (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee).

The following spoke: Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President of the Commission) and Werner Hoyer (President of the European Investment Bank).

The following spoke: Eduard Kukan (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFET Committee), Siegfried Mureşan, on behalf of the PPE Group, Isabelle Thomas, on behalf of the S&D Group, Stanisław Ożóg, on behalf of the ECR Group, Gérard Deprez, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Xabier Benito Ziluaga, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, David Coburn, on behalf of the EFDD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Stanisław Żółtek, on behalf of the ENF Group, José Manuel Fernandes, Jean-Paul Denanot, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, André Elissen, Eleftherios Synadinos and Paul Rübig.

IN THE CHAIR: Fabio Massimo CASTALDO
Vice-President

The following spoke: Daniele Viotti, Seán Kelly, Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, who also replied to a blue-card question by David Coburn, and Cécile Kashetu Kyenge.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Nicola Caputo.

The following spoke: Werner Hoyer, Jyrki Katainen and Eider Gardiazabal Rubial.

The debate closed.

Vote: item 12.7 and minutes of 8.2.2018, item 12.8.