The Spanish authorities had forwarded a request for the immunity of Clara Ponsatí Obiols to be waived to enable criminal proceedings against her to continue.
Pursuant to Rule 9(1), the request had been referred to the committee responsible, the JURI Committee.
3. Farm to Fork Strategy - the key role of farmers and rural areas (debate)
Question for oral answer (O-000013/2020) by Norbert Lins, on behalf of the AGRI Committee, to the Commission: Farm to Fork Strategy - the key role of farmers and rural areas (B9-0009/2020)
Norbert Lins moved the question.
Janusz Wojciechowski (Member of the Commission) answered the question.
The following spoke: Herbert Dorfmann, on behalf of the PPE Group, Paolo De Castro, on behalf of the S&D Group, Dacian Cioloş, on behalf of the Renew Group, Ivan David, on behalf of the ID Group, Sarah Wiener, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the ECR Group, Anja Hazekamp, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Dino Giarrusso, non-attached Member, Mairead McGuinness, Isabel Carvalhais, Ulrike Müller, Gilles Lebreton, Martin Häusling, Bert-Jan Ruissen, who also replied to a blue-card question by Antonius Manders, Luke Ming Flanagan, Daniel Buda, Eric Andrieu, Jan Huitema, Gianantonio Da Re, Benoît Biteau, who also replied to a blue-card question by Maria Grapini, Ruža Tomašić, Silvia Modig, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Maria Noichl, Martin Hlaváček, Silvia Sardone, Bronis Ropė, Mazaly Aguilar and Petros Kokkalis.
IN THE CHAIR: Othmar KARAS Vice-President
The following spoke: Álvaro Amaro, Miriam Dalli, who also replied to a blue-card question by Róża Thun und Hohenstein, Martin Hojsík, Marcel Kolaja, Nicola Procaccini, Manuel Bompard, Marlene Mortler, who also replied to a blue-card question by Martin Häusling, Jytte Guteland, Asger Christensen, Mick Wallace, Franc Bogovič, Günther Sidl, Elsi Katainen, Christine Schneider, Clara Aguilera, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Michaela Šojdrová, Alessandra Moretti, Benoît Lutgen, Mohammed Chahim, Jarosław Kalinowski, Carmen Avram, Anne Sander and Antonius Manders, on the conduct of the debate (the President explained the rules).
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Traian Băsescu, Hilde Vautmans, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Sandra Pereira, Salvatore De Meo, Milan Uhrík, Tudor Ciuhodaru and Seán Kelly.
The following spoke: Janusz Wojciechowski.
The debate closed.
1. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate)
(For the titles and authors of the motions for resolutions, see minutes of 12.2.2020, item 4.)
2. Republic of Guinea, notably violence towards protesters
Motions for resolutions B9-0104/2020, B9-0106/2020, B9-0108/2020, B9-0110/2020, B9-0111/2020 and B9-0113/2020 (2020/2551(RSP))
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana and Maria Arena introduced motions for resolutions B9-0104/2020 and B9-0106/2020.
IN THE CHAIR: Katarina BARLEY Vice-President
Ryszard Czarnecki, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, David Lega and Jan-Christoph Oetjen introduced motions for resolutions B9-0108/2020, B9-0110/2020, B9-0111/2020 and B9-0113/2020.
The following spoke: Seán Kelly, on behalf of the PPE Group, Carlos Zorrinho, on behalf of the S&D Group, Lars Patrick Berg, on behalf of the ID Group, Fabio Massimo Castaldo, non-attached Member, and Thierry Mariani.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Tomáš Zdechovský, Juan Fernando López Aguilar and Mick Wallace.
The following spoke: Helena Dalli (Member of the Commission).
The debate closed.
Vote: minutes of 13.2.2020, item 7.1.
3. Child labour in mines in Madagascar
Motions for resolutions B9-0101/2020, B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020 and B9-0112/2020 (2020/2552(RSP))
Dominique Bilde, Caroline Roose, Evin Incir, Ryszard Czarnecki, Helmut Scholz, Željana Zovko and Hilde Vautmans introduced the motions for resolutions.
The following spoke: Seán Kelly, on behalf of the PPE Group, Maria Arena, on behalf of the S&D Group, Dita Charanzová, on behalf of the Renew Group, Maxette Pirbakas, on behalf of the ID Group, Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, non-attached Member, Krzysztof Hetman, Bettina Vollath, Robert Biedroń and Elżbieta Rafalska.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Ljudmila Novak, Caterina Chinnici and Clare Daly.
The following spoke: Helena Dalli (Member of the Commission).
The debate closed.
Vote: minutes of 13.2.2020, item 7.2.
(The sitting was suspended for a few moments.)
IN THE CHAIR: Marcel KOLAJA Vice-President
4. Resumption of the sitting
The sitting resumed at 12.05.
5. Composition of committees and delegations
The President had received from the Renew Group the following decisions changing the composition of the committees and delegations:
AFET Committee: Katalin Cseh to replace Nicola Danti
ITRE Committee: Nicola Danti to replace Katalin Cseh
The decisions took effect as of that day.
° ° ° °
The following spoke: Antonius Manders.
6. Voting time
Detailed voting results (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the Results of Votes annex to the minutes.
The results of roll-call votes are available as an annex to the minutes and can be accessed via Parliament's website.
6.1. Republic of Guinea, notably violence towards protesters (vote)
Motions for resolutions B9-0104/2020, B9-0106/2020, B9-0108/2020, B9-0110/2020, B9-0111/2020 and B9-0113/2020
(Simple majority needed)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B9-0104/2020
(replacing B9-0104/2020, B9-0106/2020, B9-0108/2020, B9-0110/2020, B9-0111/2020 and B9-0113/2020):
tabled by the following Members:
— Michael Gahler, David Lega, Željana Zovko, David McAllister, Sandra Kalniete, Andrey Kovatchev, Krzysztof Hetman, Milan Zver, Lefteris Christoforou, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Arba Kokalari, Loucas Fourlas, Loránt Vincze, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Romana Tomc, Michaela Šojdrová, Vladimír Bilčík, Vangelis Meimarakis, Magdalena Adamowicz, Ivan Štefanec, Liudas Mažylis, Michal Wiezik, Tomas Tobé, Frances Fitzgerald, Deirdre Clune, Tomáš Zdechovský, Inese Vaidere, Jiří Pospíšil, Stanislav Polčák, Peter Pollák, Miriam Lexmann and Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, on behalf of the PPE Group;
— Kati Piri and Maria Arena, on behalf of the S&D Group;
— Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Petras Auštrevičius, Malik Azmani, Stéphane Bijoux, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Sylvie Brunet, Dita Charanzová, Olivier Chastel, Ilana Cicurel, Jérémy Decerle, Laurence Farreng, Valter Flego, Klemen Grošelj, Christophe Grudler, Bernard Guetta, Ivars Ijabs, Irena Joveva, Pierre Karleskind, Moritz Körner, Ondřej Kovařík, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Ulrike Müller, Mauri Pekkarinen, Dragoş Pîslaru, Frédérique Ries, Michal Šimečka, Susana Solís Pérez, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Ramona Strugariu, Irène Tolleret, Yana Toom, Viktor Uspaskich, Hilde Vautmans, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou and Javier Nart, on behalf of the Renew Group;
— Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana and Hannah Neumann, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group;
— Karol Karski, Emmanouil Fragkos, Elżbieta Kruk, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Joanna Kopcińska, Ruža Tomašić, Ryszard Czarnecki, Carlo Fidanza and Raffaele Fitto, on behalf of the ECR Group;
— Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Manuel Bompard, Stelios Kouloglou, Alexis Georgoulis and Dimitrios Papadimoulis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group;
— Fabio Massimo Castaldo.
Adopted(P9_TA(2020)0036)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
6.2. Child labour in mines in Madagascar (vote)
Motions for resolutions B9-0101/2020, B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020 and B9-0112/2020
(Simple majority needed)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION B9-0101/2020
Rejected
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B9-0102/2020
(replacing B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020 and B9-0112/2020):
tabled by the following Members:
— Michael Gahler, Željana Zovko, David McAllister, Sandra Kalniete, Andrey Kovatchev, Krzysztof Hetman, Milan Zver, Lefteris Christoforou, Stelios Kympouropoulos, Arba Kokalari, Loucas Fourlas, Loránt Vincze, David Lega, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Romana Tomc, Michaela Šojdrová, Vladimír Bilčík, Vangelis Meimarakis, Magdalena Adamowicz, Ivan Štefanec, Liudas Mažylis, Michal Wiezik, Tomas Tobé, Frances Fitzgerald, Deirdre Clune, Tomáš Zdechovský, Inese Vaidere, Jiří Pospíšil, Stanislav Polčák, Peter Pollák, Miriam Lexmann and Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, on behalf of the PPE Group;
— Kati Piri and Carlos Zorrinho, on behalf of the S&D Group;
— Hilde Vautmans, Petras Auštrevičius, Malik Azmani, Stéphane Bijoux, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Sylvie Brunet, Dita Charanzová, Olivier Chastel, Ilana Cicurel, Jérémy Decerle, Laurence Farreng, Valter Flego, Klemen Grošelj, Christophe Grudler, Bernard Guetta, Ivars Ijabs, Irena Joveva, Pierre Karleskind, Moritz Körner, Ondřej Kovařík, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Radka Maxová, Ulrike Müller, Javier Nart, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Dragoş Pîslaru, Frédérique Ries, Michal Šimečka, Susana Solís Pérez, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Ramona Strugariu, Irène Tolleret, Yana Toom, Viktor Uspaskich, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne and Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, on behalf of the Renew Group;
— Caroline Roose, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group;
— Joanna Kopcińska, Karol Karski, Emmanouil Fragkos, Elżbieta Kruk, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Ruža Tomašić and Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group;
— Helmut Scholz, Younous Omarjee, Anja Hazekamp, Manuel Bompard, Stelios Kouloglou, Alexis Georgoulis and Dimitrios Papadimoulis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group;
— Fabio Massimo Castaldo.
Adopted(P9_TA(2020)0037)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)
The following had spoken:
Nuno Melo.
6.3. False and Authentic Documents Online (FADO) system ***I (vote)
Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Border and Coast Guard and repealing Council Joint Action No 98/700/JHA, Regulation (EU) No 1052/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 2016/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council [COM(2018)0631 – C8-0150/2019 - 2018/0330B(COD)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Roberta Metsola (A9-0022/2019)
(Simple majority needed)
PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT
Adopted(P9_TA(2020)0038)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)
Parliament's first reading thus closed.
6.4. The EU priorities for the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (vote)
Motions for resolutions B9-0095/2020 and B9-0093/2020
(Simple majority needed)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION B9-0095/2020
Rejected
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION B9-0093/2020
Adopted (P9_TA(2020)0039)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)
The following had spoken:
Daniel Freund.
7. Explanations of vote
Written explanations of vote:
Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 194 appear on the Members' pages on Parliament's website.
Oral explanations of vote:
Report: Roberta Metsola - A9-0022/2019 - False and Authentic Documents Online (FADO) system Bogdan Rzońca and Joachim Stanisław Brudziński
The EU priorities for the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - B9-0093/2020, B9-0095/2020 Guido Reil, Virginie Joron, Eugen Tomac, Leila Chaibi and Juozas Olekas.
8. Corrections to votes and voting intentions
Corrections to votes and voting intentions appear on Parliament's website under 'Results of roll-call votes' as an annex to the minutes of the sitting.
The electronic version will be regularly updated for a period of two weeks following the last day of the part-session concerned.
After those two weeks, the list of corrections to votes and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.
(The sitting was suspended at 12.33.)
IN THE CHAIR: Dita CHARANZOVÁ Vice-President
9. Resumption of the sitting
The sitting resumed at 15.00.
10. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting
The minutes of the previous sitting were approved.
Adina-Ioana Vălean (Member of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Róża Thun und Hohenstein, on behalf of the PPE Group, Johan Danielsson, on behalf of the S&D Group, Valter Flego, on behalf of the Renew Group, Tilly Metz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Kosma Złotowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Elena Kountoura, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Benoît Lutgen, Adriana Maldonado López, Angel Dzhambazki, who also replied to a blue-card question by Róża Thun und Hohenstein, and Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Bogdan Rzońca.
The following spoke: Adina-Ioana Vălean.
The debate closed.
12. Petitions
Petitions numbers 1266-19 to 1357-19 and 0001-20 to 0061-20 had been entered in the register on 7 February 2020 and had been forwarded to the committee responsible, in accordance with Rule 226(9) and (10).
On 7 February 2020, the President, in accordance with Rule 226(15), had forwarded to the committee responsible petitions addressed to Parliament by natural or legal persons who were not citizens of the European Union and who did not reside, or have their registered office, in a Member State.
13. Decisions to draw up own-initiative reports
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 47)
(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 6 February 2020)
JURI Committee
- A statute for European cross-border associations and non-profit organisations (2020/2026(INL)) (opinion: EMPL)
Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 54)
(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 6 February 2020)
IMCO Committee
- Implementation of Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products (the Construction Products Regulation) (2020/2028(INI))
JURI Committee
- Liability of companies for environmental damage (2020/2027(INI)) (opinion: DEVE)
LIBE Committee, FEMM Committee
- Implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (2020/2029(INI))
14. Associated committees (Rule 57)
(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 16 January 2020)
ECON Committee
- Governance framework for the budgetary instrument for convergence and competitiveness for the euro area (COM(2019)0354 - C9-0103/2019 - 2019/0161(COD)) (opinion: BUDG (Rule 57), EMPL, ITRE, REGI, JURI)
IMCO Committee
- Digital Services Act: Improving the functioning of the Single Market (2020/2018(INL)) (opinion: ITRE (Rule 57), TRAN (Rule 57), CULT (Rule 57), JURI (Rule 57), LIBE (Rule 57))
15. Decision to apply the joint committee procedure (Rule 58)
(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 14 January 2020)
- Implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (2020/2029(INI)) committees: LIBE, FEMM
16. Modified referrals to committees (Rule 56)
DEVE Committee
- EU-African security cooperation in the Sahel region, West Africa and the Horn of Africa (2020/2002(INI)) referred to committee responsible: AFET opinion: DEVE
- An EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation (2020/2006(INL)) referred to committee responsible: ENVI opinion: DEVE, ITRE, AGRI, INTA (Rule 57)
ENVI Committee
- Towards a more sustainable single market for business and consumers (2020/2021(INI)) referred to committee responsible: IMCO opinion: ENVI
AFET Committee
- Implementation of Directive 2009/81/EC, concerning procurement in the fields of defence and security, and of Directive 2009/43/EC, concerning the transfer of defence-related products (2019/2204(INI)) referred to committee responsible: IMCO opinion: AFET, ITRE
TRAN Committee
- Digital Services Act: Improving the functioning of the Single Market (2020/2018(INL)) referred to committee responsible: IMCO opinion: ITRE (Rule 57), TRAN (Rule 57), CULT (Rule 57), JURI (Rule 57), LIBE (Rule 57)
CULT Committee
- Digital Services Act: adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online (2020/2019(INL)) referred to committee responsible: JURI opinion: CULT, IMCO (Rule 57)
ENVI Committee
- Framework of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies (2020/2012(INL)) referred to committee responsible: JURI opinion: EMPL, ENVI, CULT, AFCO, AFET (Rule 57), IMCO (Rule 57), TRAN (Rule 57), LIBE (Rule 57)
CULT Committee
- Digital Services Act and fundamental rights issues posed (2020/2022(INI)) referred to committee responsible: LIBE opinion: IMCO, CULT
AFCO Committee
- Public Access to Documents (Rule 122(7)) – Annual report for the years 2016-2018 (2019/2198(INI)) referred to committee responsible: LIBE opinion: AFCO
17. Consent Procedure (Rule 105)
Report containing a motion for a non-legislative resolution under the consent procedure (Rule 105(2))
(Following notification of the Conference of Committee Chairs of 14 January 2020)
PECH Committee
- Protocol on the implementation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the Republic of Senegal and the European Union (2019/0226M(NLE) - 2019/0226(NLE)) (opinion: DEVE, BUDG)
18. Documents received
The following documents had been submitted by Members:
- Mara Bizzotto. Motion for a resolution on strengthening fish import controls and on the indication of origin of fish (B9-0067/2020)
referred to
responsible:
ENVI
opinion:
PECH
- Gianna Gancia. Motion for a resolution on the situation of Christians in Nigeria (B9-0068/2020)
referred to
responsible:
DEVE
- Thierry Mariani. Motion for a resolution on European nationals in Syria (B9-0086/2020)
referred to
responsible:
AFET
19. Approval of the minutes of the sitting and forwarding of texts adopted
In accordance with Rule 202(3), the minutes of the sitting would be submitted for approval by Parliament at the start of the next sitting.
With Parliament's agreement, the texts adopted during the part-session would immediately be forwarded to the recipients named therein.
20. Dates of forthcoming sittings
The next sittings would be held from 9 March 2020 to 12 March 2020.
21. Closure of the sitting
The sitting closed at 15.44.
22. Adjournment of the session
The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.