16.6.2016 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 217/1 Monday 18 May 2015 IV (Notices) NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2015-2016 SESSION Sittings of 18 to 21 May 2015 STRASBOURG MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 18 MAY 2015 (2016/C 217/01) Contents Page 1. Resumption of the session . 3 2. Tribute . 3 3. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 3 4. Election of a Vice-President of the European Parliament (deadline for submitting nominations) . 3 5. Parliament's calendar of part-sessions — 2016 . 3 6. Composition of Parliament . 4 7. Verification of credentials . 4 8. Composition of committees and delegations . 4 9. Written declaration (Rule 136) . 5 10. Signature of acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 78) . 5 C 217/2 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 16.6.2016 Monday 18 May 2015 Contents Page 11. Delegated acts (Rule 105(6)) . 5 12. Documents received . 6 13. Texts of agreements forwarded by the Council . 7 14. Questions for oral answer (submission) . 8 15. Order of business . 8 16. Indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts ***I (debate) . 9 17. Financing for development (debate) . 10 18. Tobacco agreements (debate) . 10 19. Rules on VAT and VAT mini one-stop shop (MOSS) for digital services, books and papers in the EU (debate) 11 20. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance . 11 21. Safer healthcare in Europe (short presentation) . 11 22. Green growth opportunities for SMEs (short presentation) . 12 23. Agenda of the next sitting . 12 24. Closure of the sitting . 12 Annex 1 — Establishing a European Year on Combating Violence against Women (written declaration) . 13 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 15 16.6.2016 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 217/3 Monday 18 May 2015 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 18 MAY 2015 IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ President 1. Resumption of the session The sitting opened at 17.05. 2. Tribute The President, on behalf of Parliament, paid tribute to the memory of Hans Jansen, who had died on 5 May 2015. 3. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting The minutes of the previous sitting were approved. 4. Election of a Vice-President of the European Parliament (deadline for submitting nominations) On a proposal from the President, the deadline for submitting nominations for the election of a Vice-President had been set at 18.00 on Tuesday 19 May 2015. The election would take place at 12.00 on Wednesday 20 May 2015. 5. Parliament's calendar of part-sessions — 2016 At its meeting of 30 April 2015, the Conference of Presidents, had adopted the draft calendar of part-sessions for the 2016 parliamentary year, as follows: — 18 to 21 January — 1 to 4 February — 24 and 25 February — 7 to 10 March — 11 to 14 April — 27 and 28 April — 9 to 12 May — 25 and 26 May — 6 to 9 June — 22 and 23 June — 4 to 7 July C 217/4 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 16.6.2016 Monday 18 May 2015 — 12 to 15 September — 3 to 6 October — 24 to 27 October — 21 to 24 November — 30 November and 1 December — 12 to 15 December Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 19 May 2015 at 12.00. Vote: Wednesday 20 May 2015 at 12.00 (minutes of 20.5.2015, item 10.2). 6. Composition of Parliament Following the death of Hans Jansen, in accordance with Rule 4(1), Parliament established the vacancy of his seat with effect from 6 May 2015. * * * The Finnish authorities had given notice of the election of Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner to replace Sampo Terho as Member of Parliament with effect from 27 April 2015. Under Rule 3(2), until such time as her credentials had been verified or a ruling had been given on any dispute, and provided that she had previously made a written declaration stating that she did not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner would take her seat in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto. 7. Verification of credentials On a proposal from the JURI Committee, Parliament confirmed the mandate of Hannu Takkula with effect from 27 April 2015. 8. Composition of committees and delegations The President had received the following requests for appointments from the ECR and EFDD Groups: — Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: Tomasz Piotr Poręba to replace Ian Duncan — Delegation for relations with the United States: Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner to replace Sampo Terho — ECON Committee: Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner to replace Sampo Terho — Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee: Marco Zullo was no longer a member The appointments would be deemed ratified if there were no objections before the approval of these minutes. 16.6.2016 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union C 217/5 Monday 18 May 2015 9. Written declaration (Rule 136) The President informed Parliament that the following written declaration had been signed by a majority of Parliament's component Members: Written declaration 4/2015 on Establishing a European Year on Combating Violence against Women, submitted by the following Members: Marc Tarabella and 14 other Members. In accordance with Rule 136, this written declaration has been published in these minutes with the names of the signatories (minutes of 18.5.2015 annex 1). 10. Signature of acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 78) The President announced that on Wednesday, together with the President of the Council, he would sign the following acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure: — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on insolvency proceedings (recast) (00031/2015/LEX — C8-0129/2015 — 2012/0360(COD)) — Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directive 2006/70/EC (00030/2015/LEX — C8-0128/2015 — 2013/0025(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on information accompanying transfers of funds and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1781/2006 (00029/2015/LEX — C8-0127/2015 — 2013/0024(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulations (EC) No 850/98, (EC) No 2187/2005, (EC) No 1967/2006, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 254/2002, (EC) No 2347/2002 and (EC) No 1224/2009, and Regulations (EU) No 1379/2013 and (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the landing obligation, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1434/98 (00011/2015/LEX — C8-0126/2015 — 2013/0436(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1304/2013, as regards an additional initial pre financing amount paid to operational programmes supported by the Youth Employment Initiative (00019/2015/LEX — C8-0125/2015 — 2015/0026(COD)) 11. Delegated acts (Rule 105(6)) In accordance with Rule 105(6), the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs had informed the President of Parliament that no objections had been raised with regard to: Recommendation of the AGRI Committee to raise no objections to the Commission delegated regulation of 27 April 2015 amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (C(2015)02802 — 2015/2673(DEA)) (B8-0439/2015). If no objections to this recommendation are raised by a political group or at least 40 Members within 24 hours, it shall be deemed to have been approved. If this is not the case, it shall be put to the vote. The recommendation is available on Europarl for the duration of the current part-session. C 217/6 EN Off icial Jour nal of the European Union 16.6.2016 Monday 18 May 2015 12. Documents received The following documents had been received: 1) from the Council and Commission — Appointment of a Member of the Court of Auditors — Bettina Michelle Jakobsen (DK) (08487/2015 — C8-0122/2015 — 2015/0803(NLE)) referred to responsible: CONT — Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement between the European Union and the United Arab Emirates on the short stay visa waiver (07185/2015 — C8-0124/2015 — 2015/0062(NLE)) referred to responsible: LIBE opinion: AFET 2) from committees 2.1) reports — Report on the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (based on the Annual Report from the Council to the European Parliament on the Common Foreign and Security Policy) (2014/2220(INI)) — AFET Committee — Rapporteur: Arnaud Danjean (A8-0054/2015) — *** Recommendation on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the European Convention on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access (05651/2012 — C7-0069/2012 — 2010/0361(NLE)) — JURI Committee — Rapporteur: Pavel Svoboda (A8-0071/2015) — ***I Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts (COM(2013)0641 — C7-0301/2013 — 2013/0314(COD)) — ECON Committee — Rapporteur: Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (A8-0131/2015) — ***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the strength- ening of