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Tuesday 17 June 2008 4. Common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals [COM(2005)0391 — C6-0266/2005 — 2005/0167(COD)] — Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: (A6-0339/2007)

The following spoke: Dragutin Mate (President-in-Office of the Council) and Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission).

Manfred Weber introduced the report.

The following spoke: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martine Roure, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hélène Goudin, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Frank Vanhecke, Non-attached Member, , Claudio Fava, Gérard Deprez, Hélène Flautre, Roberta Angelilli, Eva-Britt Svensson, Gerard Batten, Roberto Fiore, Urszula Gacek and Stavros Lambrinidis.

IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU Vice-President

The following spoke: Alexander Alvaro, Pierre Jonckheer, Mario Borghezio, Athanasios Pafilis, Carlos Coelho, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Sarah Ludford, Willy Meyer Pleite, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Marco Cappato, Patrick Gaubert, Inger Segelström, Panayiotis Demetriou, Genowefa Grabowska, Stefano Zappalà, Frieda Brepoels and Manolis Mavrommatis.

The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Pierre Pribetich, Miroslav Mikolášik, Jean-Claude Martinez, Petru Filip, Nicolae Vlad Popa and Ewa Klamt.

The following spoke: Dragutin Mate, Jacques Barrot and Manfred Weber.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 18.06.2008, Item 3.4.

5. Adoption by Slovakia of the single currency on 1 January 2009 * (debate)

Report on the proposal for a Council decision in accordance with Article 122(2) of the Treaty on the adoption by Slovakia of the single currency on 1 January 2009 [COM(2008)0249 — C6-0198/2008 — 2008/0092(CNS)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: David Casa (A6-0231/2008)

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission). C 207 E/26 Official Journal of the European Union EN 14.8.2008

Tuesday 17 June 2008 IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Ángel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ Vice-President

David Casa introduced the report.

The following spoke: Alexander Radwan, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Dariusz Rosati, on behalf of the PSE Group, Wolf Klinz, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the UEN Group, Hanne Dahl, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Sergej Kozlík, Non-attached Member, Ján Hudacký, Pervenche Berès, Olle Schmidt, Zsolt László Becsey, Monika Beňová, Ivo Strejček, Vladimír Maňka, Zita Pleštinská, Elisa Ferreira and Hans-Peter Martin.

The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Milan Gaľa, Miloš Koterec, Danutė Budreikaitė, Simon Busuttil, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Zuzana Roithová and Werner Langen.

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla and David Casa.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 17.06.2008, Item 7.25.

IN THE CHAIR: Hans-Gert PÖTTERING President

6. Composition of political groups

Giuseppe Bova had joined the PSE Group with effect from 17.06.2008. * **

The following spoke: Nigel Farage, who, referring to the President's statement on the result of the Irish referendum (Minutes of 16.06.2008, Item 2), proposed, pursuant to Rule 103(2), that the debate on the Council and Commission statements on the preparation of the European Council after the Irish referendum (Item 44 on the agenda) be wound up with a motion for a resolution (the President replied that the Con- ference of Presidents had already decided that the debate would not be followed by a vote and that Mr Farage's request had been made after the deadline had expired).

7. Voting time

Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the Results of Votes annex to the Minutes.

The results of roll-call votes are available in electronic form only, as an annex to the Minutes, and can be accessed via Europarl.

7.1. European Network and Information Security Agency ***I (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regula- tion (EC) No 460/2004 establishing the European Network and Information Security Agency as regards its duration [COM(2007)0861 — C6-0003/2008 — 2007/0291(COD)] — Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: (A6-0245/2008)

(Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 1)