Link to the votes

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Link to the votes: 1. Motions for resolutions - Feasibility of introducing stability bonds (15.02.2012): http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/motions-for-resolutions-feasibility-of-introducing-stability-bondsmotion-for-a-resolution-vote-reso.html - Term 7 2. Internal market for services (11.09.2013): http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/internal-market-forservices-motion-for-resolution-vote-resolution-as-a-whole.html - Term 7 3. Green growth opportunities for SMEs (19.05.2015), Paragraph 34/2: “Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete or overly burdensome legislative proposals” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-green-growth-opportunities-for-smes-motion-for-resolutionparagraph-34-2.html - Term 8 4. European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2015 (11.03.2015), Amendment 3: “Emphasises that, in order to emerge stronger from the economic crisis, be more competitive and convergent, have higher levels of growth and ensure our welfare systems in the long term, Europe should promote quality public services, making full use of our workforce potential in order to ensure workers’ rights, and promote collective bargaining and universal public social security;” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-european-semester-for-economic-policycoordination-employment-and-social-aspects-in-the-annual-growt-11.html - Term 8 5. European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2015 (11.03.2015), Paragraph 29/2: “and calls for the adoption at Council level of an ambitious financial transaction tax” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-european-semester-foreconomic-policy-coordination-employment-and-social-aspects-in-the-annual-growt-3.html - Term 8 6. Monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro areas (12.03.2013): http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/monitoring-and-assessingdraft-budgetary-plans-and-ensuring-the-correction-of-excessive-deficit-of-t-2.html - Term 7 7. Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (08.07.2015): http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-negotiations-for-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investmentpartnership-ttip-motion-for-resolution-vote-.html - Term 8 8. Timing of auctions of greenhouse gas allowances (03.07.2013): http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/timingof-auctions-of-greenhouse-gas-allowances-draft-legislative-resolution-vote-amended-proposal-o.html Term 7 9. European energy security strategy (10.06.2015) Amendment 2: “Underlines the fact that nuclear energy entails high environmental and health risks, with no solution for waste; calls on Member States and the EU institutions to phase out subsidies and other public funding for the construction, operation and life extension of new and existing nuclear facilities, and for the final disposal of nuclear waste, and to ensure that nuclear undertakings are held fully responsible for the associated economic and environmental legacy risks;” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-european-energy-security-strategymotion-for-resolution-after-paragraph-44-amendment-2.html - Term 8 10. European energy security strategy (10.06.2015), Paragraph 32: “Stresses that a binding energy efficiency target would be the cost-efficient way to reduce Europe’s energy dependency while at the same time protecting industry and households from rising energy bills; recalls that Parliament adopted, in its resolutions of 5 February 2014(1) and 26 November 2014(2), three binding targets including an energy efficiency target of 40 %, a renewables target of at least 30 % and a GHG target of at least 40 %; deplores in this context the lack of ambition on energy efficiency shown by the European Council at its October

2014 summit, in setting a non-binding target of just 27 % with no individual targets for Member States;” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-european-energy-security-strategy-motion-for-resolutionparagraph-32.html - Term 8 11. European energy security strategy (10.06.2015), Amendment 6: “Asks the Member States, given the risks and negative consequences of hydraulic fracturing for public health, the climate and the environment, to refrain from any shale gas exploration and exploitation activities” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-european-energy-security-strategy-motion-for-resolution-afterparagraph-38-amendment-6.html - Term 8 12. Possibility for Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs in their territory (05.07.2011) amendment 41:” (a) those measures are based on (i) duly justified grounds relating to local or regional environmental impacts which might arise from the deliberate release or the placing on the market of GMOs and which are complementary to the environmental impacts examined during the scientific assessment of the impacts on the environment conducted under Part C of this Directive, or grounds relating to risk management. Those grounds may include: – the prevention of the development of pesticide resistance amongst weeds and pests; – the invasiveness or persistence of a GM variety, or the possibility of interbreeding with domestic cultivated or wild plants; – the prevention of negative impacts on the local environment caused by changes in agricultural practices linked to the cultivation of GMOs; – the maintenance and development of agricultural practices which offer a better potential to reconcile production with ecosystem sustainability; – the maintenance of local biodiversity, including certain habitats and ecosystems, or certain types of natural and landscape features; – the absence or lack of adequate data concerning the potential negative impacts of the release of GMOs on the local or regional environment of a Member State,including on biodiversity; (ii) grounds relating to socio-economicimpacts. Those grounds may include: – the impracticability or the high costs of coexistence measures or the impossibility of implementing coexistence measures due to specific geographical conditions such as small islands or mountain zones; – the need to protect the diversity of agricultural production; or – the need to ensure seed purity; (iii) other grounds that may include land use, town and country planning, or other legitimate factors;” http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/possibility-for-member-states-to-restrict-or-prohibit-the-cultivation-ofgmos-in-their-territory-dra-3.html - Term 7 13. Financing, management and monitoring of the CAP (20.11.2013): http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/financing-management-and-monitoring-of-the-cap-draft-legislativeresolution-vote-legislative-resolut.html - Term 7 14. Investment for jobs and growth: promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU (09.09.2015): http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-investment-for-jobs-and-growth-promotingeconomic-social-and-territorial-cohesion-in-the-eu-motion-f-18.html - Term 8 15. Migration and refugees in Europe (10.09.2015), Paragraph 5/2: “stresses that the free movement of people within the Schengen area has been one of the biggest achievements of European integration” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-migration-and-refugees-in-europe-joint-motion-for-resolutionparagraph-5-2.html#/ - Term 8

16. Council Decision establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy, Greece and Hungary (17.09.2015): http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-council-decisionestablishing-provisional-measures-in-the-area-of-international-protection-for-the-b-9.html - Term 8 17. European Agenda on Security (09.07.2015), Paragraph 35: “Reiterates its resolve to ensure accountability for massive violations of fundamental rights under the guise of the fight against terrorism, in particular in the context of the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners in European countries by the CIA, by means of open and transparent investigations; calls for protection to be given to those revealing such violations, such as journalists and whistleblowers;” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8european-agenda-on-security-motion-for-resolution-paragraph-35.html - Term 8 18. Strategic military situation in the Black Sea Basin following the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia (11.06.2015) Paragraph 16/3: “and the possibility of providing Ukraine with defensive arms should be considered” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-strategic-military-situation-in-the-black-sea-basinfollowing-the-illegal-annexation-of-crimea-by-ru-3.html - Term 8 19. Annual report from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to the European Parliament (20.03.2015), Paragraph 34/1: “Supports the sanctions adopted by the EU in reaction to the Russian aggression against Ukraine, and stresses that these are scalable and reversible, depending especially on the fulfilment of the Minsk agreements” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-annual-report-from-the-high-representative-of-the-europeanunion-for-foreign-affairs-and-security-po-5.html 20. Financing the Common Security and Defence Policy (21.05.2015): http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-financing-the-common-security-and-defence-policy-motion-forresolution-vote-resolution.html - Term 8 21. Financing for development (19.05.2015): http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-financing-fordevelopment-motion-for-resolution-vote-resolution.html - Term 8 22. Progress on equality between women and men in the EU in 2013 (10.03.2013), Paragraph 45/1 and 45/2: “Maintains that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive health and rights, not least by having ready access to contraception and abortion; supports, accordingly, measures and actions to improve women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and inform them more fully about their rights and the services available; calls on the Member States and the Commission to implement measures and actions to make men aware of their responsibilities for sexual and reproductive matters” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-progress-on-equality-between-women-and-men-in-the-eu-in2013-motion-for-resolution-paragraph-45-1.html#/##vote-tabs-list-1 - Term 8 23. Situation of fundamental rights in the EU (2013-2014) (08.09.2015), Paragraph 85: “Considers that LGBTI people's fundamental rights are more likely to be safeguarded if they have access to legal institutions such as cohabitation, registered partnership or marriage; welcomes the fact that 19 Member States currently offer these options, and calls on other Member States to consider doing so; reiterates, moreover, its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for an ambitious regulation to ensure mutual recognition of civil status documents (including legal gender recognition, marriages and registered partnerships) and their legal effects, in order to reduce discriminatory legal and administrative barriers for citizens who exercise their right to free movement” http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-situation-offundamental-rights-in-the-eu-2013-2014-motion-for-resolution-paragraph-85.html#/##vote-tabs-list-1 Term 8 24. Fight against homophobia in Europe (24.05.2012): http://term7.votewatch.eu/en/fight-againsthomophobia-in-europe-joint-motion-for-a-resolution-vote-resolution-as-a-whole.html - Term 7