19.10.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 316 E/1 Monday 2 July 2012 IV (Notices) NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2012-2013 SESSION Sittings of 2 to 5 July 2012 STRASBOURG MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 2 JULY 2012 (2012/C 316 E/01) Contents Page 1. Resumption of the session . 2 2. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting . 2 3. Statement by the President . 3 4. Request for the waiver of parliamentary immunity . 3 5. Request for the defence of parliamentary immunity . 3 6. Corrigendum (Rule 216) . 3 7. Interpretation of the Rules of Procedure . 3 8. Composition of committees and delegations . 4 9. Signature of acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure . 4 10. Lapsed written declarations . 5 11. Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions . 5 12. Oral questions and written declarations (submission) . 5 13. Petitions . 5 C 316 E/2 EN Official Journal of the European Union 19.10.2012 Monday 2 July 2012 Contents (continued) Page 14. Transfers of appropriations . 6 15. Documents received . 6 16. Order of business . 10 17. Single European railway area ***II (debate) . 11 18. Recording equipment in road transport ***I (debate) . 11 19. Customs enforcement of intellectual property rights ***I (debate) . 12 20. Implementation of EU water legislation (debate) . 12 21. Composition of Parliament . 13 22. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance . 14 23. Strategy for the protection and welfare of animals (short presentation) . 14 24. eCall: a new 112 service for citizens (short presentation) . 14 25. Attractiveness of investing in Europe (short presentation) . 14 26. Trade aspects of the Eastern partnership (short presentation) . 15 27. Evolution of EU macro-regional strategies: present practice and future prospects, especially in the Mediterranean (short presentation) . 15 28. Agenda of the next sitting . 15 29. Closure of the sitting . 15 ATTENDANCE REGISTER . 16 MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 2 JULY 2012 IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ President 1. Resumption of the session The sitting opened at 17.00. 2. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting The minutes of the previous sitting were approved. The following spoke: Sonia Alfano, to state that she had been absent from the previous part-session, having received an invitation from the United Nations in her capacity as Chair of Parliament's Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering. 19.10.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 316 E/3 Monday 2 July 2012 3. Statement by the President The President made a statement on the recent deposition of President Fernando Lugo and expressed Parliament's concern at the situation. He noted that Parliament would look into the possibility of sending a delegation to Paraguay. 4. Request for the waiver of parliamentary immunity The Austrian authorities had sent Parliament a request for the waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Martin Ehrenhauser in legal proceedings in progress before the Public Prosecutor's Office of Vienna. Pursuant to Rule 6(2), the request had been referred to the committee responsible, the JURI Committee. 5. Request for the defence of parliamentary immunity Clemente Mastella presented his request for the defence of his immunity and privileges in legal proceedings in progress at the Court of Benevento. Under Rule 6(3), the request had been referred to the committee responsible, the JURI Committee. 6. Corrigendum (Rule 216) The committee responsible had forwarded the following corrigendum to a text adopted by Parliament: Corrigendum (P7_TA-PROV(2012)0106(COR01)) to the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 29 March 2012 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) No …/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (P7_TA-PROV(2012)0106 – COM(2010)0484 – C7-0265/2010 – 2010/0250(COD)) ECON Pursuant to Rule 216(4), this corrigendum would be deemed approved unless, within 24 hours, a request was made by a political group or at least 40 Members that it be put to the vote. The corrigendum was available on the Séance en direct site. 7. Interpretation of the Rules of Procedure The President informed the House, under Rule 211(3), of the following interpretation of Rule 156(1), second paragraph, provided by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, which had been consulted on the application of that provision: 'Amendments may be signed electronically as part of a pilot project involving a limited number of parliamentary committees, on condition, first, that the committees participating in the project have given their agreement and, second, that appropriate measures have been put in place to ensure the authenticity of the signatures.' If this interpretation was not contested by a political group or by at least 40 Members (Rule 211(4)) before the opening of the following day's sitting, on Tuesday, 3 July, it would be deemed to have been adopted. Otherwise, the matter would be put to the vote in Parliament. C 316 E/4 EN Official Journal of the European Union 19.10.2012 Monday 2 July 2012 8. Composition of committees and delegations The President had received the following requests for appointments from the GUE/NGL and Verts/ALE Groups: ENVI Committee: Martina Anderson Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee: Martina Anderson AFET Committee: Karim Zéribi ECON Committee: Jean-Paul Besset REGI Committee: Jean-Jacob Bicep to replace Jean-Paul Besset Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: Jean-Jacob Bicep to replace José Bové Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean: Karim Zéribi Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union: Karim Zéribi. The appointments would be deemed ratified if there were no objections before the approval of these minutes. 9. Signature of acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure 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 (Rule 74): — Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, amending and subsequently repealing Council Directive 96/82/EC (00022/2012/LEX - C7-0168/2012 - 2010/0377(COD)) — Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (recast) (00002/2012/LEX - C7-0167/2012 - 2008/0241(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the export and import of hazardous chemicals (Recast) (00012/2012/LEX - C7-0166/2012 - 2011/0105(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (00008/2012/LEX - C7-0165/2012 - 2010/0250(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the issuance of euro coins (00023/2012/LEX - C7-0164/2012 - 2011/0131(COD)) — Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession (00014/2012/LEX - C7- 0163/2012 - 2009/0157(COD)) — Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on amendments to the Agreement Establishing the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) extending the geographic scope of EBRD operations to the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (00024/2012/LEX - C7-0162/2012 - 2011/0442(COD)). 19.10.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 316 E/5 Monday 2 July 2012 10. Lapsed written declarations In accordance with Rule 123(5), written declarations 0006/2012, 0008/2012, 0009/2012, 0012/2012, 0013/2012, 0014/2012, 0015/2012 had lapsed as they had not obtained the required number of signa­ tures. 11. Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions The Commission communication on the action taken on the positions and resolutions adopted by Parliament during the March I and II 2012 part-sessions was available on the Séance en direct site. 12. Oral questions and written declarations (submission) The following documents had been submitted by Members: 1) Questions for oral answer (Rule 115) — (O-000129/2012) by Vital Moreira, on behalf of the INTA Committee, and Elmar Brok, on behalf of the AFET Committee, to the Commission: EC-Israel Agreement - Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (CAA); Additional Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (B7-0119/2012); — (O-000127/2012) by Gabriel Mato Adrover, on behalf of the PECH Committee, to the Commission: Threat posed by chartering to flag state responsibilities under the CITES Convention (B7-0120/2012). 2) written declarations for inclusion in the register (Rule 123) — Elena Băsescu, Chris Davies, Andrey Kovatchev, Isabella Lövin and Kristian Vigenin, on the protection of dolphins in the Black Sea (0023/2012); — Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, on the protection of the historical, economic, productive and cultural heritage of sheep tracks in the Mediterranean (0024/2012). 13. Petitions The following petitions, which had been entered in the register on the dates shown below, had been forwarded to the committee responsible under Rule 201(6): 29 June 2012 Raphael Murswieck (No 0723/2012); Herwig Dittrich (No 0724/2012); Monika Kleckner