Activities of Joseph MUSCAT
Plenary speeches (53)
VAT on insurance and financial services (debate)
VAT on insurance and financial services (debate)
Organ donation and transplantation: Policy actions at EU level (debate)
Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child (debate)
Explanations of vote
The European Interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (debate)
Explanations of vote
Equality between women and men in the EU (debate)
Improving the method for consulting Parliament in procedures relating to enlargement of the euro area – Adoption by Cyprus of the single currency on 1 January 2008 – Adoption by Malta of the single currency on 1 January 2008 (debate)
Roaming on public mobile networks (debate)
Explanations of vote
Further convergence in supervisory practices at EU level (debate)
Future of Professional Football in Europe - Security at Football Matches (debate)
The integration of new Member States in the CAP (debate)
Illegal bird hunting in Malta (debate)
Prudential assessment of acquisitions and increase of shareholdings (debate)
Increase in energy prices (debate)
Explanations of vote
Waste - Waste recycling (debate)
Explanations of vote
The placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles (debate)
Services in the internal market (debate)
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Passenger car related taxes (debate)
Consolidation in financial services (vote)
Consolidation in financial services Mergers and acquisitions (M[amp]A) developments around Europe's stock exchanges (debate)
Measures to promote tourism (debate)
Discharges for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2004 (debate)
Elections in Belarus (debate)
The refugee camps in Malta (debate)
Belarus – the political situation after the elections (debate)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Belarus in the run-up to the presidential elections on 19 March (debate)
Services (continuation of the debate)
Market access to port services
Common system of VAT - VAT refunds - VAT applied to highly labour-intensive services
Council Question Time
Social dimension of globalisation
Belarus
European Union general budget for 2006
The political situation in Belarus: student protests and the independence of the media
2004 Annual Report – ECB; Communication strategy on the euro
Money laundering
Explanations of vote
Health workers detained in Libya
Question Time (Council)
State aid in the form of public service compensation
Question Time (Council)
Question Time (Commission)
ECB 2003 annual report
Situation in Belarus
Reports (2)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a Council directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax, as regards the treatment of insurance and financial services PDF (230 KB) DOC (303 KB)
REPORT Report on Towards further consolidation in financial services industry PDF (171 KB) DOC (109 KB)
Opinions (4)
OPINION Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on roaming on public mobile networks within the Community and amending Directive 2002/21/EC on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services
OPINION European Commission: Final annual accounts of the European Communities - Financial year 2004 - Volume I - Consolidated reports on implementation of the budget and consolidated financial statements
OPINION 2006 Budget: Section III - Commission
OPINION on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering, including terrorist financing
Amendments (3)
Amendment 20 #
2007/2261(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the EU institutions have no legal obligation to recognise the specificity of sport when they apply the provisions of the Treaty, and that, as a consequence, the very notion of specificity remains vulnerable to the fluctuating decisions of the courts;
Amendment 24 #
2007/2261(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, in particular Meca- Medina1, have seriously undermined the status of sporting rules that are designed to ensure fair play and open competition; 1 Case C-519/04 P, Meca-Medina and Majcen v. Commission, [2006] ECR I-6991.
Amendment 25 #
2007/2261(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Asks the Commission and the Member States to consider how Article 149 of the EC Treaty, as amended by the Lisbon Treaty, could contribute to a clearer and more consistent recognition of the specificity of sport, which would be endorsed by the Court of Justice;