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ECON-PV-2019-12-12-1 EN.Pdf European Parliament 2019-2024 Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs ECON_PV(2019)1212_1 MINUTES Meeting of 12 December 2019, 9.00-12.30 BRUSSELS The meeting opened at 9:10 with Irene Tinagli, Chair, presiding. 1. Adoption of agenda Decision: The draft agenda was adopted in the form shown in these minutes. 2. Public Hearing with Andrea Enria, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB ECON/9/00490 Speakers: Irene Tinagli, Andrea Enria, Lídia Pereira, Jonás Fernández, Luis Garicano, Sven Giegold, Eugen Jurzyca, José Gusmão, Fulvio Martusciello, Pedro Marques, Danuta Maria Hübner, Neena Gill, Stasys Jakeliūnas, Sirpa Pietikäinen. 3. Chair’s announcements Coordinators’ meeting of 18 November 2019 - Summary of recommendations and decisions 1. Appointment procedures - European Central Bank (ECB) Coordinators agreed on the questionnaires to the two candidates for positions on the ECB Executive Board and to hold the hearings with the candidates and the votes in ECON on 3 December. - Single Resolution Board (SRB) PV\1195102EN.docx PE644.986v01-00 EN United in diversityEN Coordinators agreed on next steps in these appointment procedures. - European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) Coordinators agreed on the designation of Werner Langen as member of ESAC to be appointed by the Parliament. 3. Working groups Following a discussion among Coordinators, the following was decided: Banking Union Working Group: 22 Members (6 EPP, 5 S&D, 3 Renew, 2 Greens, 2 ID, 2 ECR, 1 GUE, 1 NI). The ECON Chair will chair this working group. Competition Working Group: 12 Members (3 EPP, 3 S&D, 2 Renew, 1 Greens, 1 ID, 1 ECR and 1 GUE). The Chairmanship will go to EPP. Euro accession countries Working Group: 12 Members (3 EPP, 3 S&D, 2 Renew, 1 Greens, 1 ID, 1 ECR and 1 GUE). The Chairmanship will go to S&D. Access to finance for SMEs Working Group: 12 Members (3 EPP, 3 S&D, 2 Renew, 1 Greens, 1 ID, 1 ECR and 1 GUE). The Chairmanship will go to Renew. Fintech Working Group: 12 Members (3 EPP, 3 S&D, 2 Renew, 1 Greens, 1 ID, 1 ECR and 1 GUE). The Chairmanship will go to Greens. The Chair requested groups to send the names of the Chairs and of the members of those five Working Groups by Friday 29 November 2019. The Financial Assistance Working Group should continue to be chaired by the ECON Chair. The Secretariat was asked to provide simulations on the possible composition of the FAWG with less Members than in the previous term. 4. Petitions Alfred Sant (S&D) was appointed as ECON full member of the Petitions’ network. Groups were asked to send names for an ECON substitute member to the network. The Chair indicated that unless there are comments by Thursday 21 November 2019, the proposed follow-up to the nine petitions received since the last Coordinators’ decision on petitions of 26 April 2019 would be deemed approved. 5. Gender mainstreaming network (GMN) Monica Semedo (Renew) was appointed as ECON’s permanent Member of GMN. Kira Peter- Hansen (Greens) was appointed ECON’s substitute member of the GMN. 6. Economic governance Semester package: it was agreed to explore 22-23 January 2020 for an Economic dialogue on the Semester package with the Commissioners. BUDG-ECON meeting with EIB President: the suggestion to hold the Exchange of views on 13 January 2020 in Strasbourg was approved. PE644.986v01-00 2/11 PV\1195102EN.docx EN European Parliamentary Week: the following was decided in relation to the interparliamentary committee meeting to be organised by ECON: o Topic for Session 1: “Towards a new international tax system”. A representative from the OECD and members of parliament from the 2020 Presidency countries will be invited as speakers. o Topic for Session 2: “From transparency to sustainability and ESG: objectives in the financial services sector”. A representative from the Commission and members of parliament from the 2020 Presidency countries will be invited as speakers. 7. Draft Motion for Resolution on “Post-Public Employment: Preventing Conflict of Interest” The draft timeline was endorsed by Coordinators. 4. Report on ongoing interinstitutional negotiations ECON-ENVI: Trilogues on the Framework for sustainable investment of 3 and 5 December Two trilogue meetings took place on the 3rd and 5th of December. The negotiating teams agreed in principle on the key political issues, namely with regard to governance: use of delegated acts, and the creation of a Member States Expert Group on Sustainable Finance), with regard to scope (both personal and with regard to the disclosure requirement): inclusion of enabling and transitional activities with disclosure obligations; exclusion of solid fossil fuels from the technical screening criteria. Additional work at staff level is still on-going. ECON: Trilogue on the Crowdfunding files of 11 December 2019 A fourth trilogue on the Crowdfunding files took place on 11 December. At the start of the trilogue, Council announced that they still did not have sufficient feedback from the Member States on the contentious issues of the investment limit and the reflection period. They had put a deadline for after the first part of the trilogue, at 16.00. Whilst progress has been made on other subject matters, the Presidency decided to cancel the second part of the trilogue, planned for the evening, because they were unable to obtain a mandate from the Member States. The Negotiating Team is waiting for feedback from the Presidency, before planning a fifth trilogue. 5. Institutions and bodies in the Economic and Monetary Union: Preventing post- public employment conflicts of interest ECON/9/01947 PV\1195102EN.docx 3/11 PE644.986v01-00 EN 2019/2950(RSP) RE – PE644.812v01-00 AM – PE644.844v02-00 Responsible: ECON Adoption of motion for a resolution Decision: Resolution adopted: 42 votes to 0, with 0 abstentions The meeting continued with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, 2nd Vice-Chair, presiding. 6. Common system of value added tax as regards the special scheme for small enterprises ECON/9/01865 * 2018/0006(CNS) 13952/2019 – C9-0166/2019 Rapporteur: Inese Vaidere (PPE) PR – PE644.767v01-00 Responsible: ECON Consideration of draft report Speakers: Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Inese Vaidere, Alfred Sant, Caroline Nagtegaal, Eugen Jurzyca. The meeting continued with Irene Tinagli, Chair, presiding. 7. Competition policy - annual report 2019 ECON/9/01153 2019/2131(INI) Rapporteur: Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Renew) PR – PE641.227v01-00 Responsible: ECON Opinions: INTA, IMCO, AGRI Consideration of draft report Deadline for tabling amendments:9 January 2020, 12.00 Speakers: Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Irene Tinagli, Stefan Berger, Carmen Avram, Sven Giegold, Derk Jan Eppink, Manon Aubry, Andreas Schwab, Paul Tang, representative Commission. 8. Credit servicers and credit purchasers ECON/9/00276 ***I 2018/0063A(COD) COM(2018)0135[01] – C8-0115/2018 PE644.986v01-00 4/11 PV\1195102EN.docx EN Co- rapporteurs: Esther de Lange (PPE) PR – PE644.827v01-00 Irene Tinagli (S&D) Responsible: ECON Opinions: IMCO, JURI Consideration of draft report Deadline for tabling amendments:19 December 2019, 14.00 Speakers: Esther de Lange, Irene Tinagli, Engin Eroglu, Stasys Jakeliūnas, Marco Zanni, Derk Jan Eppink, Dimitrios Papadimoulis. 9. Any other business none 10. Next meetings Confirmed Monday 13 January, 19:00 - 20:30 (BUDG-ECON) Wednesday 22 January 2020, 09:00-12:30 & 14:30-18:30 and Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:00-12:30 The meeting ended at 12:25. PV\1195102EN.docx 5/11 PE644.986v01-00 EN Results of roll-call votes Contents 1. Institutions and bodies in the Economic and Monetary Union: Preventing post-public employment conflicts of interest.................................................................................................7 1.1. Final vote ..................................................................................................................7 Key to symbols: + : in favour - : against 0 : abstention PE644.986v01-00 6/11 PV\1195102EN.docx EN 1. Institutions and bodies in the Economic and Monetary Union: Preventing post-public employment conflicts of interest 1.1. Final vote 42 + ECR Derk Jan Eppink, Eugen Jurzyca GUE/NGL José Gusmão, Martin Schirdewan ID Valentino Grant, Herve Juvin, Marco Zanni NI Ignazio Corrao PPE Stefan Berger, Markus Ferber, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Danuta Maria Hübner, Fulvio Martusciello, Eva Maydell, Siegfried Mureşan, Lídia Pereira, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Andreas Schwab, Antonio Tajani, Inese Vaidere RENEW Gilles Boyer, Engin Eroglu, Luis Garicano, Billy Kelleher, Ondřej Kovařík, Dragoş Pîslaru, Monica Semedo, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin S&D Carmen Avram, Jonás Fernández, Niels Fuglsang, Jens Geier, Neena Gill, Pedro Marques, Evelyn Regner, Alfred Sant, Pedro Silva Pereira, Irene Tinagli VERTS/ALE Stasys Jakeliūnas, Philippe Lamberts, Mikuláš Peksa, Ernest Urtasun 0 - 0 0 Corrections to votes and voting intentions + - 0 PV\1195102EN.docx 7/11 PE644.986v01-00 EN ПРИСЪСТВЕН ЛИСТ/LISTA DE ASISTENCIA/PREZENČNÍ LISTINA/DELTAGERLISTE/ ANWESENHEITSLISTE/KOHALOLIJATE NIMEKIRI/ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΠΑΡΟΝΤΩΝ/RECORD OF ATTENDANCE/ LISTE DE PRÉSENCE/POPIS NAZOČNIH/ELENCO DI PRESENZA/APMEKLĒJUMU REĢISTRS/DALYVIŲ SĄRAŠAS/ JELENLÉTI ÍV/REĠISTRU TA' ATTENDENZA/PRESENTIELIJST/LISTA OBECNOŚCI/LISTA DE PRESENÇAS/ LISTĂ DE PREZENŢĂ/PREZENČNÁ LISTINA/SEZNAM NAVZOČIH/LÄSNÄOLOLISTA/NÄRVAROLISTA Бюро/Mesa/Předsednictvo/Formandskabet/Vorstand/Juhatus/Προεδρείο/Bureau/Predsjedništvo/Ufficio di presidenza/Prezidijs/ Biuras/Elnökség/Prezydium/Birou/Predsedníctvo/Predsedstvo/Puheenjohtajisto/Presidiet (*) Irene Tinagli, Stéphanie
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