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C145 Official Journal Official Journal C 145 of the European Union Volume 64 English edition Information and Notices 23 April 2021 Contents IV Notices NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES European Parliament 2019-2020 SESSION Sittings of 9 and 10 October 2019 2021/C 145/01 Minutes of the sitting of 9 October 2019 . 1 2021/C 145/02 Minutes of the sitting of 10 October 2019 . 23 EN Key to symbols used * Consultation procedure *** Consent procedure ***I Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading ***II Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading ***III Ordinary legislative procedure: third reading (The type of procedure is determined by the legal basis proposed in the draft act.) Abbreviations used for Parliamentary Committees AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs DEVE Committee on Development INTA Committee on International Trade BUDG Committee on Budgets CONT Committee on Budgetary Control ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism REGI Committee on Regional Development AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development PECH Committee on Fisheries CULT Committee on Culture and Education JURI Committee on Legal Affairs LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs FEMM Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality PETI Committee on Petitions DROI Subcommittee on Human Rights SEDE Subcommittee on Security and Defence Abbreviations used for Political Groups PPE Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) S&D Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament Renew Renew Europe Group Verts/ALE Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance ID Identity and Democracy Group ECR European Conservatives and Reformists Group GUE/NGL Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left NI Non-attached Members EN 23.4.2021 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 145/1 Wednesday 9 October 2019 IV (Notices) NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2019-2020 SESSION Sittings of 9 and 10 October 2019 BRUSSELS MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 9 OCTOBER 2019 (2021/C 145/01) Contents Page 1. Resumption of the session . 3 2. Opening of the sitting . 3 3. Tribute . 3 4. Statements by the President . 3 5. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 3 6. Composition of committees and delegations . 3 7. Negotiations ahead of Council's first reading (Rule 72) . 4 8. Announcement by the President . 8 9. Corrigenda (Rule 241) . 8 10. Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 79) . 10 C 145/2 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 23.4.2021 Wednesday 9 October 2019 Contents Page 11. Documents received . 10 12. Delegated acts (Rule 111(2)) . 11 13. Order of business . 12 14. Preparation of the European Council meeting of 17 and 18 October 2019 (debate) . 14 15. Greening the European Investment Bank (debate) . 14 16. Preventing conflicts of interests in the EU (debate) . 15 17. US tariffs on European goods following the WTO decision on the Airbus dispute (debate) . 15 18. Situation in Northern Syria (debate) . 16 19. Situation in Ukraine (debate) . 16 20. Authorization of GMOs (debate) . 17 21. Fight against cancer (debate) . 17 22. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance . 18 23. Agenda of the next sitting . 18 24. Closure of the sitting . 18 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 19 ANNEX RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES . 20 1. Wednesday's agenda — request from the GUE/NGL and Verts/ALE Groups . 20 2. Wednesday's agenda — request from the PPE Group . 21 23.4.2021 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 145/3 Wednesday 9 October 2019 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 9 OCTOBER 2019 IN THE CHAIR: David Maria SASSOLI President 1. Resumption of the session The session suspended on Thursday 19 September 2019 was resumed. 2. Opening of the sitting The sitting opened at 15.14. 3. Tribute On behalf of Parliament, the President paid tribute to the memory of Jacques Chirac. 4. Statements by the President The President made a statement deploring the fate of the migrants who had recently been shipwrecked off Lampedusa and mentioning a shooting in Halle, Germany, which had left at least two people dead. Parliament observed a minute's silence in tribute to the victims and in memory of Jacques Chirac. 5. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting The minutes of the previous sitting were approved. * * * The following spoke: Ivan David. 6. Composition of committees and delegations The President had received from the PPE, S&D, Renew and ID Groups the following decisions changing the composition of the committees and delegations: — Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee: Jarosław Duda to replace Daniel Buda — Delegation for relations with Japan: Nicolás González Casares to replace Inma Rodríguez-Piñero — Delegation for relations with India: Csaba Molnár to replace César Luena — Delegation for relations with Afghanistan: Richard Corbett — Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia: Nicolas Bay to replace Hélène Laporte C 145/4 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 23.4.2021 Wednesday 9 October 2019 — Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula: César Luena to replace Csaba Molnár — Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia: Atidzhe Alieva-Veli to replace Chris Davies — Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly: Hélène Laporte to replace Nicolas Bay — Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee: Inma Rodríguez-Piñero to replace Nicolás González Casares — Delegation to the Cariforum-EC Parliamentary Committee: Miroslav Číž, Arnaud Danjean, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, David McAllister, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero and Marc Tarabella — Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee: Jonás Fernández The decisions took effect as of that day. 7. Negotiations ahead of Council's first reading (Rule 72) The President announced that the ECON, ITRE, TRAN, ENVI, LIBE, REGI, EMPL, CONT, IMCO, AFET and DEVE Committees had decided to enter into interinstitutional negotiations, in accordance with Rule 72, on the basis of the following: ECON Committee — European Parliament legislative resolution of 27 March 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSP) for Business (COM(2018)0113 — C8-0103/2018 — 2018/0048(COD)) — position at first reading P8_TA(2019)0301; — European Parliament legislative resolution of 27 March 2019 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments (COM(2018)0099 — C8-0102/2018 — 2018/0047(COD)) — position at first reading P8_TA(2019)0302. ITRE Committee — European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 March 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the labelling of tyres with respect to fuel efficiency and other essential parameters and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 (COM(2018)0296 — C8-0190/2018 — 2018/0148(COD)) — posi- tion at first reading P8_TA-PROV(2019)0230; — European Parliament legislative resolution of 17 April 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre and the Network of National Coordination Centres (COM(2018)0630 — C8-0404/2018 — 2018/0328(COD)) — position at first reading P8_TA(2019)0419. TRAN Committee — European Parliament legislative resolution of 12 December 2012 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules for the allocation of slots at EU airports (recast) (COM(2011)0827 — C7-0458/2011 — 2011/0391(COD)) — position at first reading P7_TA(2012)0495; — European Parliament legislative resolution of 5 February 2014 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 establishing common rules on compensa- tion and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights and Regulation (EC) No 2027/97 on air carrier liability in respect of the carriage of passengers and their baggage by air (COM(2013)0130 — C7-0066/2013 — 2013/0072(COD)) — position at first reading P7_TA(2014)0092; — European Parliament legislative resolution of 12 March 2014 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the implementation of the Single European Sky (recast) (COM(2013)0410 — C7-0171/2013 — 2013/0186(COD)) — position at first reading P7_TA(2014)0220; 23.4.2021 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 145/5 Wednesday 9 October 2019 — European Parliament legislative resolution of 15 January 2019 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/1/EC on the use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road (COM(2017)0282 — C8-0172/2017 — 2017/0113(COD)) — position at first reading P8_TA(2019)0006; — European Parliament
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