13. Empowering competition authorities and ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market ***I (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market [COM(2017)0142 - C8-0119/2017 - 2017/0063(COD)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Andreas Schwab (A8-0057/2018)

Andreas Schwab introduced the report.

The following spoke: Margrethe Vestager (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Eva Maydell (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Markus Ferber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Tibor Szanyi, on behalf of the S&D Group, Jasenko Selimovic, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Bronis Ropė, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Paloma López Bermejo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Dariusz Rosati, Neena Gill, Othmar Karas and Doru-Claudian Frunzulică.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Notis Marias and Stanislav Polčák.

The following spoke: Margrethe Vestager and Andreas Schwab.

IN THE CHAIR: Lívia JÁRÓKA
Vice-President

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 14.11.2018, item 14.4.