– Vor der Abstimmung

  Philip Bushill-Matthews, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. – Mr President, our group had intended to ask for three additional roll calls but, for whatever reason, they got lost in transit.

I would like, through you, Mr President – I have checked with the secretariat that it was in order to ask today – to have these three instated. They are on: paragraph 2, Amendment 4D; paragraph 6 of the original text; and finally, after paragraph 36, our Amendment 12. I hope you will appreciate that this is a very sensitive dossier and we would like to be able to place on record not just what we are against, but also what we are in favour of.

(Der Präsident stellt fest, dass nichts dagegen spricht, diesen Antrag zu berücksichtigen.)

– Vor der Abstimmung über Änderungsantrag 5

  Sophia in ’t Veld (ALDE). – Mr President, we have been speaking about countries which have not adequately implemented or transposed the Anti-Discrimination Directive but there is one country which has not implemented it at all and therefore I would propose the following oral amendment: ‘Calls on the Czech Government to effectively transpose the Employment Directive and for the Czech Parliament to overrule the veto of the Czech President’.

(Der mündliche Änderungsantrag wird nicht übernommen.)

– Vor der Abstimmung über die Änderungsanträge 1, 16 und 17

  Richard Howitt (PSE). – Mr President, very briefly, I of course support your discretion in interpreting the Rules, but it seems very strange for the PPE-DE Group to want to introduce roll-call votes at the last moment after the deadline has expired because they say that they want to positively explain their case, when their amendments seek to delete – to delete – paragraphs from this report. I think that they are trying to cover up the cracks in their own group rather than actually say anything positive in combating discrimination.

  Der Präsident. − Herr Kollege Howitt! Es trifft wahrscheinlich zu, dass die namentliche Abstimmung zu spät beantragt wurde, aber ich habe Sie gefragt, und insofern kommen Sie zu spät mit Ihrer Wortmeldung. Wenn Sie sich sofort gemeldet hätten, hätten wir möglicherweise anders abgestimmt.