Minutes of the Sitting of 8 September 2010
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18.11.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 314 E/73 Wednesday 8 September 2010 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 8 SEPTEMBER 2010 (2010/C 314 E/03) Contents Page 1. Opening of the sitting . 75 2. Composition of committees . 75 3. Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) . 75 4. Protection of animals used for scientific purposes ***II (debate) . 75 5. Ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (debate) . 76 6. Voting time . 77 6.1. Protection of animals used for scientific purposes ***II (vote) . 77 6.2. Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States * (vote) . 77 6.3. Human rights in Iran, in particular the cases of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani and of Zahra Bahrami (vote) . 78 7. Explanations of vote . 79 8. Corrections to votes and voting intentions . 80 9. Announcement by the President . 80 10. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 80 11. Arms exports (debate) . 81 12. Draft bill on Israeli NGOs (debate) . 81 13. Situation of the Jordan River with special regard to the Lower Jordan River area (debate) 82 14. Question Time (Council) . 83 15. Free movement of workers (debate) . 84 16. Products from cloned animals in the food chain (debate) . 85 17. EU potato starch sector after 2012 (debate) . 85 18. Implementing measures (Rule 88) . 86 19. Agenda of the next sitting . 92 20. Closure of the sitting . 92 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 93 C 314 E/74 EN Official Journal of the European Union 18.11.2010 Wednesday 8 September 2010 Contents (continued) Page ANNEX I RESULTS OF VOTES . 95 1. Protection of animals used for scientific purposes ***II . 95 2. Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States * . 96 3. Human rights in Iran, in particular the cases of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani and of Zahra Bahrami . 97 ANNEX II RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES . 98 1. Recommendation for second reading: JEGGLE A7-0230/2010 - AM 1 . 98 2. Recommendation for second reading: JEGGLE A7-0230/2010 - AM 2 . 99 3. Recommendation for second reading: JEGGLE A7-0230/2010 - AM 3 . 101 4. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - BLOC DE LA COMMISSION COMPÉTENTE . 102 5. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 5 . 103 6. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 12 . 105 7. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 13 . 106 8. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 19 . 107 9. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 28 . 109 10. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 30 . 110 11. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 55 . 111 12. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 32 . 113 13. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 48 . 114 14. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 4 . 116 15. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 60 . 117 16. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 61 . 119 17. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 17 . 120 18. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 62 . 121 19. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - AM 63 . 123 20. Report: ÖRY A7-0235/2010 - LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION . 124 21. RC-B7-0494/2010 - Human rights in Iran - RESOLUTION . 126 18.11.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 314 E/75 Wednesday 8 September 2010 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 8 SEPTEMBER 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Isabelle DURANT Vice-President 1. Opening of the sitting The sitting opened at 9.05. 2. Composition of committees The President had received the following requests for appointments from the S&D Group: AGRI Committee: Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto to replace Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis: Antolín Sánchez Presedo The appointments would be deemed ratified if there were no objections before the approval of these minutes. 3. Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September (debate) Council and Commission statements: Conclusions of the special ECOFIN Council meeting of 7 September Didier Reynders (President-in-Office of the Council) and Michel Barnier (Member of the Commission) made the statements. The following spoke: Corien Wortmann-Kool, on behalf of the PPE Group, Udo Bullmann, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sylvie Goulard, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Kay Swinburne, on behalf of the ECR Group, Miguel Portas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Anni Podimata, Jens Rohde, Derk Jan Eppink, Othmar Karas, Elisa Ferreira, Vicky Ford, Sophie Auconie, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Peter Skinner and Liem Hoang Ngoc. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Sławomir Witold Nitras, George Sabin Cutaș, Ilda Figueiredo and Liisa Jaakonsaari. The following spoke: Michel Barnier and Didier Reynders. The debate closed. 4. Protection of animals used for scientific purposes ***II (debate) Recommendation for second reading 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 the protection of animals used for scientific purposes [06106/1/2010 - C7-0147/2010- 2008/0211(COD)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Elisabeth Jeggle (A7-0230/2010) C 314 E/76 EN Official Journal of the European Union 18.11.2010 Wednesday 8 September 2010 Elisabeth Jeggle introduced the recommendation for second reading. The following spoke: John Dalli (Member of the Commission). The following spoke: Herbert Dorfmann, on behalf of the PPE Group, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marit Paulsen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jill Evans, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Janusz Wojciechowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Marisa Matias, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Giancarlo Scottà, on behalf of the EFD Group. IN THE CHAIR: Stavros LAMBRINIDIS Vice-President The following spoke: Mike Nattrass, Non-attached Member, Martin Kastler, Paolo De Castro, George Lyon, Carl Schlyter, John Stuart Agnew, Miroslav Mikolášik, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Ulrike Rodust, Cristiana Muscardini and Elisabetta Gardini. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Rareș-Lucian Niculescu, Anna Záborská, Karin Kadenbach, Frédérique Ries, Martin Häusling, João Ferreira, Anna Rosbach, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Paul Rübig and Elisabeth Köstinger. The following spoke: John Dalli and Elisabeth Jeggle. The debate closed. Vote: minutes of 8.9.2010, item 6.1. 5. Ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (debate) Commission statement: Ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission) made the statement. The following spoke: Daniel Caspary, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kader Arif, on behalf of the S&D Group, Niccolò Rinaldi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jan Philipp Albrecht, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Syed Kamall, on behalf of the ECR Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Francesco Enrico Speroni, on behalf of the EFD Group, and Angelika Werthmann, Non-attached Member. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Elisabeth Köstinger, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Carl Schlyter, Françoise Castex, Andrew Henry William Brons, Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska, Eva Lichtenberger, Martin Ehrenhauser and Christian Engström. The following spoke: Karel De Gucht. The debate closed. (The sitting was suspended at 12.00 pending voting time and resumed at 12.05.) 18.11.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 314 E/77 Wednesday 8 September 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT Vice-President 6. 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. 6.1. Protection of animals used for scientific purposes ***II (vote) Recommendation for second reading 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 the protection of animals used for scientific purposes [06106/1/2010 - C7-0147/2010- 2008/0211(COD)] - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Elisabeth Jeggle (A7-0230/2010) (Qualified majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 1) COUNCIL POSITION Declared approved as amended (P7_TA(2010)0308) The following had spoken before the vote: Sonia Alfano, to ask that the recommendation be referred back to committee on the basis of Rule 175(2); Jill Evans, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, in favour of the request; Paolo De Castro, Chair of the AGRI Committee, as well as Elisabeth Jeggle, rapporteur, against the request, and Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, to clarify the position of her group. Parliament had rejected the request. The following had spoken after the vote: After the vote: Mário David and Nicole Sinclaire on the e-mail system. 6.2. Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States * (vote) Report on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States: Part II of the Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines [COM(2010)0193 - C7-0111/2010- 2010/0115(NLE)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Csaba Őry (A7-0235/2010) (Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 2) C 314 E/78 EN Official Journal of the European Union 18.11.2010 Wednesday 8 September 2010 COMMISSION PROPOSAL Approved as amended (P7_TA(2010)0309) DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION Adopted (P7_TA(2010)0309) The following had spoken: Olle Ludvigsson, after the vote, to point out an error in the Swedish version of Amendment 48, and Jutta Steinruck, who called on the Council to take note of the vote in Parliament.