EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2009 - 2014

Plenary sitting

A7-0434/2011

6.12.2011

***II RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING

on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the and of the Council on a single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a Member State and on a common set of rights for third-country workers legally residing in a Member State (13036/3/2011 – C7-0451/2011 – 2007/0229(COD))

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Rapporteur: Véronique Mathieu

Rapporteur for associated committee (*): Alejandro Cercas, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

(*) Procedure with associated committees – Rule 50 of the Rules of Procedure

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DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a Member State and on a common set of rights for third-country workers legally residing in a Member State (13036/3/2011 – C7-0451/2011 – 2007/0229(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament ,

– having regard to the Council position at first reading (13036/3/2011 – C7-0451/2011),

– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 9 July 2008 1,

– having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 18 June 2008 2,

– having regard to its position at first reading 3 on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2007)0638),

– having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the ,

– having regard to the common deliberation of the committee responsible, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and the associated committee, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, on 5 December 2011,

– having regard to Rule 72 of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A7-0434/2011),

1. Approves the Council position at first reading;

2. Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position;

3. Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

4. Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union ;

5. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the

1 OJ C 27, 3.2.2009, p. 114. 2 OJ C 257, 9.10.2008, p. 20. 3 Texts adopted of 24.3.2011, P7_TA(2011)0115.

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PROCEDURE

Title Single application procedure for residence and work References 13036/3/2011 – C7-0451/2011 – 2007/0229(COD) Date of Parliament’s first reading – P 24.3.2011 T7-0115/2011 number Commission proposal COM(2007)0638 - C6-0470/2007 Receipt of Council position at first 1.12.2011 reading announced in plenary

Committee responsible LIBE Date announced in plenary 1.12.2011

Rapporteur(s) Véronique Date appointed Mathieu 11.1.2010

Discussed in committee 5.12.2011

Date adopted 5.12.2011

Result of final vote +: 29 –: 3 0: 12

Members present for the final vote , Emine Bozkurt, Simon Busuttil, Philip Claeys, Carlos Coelho, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Tanja Fajon, Kinga Gál, Kinga Göncz, Nathalie Griesbeck, Sylvie Guillaume, Anna Hedh, Salvatore Iacolino, Sophia in ‘t Veld, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Véronique Mathieu, Louis Michel, Jan Mulder, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Georgios Papanikolaou, Carmen Romero López, Judith Sargentini, Csaba Sógor, Rui Tavares, , Renate Weber, Tatjana Ždanoka, Auke Zijlstra Substitute(s) present for the final vote Edit Bauer, Ioan Enciu, Nadja Hirsch, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Ádám Kósa, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Marie-Christine Vergiat Substitute(s) under Rule 187(2) present Regina Bastos, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Constance Le Grip, Barbara for the final vote Matera, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Traian Ungureanu, Marina Yannakoudakis, Anna Záborská Date tabled 6.12.2011

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