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Wednesday, 18 April 2018 - Strasbourg

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1. Fixing the period for the ninth election of representatives to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage *

2. Parliament’s calendar of part-sessions – 2019

3. EU-Australia Framework Agreement ***

4. EU-Australia Framework Agreement (Resolution)

5. Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism ***

6. Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Protocol) ***

7. Packaging and packaging waste ***I

8. End-of-life vehicles, waste batteries and accumulators and waste electrical and electronic equipment ***I

9. Waste ***I

10. Landfill of waste ***I

11. Procedural rules in the field of environmental reporting ***I

12. The integrity policy of the Commission, in particular the appointment of the Secretary-General of the European Commission

13. Progress on the UN global Compacts for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and on Refugees

14. Implementation of the EU external financing instruments: mid-term review 2017 and the future post-2020 architecture

Report: Marietje Schaake (A8-0112/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
§ 5	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 6	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 24	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 55	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
			4		+
§ 88	1	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		195, 344, 156
After § 88	2	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		131, 548, 13
§ 89	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 92	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 121	3	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		207, 453, 39
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		462, 82, 151


Requests for roll-call votes
Verts/ALE:	amendments 1, 2, 3


Requests for split votes
ENF:
§ 5
First part	‘Is concerned that the EU and its instruments face significant challenges, including political trade-offs between the promotion of values and rights and short-term security interests, the emergence of new actors in the field of global governance and international financial institutions, as well as numerous violent global conflicts around the world, including volatility in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood, both to the East and to the South,’
Second part	‘and an increasingly aggressive and assertive policy of Russia;’
§ 6
First part	‘Notes that EU Trust Funds were created to address the root causes of migration; ‘regrets that the contributions from the EU budget to the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey have reduced the overall coherence, long-term vision and impact of the Union’s action;’
Second part	‘stresses once again that new priorities must be financed with new appropriations;’
Third part	‘deeply regrets that Parliament was not formally consulted or asked to give its approval at any stage of the decision-making process in relation to the ‘Turkey statement’;’
§ 24
First part	Text as a whole excluding the words: ‘the illegal annexation of Crimea and the Russian-sponsored conflict in Eastern Ukraine;’
Second part	those words
§ 55
First part	‘Stresses the need to provide additional financial resources and training support to CSOs; insists that urgent measures are required to further diminish the bureaucratic burden and procedural obstacles encountered by CSOs, especially by local CSOs; excluding the words ‘additional financial resources and’
Second part	‘additional financial resources and’
Third part	‘calls for specific budget lines devoted to capacity building for CSOs in order to enhance their ability to access funding;’
Fourth part	‘regrets that the issue of the lack of CSO participation in programming and implementing external instruments has not been raised in the Commission’s mid-term review report; calls on the Commission to mainstream a more strategic involvement of CSOs in all external instruments and programmes, as requested by both the Council and Parliament;’
§ 89
First part	‘Reiterates the fundamental importance of supporting and promoting democracy and human rights in third countries, including the protection of human rights defenders,’
Second part	‘irrespective of interference by authorities of third countries’
§ 92
First part	Text as a whole excluding the words: ‘Roma, LGBTI, persons’
Second part	those words

15. Annual reports 2015-2016 on subsidiarity and proportionality

16. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - Commission and executive agencies

Report: Joachim Zeller (A8-0137/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
Decision on discharge
Vote: decision (text as a whole)				RCV		+		426, 255, 12
Motion for a resolution
§ 1	50	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		195, 433, 68
§ 4	28	EFDD			-
	51	S&D	EV		-		289, 398, 5
§ 9	52	S&D			-
§ 10	29	EFDD			-
§ 12	30D	EFDD			-
	53	S&D			-
§ 17	11	GUE/NGL			-
§ 21	31	EFDD			-
§ 22	12	GUE/NGL			-
§ 25	32	EFDD			-
	54	S&D			-
§ 26	33	EFDD			-
§ 34	55	S&D	EV		-		302, 389, 3
§ 41	56	S&D	EV		+		355, 330, 6
§ 51	6	Verts/ALE	EV		-		154, 507, 30
§ 52	34	EFDD			-
§ 53	35	EFDD			-
§ 55	36S	EFDD			-
§ 58	37	EFDD			-
§ 59	38	EFDD			-
§ 63	39	EFDD			-
§ 64, point a	40	EFDD			-
After § 70	57	S&D			+
§ 85	58	S&D			-
§ 91	41D	EFDD			-
§ 92	42D	EFDD			-
§ 94	13	GUE/NGL			-
§ 99, point b	43	EFDD			-
§ 99, point c	14	GUE/NGL			-
§ 99, point e	44	EFDD			-
§ 103	60	S&D	EV		-		232, 416, 46
§ 130	45	EFDD			-
§ 132	§	original text	sep/EV		-		273, 371, 47
§ 133	61	S&D			-
§ 134	62	S&D			-
§ 135	63D	S&D			-
§ 136	64	S&D	EV		-		247, 445, 3
After § 152	65	S&D			-
§ 175, introduction	15	GUE/NGL			-
§ 176	16D	GUE/NGL			-
After § 185	46	EFDD			-
	47	EFDD			-
	48	EFDD			-
§ 204, after point g	66	S&D			-
§ 205	67	S&D			-
§ 216	17S	GUE/NGL			-
§ 219	18	GUE/NGL			+
§ 230	68D	S&D			-
§ 253, point a	69	S&D			-
After § 262	2	ENF	RCV		-		88, 588, 18
§ 272	49	EFDD	EV		+		403, 284, 9
After § 285	3	ENF	RCV		-		82, 588, 12
§ 288, point a	70	S&D	RCV		-		322, 338, 10
After § 290	4	ENF	RCV		-		146, 536, 4
§ 291, after point a	5	ENF	RCV		-		147, 536, 4
After § 292	19	GUE/NGL	RCV		+		365, 260, 61
	20	GUE/NGL	RCV		+		367, 265, 59
After § 294	71	S&D			+
After § 296	7	Verts/ALE	EV		-		231, 460, 4
	21	GUE/NGL			+
	1	EFDD	RCV		-		194, 449, 53
	8	Verts/ALE	RCV		+		413, 257, 15
	22	GUE/NGL	RCV		↓
§ 297	9	Verts/ALE	RCV		+		429, 261, 3
§ 310	72	S&D	RCV		+		477, 211, 6
After § 322	23	GUE/NGL			+
	24	GUE/NGL			+
	25	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		230, 459, 8
§ 323	26	GUE/NGL	RCV		+		577, 116, 3
§ 326	27	GUE/NGL			-
After recital D	10	GUE/NGL			-
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		494, 171, 31


Requests for roll-call votes
GUE/NGL:	amendments 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 50
Verts/ALE:	amendments 8, 9
EFDD:	final vote (decision), amendment 1
ENF:	amendments 2, 3, 4 and 5
S&D:	amendments 70, 72


Requests for separate votes
EFDD:	§ 132

Miscellaneous:
The vote on the decision on the discharge covered the closure of accounts (see Annex IV, Article 5(1) of the Rules of Procedure).

The vote on the decision on the discharge covered both the Commission and the executive agencies (Regulation 58/2003, Article 14(3) and Regulation 1653/2004, Article 66(2).

Amendment 57 had been deleted.

17. Discharge 2016: Court of Auditors’ special reports in the context of the 2016 Commission discharge

18. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th EDFs

19. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - European Parliament

Report: Derek Vaughan (A8-0105/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
Decision on discharge
Vote: decision (text as a whole)				RCV		+		540, 147, 4
Motion for a resolution
§ 5	1	EFDD			-
	7	ENF	RCV		-		96, 589, 11
After § 18	8	ENF	RCV		-		104, 509, 79
After § 25	37	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		194, 426, 73
§ 29	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		505, 108, 78
			2/RCV		+		319, 294, 81
After § 33	9	ENF	RCV		-		91, 603, 2
§ 35	38	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		109, 515, 66
	2	EFDD	split
			1		-
			2		-
§ 38	3	EFDD	EV		+		448, 219, 22
	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		↓
			2/RCV		↓
§ 39	10	ENF	RCV		-		121, 538, 26
After § 39	11	ENF	RCV		-		93, 592, 5
After § 47	6	S&D			+
After § 52	12	ENF	RCV		-		91, 535, 69
	13	ENF	RCV		-		96, 523, 67
	14	ENF	RCV		-		95, 582, 14
	15	ENF	RCV		-		87, 583, 24
After § 57	39	GUE/NGL			-
	40	GUE/NGL			-
After § 59	16	ENF	RCV		-		136, 526, 33
After § 63	17	ENF	RCV		-		109, 562, 5
After § 64	41	GUE/NGL			-
§ 73, indent 6	§	original text	split
			1/RCV		+		371, 235, 91
			2/RCV		+		578, 30, 83
After § 74	27	Verts/ALE	RCV		+		396, 264, 36
§ 79	35	S&D			+
After § 83	18	ENF	RCV		-		94, 584, 19
After § 87	36	S&D			+
	42	GUE/NGL	RCV		+		368, 319, 4
	43	GUE/NGL	RCV		+		363, 298, 31
§ 99	4	EFDD			-
§ 100	44	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		169, 483, 47
After § 101	29	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		198, 478, 7
	30	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		253, 425, 9
	31	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		242, 401, 49
	32	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		164, 477, 50
§ 102	21D	PPE	RCV		-		269, 388, 30
After § 102	22	PPE	RCV		-		322, 351, 14
§ 103	23D+26	PPE	RCV		-		299, 383, 8
After § 103	24	PPE	RCV		-		318, 333, 40
§ 104	25D	PPE	RCV		-		284, 395, 11
After § 104	33	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		231, 437, 10
	34	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		260, 418, 14
After § 110	28	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		244, 442, 9
§ 131	5	EFDD			-
After § 134	45	ENF			-
	20	ENF	split
			1/RCV		-		127, 465, 94
			2/RCV		-		92, 573, 24
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		542, 142, 16


Requests for roll-call votes
GUE/NGL:	amendments 37, 38, 42, 43, 44, § 38
Verts/ALE:	amendments 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
EFDD:	Final vote (decision)
PPE:	§§ 29, 38
ENF:	amendments 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20
S&D:	§ 73, indent 6


Requests for separate votes
PPE:	§§ 29, 38


Requests for split votes
Verts/ALE:
amendment 2
First part	‘Is of the view that the Members’ transport service should be used solely to reach Parliament premises from the airport or station and back again, and that minivans and minibuses should be provided to that effect in order to optimise expenditure;’
Second part	‘points out, moreover, that Members have the option of using rail transport in Belgium free of charge;’ ‘encourages the Secretary-General to negotiate with the Belgian railways to offer more direct trains between Brussels-Luxembourg railway station and Zaventem Airport at peak arrival and departure times for Members and asks the secretariat to promote train travel for Members, in order also to lower Members’ carbon footprint;’
amendment 20
First part	‘Recalls that the Code of Conduct requires Members to declare any gifts they receive when representing Parliament in an official capacity, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the Implementing Measures for the Code of Conduct, and that such gifts be recorded in the register of gifts;’
Second part	‘wonders why in 2016 only one gift was declared, while in 2015 there were 25;’
PPE:
§ 73, indent 6
First part	‘a compulsory’
Second part	‘training’ and ‘on sexual harassment and mobbing for Members and officials in positions of power;’
S&D:
§ 29
First part	‘Calls on the Secretary-General to institute measures to deal with significantly increasing hotel prices in Strasbourg, prices that have increased dramatically from one year to the next with an especially marked peak during the plenary session;’
Second part	‘recommends facilitating transport between Strasbourg and the German side of the border, where prices are significantly lower (possibly by means of a shuttle bus service between Kehl and the Parliament building);’
§ 38
First part	‘Acknowledges that, according to the Court, the costs of the geographic dispersion of Parliament amount to EUR 114million per year; notes the finding, in its resolution of 20 November 2013 on the location of the seats of the Union’s institutions, that 78 % of all missions by Parliament staff coming under the Staff Regulations arise as a direct result of the fact that Parliament’s services are geographically dispersed; recalls that the estimate of the environmental impact of that dispersal is between 11 000 to 19 000 tonnes of CO2 emissions;’
Second part	‘calls on the Council to find a solution for this waste of taxpayers money;’

Miscellaneous:
Amendment 19 has been deleted.

20. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - European Council and Council

21. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - Court of Justice

22. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - Court of Auditors

Report: Ingeborg Gräßle (A8-0089/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
Decision on discharge
Vote: decision (text as a whole)						+
Motion for a resolution
§ 4	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 8	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 25	1= 2=	EFDD GUE/NGL			-
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		586, 100, 13


Requests for split votes
S&D:
§ 4
First part	‘Notes that under the current discharge procedure, annual activity reports are submitted to the Court in June, submitted by the Court to the Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of the annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up;’ Excluding the words ‘points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline;’
Second part	‘points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline;’
Third part	‘requests that the Court follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of annual activity reports for 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission of the Court's reports for 1 July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in the plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;’
§ 8
First part	‘Regrets that the extent of considerations in Chapter 10 of the annual report remains limited; asks the Court to provide more detailed data on each institution in order to achieve a better view of the weaknesses in administrative expenditures;’
Second part	‘considers that country specific reporting by the Court for every Member State would be welcome in the future;’

23. Discharge 2016: EU General budget - European Economic and Social Committee

24. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - Committee of the Regions

Report: Ingeborg Gräßle (A8-0117/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
Decision on discharge
Vote: decision (text as a whole)				RCV		+		490, 200, 4
Motion for a resolution
§ 3	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
§ 17	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 21	1	Verts/ALE	RCV		-		252, 431, 18
	2	EFDD	RCV		-		240, 440, 16
	4	GUE/NGL	EV		+		468, 211, 19
	§	original text	sep		↓
§ 26	3= 5=	EFDD GUE/NGL			-
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		562, 125, 14


Requests for roll-call votes
Verts/ALE:	amendment 1
EFDD:	Final vote (decision), amendment 2


Requests for separate votes
EFDD:	§ 21


Requests for split votes
S&D:
§ 3
First part	‘Notes that, according to the current discharge procedure, the Committee submits annual activity reports to the Court in June, the Court then submits its report to Parliament in October, and the discharge is voted by Parliament in plenary by May; notes that, unless the discharge is postponed, at least 17 months pass between the closing of annual accounts and the closing of the discharge procedure; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much shorter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up;’ excluding the words ‘points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much shorter timeline’
Second part	‘points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much shorter timeline;’
Third part	‘requests that the Committee and the Court follow best practice in the private sector; proposes in this regard to set a deadline for the submission of the annual activity reports of 31 March of the year following the accounting year and a deadline for the submission of the Court’s report of 1 July; proposes also to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge would take place in Parliament’s plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question.’
§ 17
First part	Text as a whole excluding the words: ‘whilst avoiding overlap with the activities of other Union institutions;’
Second part	those words

25. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - European External Action Service

Report: Marco Valli (A8-0128/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.		Vote		RCV/EV – remarks
Decision on discharge
Vote: decision (text as a whole)				RCV		+		542, 135, 15
Motion for a resolution
§ 7	1	EFDD			-
§ 9	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
§ 31	2	S&D			+
§ 42	3	GUE/NGL	RCV		-		127, 506, 69
	§	original text	sep		+
§ 46	§	original text	split
			1		+
			2		+
			3		+
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)				RCV		+		549, 133, 18


Requests for roll-call votes
GUE/NGL:	amendment 3
EFDD:	Final vote (decision)


Requests for separate votes
EFDD:	§ 42


Requests for split votes
EFDD:
§ 9
First part	‘Expresses its support for analysing and refining the cost-effectiveness of ex post control by comparing the cost of ex post control activities with the value of detected errors; notes that the unit cost of detecting errors (cost per euro) amounted to 23 cents in 2016;’
Second part	‘acknowledges that this unit cost is related to the low error rate and hence would be lower if the sum affected by error were higher’
S&D:
§ 46
First part	‘Notes that, according to the current discharge procedure, the EEAS submits annual activity reports to the Court in June, the Court then submits its report to the Parliament in October, and the discharge is voted by Parliament in plenary by May; notes that, unless the discharge is postponed, at least 17 months pass between the closing of annual accounts and the closing of the discharge procedure; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much shorter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up;’ excluding the words ‘points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much shorter timeline’
Second part	‘points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much shorter timeline;’
Third part	‘requests that the EEAS and the Court follow best practice in the private sector, proposes in this regard to set a deadline for the submission of annual activity reports of 31 March of the year following the accounting year and a deadline for the submission of the Court’s reports of 1 July; proposes also to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge would take place in Parliament’s plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question.’

26. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - European Ombudsman

27. Discharge 2016: EU general budget - European Data Protection Supervisor

28. Discharge 2016: Performance, financial management and control of EU agencies

29. Discharge 2016: Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

30. Discharge 2016: Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)

31. Discharge 2016: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT)

32. Discharge 2016: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

33. Discharge 2016: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL)

34. Discharge 2016: European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)

35. Discharge 2016: European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

36. Discharge 2016: European Banking Authority (EBA)

37. Discharge 2016: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

38. Discharge 2016: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

39. Discharge 2016: European Environment Agency (EEA)

40. Discharge 2016: European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA)

41. Discharge 2016: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

42. Discharge 2016: European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)

43. Discharge 2016: European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

44. Discharge 2016: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

45. Discharge 2016: European Medicines Agency (EMA)

46. Discharge 2016: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

47. Discharge 2016: European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)

48. Discharge 2016: European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

49. Discharge 2016: European Union Agency for Railways (ERA)

50. Discharge 2016: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

51. Discharge 2016: European Training Foundation (ETF)

52. Discharge 2016: European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA)

53. Discharge 2016: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)

54. Discharge 2016: Euratom Supply Agency (ESA)

55. Discharge 2016: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)

56. Discharge 2016: EU Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust)

57. Discharge 2016: European Police Office (Europol)

58. Discharge 2016: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)

59. Discharge 2016: European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)

60. Discharge 2016: European GNSS Agency (GSA)

61. Discharge 2016: Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI)

62. Discharge 2016: Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking

63. Discharge 2016: Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership (ECSEL) Joint Undertaking

64. Discharge 2016: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU)

65. Discharge 2016: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (IMI)

66. Discharge 2016: ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy Joint Undertaking

67. Discharge 2016: SESAR Joint Undertaking

68. Discharge 2016: Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R)

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