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Brussels , 21/02/2014 For the current , more than dubious operations in advance of the scheduled for next Wednesday plenary vote on Tobacco Product Directive expresses Dr. Renate Sommer , MEP ( CDU) , as follows :
" Earlier this week there were in the groups in the European Parliament ( EP) discussions about the upcoming plenary vote on the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD ) . Since the compromise trialogue contains glaring errors to snuff, cigars, rolling tobacco and e- cigarette demand in addition to the ECR Group also deputies from other factions split votes (Split votes ) on the contentious issues . This was indeed trying to placate , but many apparently did see one that you should not work so sloppy and that it must be our democratic right , Split votes to be able to submit .
On Wednesday afternoon , I learned that the Conference of Presidents of the EP wanted to decide on Thursday whether Split Votes are allowed at all . This is a very unusual event , as there was in the past, several cases in which votes were submitted to the plenary of trialogue results split . Yesterday afternoon it was said , that is now to be suddenly tuned next Monday in the fractions above , in what order should be made to the plenary TPD , ie either the first splits and then compromise the trialogue (as usual ), or vice versa. Of course, know all insiders that in the reverse order of compromise trialogue would be adopted , whereby the splits would no longer get to vote, because many colleagues want the splits while eliminating the error in compromise ( and assume that the Council of Ministers and the Commission the would accept ), but they do not want to reject the compromise as a whole. A reverse order of voting would be very tricky .
Now the ECR Group wrote to the President of Parliament Martin Schulz that she calls the displacement of the entire TPD vote. This is due to the fact have that legal services of Parliament and Ministers of Articles 5 , 5a and 18a and Annex II "corrected" , thereby changing content in essential parts. As the legal services but may display only linguistic and technical corrections , they have exceeded their competence far and the ECR rightly demands , that the substantive amendments must first be submitted to all members and then matched by this .
No matter how one is content to compromise to tobacco, the operations appear highly questionable around this dossier . It is lifted and pushed , used an incorrect legal basis , procedures , and errors were to be accepted , if not used even consciously ignored substantive, not technically feasible and leading to legal uncertainty and error we tricked deputies. All this is dominated by the S & D Parliament rapporteur McAvan which are established to have close contacts with the pharmaceutical industry (which would benefit tremendously from the TPD , and in particular of Article 18 to the e - cigarette ) , by DG SANCO and the Council of Ministers , the Parliament , the used to enforce things that would cost at national level the head of the member governments .
EP President Schulz must act now . It will be interesting to which side he rolls over. "
