What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Rule 158 – paragraph 1

Amendment: 1. At the beginning of each part-session, Parliament shall adopt its agenda. A committee, a political group or at least one tenth of the Members may propose one amendment to the final draft agenda in response to events or political developments, which arose after the adoption of the final draft agenda. Any such amendments must be received by the President at least one hour before the opening of the part-session. The President may give the floor to the mover and to one speaker against, and in each case for not more than one minute.

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Rule 160 a (new)

Amendment: Rule 160a / Debates on specific matters of interest to the European Union - Parliament’s statements / 1. Parliament may place debates on specific matters of interest to the European Union on the agenda, in accordance with Rules 157 and 158. / 2. Rule 132(2) to (8) concerning the tabling and voting of motions for resolutions shall apply mutatis mutandis.

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Rule 163 – paragraph 1

Amendment: 1. A request to decide urgently on a proposal submitted to Parliament pursuant to Rule 48(1) as a result of unforeseen developments may be made to Parliament by the President, a committee, a political group, Members reaching at least the low threshold, the Commission or the Council. Such requests shall be made in writing and supported by reasons. For requests made by the Commission or the Council, the statement of reasons shall contain a detailed justification of each proposal and, where appropriate, a precise indication of legally required deadlines for the adoption or entry into force of the proposed legally binding act.

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Rule 163 – paragraph 2

Amendment: 2. Requests for an urgent decision shall be announced in Parliament as soon as possible after they are received by the President. The vote on the request shall be taken at the beginning of the sitting following that during which the announcement was made, provided that the proposal to which the request relates has been distributed to Members in the official languages. Where there are several requests for an urgent decision on the same subject, the approval or rejection of the request for an urgent decision shall apply to all such requests.

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Rule 163 – paragraph 3

Amendment: 3. Before the vote on the request for an urgent decision, only the mover, and one speaker against may be heard, along with the Chair or rapporteur of the committee responsible, or both. None of those speakers may speak for more than three minutes.

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Rule 163 – paragraph 4

Amendment: 4. Where the request for an urgent decision is approved, the item shall be given priority over other items on the agenda. The President shall determine the time of the debate, where one is appropriate, and the time of the vote.

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Rule 163 – paragraph 5

Amendment: 5. Parliament shall take the urgent decision on the proposal on the basis of a report from the committee responsible in accordance with the usually applicable rules and with due consideration of the urgency of the matter. In such a case, the examination of the proposal shall be given priority over other items on the committee agenda and the committee responsible shall, where expedient, apply the simplified procedure pursuant to Rule 52. / (deleted)

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Rule 163 – paragraph 5 a (new)

Amendment: 5a. If requested by the President, a committee, a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold, Parliament may exceptionally decide to take the urgent decision on the proposal without a report or on the basis of an oral report by the committee responsible. In such cases, if interinstitutional negotiations take place, Rules 70 and 71 shall not apply and Rule 74 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

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Rule 167 – paragraph 4

Amendment: 4. During missions away from the usual places of work, interpretation shall be provided from and into the languages of those members who have confirmed that they will attend the meeting. These arrangements shall be determined on the basis of the Code of Conduct on multilingualism and may exceptionally be made more flexible. The Bureau shall adopt the necessary provisions.

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Rule 171 – title

Amendment: Allocation of speaking time

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Rule 171 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

Amendment: 3. Speakers whose interventions are foreseen on the list of speakers shall speak from the central rostrum, unless the President decides otherwise when appropriate. Speakers with disabilities may speak from their places if they prefer.

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Rule 171 – paragraph 4

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Rule 171 – paragraph 5 – point c

Amendment: (c) the Members who do not belong to a political group shall be allocated an overall speaking time based on the fractions allocated to each political group under point (b), in proportion to the total number of non-attached Members up to the number of Members provided for in Rule 33(2);

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Rule 171 – paragraph 7

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Rule 171 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Amendment: 8a. As a general rule, Members shall be present for the debate in which they are scheduled to speak or in which they wish to speak.

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Rule 171 – paragraph 9

Amendment: 9. The President may give the floor to Members who indicate, by raising a blue card or by using the electronic system, their wish to put to another Member, during that Member’s speech, a question of no longer than half a minute’s duration related to what that Member has said. The President shall only do so if the speaker agrees to the question and if the President is satisfied that this will lead neither to disruption of the debate nor, through the putting of successive questions by raising a blue card, to a gross imbalance in the political group affinities of Members speaking in that debate. The Member raising the blue card and the speaker shall not be from the same political group, and they shall not both be non-attached Members. Subject to the conditions set out in the second sentence, applied mutatis mutandis, the President may allow the Member who has asked such a question to react to the speaker’s answer for no longer than half a minute. The speaker may then follow up on that reaction.

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Rule 207 – paragraph -1 (new)

Amendment: -1. Members or a political group or groups reaching at least the high threshold may, at any time, request the Conference of Presidents to propose to Parliament the setting up of a special committee.

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Rule 207 – paragraph -1 a (new)

Amendment: -1a. Before taking a decision on such a request, the Conference of Presidents may seek a recommendation by the Conference of Committee Chairs.

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Rule 207 a (new)

Amendment: Rule 207a / Temporary legislative committees / 1. When it results from the procedure in Rule 48 or Rule 54 that a matter falls within the competence of more than three committees, without the competence of any committee prevailing, the Conference of Presidents may as a last resort, on the basis of a recommendation by the Conference of Committee Chairs, propose to Parliament the setting up of a temporary legislative committee to deal with a specific proposal for a legally binding act or a pre-legislative strategic document. The recommendation by the Conference of Committee Chairs shall indicate the committees responsible for scrutiny of the implementation of the legislation. / 2. The numerical strength of a temporary legislative committee shall be decided by Parliament, based on a proposal by the Conference of Presidents. Its term of office shall run from the date of its constitutive meeting until the adoption of the legally binding act, without prejudice to the need for scrutiny activities. In the case of a pre-legislative strategic document, its term of office shall run from the date of its constitutive meeting until the adoption of the report in plenary. / Members of a temporary legislative committee shall be appointed by the political groups and the non-attached Members, in principle drawing from the members of the committees involved. The Conference of Presidents shall decide whether one or more rapporteurs are to be appointed at the same time that the proposal is made to…

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Rule 208 – paragraph 10

Amendment: 10. Requests for documents and for witnesses to provide testimony, in accordance with Decision 95/167/EC, Euratom, ECSC shall be formally made by the President at the request of the committee of inquiry. Rule 123a shall apply in case of a refusal of a request for documents or for a witness to provide testimony without sufficient justification. / Committees of inquiry may, in accordance with Decision 95/167/EC Euratom, ECSC and with these Rules of Procedure: / – organise fact-finding missions to Member States; / – request documents and expert reports; / – invite witnesses; / – hear officials and other servants of the Union or of Member States; / – request national authorities for assistance in the course of its investigations; / – request the parliaments of the Member State concerned to cooperate in the investigation. / The President may invite the witnesses to testify under oath. No one shall be obliged to testify under oath, but formal note shall be taken where a witness declines to testify under oath.