4 July 2017
4 July 2017
On 4 July 2017, during its Plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament formally approved the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee’s Own Initiative Report on Covered Bonds (officially entitled “Towards a pan-European covered bonds framework”) as presented by the Rapporteur, Bernd Lucke MEP. The Report was approved with 543 votes in favour, 99 against and with 56 abstentions.
For full details on this matter, please refer to the European Parliament’s Press Release and to the speech given by European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis to open the Plenary session’s debate on the Report on 3 July 2017.
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