Minutes of the Sitting of 9 September 2010
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C 314 E/128 EN Official Journal of the European Union 18.11.2010 Thursday 9 September 2010 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 9 SEPTEMBER 2010 (2010/C 314 E/04) Contents Page 1. Opening of the sitting . 129 2. Better lawmaking (debate) . 129 3. Postal services (debate) . 130 4. Statement by the President . 130 5. Voting time . 131 5.1. Better lawmaking (Rule 138) (vote) . 131 5.2. Situation of the Roma people in Europe (vote) . 131 5.3. Long-term care for older people (vote) . 132 5.4. Situation of the Jordan River with special regard to the Lower Jordan River area (vote) 132 6. The lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content - Establishing a European Year of Combating Violence against Women (written declarations) . 133 7. Explanations of vote . 133 8. Corrections to votes and voting intentions . 134 9. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 134 10. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate) . 134 10.1. Kenya: failure to arrest President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan . 134 10.2. Human rights in Syria, in particular the case of Haythan Al - Maleh . 135 11. Voting time . 135 11.1. Kenya: failure to arrest President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan (vote) . 135 11.2. Human rights in Syria, in particular the case of Haythan Al - Maleh (vote) . 136 12. Corrections to votes and voting intentions . 136 13. Transfers of appropriations . 137 14. Request for the defence of parliamentary immunity . 137 15. Decisions concerning certain documents . 137 16. Council position at first reading . 140 17. Written declarations included in the register (Rule 123) . 140 18.11.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 314 E/129 Thursday 9 September 2010 Contents (continued) Page 18. Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting . 142 19. Documents received . 142 20. Dates of forthcoming sittings . 143 21. Adjournment of the session . 143 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 144 Annex 1 - Lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content (written declaration) . 146 Annex 2 - Establishing a European Year of Combating Violence against Women (written declaration) . 147 ANNEX I RESULTS OF VOTES . 148 1. Better lawmaking . 148 2. Situation of the Roma people in Europe . 148 3. Long-term care for older people . 150 4. Situation of the Jordan River with special regard to the Lower Jordan River area . 150 5. Kenya: failure to arrest President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan . 151 6. Human rights in Syria, in particular the case of Haythan Al - Maleh . 151 ANNEX II RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES . 152 1. RC-B7-0511/2010 - Human rights in Syria- RESOLUTION . 152 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 9 SEPTEMBER 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ Vice-President 1. Opening of the sitting The sitting opened at 10.00. 2. Better lawmaking (debate) Report on better lawmaking - 15th annual report from the Commission pursuant to Article 9 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality [2009/2142(INI)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (A7-0215/2010) Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg introduced the report. C 314 E/130 EN Official Journal of the European Union 18.11.2010 Thursday 9 September 2010 The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission). The following spoke: Tadeusz Zwiefka (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFCO Committee), Raffaele Baldassarre, on behalf of the PPE Group, Evelyn Regner, on behalf of the S&D Group, Alexandra Thein, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Eva Lichtenberger, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Sajjad Karim, on behalf of the ECR Group, Morten Messerschmidt, on behalf of the EFD Group, Dimitar Stoyanov, Non-attached Member, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Martin Ehrenhauser and Edvard Kožušník. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Alajos Mészáros, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Alfreds Rubiks, Jaroslav Paška, Andrew Henry William Brons, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska and Anna Záborská. The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič and Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg. The debate closed. Vote: minutes of 9.9.2010, item 5.1. 3. Postal services (debate) Oral question (O-0114/2010) by Brian Simpson, on behalf of the TRAN Committee, to the Commission: Implementation of Directive 2008/6/EC with regard to the completion of the internal market in postal services (B7-0458/2010) Brian Simpson moved the oral question. Michel Barnier (Member of the Commission) answered the oral question. The following spoke: Markus Ferber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Saïd El Khadraoui, on behalf of the S&D Group, Gesine Meissner, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Isabelle Durant, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Cornelis de Jong, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, John Bufton, on behalf of the EFD Group, Georges Bach, Silvia-Adriana Țicău, Pat the Cope Gallagher, Eva Lichtenberger, Sabine Wils, Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Debora Serracchiani, Sari Essayah, José Manuel Fernandes and Sophie Auconie. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Miroslav Mikolášik, Marc Tarabella, Marian Harkin, João Ferreira, Evelyn Regner, Inés Ayala Sender and Mario Pirillo. The following spoke: Brian Simpson and Michel Barnier. The debate closed. (The sitting was suspended at 11.55 pending voting time and resumed at 12.05.) IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK President 4. Statement by the President The President paid tribute to Angelo Vassallo, the Mayor of Pollica (Italy), who had been murdered by the Camorra, the local mafia, on Sunday, 5 September 2010. The President reiterated Parliament's condem nation of all forms of organised crime. Parliament observed a minute's silence. 18.11.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 314 E/131 Thursday 9 September 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Libor ROUČEK Vice-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. * * * The following spoke: Sajjad Karim, who condemned a US church leader's plans to commemorate the terrorist attacks of September 11 by burning the Koran, and Gerard Batten, on Mr Karim's remarks. 5.1. Better lawmaking (Rule 138) (vote) Report on better lawmaking - 15th annual report from the Commission pursuant to Article 9 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality [2009/2142(INI)] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (A7-0215/2010) (Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 1) MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Adopted by single vote (P7_TA(2010)311) 5.2. Situation of the Roma people in Europe (vote) Motions for resolution B7-0492/2010, B7-0493/2010, B7-0500/2010, B7-0502/2010, B7-0503/2010 and B7-0504/2010 (Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 2) MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION B7-0492/2010 Rejected JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B7-0493/2010 (replacing B7-0493/2010, B7-0500/2010, B7-0503/2010 and B7-0504/2010): tabled by the following Members: Hannes Swoboda, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Kinga Göncz, Rovana Plumb, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Claude Moraes, Sylvie Guillaume, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Tanja Fajon, Rita Borsellino and Ivailo Kalfin, on behalf of the S&D Group C 314 E/132 EN Official Journal of the European Union 18.11.2010 Thursday 9 September 2010 Renate Weber, Sophia in 't Veld, Marielle De Sarnez, Cecilia Wikström, Niccolò Rinaldi, Sonia Alfano, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Leonidas Donskis, Olle Schmidt, Metin Kazak, Luigi de Magistris and Nathalie Griesbeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group Hélène Flautre and Catherine Grèze, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group Cornelia Ernst, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Rui Tavares, Willy Meyer, Nikolaos Chountis, Patrick Le Hyaric, Miguel Portas, Jacky Hénin, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group. Adopted (P7_TA(2010)312) (Motion for a resolution B7-0502/2010 fell.) The following had spoken: — Hannes Swoboda, to move an oral amendment to insert a new paragraph after paragraph 9 (the oral amendment was accepted); — Gerard Batten, on the use of banners in the Chamber. 5.3. Long-term care for older people (vote) Motion for a resolution B7-0491/2010 (Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 3) MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Adopted (P7_TA(2010)313) 5.4. Situation of the Jordan River with special regard to the Lower Jordan River area (vote) Motions for resolution B7-0484/2010, B7-0485/2010, B7-0486/2010, B7-0487/2010 and B7-0488/2010. (Simple majority) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 4) JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B7-0484/2010 (replacing B7-0484/2010, B7-0485/2010, B7-0486/2010, B7-0487/2010 and B7-0488/2010): tabled by the following Members: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Ioannis Kasoulides, Cristian Dan Preda and Hans-Gert Pöttering, on behalf of the PPE Group Paolo De Castro, Véronique De Keyser, Jo Leinen, Adrian Severin, Proinsias De Rossa, Saïd El Khadraoui, Olga Sehnalová, Thijs Berman, Richard Howitt, Maria Eleni Koppa, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Raimon Obiols and Luís Paulo Alves, on behalf of the S&D Group 18.11.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 314 E/133 Thursday 9 September 2010 Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Ivo Vajgl and Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group Hélène Flautre, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Margrete Auken, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Malika Benarab-Attou and Frieda Brepoels, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group Charles Tannock, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Tomasz Piotr Poręba, on behalf of the ECR Group Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Patrick Le Hyaric, Willy Meyer and Nikolaos Chountis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group.