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Karel De Gucht | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I have listened carefully to the numerous contributions. The Commission hopes that we will find a solution for these important financing instruments. However, we need to be able to fully implement external relations financial instruments. Proper implementation of our external actions should not be take... | null |
Charles Goerens | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I too would like to thank all the speakers who talked about financing instruments in general and about those relating to the report that I have submitted to you this morning in particular. I think that Mr Brok found the right words to express what we want. We do not want to be troublemakers, but neith... | null |
Barbara Lochbihler | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I believe that it has become very clear during the debate why we in Parliament want these delegated acts. We do not want micro-management, but we do need to be able to use this instrument in a responsible and well-informed way, so that we can, if necessary, correct what has gone wrong. If we talk abou... | null |
Kinga Gál | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I thank my fellow Members and the Commissioner for their opinions expressed in the debate, and naturally my fellow Members for their words supporting our decision. Mr Brok made it quite clear that we really want to make a distinction between executive and legislative duties. Our aim is not to mix thes... | null |
Gay Mitchell | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I understand I have some injury time for not being able to get in at the beginning of the debate. My apologies – I got held up in traffic. First of all, a British colleague has criticised the situation with regard to the importance of democracy and human rights. If democracy and human rights were funct... | null |
Nirj Deva | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I just wanted to ask my honourable colleague and friend, Mr Mitchell, whether he agrees with me that in 2005 Parliament gave up 14 areas of codecision on these financing instruments. What we are actually trying to do now is to get some restitution, because we not only lost our ability to look at what i... | null |
Gay Mitchell | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, I agree with Mr Deva that we gave up certain of our rights. I was the rapporteur on the Development and Cooperation Instrument. It took us two and a half years to agree that instrument because we simply would not give up on certain core rights of Parliament, but we did have to compromise towards the en... | null |
Helmut Scholz | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | Madam President, Mr De Gucht, you are absolutely right that the outside world does not understand why we cannot come to an agreement with the Council. The Council is not even present for this debate, which I very much regret, because that is not a good omen for the completion of the second reading. However, we must as... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | The joint debate is closed. The vote will take place today at 11.30. | null |
Ioan Enciu | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | The European financing instrument for promoting democracy and human rights is one of the EU’s only foreign policy instruments which still maintains a rigid system for allocating funds, due to the fact that it does not offer the opportunity for an exemption from the principle of ineligibility of costs relating to taxes... | null |
Zuzana Brzobohatá | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | The recommendation for a second reading on the establishment of a financing instrument for development cooperation, mentions the high level of agreement over the measures, and in principle adopts all of the amendments from the first reading. I personally consider it a priority to resolve the systemic issues relating t... | null |
Jiří Havel | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | One of the main aims of EU development policy is the reduction and definitive eradication of poverty, to which the proposed EUR 190 million Banana Accompanying Measures (BAM) for 2010-2013, approved by the Commission on 17 March 2010, should make a clear contribution. It is also true that in the past, plans in this ar... | null |
Anna Záborská | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006) - A financing instrument for development cooperation (amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006) - Establishment of a financing instrument for coo... | I understand the Commission’s demand for greater flexibility in the funding of politically sensitive projects aimed at supporting democracy and human rights. However, at the same time, I firmly believe that if this Parliament has to give the Commission a freer hand in financing such projects, it must retain its monito... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | (The next item is the report (A7-0229/2010) by Mr Florenz, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (recast) (COM(2008)0810 – C6-0472/2008 – 2008/0241(CO... | null |
Karl-Heinz Florenz | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Potočnik, firstly I would like to thank all the kind people in this House and in the Commission who have helped me during this phase. The process has not been exactly straightforward. The cooperation with the Commission was excellent and I would like once again to give my sincere thanks to the team... | null |
Janez Potočnik | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would also like first to thank Parliament, and in particular the rapporteur, Mr Florenz, and his team, the shadows and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, for their hard work. Their commitment and interest in this matter is reflected in the amendments that were adopted in... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, firstly I would like to thank Mr Florenz for his highly pragmatic approach to this subject and for his stamina. I would like to start with a question for Mr Potočnik. You say that we must deal with the Member States in accordance with their ability to collect waste. It is true that the motto of the Eu... | null |
Kathleen Van Brempt | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, on the eve of the energy summit and at a time when the Commission and Parliament are placing a great deal of emphasis on energy efficiency and good management of our raw materials, this is the kind of directive which should effectively translate those fine ideas into practice. That is Parliament’s amb... | null |
Vladko Todorov Panayotov | MEP | ALDE | en | bg | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Europe pays more than EUR 130 billion every year to import strategic metals to support its industry. This expense can be significantly reduced with the improved text of the European directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment, which we adopted by a large majority in the Committee on the Env... | null |
Michail Tremopoulos | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | el | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are trying in this endeavour to address the problem of the spiralling increase in waste electrical and electronic equipment, which is forecast to reach 12.3 million tonnes by 2020. The review of the directive is an excellent opportunity to put a stop to leaks of hazardous subs... | null |
Julie Girling | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would also like to express my thanks to all the shadow rapporteurs and the rapporteur for the work that has been done on this. The aims of the directive are clear, and my group is happy to support them in principle. WEEE is the fastest growing waste stream in Europe and we simply have to have an adeq... | null |
Sabine Wils | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the amount of waste equipment is increasing dramatically. Millions of tonnes of electric and electronic waste are produced in the EU every year and this represents a genuine hazard for people and the environment. I am pleased that the report by Mr Florenz recognises this problem and that we were able ... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the measure under examination contains some critical issues that can only be resolved if they are discussed again at second reading. In addition to unacceptable rules to the detriment of distributors and, down the supply chain, consumers, who will be obliged to recover old equipm... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, waste electrical and electronic equipment represents the fastest-growing waste stream in the European Union. It is a problem which exists at many levels, because on the one hand it concerns protecting the environment and human health, and on the other it is about the effective management of resources ... | null |
Linda McAvan | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to point out to the Commissioner that, where I live, if I want to recycle any of my electrical goods, I have got to take them to a local council site myself. There are about four or five in my city and they are only open at certain times. If I want to recycle cardboard, paper, plastics or... | null |
Chris Davies | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, [opening words lost as microphone switched off]…a recast directive but quite a few of us here worked on the original cast, and it is a good opportunity to close some of the loopholes and put in place the directive we always thought merited our attention. But because we want to ensure that we are proper... | null |
Oldřich Vlasák | MEP | ECR | en | cs | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is beyond doubt that this directive marks a step in the right direction, as it tries to change the quantitative collection targets, to establish rules for the cross-border transportation of electrical and electronic equipment, and to harmonise the administrative steps applying to mandatory subjects... | null |
Paul Nuttall | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, mobile phones, phone chargers, play stations, cameras, saunas, thermometers, refrigerators, freezers, toasters, kettles, microwaves, irons, air fresheners, clocks, watches, electric toothbrushes, DVD players, vacuum cleaners, children’s toys, video games, medical devices, televisions, remote controls, ... | null |
Chris Davies | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Nuttall tells us that the requirement to recycle electrical waste puts up the price of products. Can he then also tell us who – if not the producer – should pay for the disposal of those products? Why is he so against council taxpayers, ratepayers and local governments across Europe, in his own coun... | null |
Paul Nuttall | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I too enjoy my jousts with Mr Davies. It seems that we have these little jousts on every speech that I give. He knows as well as I do where the cost will lie – it will end up with the taxpayer having to fund this. At the moment, we are in the depths of a recession the like of which we have not seen sin... | null |
Karl-Heinz Florenz | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to address my fellow Member by name, but unfortunately I do not know who he is, because I have never come across him before in the debate on electronic waste. Perhaps I do not recognise you because you have a new haircut. However, what answer do you plan to give the citizens when it emerg... | null |
Paul Nuttall | MEP | ID | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, first of all I will repeat what I just said. We all know where the cost ends up – where it always does. It does not necessarily have to say it in the directive, because it never does. You never tell people that you are going to put up tax. You never tell people that you are going to hit them in the poc... | null |
Catherine Soullie | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, what I have to say has been said many times over by my fellow Members. At a time when Europe is considering a common strategy for its supply of raw materials and especially rare earths, we cannot overlook the huge potential that the intelligent recovery of our waste offers. Strengthening... | null |
Elisabetta Gardini | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with much of what I have heard. I think this is an important, fundamental directive, and so we will of course vote for it. I am also convinced, however, that we need more detail on certain aspects and I hope that will be possible at second reading. For example, I expect t... | null |
Sirpa Pietikäinen | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Commission has quite rightly produced both a resource efficiency agenda and a raw materials strategy, because raw materials and their use are becoming ever more limited, and at the same time their prices are rising. We know that a regrettably large proportion of electronic waste, and, in particula... | null |
Alajos Mészáros | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, my apologies for hesitating. I would like to thank Mr Florenz for his excellent professional work. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) belongs to the fastest growing waste stream in the EU. We must do all we can to ensure its proper recycling not only to be able to prevent damage to the e... | null |
Carl Schlyter | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | sv | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we really do live in a wasteful society if we regard this as waste. Much of this scrap contains higher levels of gold and silver than is contained in the ore in a gold or silver mine. It is not a question of the cost of dealing with this. It is a question of pure profit. It will reduce our dependence ... | null |
Alfreds Rubiks | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | lv | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am one of those people who largely support the adoption of this document. I also support the approach that seeks to define a target for separate collection that varies according to the period concerned. In Latvia, we currently collect only 25% of the electrical and electronic equipment available on ... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the amendment of the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment has gone through an extensive consultation process in the relevant European Parliament committees. The text drawn up by the Commission has gradually been modified through the amendment proposals of the MEPs, and the current co... | null |
Janez Potočnik | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, many honourable Members of this Parliament mentioned implementation, which is truly a problem. Unfortunately, it is not a problem in this area only, but a problem across the whole environmental spectrum. To be precise, I know my Treaty duty, and I intend to do it to the full. We are also preparing a co... | null |
Karl-Heinz Florenz | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Mr Potočnik, I support the final remarks that you made, in particular with regard to resource efficiency. However, over the next few months the focus of the entire decision-making process will be on you, because a common position will now have to be agreed on. You will have to negotiate with the Counc... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The joint debate is closed. The vote will take place today at 11:30. | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | CS) The collection of electrical and electronic waste is a very topical issue at present. It is therefore highly necessary to update the directive covering this area. In my opinion, some of the amendments that will be voted on in the introductory block represent a very poor way of combining Commission proposals with th... | null |
Pavel Poc | MEP | S&D | en | cs | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Waste electrical and electronic equipment is the fastest growing source of waste. It currently represents a significantly higher risk to the environment and public health than spent nuclear fuel. It was essential to revise the directive. A large amount of electronic waste is either not being processed in accordance wi... | null |
Jim Higgins | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I support today’s WEEE report, but we must ensure that we do not place overly-burdensome regulations on already struggling SMEs and retailers. We must ensure that the burden to take back WEEE rests with the manufactures, not the retailers. I welcome the proposal of stronger provisions which seek to prevent illegal ship... | null |
Rovana Plumb | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) represents the fastest-growing waste stream in the EU. The proper management of WEEE contributes to the re-use of some valuable resources, which has a particular impact on the environment, citizens’ health and the creation of green jobs. According to the Commission’s im... | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I believe that the proper disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is exceptionally important. Increasing the rate of separately collected waste is indispensable but it is important that the entire recycling process be monitored through appropriate documentation. Industry’s responsible attitude is ... | null |
János Áder | MEP | PPE | en | hu | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The current recast of the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment is not only immensely important from the aspect of environmental protection and public health, but also from the point of view of resource efficiency, so frequently mentioned nowadays. It is common knowledge that numerous illegal WEEE shi... | null |
Marian-Jean Marinescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The proposal for a directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment, in the form submitted by the Commission to the European Parliament, is unclear. This is why Member States can apply different interpretations to the types of equipment covered by this directive. Furthermore, the Commission will have to establis... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We now come to the explanations of vote. | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I abstained because, on 14 January, the European Council renewed the measures against Côte d’Ivoire, in view of the seriousness of the situation following the holding of the presidential elections late last year. I must say that these measures were adopted for people and entities that opposed the democra... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As you know, Mr Swoboda has a working group examining our proceedings in plenary and I will bring your point to his attention. I would also point out that you can always put an explanation of vote in writing if you wish. | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to raise a point of order. I have been asking to speak for about ten minutes. I would like it to be noted in the Minutes that during the last votes the Romanian politician behind me, Mr Becali, was not present for the voting, but this will be shown on the video recordings. Despite this his a... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | That is a very serious point that you are making and the Bureau will look into it. | null |
Alfredo Antoniozzi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, in order to go further along the road on which we set out in 2006, to make the European Union’s external assistance more effective and transparent, we could not fail to eliminate the inconsistencies that have emerged regarding exceptions to the principle of non-eligibility for Union financing of costs re... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to say that I think it is in the European Union’s interests to establish agreements of this sort using financing instruments for cooperation with industrialised countries. I also think that it needs to be pointed out how many countries are included in the Annex. I should therefore like it p... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I welcome the agreement reached in the lengthy and bitter legal dispute over the trade in bananas, which brings to an end the long-term state of uncertainty and instability in countries producing and trading in bananas. The agreement on trade in bananas will also have a significant impact on other develo... | null |
Hannu Takkula | MEP | ALDE | en | fi | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | (Beginning of speech missing) the banana war that almost become larger than life, that it is excellent that it has come to an end. It is quite true that we cannot allow universal rules on trade to be broken. It is absolutely right that the WTO has intervened and that we too in the European Parliament and the European ... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the trade dispute involving bananas has been one of the longest-running and perhaps the most difficult in the history of the WTO and it is a dispute where the European Union has been squarely and unequivocally in the wrong. Its policy has been to favour producers in some former colonies at the expense of ... | null |
Sergej Kozlík | MEP | ALDE | en | sk | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, when negotiating the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment in the European Parliament, a number changes were introduced which improve the directive. I voted in favour of the amended version of this important directive. The directive allows producers of electrical equipment to provide buy... | null |
Adam Bielan | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the dynamic development and technological progress of the countries of Europe is also, unfortunately, accompanied by less desirable consequences. The huge growth in electronic waste is the most visible example of this. We make systematic use of every possible kind of electronic appliance, and we replace ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I think you have broken new ground. That is the first time I have seen someone reading a speech from an iPad. | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, waste does not respect borders and that applies in particular to electronic and electrical waste. Therefore, it is essential that the provisions for waste disposal and recycling are harmonised across and within the Member States of the European Union and, most importantly, that the export of waste withou... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, waste electrical and electronic equipment is rapidly increasing in the European Union and the inefficient disposal and unprofessional collection of the waste represent a serious problem for the environment and human health, as well as a loss of raw materials and resources which are not in unlimited suppl... | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, we have voted and I have voted in favour of this initiative on electronic waste. We have talked here about collection, treatment, prohibition and illegality, but I should like it put on record in Parliament that what we should perhaps be reflecting on is something that has been the subject of studies for... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | ga | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, firstly may I congratulate my friend and colleague Karl-Heinz on this report. Everything he does is accurate and practical, and such is the case with this report. As has been said, we are living in an electronic age with newer and newer gadgets coming onto the market almost daily, and the shelf life of ... | null |
Giommaria Uggias | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we have adopted the resolution on waste in Campania, which should be a lesson to us all to prevent environmental disasters like this from happening. We can feel pleased with ourselves today, because in this plenary we have adopted a measure like this, which makes a culture of ... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am happy to support the ambitious report from Parliament, which sends a strong message to governments all over the EU. The report upholds the ‘polluter pays’ principle and it does so in a proportionate way. I am pleased with the ALDE amendment which exempts micro-enterprises – that is businesses employi... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, driving around the beautiful downlands and copses of my South East constituency, I have noticed little roadside cairns made up of white goods and other eliminated electrical items. Those little cairns are a visible monument to the law of unintended consequences. A directive intended to encourage recycling... | null |
Lena Ek | MEP | ALDE | en | sv | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am extremely disappointed in the way that the hands of the main representative of the common foreign policy, Baroness Ashton, have been tied in the negotiations with regard to the crisis in the Middle East. Standing side by side with those who are fighting for democracy and freedom should be a foregone... | null |
Salvatore Iacolino | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there can be no doubt that the uprising by the younger generations that is shaking Tunisia may have significant repercussions on the European Union itself. There are many good reasons for that, including the formulation of the new European Union-Tunisia Action Plan for the period 20... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to take the floor again as part of the explanations of vote, because yesterday I unfortunately did not have the opportunity to speak. I want to express my admiration for the people of Tunisia, who have swept away a dictatorship using peaceful means, and I hope that the transitional governmen... | null |
Adam Bielan | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, the recent events both in Tunisia and now in Egypt have caught the attention of the whole world. The demonstrations by the citizens of these countries against the ossified regimes which hold power have, however, brought hope for permanent political change. For the transformation which has begun in Tunisi... | null |
Bruno Gollnisch | MEP | NI | en | fr | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I myself was not a friend of either Mr Ben Ali or Mr Mubarak. I did not welcome them with a hug and an affectionate pat on the shoulder as President Sarkozy used to. I did not welcome their parties into the political federation to which I and my political colleagues belong, unlike the socialists – since ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | We do not think that Mr Ben Ali has ever been invited to the European Parliament. But, anyway, he will not come now – mercifully. | null |
Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | MEP | ALDE | en | es | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I believe that the situation in Tunisia has caught the European Union on the hop. All we have to do is look at the treatment given to Mr Ben Ali in recent months. I believe that, once again, we have arrived too late, because the European Union did not come out strongly in favour of the people of Tunisia,... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | As you know, the European Parliament is sending a delegation chaired by Mr Salafranca to Tunisia today and they will be reporting back next week. | null |
Ashley Fox | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, events in Tunisia serve as a warning to all undemocratic governments – not just in the Arab world but throughout the whole world. If they do not provide a mechanism in their constitution for people to express their discontent, then they face revolution and the violence that this entails. It is not for the... | null |
Licia Ronzulli | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have of course voted in favour of this resolution, because I believe all the Member States need to make a greater effort in the fight against endemic diseases. Back in 2000, the United Nations in New York included that objective in its Declaration on the Millennium Development Goa... | null |
Lucas Hartong | MEP | NI | en | nl | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, last September, Parliament refused to close the accounts of the European Police College because of serious mismanagement and structural problems. It was not expected that things would be put right until 2014. I do not have the impression that anything has improved at CEPOL in the meantime. Why, then, do ... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I like to think that I have always been a champion of my South East constituents. One of the ways in which I try and champion their interests – as taxpayers – is by preventing the squandering of the money they have worked for on useless, inefficient or corrupt EU agencies. That argument loses none of its ... | null |
Ashley Fox | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I voted against closing the accounts of the European Police College. I did so by way of a small protest against the way the EU handles taxpayers’ money. We waste far too much of it, and we waste too much on useless bodies like the European Police College. We do not need it. We should save the taxpayer som... | null |
Daniel Hannan | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, you have heard me many times in this Chamber fighting my lonely and gruelling war of attrition against the establishment of these new EU supervisory agencies in the field of financial services. My contention throughout has been that they were a solution to a non-existent problem. None of the people you ca... | null |
Ashley Fox | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I wish that we did not have a European Supervisory Authority, but we do. Given that we do, we should appoint the best people to lead them. What we saw earlier today was indeed a farce, where colleagues who had interviewed the individuals and deemed them to be competent nonetheless wanted to flex their mus... | null |
Seán Kelly | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, you very cleverly observed today that we had a Member reading a speech from an iPad for the first time. Then we had – hopefully for the first and last time – a Member allegedly voting while absent. Then we ourselves voted on the Supervisory Authority chairs. By voting against, we were actually voting in f... | null |
Luigi de Magistris | MEP | ALDE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the resolution on the waste crisis in Campania, which was adopted by a majority today, is a very important sign. The emergency in Campania has become a European emergency, and that is a decision in favour of the people of Campania. We are saying ‘no’ to the disbursement of funds tha... | null |
Peter Jahr | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Mr President, I hope that the citizens of Campania will see the resolution that we have adopted today as encouragement for them. Our aim was not to discredit or run down the region. We were also not intending to fight any domestic political battles. The European Union’s fair offer to Campania is as follows. If you dev... | null |
Sebastian Valentin Bodu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The unanimous vote on the request for waiver of the immunity of Hungarian MEP Tamás Deutsch highlights the benefit of the protection guaranteed at EU level to all members of the legislative. The reason for this, as emerged from the in-depth examination we carried out of the request submitted by the Hungarian judicial ... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Given that what is at stake is a Member of the European Parliament’s exercising of his political activity, as is recognised in the request submitted to the competent Hungarian judicial authorities, I voted in favour of the conclusions of this report, which recommends refusal to waive Mr Deutsch’s immunity. It is a cas... | null |
Nuno Melo | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Defending the independence of the mandate of Members of this House is the responsibility of Parliament, and that independence cannot be jeopardised. The Member is accused of defamation allegedly committed as a result of statements made about the accuser, a Hungarian citizen, in the course of a radio programme broadcas... | null |
Alexander Mirsky | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | All this mess surrounding the immunity of Tamás Deutsch MEP is just a method of political struggle. I am categorically against such methods which are used to settle accounts with political opponents. In the given case I voted against the waiver of the immunity of Thomas Deutsch. I think that a waiver of immunity should... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Last year Tamás Deutsch made some remarks during a radio programme which have led to him being charged under Hungarian law. The only thing he did was to express his opinion on facts which were in the public domain and which had been published in a newspaper. The comments were clearly made in his capacity as a Member o... | null |
Alfredo Pallone | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The waiver of an MEP’s immunity is always a sensitive issue to address, but in some cases requests for waivers should be analysed in the context of an MEP’s duties. I do not believe that a simple complaint, where the person is accused of making what are seen as defamatory public statements, is reason enough to request... | null |
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The European Parliament was asked to waive the parliamentary immunity of our fellow Member, Mr Deutsch, as a result of criminal proceedings in which he is accused of defamation under the Hungarian Criminal Code. The Committee on Legal Affairs has issued its opinion on the matter, with a report that decided not to waiv... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | At the sitting of 8 July 2010 the President announced, under Rule 6(2) of the Rules of Procedure, that he had received a letter sent by the Hungarian judicial authorities on 9 June 2010 requesting the waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Tamás Deutsch. The President referred the request to the Committee on Legal Aff... | null |
Luís Paulo Alves | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I agree that the position on delegated acts must be approved and reiterated at second reading. In view of the absence of any alternative proposal from the colegislator, and in view of the need to act quickly in the interests of the beneficiaries, I think that Parliament must confirm its first-reading position with reg... | null |
Marta Andreasen, David Campbell Bannerman, Derek Roland Clark and William | N/A | N/A | en | en | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The UK Independence Party feels that trade, not aid, is the best way to support developing countries’ economies. | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted in favour of the Regulation establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation. The objective of European Union development policy is to reduce, and ultimately, eradicate poverty. It supports the efforts of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to reduce poverty and ensure sustainable eco... | null |
Maria Da Graça Carvalho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I welcome the EU’s commitment to supporting the efforts of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to achieve sustainable economic and social development. By integrating a trade dimension into development strategies and by promoting international trade, the EU has made a significant contribution to reducing... | null |
Carlos Coelho | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2011-02-03T00:00:00 | 2011 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | By supporting this legislative recommendation for second reading, I want to guarantee that the legislative role that the Treaty of Lisbon has given the European Parliament is not devalued through the intransigence of the Council. The refusal of the Council to grant Parliament its proper role in implementing the financ... | null |
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