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Committee on Development Results of Roll-Call Votes of 27 January 2021 Committee on Development Results of roll-call votes of 27 January 2021 Table of Contents 1. Opinion on the motion for a non-legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union (2020/0157M(NLE) (Hildegard Bentele))............................................. page 2 2. Opinion on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union (COM(2020)0340 – C9 – 2020/0157(NLE) (Hildegard Bentele))......... Page 3 3. Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, and of the Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning security procedures for exchanging and protecting classified information (2020/0382(NLE)) (Tomas Tobé))....................................................... Page 4 4. A new EU-Africa Strategy - a partnership for sustainable and inclusive development (2020/2041(INI) (Chrysoula Zacharopoulou))................. Page 5 1 Motion for a non-legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union (Rapporteur: Hildegard Bentele) 2020/0157M(NLE) FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE ASKED FOR OPINION 22 + ECR Beata Kempa ID Gianna Gancia NI Antoni Comín i Oliveres PPE Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Hildegard Bentele, György Hölvényi, Rasa Juknevičienė, Janina Ochojska, Christian Sagartz, Tomas Tobé RENEW Catherine Chabaud, Charles Goerens, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou S&D Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Norbert Neuser, Marc Tarabella, Patrizia Toia VERTS/ALE Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Erik Marquardt, Michèle Rivasi 1 - ID Bernhard Zimniok 2 0 ID Dominique Bilde The Left Miguel Urbán Crespo Key to symbols: + : in favour - : against 0 : abstention 2 Opinion on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Honduras on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products to the European Union Rapporteur: Hildegard Bentele COM(2020)0340 – C9 – 2020/0157(NLE) FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE ASKED FOR OPINION 23 + ECR Ryszard Czarnecki, Beata Kempa ID Gianna Gancia NI Antoni Comín i Oliveres PPE Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Hildegard Bentele, György Hölvényi, Rasa Juknevičienė, Janina Ochojska, Christian Sagartz, Tomas Tobé RENEW Catherine Chabaud, Charles Goerens, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou S&D Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Norbert Neuser, Marc Tarabella, Patrizia Toia VERTS/ALE Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Erik Marquardt, Michèle Rivasi 1 - ID Bernhard Zimniok 2 0 ID Dominique Bilde The Left Miguel Urbán Crespo Key to symbols: + : in favour - : against 0 : abstention 3 Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part, and of the Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning security procedures for exchanging and protecting classified information Rapporteur: Tomas Tobé 2020/0382(NLE) FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE ASKED FOR OPINION 23 + ECR Beata Kempa ID Dominique Bilde, Gianna Gancia NI Antoni Comín i Oliveres PPE Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Hildegard Bentele, György Hölvényi, Rasa Juknevičienė, Janina Ochojska, Christian Sagartz, Tomas Tobé RENEW Catherine Chabaud, Charles Goerens, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou S&D Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Norbert Neuser, Patrizia Toia The Left Miguel Urbán Crespo VERTS/ALE Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Erik Marquardt, Michèle Rivasi 2 - ID Bernhard Zimniok S&D Marc Tarabella Key to symbols: + : in favour - : against 0 : abstention 4 A new EU-Africa Strategy - a partnership for sustainable and inclusive development Rapporteur: Chrysoula Zacharopoulou 2020/2041(INI) FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE 20 + NI Antoni Comín i Oliveres PPE Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Hildegard Bentele, György Hölvényi, Rasa Juknevičienė, Janina Ochojska, Christian Sagartz, Tomas Tobé RENEW Catherine Chabaud, Charles Goerens, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou S&D Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Norbert Neuser, Marc Tarabella, Patrizia Toia VERTS/ALE Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Erik Marquardt, Michèle Rivasi 2 - ID Dominique Bilde, Bernhard Zimniok 3 0 ECR Beata Kempa ID Gianna Gancia The Left Miguel Urbán Crespo Key to symbols: + : in favour - : against 0 : abstention 5 .
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