Official Journal
of the European Union

ISSN 1725-2423

C 81E
Volume 47
31 March 2004

English edition

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Contents

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Wednesday 8 October 2003

(2004/C 81 E/01)

MINUTES

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

1. Resumption of session

2. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

3. Official welcome

4. Membership of Parliament

5. Documents received

6. Transfers of appropriations

7. Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions

8. Agenda

9. Official welcome

10. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

11. Full integration of cooperation with ACP states into the budget of the European Union (Commission statement)

12. Market regulations and competition rules for the liberal professions (Oral question with debate)

13. Preparation of the European Council (Brussels, 16/17 October 2003) (statement followed by debate)

14. Interinstitutional agreement on Better Law-Making — Simplifying and improving Community regulation (debate)

15. European space policy (debate)

16. EC Merger Regulation * (debate)

17. Tunnel safety ***I (debate)

18. Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries (debate)

19. Agenda for next sitting

20. Closure of sitting

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

Thursday 9 October 2003

(2004/C 81 E/02)

MINUTES

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

1. Opening of sitting

2. Written declarations (Rule 51)

3. Middle East (statement followed by debate)

4. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

5. Membership of Parliament

6. Membership of committees and delegations

7. Request for defence of parliamentary immunity

8. Documents received

9. Speed limitation devices of motor vehicles ***I (Rule 110a) (vote)

10. Regulation 2596/97 on drinking milk * (Rule 110a) (vote)

11. Accountancy data on agricultural holdings * (Rule 110a) (vote)

12. Safety of third countries aircraft using Community airports ***II (Rule 110a) (vote)

13. Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund (Rule 110a) (vote)

14. Draft Amending Budget 5/2003 (Rule 110a) (vote)

15. Tunnel safety ***I (Rule 110a) (vote)

16. Interinstitutional agreement on Better Law-Making (Rule 110a) (vote)

17. Simplifying and improving Community regulation (Rule 110a) (vote)

18. European space policy (Rule 110a) (vote)

19. EC Merger Regulation * (vote)

20. Transmission of personal data by airlines in the case of transatlantic flights (vote)

21. Difficulties encountered by European beekeeping (vote)

22. Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries (vote)

23. Explanations of vote

24. Corrections to votes

25. Referral to committees

26. Communication of common positions of the Council

27. Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting

28. Dates for next sittings

29. Adjournment of session

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

RESULTS OF VOTES

1. Speed limitation devices of motor vehicles ***I

2. Regulation (EC) No 2596/97 on drinking milk *

3. Accountancy data on agricultural holdings *

4. Safety of third countries aircraft using Community airports ***II

5. Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund

6. Amending Budget 5/2003

7. Tunnel safety ***I

8. Interinstitutional agreement on Better Law-Making

9. Simplifying and improving Community regulation

10. European space policy

11. EC Merger Regulation *

12. Transmission of personal data by airlines in the case of transatlantic flights

13. Difficulties encountered by European beekeeping

14. Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries

1. Costa report A5-0308/2003 — Resolution

2. Bodrato report A5-0294/2003 — Resolution

3. B5-0411/2003 — Transmission of personal data by airlines in the case of transatlantic flights — Resolution

4. B5-0410/2003 — Beekeeping — Amendment 3

5. Cunha report A5-0303/2003 — Paragraph 1

6. Cunha report A5-0303/2003 — Recital H, 2nd part

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive 92/24/EEC relating to speed limitation devices or similar speed limitation on-board systems of certain categories of motor vehicles (COM(2003) 350 — C5-0272/2003 — 2003/0122(COD))

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2596/97 extending the period provided for in Article 149(1) of the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden (COM(2003) 372 — C5-0324/2003 — 2003/0144(CNS))

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation No 79/65/EEC of the Council setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operations of agricultural holdings in the European Economic Community (COM(2003) 472 — C5-0437/2003 — 2003/0183(CNS))

European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on the safety of third countries aircraft using community airports (8478/1/2003 — C5-0278/2003 — 2002/0014(COD))

Position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 9 October 2003 with a view to the adoption of European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/…/EC on the safety of third-country aircraft using Community airports

ANNEX I

ANNEX II

European Parliament resolution on the proposals for decisions on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (COM(2003) 431 — C5-0323/2003 — 2003/0166 (ACI) and COM(2003) 529 — C5-0418/2003 — 2003/0206(ACI))

ANNEX I

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 9 OCTOBER 2003 on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (damage caused by the Prestige oil tanker, by the earthquake in Molise and Apulia, and by the eruption of Mount Etna)

ANNEX II

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 OCTOBER 2003 on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (fires in Portugal)

European Parliament resolution on the Draft Amending Budget No 5/2003 of the European Union for the financial year 2003, Section III — Commission (13014/2003 — C5-0449/2003 — 2003/2144(BUD) and 2003/2181(BUD))

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network (COM(2002) 769 — C5-0635/2002 — 2002/0309(COD))

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 9 October 2003 with a view to the adoption of European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/…/EC on minimum safety requirements for tunnels on the Trans-European Road Network

ANNEX I

MEASURES

ANNEX II

APPROVAL OF THE DESIGN, SAFETY DOCUMENTATION, COMMISSIONING OF A TUNNEL, MODIFICATIONS AND PERIODIC EXERCISES

ANNEX III

ROAD SIGNING FOR TUNNELS

European Parliament decision on the conclusion of the interinstitutional agreement on Better Law-Making between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission (2003/2131(ACI))

ANNEX

INTERINSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT ON BETTER LAW-MAKING

European Parliament resolution on European space policy — Green Paper (2003/2092(INI))

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation on the control of concentrations between undertakings: The EC Merger Regulation (COM(2002) 711 — C5-0005/2003 — 2002/0296(CNS))

European Parliament resolution on transfer of personal data by airlines in the case of transatlantic flights: state of negotiations with the USA

105

European Parliament resolution on the difficulties faced by the European beekeeping sector

107

European Parliament resolution on the Commission communication on an integrated framework for fisheries partnership agreements with third countries (COM(2002) 637 — 2003/2034(INI))

109

Key to symbols used

*	Consultation procedure
**	I Cooperation procedure: first reading
**	II Cooperation procedure: second reading
***	Assent procedure
***	I Codecision procedure: first reading
***	II Codecision procedure: second reading
***	III Codecision procedure: third reading

(The type of procedure is determined by the legal basis proposed by the Commission)

Information relating to voting time

Unless stated otherwise, the rapporteurs informed the Chair in writing, before the vote, of their position on the amendments.

Abbreviations used for Parliamentary Committees

AFET	Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy
BUDG	Committee on Budgets
CONT	Committee on Budgetary Control
LIBE	Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs
ECON	Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
JURI	Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market
ITRE	Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy
EMPL	Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
ENVI	Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy
AGRI	Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
PECH	Committee on Fisheries
RETT	Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism
CULT	Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport
DEVE	Committee on Development and Cooperation
AFCO	Committee on Constitutional Affairs
FEMM	Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities
PETI	Committee on Petitions

Abbreviations used for Political Groups

PPE-DE	Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats
PSE	Group of the Party of European Socialists
ELDR	Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party
Verts/ALE	Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
GUE/NGL	Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left
UEN	Union for a Europe of Nations Group
EDD	Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities
NI	Non-attached Members