Commission statement: Commission Work Programme 2020 ()
Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Jan Olbrycht, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, Dacian Cioloş, on behalf of the Renew Group, Ska Keller, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Nicolaus Fest and Jérôme Rivière, on standards of conduct in plenary (the President gave explanations), Harald Vilimsky, on behalf of the ID Group, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, on behalf of the ECR Group, Manon Aubry, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, non-attached Member, Angelika Niebler, Simona Bonafè, Malik Azmani, Heather Anderson, Jérôme Rivière, Peter Lundgren (the President gave explanations), Malin Björk, John David Edward Tennant, Dolors Montserrat, Miriam Dalli, Iskra Mihaylova, Petra De Sutter, Mara Bizzotto, Hermann Tertsch, Márton Gyöngyösi, who also replied to a blue-card question by Andreas Schwab, Nuno Melo, Heléne Fritzon, Valerie Hayer, who also replied to a blue-card question by Maria Grapini, Sven Giegold, Guido Reil, Ruža Tomašić, Ivan Štefanec, Eric Andrieu, Dita Charanzová, Karima Delli, Gianantonio Da Re, Beata Kempa, Sunčana Glavak, Tonino Picula, Luis Garicano, Tineke Strik, Nicolaus Fest (the President gave explanations), Alexandr Vondra and Bernd Lange.
IN THE CHAIR: Pedro SILVA PEREIRA Vice-President
The following spoke: Vlad-Marius Botoş, Robert Roos, Pedro Marques and Paul Tang.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Maria Grapini, Traian Băsescu, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Tudor Ciuhodaru, Domènec Ruiz Devesa, Margarida Marques, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Leszek Miller, Mónica Silvana González, Marek Belka, Sandra Pereira, Mick Wallace and Robert Hajšel.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič.
The following spoke: Nuno Melo (the President gave explanations).
The debate closed.
3.EU response to devastation following floods in Spain (debate)
Commission statement: EU response to devastation following floods in Spain ()
Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Dolors Montserrat, on behalf of the PPE Group, Cristina Maestre Martín De Almagro, on behalf of the S&D Group, Susana Solís Pérez, on behalf of the Renew Group, Diana Riba i Giner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marco Dreosto, on behalf of the ID Group, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Antoni Comín i Oliveres, non-attached Member, Esteban González Pons, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero and Jiří Pospíšil.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Alicia Homs Ginel, Ellie Chowns and Mazaly Aguilar.
The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič.
The debate closed.
(The sitting was suspended briefly)
IN THE CHAIR: Dita CHARANZOVÁ Vice-President
4.Resumption of the sitting
The sitting resumed at 11.45.
The following spoke: Angel Dzhambazki, Sophia in 't Veld and Sergey Lagodinsky (the President responded to the points made in the interventions), Isabel Wiseler-Lima and Brian Monteith.
5.Voting time
Detailed voting results (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the Results of Votes annex to the minutes.
The results of roll-call votes are available as an annex to the minutes and can be accessed via Ϸվ's website.
5.1.Ϸվ's calendar of part-sessions – 2021 (vote)
Ϸվ's calendar of part-sessions – 2021 (): see proposal of the Conference of Presidents (minutes of 16.1.2020, item 11)
(Simple majority needed for the adoption of amendments)
Adopted as amended
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)
The calendar of part-sessions of the European Ϸվ for 2021 was therefore established as follows:
- from 18 to 21 January
- from 8 to 11 February
- from 8 to 11 March
- les 24 et 25 March
- from 26 to 29 April
- from 17 to 20 May
- from 7 to 10 June
- 23 and 24 June
- from 5 to 8 July
- from 13 to 16 September
- from 4 to 7 October
- from 18 to 21 October
- 10 and 11 November
- from 22 to 25 November
- from 13 to 16 December
5.2.Ϸվ's calendar of part-sessions – 2022 (vote)
Ϸվ's calendar of part-sessions – 2022 (): see proposal from the Conference of Presidents (minutes of 16.1.2020, item 11)
Adopted
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)
The calendar of part-sessions of the European Ϸվ for 2022 was therefore established as follows:
- from 17 to 20 January
- from 14 to 17 February
- from 7 to 10 March
- 23 and 24 March
- from 4 to 7 April
- from 2 to 5 May
- 18 and 19 May
- from 6 to 9 June
- 22 and 23 June
- from 4 to 7 July
- from 12 to 15 September
- from 3 to 6 October
- from 17 to 20 October
- 9 and 10 November
- from 21 to 24 November
- from 12 to 15 December
5.3.Verification of credentials (vote)
Report on the verification of credentials [] - Committee on Legal Affairs. Rapporteur: Lucy Nethsingha (A9-0015/2020)
5.4.Appointment of a member of the Single Resolution Board (vote)
Report on the proposal for the appointment of a member of the Single Resolution Board [N9-0005/2020[01] - C9-0009/2020- ] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Irene Tinagli (A9-0009/2020)
(Simple majority needed) (Vote by secret ballot (Rule 191(1)))
PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION: APPOINTMENT OF PEDRO MACHADO
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4) The list of Members voting is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 30.1.2020 annex 1)
The following had spoken:
Before the vote: Evelyn Regner.
5.5.Appointment of a member of the Single Resolution Board (vote)
Report on the proposal for the appointment of a member of the Single Resolution Board [N9-0005/2020[02] – C9-0010/2020 – ] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Irene Tinagli (A9-0011/2020)
(Simple majority needed) (Vote by secret ballot (Rule 191(1)))
PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION: APPOINTMENT OF JESÚS SAURINA
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 5) The list of Members voting is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 30.1.2020 annex 2)
5.6.Appointment of the Vice-Chair of the Single Resolution Board (vote)
Report on the proposal for the appointment of the Vice-Chair of the Single Resolution Board [N9-0006/2020 - C9-0011/2020- ] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Irene Tinagli (A9-0010/2020)
(Simple majority needed) (Vote by secret ballot (Rule 191(1)))
PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION: APPOINTMENT OF JAN DE CARPENTIER
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 6) The list of Members voting is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 30.1.2020 annex 3)
5.7.Appointment of the Executive Director of the European Banking Authority (EBA) (vote)
Report on the proposal for the appointment of the Executive Director of the European Banking Authority [N9-0003/2020 - C9-0006/2020- ] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Irene Tinagli (A9-0008/2020)
(Simple majority needed) (Vote by secret ballot (Rule 191(1)))
PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION: APPOINTMENT OF GERRY CROSS
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 7) The list of Members voting is annexed to these Minutes (minutes of 30.1.2020 annex 4)
5.8.Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures - titanium dioxide (vote)
Motion for a resolution tabled by Anna Zalewska, on behalf of the ECR Group, under Rule 111(3), on the Commission delegated regulation of 4 October 2019 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Ϸվ and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures and correcting that Regulation (C(2019)07227 – ) (B9-0071/2020)
(Majority of Ϸվ's component Members required)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
Rejected
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 8)
5.9.Common charger for mobile radio equipment (vote)
Motions for resolutions tabled under Rule 132(2) to wind up the debate:
—Andreas Schwab, Róża Thun und Hohenstein, Antonius Manders, Ivan Štefanec, Edina Tóth, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Tomislav Sokol and Maria da Graça Carvalho, on behalf of the PPE Group, on a common charger for mobile radio equipment () (B9-0070/2020);
—Christel Schaldemose and Alex Agius Saliba, on behalf of the S&D Group, on a common charger for mobile radio equipment () (B9-0072/2020);
—David Cormand, Petra De Sutter, Sven Giegold, Rasmus Andresen, Henrike Hahn, Philippe Lamberts, Ernest Urtasun, Anna Cavazzini, Molly Scott Cato, Kim Van Sparrentak and Pär Holmgren, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on a common charger for mobile radio equipment () (B9-0074/2020);
—Liesje Schreinemacher, Dita Charanzová, Vlad-Marius Botoş, Andrus Ansip, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Ivars Ijabs, Morten Løkkegaard, Pierre Karleskind, Claudia Gamon and Karen Melchior, on behalf of the Renew Group, on a common charger as provided for in Article 3(3)(a) of the Radio Equipment Directive () (B9-0075/2020);
—Kateřina Konečná, Manuel Bompard, Martin Schirdewan, Anja Hazekamp, Alexis Georgoulis, João Ferreira, Pernando Barrena Arza, Stelios Kouloglou, Marisa Matias, José Gusmão, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Younous Omarjee, Marc Botenga, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Giorgos Georgiou, Niyazi Kizilyürek and Anne Sophie Pelletier, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on a common charger for mobile radio equipment () (B9-0076/2020);
—Adam Bielan and Evžen Tošenovský, on behalf of the ECR Group, on a common charger for mobile radio equipment () (B9-0085/2020).
—Andreas Schwab, Róża Thun und Hohenstein, Antonius Manders, Ivan Štefanec, Edina Tóth, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Tomislav Sokol, Maria da Graça Carvalho, Andrey Kovatchev and Kris Peeters, on behalf of the PPE Group;
—Christel Schaldemose and Alex Agius Saliba, on behalf of the S&D Group;
—Dita Charanzová and Liesje Schreinemacher, on behalf of the Renew Group;
—David Cormand, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group;
—Adam Bielan and Andżelika Anna Możdżanowska, on behalf of the ECR Group;
—Kateřina Konečná, Pernando Barrena Arza, Anja Hazekamp, Stelios Kouloglou, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Konstantinos Arvanitis and Petros Kokkalis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group.
Motions for resolutions tabled under Rule 132(2) to wind up the debate:
—Jadwiga Wiśniewska and Elżbieta Rafalska, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the gender pay gap () (B9-0069/2020);
—Frances Fitzgerald, on behalf of the PPE Group, Maria Noichl, Evelyn Regner, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Rovana Plumb, Pina Picierno, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Agnes Jongerius, Elisabetta Gualmini, Jackie Jones, Alessandra Moretti, Robert Biedroń and Monika Beňová, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sylvie Brunet, Stéphane Bijoux, Jane Brophy, Jordi Cañas, Barbara Ann Gibson, Naomi Long, Radka Maxová, Karen Melchior, Shaffaq Mohammed, Dragoş Pîslaru, Samira Rafaela, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Monica Semedo, Susana Solís Pérez, Irène Tolleret, Yana Toom, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne and Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, on behalf of the Renew Group, Ernest Urtasun, Alexandra Louise Rosenfield Phillips, Molly Scott Cato, Henrike Hahn, Sven Giegold, Katrin Langensiepen, Ciarán Cuffe, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Kim Van Sparrentak, Ville Niinistö, Anna Cavazzini, Francisco Guerreiro, Pär Holmgren, Alice Kuhnke, Heidi Hautala, Tilly Metz, Alexandra Geese, Mounir Satouri, Yannick Jadot, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield and Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the gender pay gap() (B9-0073/2020);
—Christine Anderson, France Jamet, Nicolaus Fest and Joachim Kuhs, on behalf of the ID Group, on the gender pay gap () (B9-0083/2020);
—Sandra Pereira, Anja Hazekamp, Manuel Bompard, Pernando Barrena Arza, Alexis Georgoulis, Leila Chaibi, Özlem Demirel, Marisa Matias, José Gusmão, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Stelios Kouloglou, Younous Omarjee, Marc Botenga, Manu Pineda, Sira Rego, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Giorgos Georgiou and Niyazi Kizilyürek, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the gender pay gap () (B9-0084/2020).
The President thanked the British Members for all their work in the European Ϸվ.
(The sitting was suspended briefly)
6.Resumption of the sitting
The sitting resumed at 12.13.
7.Composition of committees and delegations
The President had received from the Renew Group the following decision changing the composition of the committees and delegations:
CULT Committee: Vlad-Marius Botoş to replace Shaffaq Mohammed
The decision took effect as of that day.
8.Explanations of vote
Written explanations of vote:
Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 194 appear on the Members' pages on Ϸվ's website.
Oral explanations of vote:
(Voting time on Wednesday 29 January 2020)
Recommendation Guy Verhofstadt - A9-0004/2020 Michaela Šojdrová, Sheila Ritchie, Barbara Ann Gibson, Jane Brophy, Matthew Patten, Julie Ward, Belinda De Lucy, Claire Fox, Billy Kelleher, Antony Hook, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Rory Palmer, Łukasz Kohut, Samira Rafaela, Gilles Lebreton, Leszek Miller, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Irena Joveva, Henrik Overgaard Nielsen, Eugen Tomac, Radosław Sikorski, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Mick Wallace, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Veronika Vrecionová, Catherine Rowett, Robert Rowland, Jiří Pospíšil, Clare Daly, Frances Fitzgerald, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Jackie Jones, Bogdan Rzońca, Angel Dzhambazki and Brian Monteith
(Voting time on Thursday 30 January 2020)
Ϸվ's calendar of part-sessions – 2021 Jiří Pospíšil
Ϸվ's calendar of part-sessions – 2022 Jiří Pospíšil
Common charger for mobile radio equipment (RC-B9-0070/2020, B9-0070/2020, B9-0072/2020, B9-0074/2020, B9-0075/2020, B9-0076/2020 and B9-0085/2020) Michaela Šojdrová, Matthew Patten, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Billy Kelleher, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Veronika Vrecionová, Sunčana Glavak, Mick Wallace, Seán Kelly and Gianna Gancia
Gender pay gap (B9-0069/2020, B9-0073/2020, B9-0083/2020 and B9-0084/2020) Michaela Šojdrová, Elena Lizzi, Matthew Patten, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Leszek Miller, Julie Ward, Billy Kelleher, Antony Hook, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Manuel Bompard, Leila Chaibi, Guido Reil, Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Frances Fitzgerald, Marcel Kolaja, Jackie Jones, John Howarth and Claire Fox.
9.Corrections to votes and voting intentions
Corrections to votes and voting intentions appear on Ϸվ's website under 'Results of roll-call votes' as an annex to the minutes of the sitting.
The electronic version will be regularly updated for a period of two weeks following the last day of the part-session concerned.
After those two weeks, the list of corrections to votes and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.
10.Documents received
The following documents had been received from Members:
- Dominique Bilde. Motion for a resolution on the situation of Christians in Burkina Faso (B9-0033/2020)
referred to
responsible :
DEVE
opinion :
AFET
- Viktor Uspaskich. Motion for a resolution on the harmonisation of direct payments to farmers (B9-0034/2020)
referred to
responsible :
AGRI
11.Modified referrals to committees (Rule 56)
PETI Committee
- Turkey - Annual progress report 2019 () referred to committee responsible: AFET opinion: PETI
12.Transfers of appropriations and budgetary decisions
In accordance with Article 31(2) of the Financial Regulation, the Council of the European Union had notified the Budgetary Authority of the approval of transfer of appropriations DEC 27/2019 – Section III – Commission.
In accordance with Article 31(4) of the Financial Regulation, the Committee on Budgets had decided to approve transfer of appropriations DEC 27/2019 – Section III – Commission.
13.Approval of the minutes of the part-session and forwarding of texts adopted
In accordance with Rule 202(3), the minutes of the sitting and those of the previous day's sitting would be submitted for approval by Ϸվ at the start of the next sitting.
With Ϸվ's agreement, the texts adopted during the part-session would immediately be forwarded to the recipients named therein.
14.Dates of forthcoming sittings
The next sittings would be held from 10 February 2020 to 13 February 2020.