Minutes of the Sitting of 9 February 2010
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C 110 E/16 EN Official Journal of the European Union 29.4.2010 Tuesday 9 February 2010 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 9 FEBRUARY 2010 (2010/C 110 E/02) Contents Page 1. Opening of the sitting . 17 2. Documents received . 17 3. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolution tabled) . 17 4. Presentation of the College of Commissioners and statement on the EP/Commission Framework Agreement (debate) . 18 5. Voting time . 19 5.1. Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission (vote) . 19 6. Voting time (continued) . 20 6.1. Presentation of the College of Commissioners (vote) . 20 6.2. Appointment of the Commission (vote) . 20 7. Explanations of vote . 20 8. Corrections to votes and voting intentions . 21 9. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 21 10. Difficult monetary, economic and social situation of eurozone countries (debate) . 21 11. Progress made on resettling Guantánamo detainees and on closing Guantánamo (debate) . 22 12. Key objectives for the Conference of the Parties to the CITES (debate) . 22 13. ERDF: Eligibility of housing interventions in favour of marginalised communities ***I (debate) 23 14. Agenda of the next sitting . 24 15. Closure of the sitting . 24 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 25 ANNEX I RESULTS OF VOTES . 27 1. Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission 27 2. Presentation of the College of Commissioners . 28 3. Appointment of the Commission . 28 ANNEX II RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES . 29 1. B7-0089/2010 - Presentation of the College of Commissioners - RESOLUTION . 29 2. B7-0090/2010/rev - Appointment of the Commission - DECISION . 30 29.4.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 110 E/17 Tuesday 9 February 2010 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 9 FEBRUARY 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK President 1. Opening of the sitting The sitting opened at 9.05. 2. Documents received The following report had been received from the LIBE committee: — Recommendation on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the united States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (05305/2010 - C7-0004/2010 - 2009/0190(NLE)) - LIBE Committee - Rapporteur: Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (A7-0013/2010) 3. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolution tabled) In accordance with Rule 122, the following Members or political groups had requested that such a debate be held on the following motions for resolutions: I. Venezuela — Jaime Mayor Oreja, Mario Mauro, Bogusław Sonik, Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Martin Kastler, Filip Kaczmarek, Tunne Kelam and Monica Luisa Macovei, on behalf of the PPE Group, on Venezuela (B7-0093/2010) — Renate Weber, Frédérique Ries, Marietje Schaake, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Marielle De Sarnez and Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Venezuela (B7-0094/2010) — Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the withdrawal of six television channels from the bale network in Venezuela (B7-0095/2010) — Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Venezuela (B7-0096/2010) — Willy Meyer and Sabine Lösing, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Venezuela (B7-0097/2010) — Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Adam Bielan, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Ryszard Czarnecki and Edvard Kožušník, on behalf of the ECR Group, on Venezuela (B7-0098/2010) II. Madagascar — Michèle Rivasi and Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Madagascar (B7- 0099/2010), — Louis Michel, Renate Weber and Charles Goerens, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in Madagascar (B7-0100/2010) C 110 E/18 EN Official Journal of the European Union 29.4.2010 Tuesday 9 February 2010 — Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the situation in Madagascar (B7-0101/2010) — Gay Mitchell, Michèle Striffler, Filip Kaczmarek, Mario Mauro, Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Eija- Riitta Korhola, Martin Kastler, Tunne Kelam and Monica Luisa Macovei, on behalf of the PPE Group, on Madagascar (B7-0102/2010) — Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Madagascar (B7-0103/2010) — Charles Tannock, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Ryszard Czarnecki and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group, on Madagascar (B7-0104/2010) III. Burma — Leonidas Donskis, Louis Michel, Frédérique Ries, Niccolò Rinaldi, Graham Watson and Marielle De Sarnez, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Burma/Myanmar (B7-0105/2010) — Véronique De Keyser and Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the S&D Group, on Burma (B7-0106/2010) — Filip Kaczmarek, Cristian Dan Preda, Mario Mauro, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Martin Kastler, Tunne Kelam and Monica Luisa Macovei, on behalf of the PPE Group, on Burma (B7-0107/2010) — Rui Tavares, Marie-Christine Vergiat and Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Burma/Myanmar (B7-0108/2010) — Charles Tannock and Geoffrey Van Orden, on behalf of the ECR Group, on Burma (B7-0109/2010) — Christian Engström, Emilie Turunen, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Gerald Häfner, Heidi Hautala, Barbara Lochbihler, Frieda Brepoels and Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Burma (B7-0110/2010) Speaking time would be allocated in accordance with Rule 149. 4. Presentation of the College of Commissioners and statement on the EP/Commission Framework Agreement (debate) Commission statement: Presentation of the College of Commissioners and statement on the EP/Commission Framework Agreement The President made a brief opening speech welcoming José Manuel Barroso (President-elect of the Commission) and the College of Commissioners-designate. José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statement. The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jan Zahradil, on behalf of the ECR Group, Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, Zoltán Balczó, Non-attached Member, József Szájer, Hannes Swoboda, Diana Wallis, Jill Evans, Adam Bielan, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Timo Soini, Bruno Gollnisch, who also replied to a blue card question from William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Jaime Mayor Oreja, Kader Arif, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Timothy Kirkhope, Miguel Portas, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Evelyne Gebhardt, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Lajos Bokros, Werner Langen, Alejandro Cercas, Mirosław Piotrowski, Mario Mauro, Gianluca Susta, Alain Lamassoure, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Paulo Rangel, Othmar Karas, Gunnar Hökmark. 29.4.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 110 E/19 Tuesday 9 February 2010 The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Tunne Kelam, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Lena Ek, Ulrike Lunacek, John Bufton, Andreas Mölzer, Paul Rübig, Milan Zver, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Cristian Dan Preda, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Eva Lichtenberger, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Csaba Sógor, Derek Vaughan, Gay Mitchell, Jörg Leichtfried, Seán Kelly. The following spoke: José Manuel Barroso. Motions for resolution tabled to wind up the debate, in accordance with Article 106(4) of the Rules of Procedure: — Proposal by the Conference of Presidents, on a revised Framework Agreement between the European Parliament and the Commission for the next legislative term (B7-0091/2010) — Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the Barroso II Commission (B7-0071/2010) — Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on election of the Commission (B7-0088/2010) — Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, on election of the Commission (B7-0089/2010) — Proposal by the Conference of Presidents giving consent to the appointment of the Commission (B7- 0090/2010) The debate closed. Vote: minutes of 9.2.2010, item 6.1. (The sitting was suspended at 11.50 pending voting time and resumed at 12.05.) IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK President 5. 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. 5.1. Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission (vote) Motion for a resolution B7-0091/2010/rev (Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 1) PROPOSAL BY THE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS Adopted José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) and Jerzy Buzek (President of the European Parliament) made statements after the vote. (The sitting was suspended at 12.10 and resumed at 13.30.) C 110 E/20 EN Official Journal of the European Union 29.4.2010 Tuesday 9 February 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK President 6. Voting time (continued) The following spoke on the appointment of the Commission: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn- Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, and Bruno Gollnisch, who made a personal statement in response to the remarks made by Martin Schulz. 6.1.