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European Parliament 2019-2024 Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection IMCO_PV(2021)0317_1 MINUTES Meeting of 17 March 2021, 13.45-16.15 and 16.45-18.45, and 18 March 2021, 9.30-12.30 BRUSSELS The meeting was held with the remote participation of most attendants and opened at 13.48 on Wednesday, 17 March 2021, with Anna Cavazzini (Chairwoman) presiding. 1. Adoption of agenda IMCO_OJ(2021)0317_1 Decision: The draft agenda was adopted in the form shown in these minutes. 2. Chair’s announcements A. Interpretation Interpretation is available for the following languages FR DE IT NL EN DA ES PT SV CS ET PL SK BG RO HR. Speakers were invited to speak their mother tongue if it is one of languages for which interpretation is available. B. Time Management The chair reminded MEPs that Coordinators have agreed an adapted framework for the exchange of views on Reports/Opinions which restricts the floor to one MEP per Political Group (usually the shadow or his/her replacement) for a limited duration. This reflects the limitation imposed to all committee meetings and the necessity to give priority to items of business in relation to COVID-19 issues. PV\1227931EN.docx PE691.179v01-00 EN United in diversityEN C. Webstreaming and eMeeting The Chairwoman reminded Members that the meeting is webstreamed live and that the eMeeting application is available on tablet or laptop to access the meeting documents, as IMCO is totally paperless. D. Newsletter Members were also informed that the new issue of IMCO's Newsletter (Nr.117) is available. 3. Approval of minutes of meetings 22 and 23 February 2021 PV – PE689.606v01-00 The Chairwoman announced the opening of the vote on the final vote under point 4 from 13.50 to 14.20. The results of the final vote were communicated in writing and published on IMCO’s website. Adoption of question for oral answer and of motion for resolution on EU-EEA- Switzerland: Internal market cooperation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 25 years of efforts to fully implement internal market rules (Anna Cavazzini) Result: 34 votes in favour, 1 against and 10 abstention 4. EU-EEA-Switzerland: Internal market cooperation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 25 years of efforts to fully implement internal market rules IMCO/9/05263 2021/2551(RSP) Rapporteur: Anna Cavazzini (Verts/ALE) Responsible: IMCO Adoption of question for oral answer Adoption of motion for a resolution ------ Report on ongoing interinstitutional negotiations 5. Establishing, as part of the Integrated Border Management Fund, the instrument for financial support for customs control equipment IMCO/9/01387 ***I 2018/0258(COD) COM(2018)0474 – C8-0273/2018 Rapporteur: Jiří Pospíšil (PPE) Responsible: IMCO PE691.179v01-00 2/20 PV\1227931EN.docx EN Reporting back to committee on the negotiations (Rule 74(3)) Speakers: Jiří Pospíšil 6. Shaping the digital future of Europe: removing barriers to the functioning of the digital single market and improving the use of AI for European consumers IMCO/9/04404 2020/2216(INI) Rapporteur: Deirdre Clune (PPE) PR – PE661.999v01-00 AM – PE663.012v01-00 Responsible: IMCO* Consideration of compromise amendments Speakers: Deirdre Clune, Evelyne Gebhardt, Svenja Hahn, Alessandra Basso, Marcel Kolaja, Kateřina Konečná 7. Regulation concerning batteries and waste batteries, repealing Directive 2006/66/EC and amending Regulation (EU) No 2019/1020 IMCO/9/04957 ***I 2020/0353(COD) COM(2020)0798 – C9-0400/2020 Rapporteur: Antonius Manders (PPE) Responsible: IMCO First exchange of views Speakers: Joaquim Nunes de Almeida (Director of Directorate C in DG GROW), Kestutis Sadauskas (Director of Directorate B in DG ENV), Antonius Manders, Adriana Maldonado López, Claudia Gamon, Anna Cavazzini, Eugen Jurzyca, Kateřina Konečná 8. Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU IMCO/9/04628 ***I 2020/0322(COD) COM(2020)0727 – C9-0367/2020 Rapporteur for the opinion: Rasmus Andresen (Verts/ALE) PA – PE689.513v01-00 Responsible: ENVI – Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (Renew) Consideration of draft opinion Speakers: Rasmus Andresen, Tomislav Sokol, Adriana Maldonado López, Jordi Cañas, Adam Bielan, Kateřina Konečná PV\1227931EN.docx 3/20 PE691.179v01-00 EN Studies 9. Presentation of Policy Department study on Legal obstacles in Member States to Single Market rules Speakers: Erik Dahlberg (Copenhagen Economics, author of the study), Anna Cavazzini, Marion Walsmann, Christel Schaldemose, Marcel Kolaja, Kosma Złotowski, Kateřina Konečná, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Evelyne Gebhardt 11. Exchange of views with Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice - as part of the structured dialogue Speakers: Anna Cavazzini, Didier Reynders (Commissioner for Justice - as part of the structured dialogue), Andreas Schwab, Christel Schaldemose, Sandro Gozi, Alessandra Basso, Marcel Kolaja, Kosma Złotowski, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Biljana Borzan, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Róża Thun und Hohenstein, Alessandra Basso, Anna Cavazzini, Alex Agius Saliba, Arba Kokalari 12. European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality - report on Better Law Making covering the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 IMCO/9/04858 2020/2262(INI) Rapporteur for the opinion: Barbara Thaler (PPE) PA – PE680.764v01-00 AM – PE681.008v01-00 Responsible: JURI – Mislav Kolakušić (NI) Consideration of amendments and compromise amendments Speakers: Barbara Thaler, Leszek Miller, Vlad-Marius Botoş, Jean-Lin Lacapelle, Alexandra Geese, Eugen Jurzyca, Martin Schirdewan * * * The meeting closed at 18.29 on Wednesday 17 March and resumed on Thursday 18 March at 09.33 with Anna Cavazzini (Chairwoman) presiding. Report on ongoing interinstitutional negotiations 10. Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles, and the enforcement of the obligation to ensure against such liability IMCO/9/00321 ***I 2018/0168(COD) COM(2018)0336 – C8-0211/2018 Rapporteur: Dita Charanzová (Renew) Responsible: IMCO Reporting back to committee on the negotiations (Rule 74(3)) PE691.179v01-00 4/20 PV\1227931EN.docx EN Speakers: Dita Charanzová Public hearing 13. Consumer protection in the context of digitalisation of retail financial services (CCD and DMFSD) during the Covid-19 pandemic Speakers: Edoardo Carlucci (Better Finance), Peter Norwood (Finance Watch), Olha Cherednychenko, Patricia Boydens (Fintech Belgium), Deirdre Clune, Brando Benifei, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Rasmus Andresen, Adam Bielan, Kateřina Konečná, Timothy Shakesby (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority - EIOPA), Daniela Bankier (European Commission – DG JUST), Andreas Schwab, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Beata Mazurek, Anne-Sophie Pelletier 14. Any other business 15. Next meetings Wednesday, 14 April, 13.45 – 15.45 Wednesday, 14 April, 16.45 – 18.45 Thursday, 15 April, 09.30 – 12.30 The Chairwoman closed the meeting at 11.30 on Thursday, 18 March 2021. In camera 16. Coordinators’ meeting PV\1227931EN.docx 5/20 PE691.179v01-00 EN Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection DRAFT DECISIONS Coordinators' webmeeting Thursday, 18 March 2021 from 11:30 to 12:30 In the Chair: Anna Cavazzini Part I: items for decision with debate I.1 Adoption of the draft agenda The agenda was adopted, as shown in these decisions. I.2 Announcements I.2.1 Main items of the Conference of Committee Chairs The Chair informed of the discussions on UK-EU TCA, and on committees’ staffing situation with the Rapporteur on the budget 2022. As at the next meeting, CCC will discuss remote working best practices in parliamentary committees, the Chair invited the Coordinators to inform her of their suggestions for improvements. I.2.2 Conflicts with other Committees Title Procedure n° State of Play CULT INI “Towards On 29 October 2020, the CULT Committee European Digital requested authorisation to draw up a non- Public Sphere” legislative own-initiative report on “Towards European Digital Public Sphere”. This concept is (PS/BM) described as a digital ecosystem that would observe, in its technical design, values such as transparency and openness and that would create a digital space, thereby strengthening public debate and safeguarding and promoting media pluralism and cultural diversity that form part of Europe’s identity. The report intends to PE691.179v01-00 6/20 PV\1227931EN.docx EN look into, among others, the organisation and financing of that sphere as well as the infrastructure-related aspects of the sphere’s expansion. On 12 November 2020, IMCO requested clarification of the scope and the aim of the requested report, reserving a decision as to the scope of involvement that IMCO would request (potentially an association under Rule 57) on the CULT report, until that clarification is provided. Following exchanges on the requested report between the secretariats, CULT offered IMCO association under Rule 57 RoP with shared competences. Detailed modalities of the association are still under discussion. IMCO INI “Tackling IMCO requested modification of the title of the non-tariff barriers in INI, including the corresponding modification of the Single Market” its scope. New title: “Tackling non-tariff and non- tax barriers in the Single Market”. The (SvS/BM/CM) modification was endorsed by the CCC on 9 March 2021. JURI INL On 18 December 2020, JURI requested "Digitalisation and authorisation to draw up a legislative own- Administrative Law” initiative report on “Digitalisation and Administrative Law”. 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  • European Parliament: Facts and Figures

    European Parliament: Facts and Figures

    BRIEFING October 2019 European Parliament: Facts and Figures This Briefing, published by the European Parliamentary Research Service, is designed to provide key facts and figures about the European Parliament, both in the 2019 to 2024 parliamentary term now starting - and in the eight previous terms since direct elections were introduced in June 1979. On the following pages you will find graphics of various kinds which: • detail the composition of the European Parliament now and in the past; • trace the increase in the number of parties represented in the EP and evolution of political groups; • chart the rise in the number of women sitting in the Parliament; • explain the electoral systems used in the 2019 elections to the Parliament across the Member States; • show how turnout in European elections compares with that in national elections; • summarise the activity of the Parliament in the current and previous five-year terms; • outline the composition of the Parliament’s committees and governing bodies. The Briefing will be updated regularly over the coming term to take account of latest developments. European Parliament, 2019-24 Size of the political groups Proportion of Members in each political group Number of MEPs in each political group as of Share by political group of the total 748 Members in the 1 October 2019. Parliament. Renew Europe: 14.4% EPP: 24.3% 182 154 108 Greens/EFA: 9.9% 74 73 62 54 41 ECR: 8.3% 748 EPP S&D Renew Greens/ ID ECR GUE/ NI S&D: 20.6% MEPs * Europe EFA NGL ID: 9.8% 748 GUE/NGL: 5.5% NI: 7.2% MEPs Note: The Spanish authorities have not yet notied the Parliament of the Members elected to three seats; therefore the total does not reach the 751 provid- ed for in EU law.