Minutes of the sitting of 21 May 2012
Date: 2012-07-27
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Parliament, parliamentary debate








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Monday 21 May 2012MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 21 MAY 2012
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Contents






1.

Resumption of the session









2.

Approval of the minutes of the previous sittings









3.

Composition of Parliament









4.

Statements by the President









5.

Announcement by the President









6.

Composition of committees and delegations









7.

Corrigendum (Rule 216)









8.

Signature of acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure









9.

Oral questions (submission)









10.

Petitions









11.

Lapsed written declarations









12.

Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions









13.

Order of business









14.

Internal market scoreboard (debate)









15.

Visa-free travel to Canada for all EU citizens and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (debate)









16.

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance









17.

European Union's internal security strategy (short presentation)









18.

An EU approach to criminal law (short presentation)









19.

A 2020 perspective for women in Turkey (short presentation)









20.

Strengthening the rights of vulnerable consumers (short presentation)









21.

Agenda of the next sitting









22.

Closure of the sitting



ATTENDANCE REGISTER

MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 21 MAY 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 sittings

Sonia Alfano had been present at the sitting of 9 May 2012, but her name was not on the attendance register.
Rareș-Lucian Niculescu had been present at the sitting of 10 May 2012, but his name was not on the attendance register.
The minutes of the sittings of 9 May 2012 and 10 May 2012 were approved.

3.   Composition of Parliament

Bairbre de Brún had submitted her resignation as a Member of the European Parliament with effect from 3 May 2012.
Pursuant to Rule 4(1), Parliament established the vacancy with effect from that date and informed the national authorities concerned.
The Romanian authorities had informed the European Parliament of the election of Minodora Cliveti to replace Rovana Plumb as an MEP.
Parliament noted this, with effect from 18 May 2012.
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, Minodora Cliveti would take her seat in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto.

4.   Statements by the President

The President made a statement about the bomb explosion in front of a school in Brindisi on 19 May and the earthquake which hit the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy on 20 May. He sent a message of solidarity on behalf of Parliament to the victims' families.

5.   Announcement by the President


Finalisation of Procedure 2012/0802 NLE - appointment of 7 Members on the Management Board of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

The President made the following announcement to Parliament.
‘By letter of 27 February 2012, the Council of the European Union consulted the European Parliament on a list of 14 candidates to fill 7 vacancies on the Management Board of EFSA. This referral was announced in plenary on 13 March 2012.
'In accordance with Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, the members of the Authority's Management Board shall be appointed by the Council, chosen from a list of candidates drawn up by the Commission and after having obtained the views of the European Parliament. Parliament has to make its views available to the Council within 3 months from referral, i.e. until 27 May 2012 (1).
'I would like to inform you that at its meeting of 19 April 2012 and on the basis of a recommendation from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Conference of Presidents endorsed the following six candidates (in alphabetical order) from the overall shortlist for the vacant posts in question:






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Valérie BADUEL










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Sue DAVIES










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Piergiuseppe FACELLI










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Jaana HUSU-KALLIO










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Radu ROATIȘ-CHEȚAN










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MrMichael WINTER




'In approving this list of candidates (Parliament endorses deliberately only six candidates, where as the number of vacancies to be filled is seven), the Conference of Presidents also noted that the responsible committee had expressed regret that no potential representative of small and medium-sized enterprises' interests had been put forward and that the shortlist presented only a restricted choice of candidates representing consumers and other interests in the food chain. It was further stressed that, in the interests of transparency, the publication of the Curricula Vitae of the successful candidates would be welcome.
'Following the above decision of the Conference of Presidents, I was informed that the Chair of the Management Board of EFSA, Ms Diána Bánáti, had resigned on 8 May 2012 in order to take up the position of “Executive and Scientific Director” at the “International Life Sciences Institute Europe” (ILSI Europe). In the light of this, the Coordinators of the Environment Committee asked me to convey to the Council and to the Commission their concern about this recent and potential future “revolving door” cases. It should therefore be stressed that, in relation to the ongoing appointments to the Management Board, the Council should avoid appointing candidates which are prone to potential conflicts of interest.
I will inform the Council and the Commission of the views of the European Parliament in writing. Those letters will conclude the consultation procedure.

6.   Composition of committees and delegations

At the request of the GUE/NGL Group, Parliament ratified the following appointment:
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly: Helmut Scholz to replace Mikael Gustafsson.

7.   Corrigendum (Rule 216)
The committee responsible had forwarded the following corrigendum to a text adopted by Parliament:
Corrigendum (P7_TA-PROV(2012)0068(COR01)) to Parliament's position of 13 March 2012 at first reading with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) No …/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions, acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and the creation of a European Certificate of Succession (P7_TA-PROV(2012)0068 - (COM(2009)0154 – C7-0236/2009 – 2009/0157(COD)) – JURI
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.

8.   Signature of acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure

The President announced that on Tuesday, together with the President of the Council, he would sign the following acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 74):






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Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 (00011/2012/LEX - C7-0121/2012 - 2010/0380(COD))










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Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products (00003/2012/LEX - C7-0120/2012 - 2009/0076(COD))










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Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the right to information in criminal proceedings (00078/2011/LEX - C7-0119/2012 - 2010/0215(COD))










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Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 as regards certain provisions relating to risk-sharing instruments for Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability (00015/2012/LEX - C7-0118/2012 - 2011/0283(COD))










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Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2009 opening an autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality beef (00006/2012/LEX - C7-0117/2012 - 2011/0169(COD)).





9.   Oral questions (submission)
The following oral questions had been submitted by Members (Rule 115):






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(O-000106/2012) by Pervenche Berès, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, to the Commission: Youth Opportunities Initiative (B7-0113/2012);










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(O-000107/2012) by Vital Moreira, Bernd Lange and Mário David, on behalf of the Committee on International Trade, to the Commission: Trade agreement between the EU on the one part and Colombia and Peru on the other part (2011/0249(NLE)) (B7-0114/2012);










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(O-000113/2012) by Rafał Trzaskowski, Andreas Schwab, Simon Busuttil, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Csaba Őry, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Romana Jordan, Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz and Małgorzata Handzlik, on behalf of the PPE Group, Evelyne Gebhardt, Olga Sehnalová and Marek Siwiec, on behalf of the S&D Group, Jürgen Creutzmann, Robert Rochefort, Renate Weber, Marielle de Sarnez, Marian Harkin and Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Heide Rühle, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group, to the Commission: Swiss quotas on the number of residence permits granted to nationals of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary (B7-0115/2012);










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(O-000115/2012) by Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, to the Commission: Swiss quotas on the number of residence permits granted to nationals of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary (B7-0116/2012).





10.   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):






 


4 May 2012
Jan Krusenbaum (No 0415/2012); Dusan Nonkovic (No 0416/2012); (name confidential) (No 0417/2012); Günter Dillikrath (No 0418/2012); (name confidential) (No 0419/2012); Olaf Specht (2 signatures) (No 0420/2012); Manfred Hammann (No 0421/2012); (name confidential) (No 0422/2012); Günter Dillikrath (No 0423/2012); (name confidential) (No 0424/2012); Frank Engelen (No 0425/2012); Botchev Konstantin Botchev (No 0426/2012); Luigi Avella (No 0427/2012); Cecilio Alonso de Miguel (No 0428/2012); Theodor Gheorghe Ionescu (No 0429/2012); Heikki Auvinen (No 0430/2012); Marisa Vecchione (No 0431/2012); Egbert Polski (No 0432/2012); Maria Mihali (No 0433/2012); Norman Hume (No 0434/2012); (name confidential) (No 0435/2012); Mark Walker (No 0436/2012); Raffaele di Florio (Assemblea permanente sulle arti della scena) (689 signatures) (No 0437/2012); Jan Shortt (No 0438/2012); Andrea Rutigliano (Committee against bird slaughter = Komitee gegen den Vogelmord) (No 0439/2012); Patrick Cottez (No 0440/2012); Christian Becam (No 0441/2012); Irena Pekárková (County Černá v Pošumaví) (2 signatures) (No 0442/2012); (name confidential) (No 0443/2012); Asociația Drepturi Civile (Asociația Drepturi Civile = Civil Rights Romania) (No 0444/2012).










 


15 May 2012
(name confidential) (223 signatures) (No 0445/2012); Mariusz Janik (No 0446/2012); Marlena Swientek (No 0447/2012); (name confidential) (No 0448/2012); Claudia Zube (No 0449/2012); Wojciech Pytel (No 0450/2012); Winfried Strobel (No 0451/2012); Dean Bauwens (No 0452/2012); Silvio ‘Yu’ Seiger (No 0453/2012); Alexander Gierth (No 0454/2012); Egemen Capa (No 0455/2012); (name confidential) (No 0456/2012); (name confidential) (No 0457/2012); Hugh Neill (No 0458/2012); Samuel Brandstetter (No 0459/2012); (name confidential) (No 0460/2012); Stefan Teubert (No 0461/2012); Philipp Albiez (No 0462/2012); Zahri Benaissa (No 0463/2012); Gert Winterwerber (No 0464/2012); (name confidential) (No 0465/2012); Stefan Wroblewski (No 0466/2012); Alexander Schröder (No 0467/2012); Roman Dudaryk (No 0468/2012); Cornelia Krömer B.A. (No 0469/2012); Dezső-Szalay László (No 0470/2012); Horváth Sándor (No 0471/2012); (name confidential) (No 0472/2012); (name confidential) (No 0473/2012); Katus Károly (Advocacy Movement of Service and Honor) (No 0474/2012); Kocsis Tamas (No 0475/2012); (name confidential) (No 0476/2012); Malgorzata Karolina Simon (No 0477/2012); Anna Polomski (No 0478/2012); (name confidential) (No 0479/2012); Heinz Gunter Wagner (No 0480/2012); Kamila Malik (No 0481/2012); Winfried Belz (45 signatures) (No 0482/2012); Fazekas Attila (No 0483/2012); Ralf Fuhrmann (No 0484/2012); Sylvia Gonsior (No 0485/2012); Waltraud Berger (No 0486/2012); (name confidential) (No 0487/2012); Pär-Anders Aronsson (No 0488/2012); Graziano Fantato (No 0489/2012); Ariane Sauzay-Frohns (No 0490/2012); Fabio Francioni (No 0491/2012); (name confidential) (No 0492/2012); João Pereira Reis (No 0493/2012); Pietro Piccolo (No 0494/2012); Ivan Vella (No 0495/2012); Nathalie Rose-Pizant (No 0496/2012); (name confidential) (No 0497/2012); Fotios Antonopoulos (No 0498/2012); Aleksandr Minin (No 0499/2012); Manish Sharma (No 0500/2012); Laura Carella (No 0501/2012); (name confidential) (No 0502/2012); Philippe Poppe (No 0503/2012); Danièle Favari (No 0504/2012); Bernard Arliaud (No 0505/2012); Varga József (No 0506/2012); (name confidential) (No 0507/2012); Carolina Ballester Hermán (No 0508/2012); Georgios P. Vlachos (Panellinios Syndesmos Technikon Etaireion - Association of Greek Contracting Companies) (2 signatures) (No 0509/2012); Jurgen Schade (No 0510/2012); Stylianos Gabrielidis (Kentriki Epitropi Politikon Prosfygon Ellados - Central Commitee of Greek Political Refugees) (No 0511/2012); Alexander Witsch (Modellpferdeversand N. Lerch) (No 0512/2012); Nayden Boyadzhiev (No 0513/2012); (name confidential) (No 0514/2012); Nikos Papaioannou (No 0515/2012); Friedbert Dieterle (No 0516/2012); Hans Schaefer (No 0517/2012); Alexander Klingler (No 0518/2012); Reinhold Barth (No 0519/2012); Irena Mischitsch (No 0520/2012); Tilman von Berlepsch (No 0521/2012); Göran Hagberg (No 0522/2012); Rudolf Schmitt (No 0523/2012); (name confidential) (No 0524/2012); (name confidential) (No 0525/2012); Helga Simpson (No 0526/2012); (name confidential) (No 0527/2012); Roland Moll (No 0528/2012); (name confidential) (No 0529/2012); (name confidential) (No 0530/2012); Marcela Alejandra Springmann geb. Aiello (No 0531/2012); Javier López Medrano (No 0532/2012); Isaac Ibáñez García (No 0533/2012); Dănuț Sivu (No 0534/2012); Alberto De La Peña Guillén (No 0535/2012); Silvia Beltrán Pallares (Plataforma Europea de los Consumidores y del Medio Ambiente) (No 0536/2012); Francisco Javier Del Carmen Lorente (No 0537/2012); Silvia Beltrán Pallares (Plataforma Europea de los Consumidores y del Medio Ambiente) (No 0538/2012); Silvia Beltrán Pallares (Plataforma Europea de los Consumidores y del Medio Ambiente) (No 0539/2012); Manfred Johann Danzer (No 0540/2012); María Angeles Blas Osorio (No 0541/2012); Traian Constantin Novac (No 0542/2012); Núria Estany Elias (No 0543/2012); Jonas Ramonas (11000 signatures) (No 0544/2012); Viorel Constantin Gheorghiu (No 0545/2012); Alexandra Rodica Radulescu (No 0546/2012); Vicente González Sarasúa (No 0547/2012); Plataforma de Afectados Caixanova (No 0548/2012); Alberto J. Revuelta (Abogacía Pro Bono - Comité René Cassin) (No 0549/2012); Silvia Beltrán Pallares (Plataforma Europea de los Consumidores y del Medio Ambiente) (No 0550/2012); Agustín Cuervo García (No 0551/2012); (name confidential) (No 0552/2012); (name confidential) (2 signatures) (No 0553/2012); (name confidential) (No 0554/2012); Juan López Uralde (No 0555/2012); Rafael Moral Escudero (No 0556/2012); (name confidential) (No 0557/2012); Paloma Pérez (No 0558/2012); (name confidential) (95 signatures) (No 0559/2012); Gerhard Jüttner (No 0560/2012); Artur Hirschmann (No 0561/2012); Sebastian Gunther (No 0562/2012); Athina Karagianni (No 0563/2012); Marianne van Eck (No 0564/2012); Karen Grewe (No 0565/2012); Fabian Knipper (No 0566/2012); Swen Dröge (No 0567/2012); Eberhard Uwe (No 0568/2012); (name confidential) (No 0569/2012); María Teresa Magnífico (No 0570/2012); Angelika Gajeck (No 0571/2012); Gredo Förster (No 0572/2012); (name confidential) (No 0573/2012); (name confidential) (No 0574/2012); (name confidential) (No 0575/2012); Nadja Lüders (No 0576/2012); Undine Steinhoff (Klasse 7b Regionalschule Garstedt Aussenstelle Falkenberg) (813 signatures) (No 0577/2012); Teresa Wojda (Obywatelski ruch oporu) (No 0578/2012); (name confidential) (No 0579/2012); (name confidential) (No 0580/2012); (name confidential) (No 0581/2012); Athanasia Nkara (No 0582/2012); Tsvetan Georgiev Rangelov (No 0583/2012); Violeta Pinalska (No 0584/2012); Katona Laszlo (No 0585/2012); (name confidential) (No 0586/2012); Baranyi Katalin (No 0587/2012); John Doe (No 0588/2012); Leif Lundgren (No 0589/2012); Elisa Morano (No 0590/2012); Janez Vuk (No 0591/2012); Benjamin Mouton (ICOMOS) (2 signatures) (No 0592/2012); Paolo Giovanni Lo Iacono (195 signatures) (No 0593/2012); (name confidential) (No 0594/2012); Cristiana Muscardini (Parlement Européen) (349 signatures) (No 0595/2012); Vasile Stan (No 0596/2012); Satu Maaria Rautio (No 0597/2012); Rosamaria Chimisso (No 0598/2012); Robert Scott (No 0599/2012); Lorenzo Croce (Ass. Italiana Difesa Animali ed Ambiente - AIDAA) (No 0600/2012); Lorenzo Croce (Ass. Italiana Difesa Animali ed Ambiente - AIDAA) (No 0601/2012); Guido Gatti (No 0602/2012); Cornelia Trentea (European Union Agency for fundamental rights = Agence des droits fondamentaux de l'Union eurpoéenne) (No 0603/2012); Mihaela Buculei (No 0604/2012); Mariella Cappai (No 0605/2012); Daniel McCarthy (No 0606/2012); (name confidential) (No 0607/2012); (name confidential) (No 0608/2012); Moreno Sgarallino (No 0609/2012); Cristina Di Marco (No 0610/2012); Chantal Evrard (No 0611/2012); Karin Ballantyne (No 0612/2012); Werner Pichler (No 0613/2012); Gianfranco de Zuccato (No 0614/2012); J Tanner (2 signatures) (No 0615/2012).





11.   Lapsed written declarations

In accordance with Rule 123(5), written declaration 0005/2012 had lapsed as it had not obtained the required number of signatures.

12.   Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions

The Commission communication on the action it had taken in response to the resolutions adopted by Parliament during the January part-session was available on the Séance en direct site.
The Commission communication on the action taken on the positions and resolutions adopted by Parliament at the February I and II 2012 part-sessions was available on the Séance en direct site.

13.   Order of business

The next item was the order of business.
The final draft agenda for the May II 2012 sittings (PE 483.922/PDOJ) had been distributed and a number of changes had been proposed (Rule 140):






 



Monday

No changes.










 



Tuesday and Thursday

With the agreement of the political groups, the debate on the report by Metin Kazak (A7-0157/2012) (point 110 of the FDA) would be moved from Tuesday evening to Thursday morning. It would be replaced by the debate on the trade agreement between the EU, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, which was to have taken place on Thursday (point 119 of the FDA).










 



Wednesday

No changes.
The following spoke: Astrid Lulling on drawing up the agenda, and Jean-Pierre Audy and Hannes Swoboda on the absence of the President of the European Council from the debate on preparations for the informal EU summit.




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The order of business was thus established.

14.   Internal market scoreboard (debate)
Report on the Internal Market Scoreboard [2011/2155(INI)] - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Rapporteur: Simon Busuttil (A7-0153/2012)
Simon Busuttil introduced the report.
The following spoke: Michel Barnier (Member of the Commission).
IN THE CHAIR: Anni PODIMATA

Vice-President

The following spoke: Andreas Schwab, on behalf of the PPE Group, António Fernando Correia de Campos, on behalf of the S&D Group, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Julie Girling, on behalf of the ECR Group, Jaroslav Paška, on behalf of the EFD Group, Mikael Gustafsson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Franz Obermayr, Non-attached Member, Raffaele Baldassarre, Barbara Weiler, Inês Cristina Zuber, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Angelika Werthmann, Andreas Schwab, Christel Schaldemose, Mitro Repo, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Sylvana Rapti and Malcolm Harbour.
The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Elena Băsescu, Andrew Henry William Brons and Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein.
The following spoke: Michel Barnier and Simon Busuttil.
The debate closed.
Vote: minutes of 22.5.2012, item 6.6.

15.   Visa-free travel to Canada for all EU citizens and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (debate)
Commission statement: Visa-free travel to Canada for all EU citizens and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Marian-Jean Marinescu, on behalf of the PPE Group, Ioan Enciu, on behalf of the S&D Group, and Antonyia Parvanova, on behalf of the ALDE Group.
IN THE CHAIR: László SURJÁN

Vice-President

The following spoke: David Campbell Bannerman, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Antonyia Parvanova and Ioan Enciu, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the EFD Group, Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Simon Busuttil, Silvia-Adriana Țicău, Jacek Włosowicz, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Andrey Kovatchev, Kriton Arsenis, Mariya Nedelcheva, Pavel Poc, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra and Sebastian Valentin Bodu.
The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Jaroslav Paška, Seán Kelly and Franz Obermayr.
The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström.
The debate closed.

16.   One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

In accordance with Rule 150, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:
Nikolaos Chountis, Vytautas Landsbergis, Derek Vaughan, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Nikos Chrysogelos, Slavi Binev, Seán Kelly, Maria Eleni Koppa, Theodoros Skylakakis, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Ricardo Cortés Lastra, Andrew Henry William Brons, Joseph Cuschieri, Alda Sousa, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Antigoni Papadopoulou and João Ferreira.

17.   European Union's internal security strategy (short presentation)
Report on the European Union's Internal Security Strategy [2010/2308(INI)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Rita Borsellino (A7-0143/2012)
Rita Borsellino made the presentation.
The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Jaroslav Paška and Elena Băsescu.
The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission).
The item closed.
Vote: minutes of 22.5.2012, item 6.2.

18.   An EU approach to criminal law (short presentation)
Report on an EU approach on criminal law [2010/2310(INI)] - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Rapporteur: Cornelis de Jong (A7-0144/2012)
Cornelis de Jong made the presentation.
IN THE CHAIR: Isabelle DURANT

Vice-President

The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Axel Voss, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Gerard Batten, Hubert Pirker and Jaroslav Paška.
The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission).
The item closed.
Vote: minutes of 22.5.2012, item 6.3.

19.   A 2020 perspective for women in Turkey (short presentation)
Report on a 2020 Perspective for Women in Turkey [2011/2066(INI)] - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Rapporteur: Emine Bozkurt (A7-0138/2012)
Emine Bozkurt made the presentation.
The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Elena Băsescu, Antigoni Papadopoulou, Ulrike Lunacek, Jaroslav Paška and Miroslav Mikolášik.
The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission).
The item closed.
Vote: minutes of 22.5.2012, item 6.7.

20.   Strengthening the rights of vulnerable consumers (short presentation)
Report on a strategy for strengthening the rights of vulnerable consumers [2011/2272(INI)] - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Rapporteur: María Irigoyen Pérez (A7-0155/2012)
María Irigoyen Pérez made the presentation.
The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Elena Băsescu, Olga Sehnalová, Miroslav Mikolášik and Jaroslav Paška.
The following spoke: John Dalli (Member of the Commission).
The item closed.
Vote: minutes of 22.5.2012, item 6.4.

21.   Agenda of the next sitting

The agenda of the next day's sitting had been established (‘Agenda’ PE 483.922/OJMA).

22.   Closure of the sitting

The sitting closed at 21.15.


Klaus Welle

Secretary-General



Martin Schulz

President





(1)  
Article 25
Management Board
1.   The Management Board shall be composed of 14 members appointed by the Council in consultation with the European Parliament from a list drawn up by the Commission which includes a number of candidates substantially higher than the number of members to be appointed, plus a representative of the Commission. Four of the members shall have their background in organisations representing consumers and other interests in the food chain.
The list drawn up by the Commission, accompanied by the relevant documentation, shall be forwarded to the European Parliament. As soon as possible and within three months of such communication, the European Parliament may make its views available for consideration by the Council, which will then appoint the Management Board.
The members of the Board shall be appointed in such a way as to secure the highest standards of competence, a broad range of relevant expertise and, consistent with these, the broadest possible geographic distribution within the Union.’


Monday 21 May 2012ATTENDANCE REGISTER
The following signed:
Agnew, Albertini, Albrecht, Alfano, Alfonsi, Allam, Alvaro, Alves, Andersdotter, Andreasen, Andrés Barea, Andrikienė, Angelilli, Arias Echeverría, Arsenis, Ashworth, Atkins, Auconie, Audy, Margrete Auken, Ayala Sender, Aylward, Ayuso, van Baalen, Bach, Badia i Cutchet, Bagó, Balčytis, Baldassarre, Balz, Balzani, Bartolozzi, Băsescu, Bastos, Batten, Bauer, Belder, Belet, Bélier, Bendtsen, Bennahmias, Bennion, Berès, Berman, Besset, Bilbao Barandica, Binev, Bisky, Bizzotto, Blinkevičiūtė, Bodu, Böge, Bokros, Borghezio, Borsellino, Boștinaru, Boulland, Bové, Bowles, Bozkurt, Bradbourn, Brantner, Bratkowski, Brepoels, Březina, Brons, Brzobohatá, Bufton, Bullmann, Busuttil, Bütikofer, Cabrnoch, Cadec, Callanan, van de Camp, Campbell Bannerman, Cancian, Capoulas Santos, Caronna, Cashman, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cercas, Češková, Chatzimarkakis, Chichester, Childers, Chountis, Christensen, Chrysogelos, Claeys, Clark, Cliveti, Cochet, Coelho, Cofferati, Collin-Langen, Colman, Correa Zamora, António Fernando Correia de Campos, Cortés Lastra, Costello, Cozzolino, Cramer, Crețu, Creutzmann, Crocetta, Cronberg, Cuschieri, Cutaș, Cymański, Frédéric Daerden, Dati, Daul, David, Davies, De Backer, De Castro, De Keyser, Delli, Delvaux, De Mita, de Sarnez, Désir, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dodds, Domenici, Donskis, Droutsas, Duff, Durant, Dušek, Ehrenhauser, Eickhout, Elles, Enciu, Engel, Engström, Eppink, Ernst, Ertug, Essayah, Estaràs Ferragut, Estrela, Evans, Fajmon, Fajon, Falbr, Farage, Färm, Feio, Ferber, Fernandes, Elisa Ferreira, João Ferreira, Fidanza, Fisas Ayxela, Flašíková Beňová, Flautre, Fleckenstein, Florenz, Fontana, Ford, Foster, Fox, Fraga Estévez, Gahler, Gál, Gallagher, Gallo, Gáll-Pelcz, Garcés Ramón, García Pérez, Gardiazábal Rubial, Gardini, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gebhardt, Geier, Gerbrandy, Geringer de Oedenberg, Giannakou, Giegold, Gierek, Girling, Glattfelder, Godmanis, Goebbels, Goerens, Gollnisch, Gomes, Göncz, de Grandes Pascual, Gräßle, Grech, Griesbeck, Griffin, Groote, Grosch, Grossetête, Grzyb, Gualtieri, Guerrero Salom, Guillaume, Gurmai, Gustafsson, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Haglund, Fiona Hall, Händel, Handzlik, Hankiss, Harbour, Harkin, Hartong, Hassi, Haug, Häusling, Hedh, Herczog, Herranz García, Hibner, Higgins, Nadja Hirsch, Hoang Ngoc, Hohlmeier, Hökmark, Honeyball, Hortefeux, Howitt, Danuta Maria Hübner, Hudghton, Hughes, Hyusmenova, Iacolino, Ibrisagic, Ilchev, Imbrasas, Iotova, Iovine, Irigoyen Pérez, Iturgaiz Angulo, Ivan, Ivanova, Jaakonsaari, Jadot, Jahr, Jazłowiecka, Jeggle, Jensen, Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Johansson, Joly, de Jong, Jordan, Jørgensen, Kacin, Kaczmarek, Kadenbach, Kalinowski, Kalniete, Kamall, Kamiński, Kammerevert, Karas, Kasoulides, Kazak, Kelam, Keller, Kelly, Kiil-Nielsen, Kirilov, Kirkhope, Klaß, Kleva, Klinz, Klute, Koch, Kohlíček, Kolarska-Bobińska, Koppa, Kósa, Köstinger, Kovatchev, Kowal, Kozlík, Kozłowski, Krahmer, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhn, Kukan, Lamassoure, Lambert, Lambsdorff, Landsbergis, Lange, Langen, La Via, Le Grip, Legutko, Lehne, Le Hyaric, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lepage, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, Liberadzki, Lichtenberger, Liese, Liotard, Lisek, Lochbihler, Lope Fontagné, López Aguilar, Lösing, Lövin, Ludford, Ludvigsson, Luhan, Łukacijewska, Lulling, Lunacek, Lyon, McAvan, McCarthy, McIntyre, McMillan-Scott, Macovei, Madlener, Malinov, Manders, Mănescu, Mann, Marcinkiewicz, Marinescu, David Martin, Hans-Peter Martin, Masip Hidalgo, Maštálka, Mathieu, Matias, Mato Adrover, Matula, Mauro, Mavronikolas, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mazej Kukovič, Mazzoni, Melo, Menéndez del Valle, Messerschmidt, Mészáros, Louis Michel, Migalski, Mikolášik, Milana, Millán Mon, Mirsky, Mitchell, Mölzer, Moreira, Morganti, Morin-Chartier, Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Mulder, Muñiz De Urquiza, Muscardini, Naranjo Escobar, Nattrass, Nedelcheva, Neuser, Neveďalová, Newton Dunn, Neynsky, Nicholson, Niebler, Nilsson, Nitras, Nuttall, Obermayr, Ojuland, Olbrycht, Olejniczak, Omarjee, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Oviir, Pack, Padar, Panayotov, Panzeri, Papadopoulou, Papanikolaou, Papastamkos, Parvanova, Pașcu, Paška, Paulsen, Perello Rodriguez, Peterle, Pieper, Pietikäinen, Piotrowski, Pirillo, Pirker, Pittella, Poc, Podimata, Ponga, Poręba, Posselt, Pöttering, Preda, Prendergast, Prodi, Protasiewicz, Provera, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rangel, Ransdorf, Rapkay, Rapti, Regner, Reimers, Repo, Reul, Riera Madurell, Ries, Rinaldi, Riquet, Roatta, Rochefort, Rodust, Rohde, Roithová, Romero López, Romeva i Rueda, Ronzulli, Rosbach, Rossi, Roth-Behrendt, Rouček, Rübig, Rubiks, Rühle, Šadurskis, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Salavrakos, Sánchez Presedo, Sanchez-Schmid, Sârbu, Sargentini, Sartori, Sarvamaa, Saryusz-Wolski, Sassoli, Saudargas, Savisaar-Toomast, Schaldemose, Schlyter, Olle Schmidt, Schnellhardt, Schnieber-Jastram, Scholz, Schöpflin, Martin Schulz, Werner Schulz, Schwab, Scicluna, Scottà, Scurria, Seeber, Sehnalová, Senyszyn, Serracchiani, Severin, Siekierski, Silvestris, Simon, Simpson, Sinclaire, Sippel, Siwiec, Skinner, Skrzydlewska, Skylakakis, Smith, Sógor, Sommer, Søndergaard, Sonik, Sosa Wagner, Sousa, Speroni, Stadler, Staes, Stassen, Šťastný, Stavrakakis, Steinruck, Stevenson, Stihler, van der Stoep, Stolojan, Dimitar Stoyanov, Strejček, Striffler, Sturdy, Surján, Susta, Svensson, Szájer, Szegedi, Szymański, Tabajdi, Takkula, Tănăsescu, Tarabella, Tarand, Tatarella, Tavares, Keith Taylor, Teixeira, Terho, Thein, Theocharous, Theurer, Thomsen, Thun und Hohenstein, Thyssen, Țicău, Toia, Tőkés, Tošenovský, Trautmann, Trematerra, Tremosa i Balcells, Triantaphyllides, Trüpel, Trzaskowski, Tsoukalas, Turunen, Tzavela, Uggias, Ulmer, Ulvskog, Urutchev, Uspaskich, Vadim Tudor, Vaidere, Vajgl, Vălean, Van Brempt, Vanhecke, Van Orden, Vaughan, Vergiat, Vergnaud, Verheyen, Vidal-Quadras, Vigenin, Vlasák, Vlasto, Voss, Wałęsa, Watson, Henri Weber, Manfred Weber, Renate Weber, Weidenholzer, Weiler, Werthmann, Westlund, Westphal, Wikström, Willmott, Wils, Hermann Winkler, Włosowicz, Wojciechowski, Wortmann-Kool, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Záborská, Zahradil, Zala, Zalba Bidegain, Zanicchi, Zanoni, Ždanoka, Zeller, Zemke, Zijlstra, Zimmer, Zuber, Zwiefka
Observers
Božinović, Grubišić, Jerković, Matušić, Plenković, Radoš, Vrbat, Vuljanić