Minutes - Results of votes - Thursday, 31 January 2019

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Thursday, 31 January 2019 - Brussels

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1. Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure

Report: Richard Corbett (A8-0462/2018) (Majority of Parliament's component Members required for the text of the regulation, simple majority required for interpretations and the proposal for a decision)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.	Vote	RCV/EV – remarks
Amendments by the committee responsible – put to the vote collectively	1-4 6-8 12 14-19 21-29 31 33-34 45-53 56-62 64-67	committee		+
Amendments by the committee responsible - separate vote	20	committee	split
			1/RCV	+	617, 27, 6
			2 secret ballot	+	380, 224, 26
			3 secret ballot	+	396, 220, 21
	35	committee	RCV	+	454, 186, 6
	36	committee	RCV	+	449, 193, 3
	37	committee	RCV	+	473, 145, 31
	38	committee	RCV	+	466, 172, 7
	39	committee	RCV	+	453, 180, 4
	41D	committee	RCV	+	453, 185, 5
	42	committee	RCV	+	469, 153, 23
	43	committee	RCV	+	493, 143, 8
	44	committee	RCV	+	487, 144, 16
	54	committee	RCV	+	484, 148, 10
	55	committee	RCV	+	510, 128, 10
	63	committee	split
			1	+
			2	+
Rule 11, § 3, sub§ 2	5D	committee	sep	+
Rule 11, § 3, sub§ 2	83	38+ Members		↓
Rule 11, after §3	9	committee	sep	+
	10	committee	RCV	+	523, 103, 11
	80	ENF	RCV	↓
	11	committee	sep/EV	+	509, 134, 3
	68	S&D	EV	-	350, 266, 28
	13	committee	split
			1/RCV	+	622, 16, 8
			2/RCV	+	493, 111, 26
After Rule 11	75	PPE		+
Rule 32, § 1, interpretation and after sub§ 1	86 + 87D	S&D, ALDE, PPE	RCV	-	354, 267, 27
Rule 32, § 5	88	S&D, ALDE, PPE	RCV	+	457, 179, 10
Rule 130, § 3	81	GUE/NGL	RCV	-	142, 493, 4
	73	EFDD	RCV	-	119, 524, 5
	30	committee		+
	32D	committee		+
Rule 130b, § 2	40	committee	RCV	+	472, 172, 6
	74	EFDD	RCV	↓
	79	EFDD	RCV	↓
Rule 180a, §§ 2 and 3	84D + 85D	Verts/ALE	RCV	-	340, 285, 18
Rule 211, § 8	76	PPE		+
After Rule 228	89rev	S&D, ALDE, GUE/NGL, Verts/ALE	RCV	+	391, 236, 18
Vote: proposal for a decision			RCV	+	496, 114, 33


Requests for roll-call votes
EFDD:	amendments 73, 74, 79, 84, 85, 86, 88
ECR	amendments 86, 87
GUE/NGL:	amendments 20, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 54, 55, 81, 89
Verts/ALE:	amendments 13, 20 (§§ 3, 4), 84, 85, 89
ENF:	amendments 10, 80
PPE:	amendment 20 (§§ 3, 4)


Requests for separate votes
ECR	amendments 5, 9, 10, 11


Requests for split votes
GUE/NGL:
amendment 63
First part	Text as a whole excluding the words: ‘or similar’
Second part	those words
PPE:
amendment 13
First part	Text as a whole excluding the words: ‘Members may not be elected as office-holders of Parliament or one of its bodies, be appointed as rapporteur or participate in an official delegation or interinstitutional negotiations, if they have not signed the declaration relating to that Code.’
Second part	those words
ALDE, PPE:
amendment 20
First part	Text as a whole excluding paragraphs 3 and 4
Second part	paragraph 3
Third part	paragraph 4

Miscellaneous

Amendments 71, 77, 78 and 82 were ruled inadmissible.

Amendments 69, 70 and 72 had been withdrawn.

Votes by secret ballot requested by the PPE Group.

2. Union Customs Code: inclusion of the municipality of Campione d’Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the customs territory of the Union ***I

3. Rules on direct payments and support for rural development in respect of the years 2019 and 2020 ***I

4. Accession of the Dominican Republic to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction *

5. Accession of Ecuador and Ukraine to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction *

6. Accession of Honduras to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction *

7. Accession of Belarus and Uzbekistan to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction *

8. Association of the Overseas Countries and Territories with the European Union including relations between the EU, Greenland and Denmark *

9. Annual Report 2017 on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests - fight against fraud

10. Implementation and functioning of the .eu top level domain name ***I

11. Harmonisation of gross national income at market prices (GNI Regulation) ***I

12. Objection pursuant to Rule 106: genetically modified oilseed rapes Ms8, Rf3 and Ms8 × Rf3

13. Objection pursuant to Rule 106: genetically modified maize 5307 (SYN-Ø53Ø7-1)

14. Objection pursuant to Rule 106: genetically modified maize MON 87403 (MON-874Ø3-1)

15. Objection pursuant to Rule 106: genetically modified cotton GHB614 × LLCotton25 × MON 15985

16. Situation in Venezuela

17. Annual Report on Competition Policy

Report: Michel Reimon (A8-0474/2018)


Subject	Am No	Author	RCV etc.	Vote	RCV/EV – remarks
§ 2	§	original text	split
			1/RCV	+	579, 26, 29
			2/RCV	-	296, 308, 21
After § 2	3	PPE	RCV	+	318, 303, 9
§ 3	4	PPE	EV	+	482, 123, 19
	§	original text	split
			1	↓
			2	↓
			3	↓
			4	↓
			5	↓
			6	↓
§ 4	§	original text	split
			1	+
			2	-
§ 26	5	PPE		+
	§	original text	split
			1	↓
			2	↓
			3	↓
§ 28	§	original text	split
			1	+
			2	+
§ 31	9	EFDD	RCV	-	184, 403, 33
§ 32	6	GUE/NGL		-
§ 38	7	GUE/NGL		-
§ 40	§	original text	split
			1/RCV	+	559, 47, 21
			2/RCV	+	339, 264, 15
§ 41	§	original text	split
			1	+
			2	-
After § 49	8	GUE/NGL		-
After § 64	1	EFDD	RCV	-	223, 321, 79
§ 76	§	original text	split
			1	+
			2	-
§ 78	§	original text	split
			1	+
			2	-
§ 82	§	original text	split
			1	+
			2	-
Recital E	2	PPE	RCV	-	288, 312, 22
Vote: resolution (text as a whole)			RCV	+	468, 66, 66


Requests for roll-call votes
EFDD:	amendments 1, 9
Verts/ALE:	amendments 2, 3, 9, §§ 2, 40


Requests for split votes
PPE:
§ 2
First part	‘Welcomes and further encourages the structured dialogue with the Commissioner for Competition and the efforts of the Commission to maintain close co-operation with the members of Parliament’s competent committee and its Working Group on Competition Policy; considers the Commission’s annual report on competition policy an indispensable exercise in terms of democratic scrutiny; recalls that in recent years Parliament has been involved through the ordinary legislative procedure in shaping the framework for competition rules, for example in the proposed ECN+ Directive; notes that Parliament should be given co-decision powers to shape the framework for competition rules and regrets that the democratic dimension of this area of Union policy has not been strengthened in recent treaty amendments;’
Second part	‘calls for the treaties to be amended accordingly;’
§ 4
First part	‘Notes that the Commission made a legislative proposal to create a Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) in 2018, which would be a private pension fund;’
Second part	‘highlights that this legislative proposal was initially inspired by US financial services corporate giant BlackRock, the world’s largest asset fund manager, which built some two thirds of its USD 6 trillion empire on pensions, and was proposed by the Commission after significant lobbying efforts by BlackRock; sees also growing evidence that giant asset managers such as BlackRock hamper competition in real markets and among corporates; requests that the Commission exercise particular vigilance regarding the risks of dominant position in the market for private pension products;’
§ 28
First part	‘Takes notes of the decision of the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, on the investigation concerning State aid to McDonald’s, which stated that the non-taxation of certain profits of McDonald’s in Luxembourg does not constitute an illegal state aid; takes the view that current EU regulation is unfit to effectively combat double non-taxation’
Second part	‘and to stop the race to the bottom on corporate tax levels;’
§ 40
First part	‘Underlines the far-reaching concentration of the food supply chain, whereby a couple of companies form an oligopoly on the global market of seeds and pesticides, to the detriment of consumers, farmers, the environment and biodiversity alike;’
Second part	‘points out that such a structure will make farmers even more technologically and economically dependent on a few globally integrated one-stop-shop platforms, produce limited seed diversity, re-direct trends in innovation away from the adoption of a production model which is respectful of the environment and biodiversity and ultimately, as a result of reduced competition, generate less innovation and a lower quality of end products; calls on the Commission, in view of diminished farm incomes affecting small farmers in particular, to channel its efforts towards ensuring decent earnings for farmers, especially those with small and medium-sized businesses;’
§ 41
First part	‘Regards it as essential for the Commission to monitor more closely the use of patents in agriculture;’
Second part	‘notes that abuse of patents forces farmers to strive for production targets that limit their market choices, impoverishing crop biodiversity, distorting competition and limiting innovation; notes that the recommended measures will encourage the development of an agro-industrial model that fosters transition towards organic and ecologically sustainable farming;’
§ 76
First part	‘Emphasises that access to the EU’s internal market should be contingent on compliance with sanitary, phytosanitary and environmental standards; asks the Commission, in order to guarantee fair competition, to promote the equivalency of measures and controls between third countries and the EU in the area of environmental and food safety standards; notes that the highest standards of environmental and animal welfare can mean higher costs and hence that lowering standards can result in anti-competitive behaviour;’
Second part	‘recommends that the Commission explore ways of extending the scope of competition policy to prevent such dumping within the single market and from imports into the single market;’
§ 78
First part	‘Stresses that the concept of a ‘fair price’ should not be regarded as the lowest price possible for the consumer, but instead must be reasonable and allow for the fair remuneration of all parties along the food supply chain; stresses that consumers have interests other than low prices alone, including animal welfare, environmental sustainability, rural development and initiatives to reduce antibiotic use and stave off antimicrobial resistance, etc.;’
Second part	‘encourages Member States’ competition authorities to take account of consumer demand for sustainable food production, which requires that greater account be taken of the value of ‘public goods’ in food pricing; requests, in this regard, that EU competition policy look beyond the lowest common denominator of ‘cheap food’; considers that the costs of production must be taken fully into account when agreeing prices in contracts between retailers/processors and producers with the intention of ensuring prices that at least cover costs;’
§ 82
First part	‘Recalls that significant horizontal and vertical restructuring has taken place, which has led to further consolidation in the already concentrated seed, agro-chemical, fertiliser, animal genetics and farm machinery sectors, as well as in processing and retailing; calls on the Commission to ensure, in this context and following the acquisition of Monsanto by the Bayer group, which together control approximately 24 % of the global pesticide market and 29 % of the global seed market, that the interests of EU farmers, citizens and the environment are protected,’
Second part	‘by comprehensively and holistically assessing the impact, at farm level, of mergers and acquisitions of agricultural input suppliers, including producers of plant protection products, so that farmers can have access to innovative products of better quality, with less environmental impact and at competitive prices; highlights that such mergers and acquisitions could potentially damage competition in the field of access to essential products for farmers; takes the view that the marketing standards for seed and plant propagating material for minor use should be eased and made more flexible.’
S&D:
§ 3
First part	‘Asks the Commission to analyse carefully the significant potential’
Second part	‘harmful impact’
Third part	‘of the proposed Siemens / Alstom merger on the competitiveness of the European rail market and its’
Fourth part	‘adverse’
Fifth part	‘effects on rail users,’
Sixth part	‘who would be faced with higher prices, less choice and lower levels of service, quality, and innovation; notes that the proposed merger will probably harm the markets for high-speed rolling stock, mainline and metro trains, as well as the entire rail infrastructure, by creating a dominant position in signalling in the EU, and specifically in Member States such as Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom;’
§ 26
First part	‘Notes that the President of the Commission has committed to putting forward proposals to enhance tax cooperation between Member States through an obligation to answer group requests in tax matters, so that one Member State can provide all information necessary to enable others to prosecute cross-border tax evaders, and also to make tax reform proposals’
Second part	‘under Article 116 of the TFEU,’
Third part	‘ involving co-decision between the Council and Parliament, in order to eliminate distortion of the conditions of competition in the internal market;’

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