What Martin spoke about.

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Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (A9-0285/2023 - Malin Björk, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop)

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Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market (A9-0306/2023 - Samira Rafaela, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques)

Thank you for bringing Gaelic into this Chamber.

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Explanations of vote

The next item is the explanation of vote.

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Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans (debate)

The debate is over. The vote will take place on Wednesday 24 April 2024. Written declarations (Rule 171)

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Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans (debate)

The next item is the debate on the report by Tonino Picula, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Karlo Ressler, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans (COM(2023)0692 – C9-0408/2023 – 2023/0397(COD)) (A9-0085/2024).

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

The debate is over. The vote will take place on Wednesday 24 April 2024.

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

Thank you for the kind words, Commissioner.

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

The next item is the joint debate on: – the report by Herbert Dorfmann, on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material in the Union, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/2031, 2017/625 and 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 2002/53/EC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC, 2002/57/EC, 2008/72/EC and 2008/90/EC (Regulation on plant reproductive material) (COM(2023)0414 – C9-0236/2023 –2023/0227(COD)) (A9-0149/2024), and – the report by Herbert Dorfmann, on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on the production and marketing of forest reproductive material, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/2031 and (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 1999/105/EC (Forest reproductive material Regulation) (COM(2023)0415 – C9-0237/2023 –2023/0228(COD)) (A9-0142/2024). Of course, I would like to start by asking the rapporteur, Herbert Dorfmann, to present this report.

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EU-Egypt strategic and comprehensive partnership and agreements with key third countries (debate)

The debate is over.

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EU-Egypt strategic and comprehensive partnership and agreements with key third countries (debate)

Thank you, Vice-President, in the name of this House, for the really great cooperation over the duration of this parliamentary term, and we look forward to the future.

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EU-Egypt strategic and comprehensive partnership and agreements with key third countries (debate)

The next item is the Council and Commission statement on the EU-Egypt strategic and comprehensive partnership and agreements with key third countries (2024/2706(RSP)).

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Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

The debate is over. The vote will take place on Wednesday 24 April 2024. Written declarations (Rule 171)

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Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

I would very much like to greet the visitor group from Slovakia and I hope you like it.

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Women make up the overwhelming majority of the victims of the crime of intimate partner abuse and of serious threats, rape and sexual violence. Every week, we read about horrific stories of women being abused or murdered by someone close to them, but some politicians still refuse to accept the term ‘gender-based violence’. We have to stop excusing these crimes, we have to stop pretending they don’t exist. We have to not only condemn them, but we have to address them, prevent them, and punish those who perpetrate them. This legislation is not ideal, but it is a significant step forward for countries that have not ratified, sadly, the Istanbul Convention, like my own Slovakia. We will need to properly collect data – which is currently lacking – to create effective policies. We need trained police officers, prosecutors, judges and we need to increase victims’ trust in law enforcement and authorities because experts estimate that only one tenth of the victims report sexual violence. Dear women, please accept my apology that this law is so belated. But I promise that many men and I are with you in this fight. We will do our utmost to strengthen the fight against the gender-based violence, because we owe it to all the victims of violence across the European Union. We are with you.

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

The debate is over. The vote will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 23. 4. 2024. (The sitting adjourned at 11.39)

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Attempts to dismantle Rule of Law and media freedom in Slovakia (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister Fico is dismantling the rule of law in Slovakia. And it is so intense that the question arises as to when the leadership of Slovakia from the EU will declare itself in the hands of Putin and Russia. Within a few months, he was able to dismantle the 20-year-old special prosecutor's office that his government had set up. And the recovery plan included a special prosecutor's office as a guarantee to protect European money, and Fico's government pledged to adhere to the recovery plan. Today, therefore, Slovakia risks losing billions of euros to Fico's breaches of the recovery plan. The prime minister also wants to abolish public television and radio and replace them with state propaganda. The government is attacking the largest commercial TV channel, Markíza. Just yesterday, there were attacks on her journalist. We see efforts to introduce the Putin labeling of NGOs as foreign agents. Fico's amendment to the Criminal Code is blocked by the Constitutional Court, but without this happening, the rule of law in Slovakia is slowly in ruins. And the icing on the cake is the chief adviser to Prime Minister Erik Kaliňák, who goes to Russian pseudo-media, including Voice of Europe, which Czech counterintelligence has described as Putin's tool for influencing the European elections, and the candidate for this parliament. The Commissioner, colleagues, comes to a clear conclusion. Fico is destroying the rule of law in synergy with undermining Ukraine for the sole reason of spreading the red carpet to Putin in Europe. If we do not stop it together, it may be too late after the European elections.

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

The next item is the joint debate on: – the report by Jerzy Buzek, on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the internal markets for renewable and natural gases and for hydrogen (recast) (COM(2021)0804 - C9-0470/2021 - 2021/0424(COD)) ((A9-0032/2023), – the report by Jens Geier, on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning common rules for the internal markets in renewable and natural gases and in hydrogen (COM(2021)0803 – C9‐0468/2021 – 2021/0425(COD)) (A9-0035/2023), – the report by Nicolás González Casares, on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2019/943, Directive (EU) 2019/942, Directive (EU) 2018/2001 and Regulation (EU) 2019/944 to improve the EU’s electricity market design (COM(2023)0148 – C9-0049/2023 – 2023/0077A(COD)) (A9-0255/2023), and – the report by Nicolás González Casares, on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001 and (EU) 2019/944 as regards improving the Union’s electricity market design (COM(2023)0148 - C9-0038/2024 - 2023/0077B(COD)) (A9-0151/2024).

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Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Directive) (A9-0138/2024 - Martin Hojsík) (vote)

Madam President, colleagues, three years ago, this House, overwhelmingly – with 86 % of you – called for this, called for legislative framework for soil, because indeed, European soil is in peril. Normally, in a handful of live soil, you find more living creatures than there are people on this planet. Yet our souls are dying, and today we can do the first important step; we can actually find out properly what’s going on. We can take this information and give it to farmers and foresters around Europe so they actually can act. No, we’re not putting new obligations on them. No, we’re not asking for new bureaucracy. We are giving them tools and help in this hour of need. So I hope that you will be able to support this report. And I would really like to thank all the shadow rapporteurs both in ENVI and AGRI, also the rapporteur AGRI and all the staff that worked on it hard because I think it’s now finally time that Europe shall protect its precious soil.

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Order of business

Madam President, this House called for a soil health law with respect of subsidiarity and this is what we have on the table now. It was a very broad majority that asked for it and I hope that a very broad majority will support it. This is indeed law that doesn’t impose additional duty. It actually helps farmers by providing them more information on the state of their soils. It is a really important tool that’s making sure that we have a fair market, that we have fair conditions for our farmers, and actually they get the help that we need – and it’s important that this House votes on it.

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Approval of the minutes of the sitting

The minutes of this sitting will be submitted to Parliament for approval on Wednesday 13. 3. 2024 after the vote.

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Agenda of the next sitting

The agenda has been published and is available on the European Parliament’s website.

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Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive) (A9-0056/2024 - Cyrus Engerer, Andrus Ansip)

This agenda item is closed.

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Explanations of vote

The next item is the explanation of vote.

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Compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) 816/2006 (debate)

The debate is over. The vote will take place on Wednesday 13. 3. 2024.

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Compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) 816/2006 (debate)

The next item is the debate on the report by Adrián Vámquez Lázara, on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs, on the proposal for a regulation on compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 (COM(2023)0224- C9-0151/2023 - 2023/0129(COD)) (A9-0042/2024).