26.3.2021 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 107/1 Monday 16 September 2019 IV (Notices) NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2019-2020 SESSION Sittings of 16 to 19 September 2019 STRASBOURG MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 16 SEPTEMBER 2019 (2021/C 107/01) Contents Page 1. Resumption of the session . 3 2. Opening of the sitting . 3 3. Tribute . 3 4. Statement by the President . 3 5. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 3 6. Composition of Parliament . 4 7. Verification of credentials . 4 8. Composition of committees and delegations . 4 9. Corrigenda (Rule 241) . 5 10. Negotiations ahead of Council's first reading (Rule 72) . 6 C 107/2 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 26.3.2021 Monday 16 September 2019 Contents Page 11. Announcement by the President — Election of the European Ombudsman . 6 12. Documents received . 7 13. Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions . 9 14. Questions for oral answer (submission) . 9 15. Order of business . 9 16. The situation of EU forests (debate) . 11 17. Patentability of plants and essential biological processes (debate) . 11 18. Situation in Hong Kong (debate) . 12 19. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance . 12 20. Agenda of the next sitting . 13 21. Closure of the sitting . 13 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 14 ANNEX RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES . 15 1. Tuesday's agenda — request from the Verts/ALE and GUE/NGL Groups . 15 2. Tuesday's agenda — request from the ID and GUE/NGL Groups . 16 3. Wednesday's agenda — request from the PPE Group . 17 26.3.2021 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 107/3 Monday 16 September 2019 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 16 SEPTEMBER 2019 IN THE CHAIR: David Maria SASSOLI President 1. Resumption of the session The session suspended on Thursday, 18 July 2019 was resumed. 2. Opening of the sitting The sitting opened at 17.11. 3. Tribute On behalf of Parliament, the President paid tribute to the memory of André Jorge Dionísio Bradford MEP, who had died suddenly. 4. Statement by the President The President made a statement on the recent floods in Spain, which had caused considerable damage and as a result of which several lives had been lost. The President expressed Parliament's solidarity with the families of the victims and paid tribute to the work done by the emergency services. Parliament observed a minute's silence in honour of the victims of the floods and in memory of André Jorge Dionísio Bradford. * * * The following spoke: Kati Piri. 5. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting The minutes of the previous sitting were approved. * * * The following spoke: Demetris Papadakis. C 107/4 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 26.3.2021 Monday 16 September 2019 6. Composition of Parliament Following the death of André Jorge Dionísio Bradford, Parliament established that his seat was vacant with effect from 19 July 2019, in accordance with Rule 4(1) and (6). Roberto Gualtieri had been appointed Minister of the Economy and Finance by the Italian Government with effect from 5 September 2019. Parliament noted that, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, this office was incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament and, pursuant to Rule 4(1) and (4) of its Rules of Procedure, established that his seat was vacant with effect from 5 September 2019. * * * The Danish authorities had given notice of the election of Marianne Vind to replace Jeppe Kofod as Member of Parliament with effect from 2 July 2019. The Portuguese authorities had given notice of the election of Isabel Carvalhais to replace André Jorge Dionísio Bradford as Member of Parliament with effect from 3 September 2019. Parliament took note of their election. In accordance with Rule 3(2), until such time as their credentials had been verified or a ruling had been given on any dispute, Marianne Vind and Isabel Carvalhais would take their seats in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto, provided that they had previously signed a written declaration that they did not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament. 7. Verification of credentials On a proposal by the JURI Committee, Parliament had decided to validate the mandates of Hannes Hanso and Pablo Arias Echeverría on 4 April and 21 May 2019 respectively, until the end of the 8th parliamentary term on 2 July 2019 at 10.00. 8. Composition of committees and delegations The President had received from the PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, ID and ECR Groups and from the non-attached Members' secretariat the following decisions changing the composition of committees and delegations: — INTA Committee: Emmanouil Fragkos — BUDG Committee: Dimitrios Papadimoulis to replace Younous Omarjee — ECON Committee: Irene Tinagli — EMPL Committee: Marianne Vind to replace Niels Fuglsang — AGRI Committee: Isabel Carvalhais — PECH Committee: Manuel Pizarro — PETI Committee: Emmanouil Fragkos — SEDE Subcommittee: Kris Peeters to replace Michael Gahler — Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee: Gunnar Beck to replace Nicolaus Fest, Sylvie Guillaume to replace Eric Andrieu 26.3.2021 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 107/5 Monday 16 September 2019 — Delegation for Relations with Palestine: Susanna Ceccardi was no longer a member — Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries: Elena Lizzi to replace France Jamet — Delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula: Ryszard Czarnecki to replace Peter Lundgren — Delegation for relations with the United States: Isabel Carvalhais — Delegation for relations with Canada: Mircea-Gheorghe Hava to replace Francisco José Millán Mon — Delegation for relations with India: France Jamet to replace Nicolas Bay — Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia: Hélène Laporte, Francisco José Millán Mon to replace Mircea-Gheorghe Hava — Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Mathilde Androuët to replace Thierry Mariani, Susanna Ceccardi to replace Christine Anderson — Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula: Marianne Vind to replace Niels Fuglsang — Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia: Ivo Hristov — Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament: Juozas Olekas — Delegation to the Cariforum-EC Parliamentary Committee: Lukas Mandl — Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee: Dominique Bilde; Julie Lechanteux was no longer a member — Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee: Dan Nica to replace Tudor Ciuhodaru — Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee: Julie Lechanteux to replace Dominique Bilde — Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: Maxette Pirbakas — Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean: Tiziana Beghin to replace Rosa D'Amato, Gilbert Collard to replace Joëlle Mélin — Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly: Nikos Androulakis, Nicolas Bay to replace Hélène Laporte, Georg Mayer to replace Roman Haider, Marco Zullo to replace Tiziana Beghin — Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly: Thierry Mariani, Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel — Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly: Anna Bonfrisco to replace Lars Patrick Berg The decisions took effect as of that day. 9. Corrigenda (Rule 241) The relevant committees had forwarded the following corrigenda to texts adopted by the Parliament: — Corrigendum P8_TA-PROV(2019)0366(COR01) to the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 16 April 2019 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2019/… of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union law P8_TA-PROV(2019)0366 (COM(2018)0218 — C8-0159/2018 — 2018/0106(COD)) — JURI Committee; C 107/6 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 26.3.2021 Monday 16 September 2019 — Corrigendum P8_TA-PROV(2019)0361(COR01) to the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 16 April 2019 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2019/… of the European Parliament and of the Council on the action of the Union following its accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications P8_TA-PROV(2019)0361 (COM(2018)0365 — C8-0383/2018 — 2018/0189(COD)) — JURI Committee; — Corrigendum P8_TA-PROV(2019)0346(COR01) to the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 4 April 2019 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2019/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management P8_TA-PROV(2019)0346 (COM(2018)0274 — C8-0196/2018 — 2018/0129(COD)) — TRAN Committee; — Corrigendum P8_TA-PROV(2019)0387(COR01) to the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 16 April 2019 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2019/… of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples P8_TA-PROV(2019)0387 (COM(2016)0551