23.11.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 286/274

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MINUTES

(2006/C 286 E/04)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES

President

1.   Opening of sitting

The sitting opened at 10.05.

2.   Membership of political groups

Sylwester Chruszcz, Maciej Marian Giertych and Bernard Piotr Wojciechowski had left the IND/DEM Group with effect from 15.12.2005.

They would henceforth sit as non-attached Members.

3.   Documents received

The following documents had been received from the Council and Commission:

—	Council of the European Union: Amending letter No 1 to the draft general budget of the European Communities of the financial year 2006 (14862/2005 — C6-0413/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG

—	Council of the European Union: Amending Letter No 2 to the draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 2006 (14863/2005 — C6-0414/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG

—	Draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 2006, as amended and accompanied by proposals for modifications (14864/2005 — C6-0415/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG

—	Council of the European Union: Amending letter No 3 to the draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 2006 (15379/2005 — C6-0427/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG

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Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the Court of Auditors: annual accounts for the financial year 2004 of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th European Development Funds (COM(2005)0485 — C6-0430/2005 — 2005/2157(DEC)) referred to responsible: CONT   opinion: DEVE, BUDG

—	Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and Ukraine on certain aspects of air services (COM(2005)0368 — C6-0431/2005 — 2005/0155 (CNS)) referred to responsible: TRAN

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Proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the amendments to the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Agreement on cooperation in the sea fisheries sector between the European Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the period 1 August 2001 to 31 July 2006 (COM(2005)0591 — C6-0433/2005 — 2005/0229(CNS)) referred to responsible: PECH   opinion: DEVE, BUDG

—	Draft Council regulation imposing certain specific restrictive measures against certain persons suspected of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (15098/2005 — C6-0434/2005 — 2005/0234(CNS)) referred to responsible: LIBE   opinion: AFET, ECON

—	Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion by the European Community of the Energy Community Treaty (13886/2005 — C6-0435/2005 — 2005/0178(AVC)) referred to responsible: ITRE   opinion: AFET, ENVI

4.   Farming of bear bile in China (written declaration)

Written declaration 52/2005, submitted by David Martin, Neil Parish, Peter Skinner, Terence Wynn and Robert Evans on rising international concern over the farming of bear bile in China, had, by 15.12.2005, been signed by the majority of Parliament's component Members. Consequently, pursuant to Rule 116(4), it would be sent to its addressees and published, together with the names of the signatories, in the Texts Adopted of the sitting of 17.01.2006(P6_TA(2006)0008).

Neil Parish spoke.

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Bruno Gollnisch made a personal statement in response to remarks made during the explanations of vote on Tuesday by Edward McMillan-Scott, when he was in the Chair. Edward McMillan-Scott spoke in reply.

5.   Voting time

Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the ‘Results of votes’ annex to the Minutes.

5.1.   Mobilisation of the flexibility instrument (vote)

Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the flexibility instrument in favour of the European Union's external actions according to point 24 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 [COM(2005)0278 — C6-0211/2005 — 2005/2137(ACI)] — Committee on Budgets.

Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (A6-0395/2005)

(Qualified majority + 3/5 of votes cast)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 1)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0513)

5.2.   Rejection of the draft general budget (vote)

Motion for a resolution tabled under Article 6 of Annex IV to the Rules of Procedure by Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Gerard Batten, Godfrey Bloom, Jens-Peter Bonde, Graham Booth, Mario Borghezio, Martin Callanan, Sylwester Chruszcz, Derek Roland Clark, Paul Marie Coûteaux, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Nigel Farage, Maciej Marian Giertych, Daniel Hannan, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Roger Helmer, Georgios Karatzaferis, Roger Knapman, Urszula Krupa, Patrick Louis, Hans-Peter Martin, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Michael Henry Nattrass, Bogdan Pęk, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Bogusław Rogalski, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Matteo Salvini, Kathy Sinnott, Francesco Enrico Speroni, Jeffrey Titford, Witold Tomczak, Philippe de Villiers, John Whittaker, Thomas Wise, Bernard Piotr Wojciechowski, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski and Vladimír Železný, on total rejection of the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2006 (B6-0642/2005)

(Qualified majority + 2/3 of votes cast)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 2)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Rejected

5.3.   Draft general budget of the European Union — Financial year 2006, modified by the Council (vote)

Draft amendments to the draft general budget modified by the Council

(Qualified majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 3)

Giovanni Pittella (co-general rapporteur) pointed out that the following technical adjustments were to be made:

Firstly, following the imminent adoption of their legal bases, the appropriations voted against the following budget items should be released from the reserve and put onto the line whenever Parliament has an amendment and can make the modification. In other cases we invite the Commission to present the appropriate transfer request as soon as possible.

Budget lines concerned:

—	02 01 04 04

—	04 01 04 05

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04 05 01

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04 05 02

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04 05 03

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09 03 01

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11 07 01

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24 02 02

Secondly, the part of amendment 209 relating to line 19 08 02 01 is accepted for EUR 25 056 550. This will be covered by the vote on Block 1.

Parliament approved the technical corrections.

Valdis Dombrovskis (co-general rapporteur) made the following statement:

Due to a technical problem, remarks on Chapter 11 of the Court of Justice are missing from amendment 193. The remarks should read as follows:

A flat-rate reduction of 3,6 % has been applied to the appropriations in this chapter.

Establishment plan: creation of 5 new posts (4 B*3 et 1 C*1) for information technology and 16 posts for Romania and Bulgaria (10 A*7, 2 B*3 et 4 C*1).

Parliament approved the modification.

The amendments adopted are published in an annex to the ‘Texts Adopted’.

The following spoke:

—	Giovanni Pittella (rapporteur) on amendment 17.

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As the President-in-Office of the Council had not yet arrived, the budget could not be signed at that time. The President decided to continue with the vote (see Minutes of 15.12.2005, Item 5.8 for signature of the budget).

Martin Schulz spoke.

5.4.   Draft general budget 2006 (all sections) (vote)

Report on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2006, as modified by the Council (all sections) (14864/2005 — C6-0415/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) and Amending Letters

—	No 1/2005 (14862/2005 — C6-0413/2005)

—	No 2/2005 (14863/2005 — C6-0414/2005)

—	No 3/2005 (15379/2005 — C6-0427/2005)

to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2006

—	Section I, European Parliament

—	Section II, Council

—	Section III, Commission

—	Section IV, Court of Justice

—	Section V, Court of Auditors

—	Section VI, European Economic and Social Committee

—	Section VII, Committee of the Regions

—	Section VIII(A), European Ombudsman

—	Section VIII(B), European Data Protection Supervisor — Committee on Budgets.

Co-rapporteurs: Giovanni Pittella and Valdis Dombrovskis (A6-0396/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 4)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0514)

The following spoke:

—	Giovanni Pittella (co-general rapporteur), who moved an oral amendment to paragraph 6, which was incorporated.

5.5.   Fisheries control programmes * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2004/465/EC on a Community financial contribution towards Member States' fisheries control programmes [COM(2005)0328 — C6-0273/2005 — 2005/0136(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Paulo Casaca (A6-0339/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 5)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2005)0515)

5.6.   Charging of heavy goods vehicles ***II (vote)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures [9856/1/2005 — C6-0274/2005 — 2003/0175(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Corien Wortmann-Kool (A6-0377/2005)

(Qualified majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 6)

COMMON POSITION OF THE COUNCIL

Declared approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0516)

The following spoke:

—	Eva Lichtenberger, who requested that the second part of amendment 24, which the President declared to have fallen, be put to the vote, and Corien Wortmann-Kool (rapporteur), who confirmed that it had indeed fallen;

—	Luis de Grandes Pascual, on the conduct of the vote.

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The following spoke: Timothy Kirkhope, who first mentioned remarks made by the Presidency-in-Office of the Council the previous day, and then expressed his disappointment at the Council's absence during the budget vote that morning. Michael Cashman spoke in reply.

5.7.   Machinery ***II (vote)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on machinery and amending Directive 95/16/EC [5786/2/2005 — C6-0267/2005 — 2001/0004(COD)] — Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Rapporteur: Andreas Schwab (A6-0338/2005)

(Qualified majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 7)

COMMON POSITION OF THE COUNCIL

Declared approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0517)

5.8.   Draft general budget of the European Union — Financial year 2006, modified by the Council (signature)

As the President-in-Office of the Council had arrived, the President gave him the floor to make a brief statement.

Ivan Lewis (President-in-Office of the Council) made the following statement:

‘I am pleased to note that the agreement reached between our two institutions, following negotiations at the conciliation on 24 November 2005 and the trialogue on 30 November has now been included in the 2006 budget. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that some small differences remain between us concerning the classification of expenditure in the budget and that the Council reserves its rights entirely in this respect. However, I am pleased to confirm that the Council can accept the maximum rate of increase resulting from your second reading. (...) Let us hope this is good news in terms of the delicate negotiations that are taking place as we speak in relation to the financial perspective. That will be in the interests of the European Union and its relationship with the people of Europe.’

The President made a brief statement on the maximum rate of increase and the financial perspective.

The President of Parliament called on Ivan Lewis (President-in-Office of the Council), Dalia Grybauskaitė (Commissioner for the Budget), Janusz Lewandowski (Chairman of the BUDG Committee) and the co-general rapporteurs Giovanni Pittella and Valdis Dombrovskis to join him, and then, with the President-in- Office of the Council, proceeded to sign the budget.

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS ROCA

Vice-President

5.9.   Annual and consolidated accounts ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC concerning the annual accounts of certain types of companies and consolidated accounts [COM(2004)0725 — C6-0164/2004 — 2004/0250(COD)] — Committee on Legal Affairs.

Rapporteur: Klaus-Heiner Lehne (A6-0384/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 8)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0518)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0518)

5.10.   The rights of persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the rights of persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air [COM(2005)0047 — C6-0045/2005 — 2005/0007(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Robert Evans (A6-0317/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 9)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0519)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0519)

The following spoke:

Robert Evans (rapporteur), who welcomed the outcome of the vote.

5.11.   Measures for Sugar Protocol countries ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing accompanying measures for Sugar Protocol countries affected by the reform of the EU sugar regime [COM(2005) 0266 — C6-0210/2005 — 2005/0117(COD)] — Committee on Development.

Rapporteur: Bernard Lehideux (A6-0281/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 10)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0520)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0520)

The following spoke:

—	Bernard Lehideux (rapporteur), before the vote, who confirmed that amendment 9 had been withdrawn, requested that his name be removed from the report, and called on the members of the DEVE Committee to vote against.

5.12.   Protocol to the EEC-Seychelles fishing agreement * (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off Seychelles [COM(2005)0421 — C6-0321/2005 — 2005/0173(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Philippe Morillon (A6-0385/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 11)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0521)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0521)

5.13.   Common fisheries policy and the Law of the Sea * (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation establishing Community financial measures for the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and in the area of the Law of the Sea [COM(2005)0117 — C6-0131/2005 — 2005/0045(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Catherine Stihler (A6-0340/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 12)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2005)0522)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0522)

5.14.   Macrofinancial assistance to Georgia * (vote)

Proposal for a Council decision providing macro-financial assistance to Georgia [COM(2005)0571 — C6-0407/2005 — 2005/0224(CNS)] — Committee on International Trade.

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 13)

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Approved (P6_TA(2005)0523)

5.15.   Commission legislative and work programme for 2006 (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0636/2005, B6-0637/2005, B6-0638/2005, B6-0639/2005, B6-0640/2005 and B6-0641/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 14)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0636/2005/CORR

(replacing B6-0636/2005, B6-0638/2005 and B6-0641/2005):

tabled by the following Members:

—	Françoise Grossetête, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—	Silvana Koch-Mehrin, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—	Brian Crowley and Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the UEN Group.

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0524)

(Motions for resolutions B6-0637/2005, B6-0639/2005 and B6-0640/2005 fell.)

5.16.   Human rights and freedom of the press in Tunisia and evaluation of the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0646/2005, B6-0647/2005, B6-0648/2005, B6-0652/2005, B6-0655/2005 and B6-0669/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 15)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0646/2005

(replacing B6-0646/2005, B6-0647/2005, B6-0648/2005, B6-0652/2005, B6-0655/2005 and B6-0669/2005):

tabled by the following Members:

—	Simon Busuttil and Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—	Pasqualina Napoletano, Catherine Trautmann, Maria Badia I Cutchet, María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Alain Hutchinson and Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—	Thierry Cornillet, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—	Hélène Flautre, Raül Romeva i Rueda and David Hammerstein Mintz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—	Francis Wurtz, Luisa Morgantini, Vittorio Agnoletto, Esko Seppänen and Marco Rizzo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group,

—	Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, on behalf of the UEN Group.

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0525)

The following spoke:

Catherine Trautmann, before the vote, who suggested a correction to paragraph 6 of the joint motion for a resolution and to the paragraphs in which ‘the summit’ was mentioned.

5.17.   Promoting and protecting consumers' interests in the new Member States (vote)

Report on the promotion and protection of consumers' interests in the new Member States [2004/2157 (INI)] — Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Rapporteur: Henrik Dam Kristensen (A6-0378/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 16)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0526)

5.18.   Direct State aid as a tool of regional development (vote)

Report on the role of direct State aid as a tool of regional development [2004/2255(INI)] — Committee on Regional Development.

Rapporteur: Miloš Koterec (A6-0364/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 17)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0527)

The following spoke:

—	Miloš Koterec (rapporteur), who made a technical modification to paragraph 3, which was incorporated, and an oral amendment to amendment 31, which was also incorporated.

5.19.   EU Development Policy (vote)

Motion for a resolution B6-0653/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 18)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0528)

5.20.   Presumed use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0649/2005, B6-0650/2005, B6-0651/2005, B6-0654/2005, B6-0656/2005 and B6-0672/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 19)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION B6-0649/2005

Rejected

JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0650/2005

(replacing B6-0650/2005, B6-0651/2005, B6-0654/2005 and B6-0672/2005):

tabled by the following Members:

—	Martin Schulz, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Martine Roure and Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—	Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—	Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, Monica Frassoni and Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—	Francis Wurtz, Giusto Catania, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Marco Rizzo, Willy Meyer Pleite and Miguel Portas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group.

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0529)

The following spoke on the vote:

—	Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who moved an oral amendment to amendment 9, which was incorporated, and to recital F, which was not incorporated.

—	Robert Evans, who made a linguistic correction to the English version.

(Motion for a resolution B6-0656/2005 fell.)

5.21.   Bulgaria (vote)

Report on the state of preparedness for EU membership of Bulgaria [2005/2204(INI)] — Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rapporteur: Geoffrey Van Orden (A6-0342/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 20)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0530)

The following spoke:

—	before the vote, Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who requested a roll-call vote on amendment 15 (the President agreed to the request).

5.22.   Romania (vote)

Report on the extent of Romania's readiness for accession to the European Union [2005/2205(INI)] — Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rapporteur: Pierre Moscovici (A6-0344/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 21)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0531)

The following spoke on the vote:

—	Jan Marinus Wiersma, who moved an oral amendment to amendment 14, which was incorporated;

—	Erik Meijer, who moved an oral amendment to amendment 2, which was incorporated (amendment 2 was then rejected).

5.23.   Women's networks (vote)

Report on Women's networks: fishing, farming and diversification [2004/2263(INI)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Elspeth Attwooll (A6-0341/2005)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 22)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0532)

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—	Hannes Swoboda and Renate Sommer spoke on that day's vote.

6.   Explanations of vote

Written explanations of vote:

Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 163(3) appear in the verbatim report of proceedings for the sitting.

Oral explanations of vote:

Recommendation for second reading: Corien Wortmann-Kool — A6-0377/2005

—	Richard Seeber

Report: Robert Evans — A6-0317/2005

—	Zita Pleštinská

Report: Miloš Koterec — A6-0364/2005

—	Zita Pleštinská

Presumed use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners — RC-B6-0650/2005

—	Bruno Gollnisch

Report: Pierre Moscovici — A6-0344/2005

—	Luciana Sbarbati

7.   Corrections to votes

Corrections to votes appear on the ‘Séance en direct’ website under ‘Votes’/‘Results of votes’/‘Roll-call votes’. They are published in hard copy in the ‘Result of roll-call votes’ annex.

The electronic version on Europarl will be regularly updated for a maximum of two weeks after the day of the vote concerned.

After the two-week deadline has passed, the list of corrections to votes will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.

Members present but not voting:

Maria Carlshamre had indicated that she had not taken part in all of the votes.

(The sitting was suspended at 12.10 and resumed at 15.05.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO

Vice-President

8.   Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Pierre Moscovici and Cristiana Muscardini had informed the Presidency that they had been present but that their names were not on the attendance register.

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

9.   Child helplines in Europe (written declaration)

Written declaration 50/2005, submitted by Lissy Gröner, Genowefa Grabowska, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Gérard Onesta and Vasco Graça Moura on child helplines in Europe had, by 15.12.2005, obtained the signatures of the majority of Parliament's component Members. Consequently, pursuant to Rule 116(4), it would be sent to its addressees and published, together with the names of the signatories, in the Texts Adopted of the sitting of 17.01.2006(P6_TA(2006)0009).

Lissy Gröner spoke.

10.   Request for the waiver of parliamentary immunity

The German authorities had forwarded a request to waive the parliamentary immunity of Tobias Pflüger.

Pursuant to Rule 6(2), the request had been referred to the committee responsible, the JURI Committee.

11.   Procedural change

At its meeting of 8 December 2005, the Conference of Presidents had decided to replace the authorisation it had granted on 30 June 2005 for an own-initiative report to be drawn up (under Rule 45) on heating and cooling from renewable energy sources (Minutes of 04.07.2005, Item 11) with an authorisation (under Rules 45(2) and 39) for a legislative own-initiative report to be drawn up under Article 192 of the EC Treaty, on condition that the necessary modifications were made to the report.

12.   Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate)

(For the titles and authors of the motions for resolutions, see Minutes of 13.12.2005, Item 5)

12.1.   Human rights situation in Tibet and Hong Kong

Motions for resolution B6-0644/2005, B6-0657/2005, B6-0660/2005, B6-0664/2005 and B6-0667/2005

Glyn Ford, Eva Lichtenberger, Elizabeth Lynne and Thomas Mann introduced motions for resolutions.

The following spoke: Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Gérard Onesta, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Erik Meijer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Urszula Krupa, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, and Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 15.12.2005, Item 13.1.

12.2.   Human rights in Russia

Motions for resolution B6-0645/2005, B6-0658/2005, B6-0661/2005, B6-0662/2005, B6-0665/2005 and B6-0668/2005

Reino Paasilinna, Milan Horáček, Marios Matsakis, Erik Meijer and Charles Tannock introduced motions for resolutions.

The following spoke: Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Józef Pinior, on behalf of the PSE Group, Bart Staes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jaromír Kohlíček, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bogusław Sonik, Aloyzas Sakalas, Ari Vatanen, John Attard-Montalto and Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 15.12.2005, Item 13.2.

12.3.   Ethiopia and new border conflicts

Motions for resolution B6-0643/2005, B6-0659/2005, B6-0663/2005, B6-0666/2005, B6-0670/2005 and B6-0671/2005

Ana Maria Gomes, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Fiona Hall, Jaromír Kohlíček and Michael Gahler introduced motions for resolutions.

The following spoke: Karin Scheele, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Alyn Smith, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, Non-attached Member, and Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 15.12.2005, Item 13.3.

13.   Voting time

Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the ‘Results of votes’ annex to the Minutes.

13.1.   Human rights situation in Tibet and Hong Kong (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0644/2005, B6-0657/2005, B6-0660/2005, B6-0664/2005 and B6-0667/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 23)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0644/2005

(replacing B6-0644/2005, B6-0657/2005, B6-0660/2005, B6-0664/2005 and B6-0667/2005):

tabled by the following Members:

—	Thomas Mann and Charles Tannock, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—	Pasqualina Napoletano, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—	Graham Watson, Frédérique Ries, Antoine Duquesne, Bill Newton Dunn and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—	Eva Lichtenberger, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Gérard Onesta, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—	Roberta Angelilli and Marcin Libicki, on behalf of the UEN Group.

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0533)

The following spoke on the vote:

—	Glyn Ford, who requested a split vote on paragraph 14;

—	Elizabeth Lynne, who spoke against the request as the deadline had passed. Consequently, the request was not accepted;

—	Bernd Posselt, on the subject of the split.

13.2.   Human rights in Russia (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0645/2005, B6-0658/2005, B6-0661/2005, B6-0662/2005, B6-0665/2005 and B6-0668/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 24)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0645/2005

(replacing B6-0645/2005, B6-0658/2005, B6-0661/2005, B6-0662/2005, B6-0665/2005 and B6-0668/ 2005):

tabled by the following Members:

—	Charles Tannock and Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—	Pasqualina Napoletano, Jan Marinus Wiersma and Reino Paasilinna, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—	Cecilia Malmström and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—	Milan Horáček, Bart Staes and Hélène Flautre, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—	Vittorio Agnoletto, Jonas Sjöstedt and Feleknas Uca, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group,

—	Konrad Szymański and Inese Vaidere, on behalf of the UEN Group.

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0534)

13.3.   Ethiopia and new border conflicts (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0643/2005, B6-0659/2005, B6-0663/2005, B6-0666/2005, B6-0670/2005 and B6-0671/2005

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 25)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0643/2005

(replacing B6-0643/2005, B6-0659/2005, B6-0663/2005, B6-0666/2005, B6-0670/2005 and B6-0671/ 2005):

tabled by the following Members:

—	Michael Gahler, Anders Wijkman and Charles Tannock, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—	Pasqualina Napoletano and Marie-Arlette Carlotti, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—	Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—	Margrete Auken, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Alyn Smith, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—	Luisa Morgantini, Vittorio Agnoletto, Umberto Guidoni and Feleknas Uca, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group,

—	Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, on behalf of the UEN Group.

(Marios Matsakis had also signed the joint motion for a resolution on behalf of the ALDE Group.)

Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0535)

14.   Decisions concerning certain documents

Authorisation to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 45):

AFET Committee:

—	Kashmir: present situation and future prospects (2005/2242(INI))

—	A stronger partnership between the European Union and Latin America (2005/2241(INI)) (opinion: INTA)

DEVE Committee:

—	Development and migration (2005/2244(INI)) (opinion: AFET, EMPL, CULT, LIBE, FEMM)

—	Fair trade and development (2005/2245(INI)) (opinion: INTA)

INTA Committee:

—	The economic partnership agreements (2005/2246(INI))

—	Results of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (2005/2247(INI)) (opinion: DEVE, ITRE, AGRI)

EMPL Committee:

—	A European social model for the future (2005/2248(INI)) (opinion: ITRE)

ENVI Committee:

—	Reducing the climate change impact of aviation (2005/2249(INI)) (opinion: ECON, TRAN)

AFCO Committee:

—	Report on European political parties (2005/2224(INI)) (opinion: BUDG, CONT, JURI)

PETI Committee:

—	Special Report from the European Ombudsman following the draft recommendation to the Council of the European Union concerning the publicity of the Council's meetings in its legislative capacity, complaint 2395/2003/GG (2005/2243(INI))

Decision to draw up a report under Rule 202:

AFCO Committee:

—	Interpretation/amendment of the Rules of Procedure with a view to facilitating the resolution of questions of competence, particularly in non-legislative procedures (2005/2239(REG))

—	Amendment of the Rules to adapt internal procedures to requirements linked to simplification of Community legislation (2005/2238(REG))

Referral to committees:

FEMM Committee

—	Innovation and competitiveness (2007-2013) (COM(2005)0121 — C6-0098/2005 — 2005/0050 (COD)) referred to responsible: ITRE opinion: BUDG, ECON, EMPL, ENVI, IMCO, FEMM

Enhanced cooperation between committees:

ENVI Committee

—	Reducing the climate change impact of aviation (2005/2249(INI)) (opinion: ECON)

Enhanced cooperation between committees ENVI, TRAN

(Following the Conference of Presidents' Decision of 15.11.2005)

15.   Written declarations included in the register (Rule 116)

Number of signatures obtained by the written declarations in the register (Rule 116(3)):

Document	Author	Signatures
47/2005	James Hugh Allister	9
48/2005	Richard Corbett	87
49/2005	Richard Corbett	35
50/2005	Lissy Gröner, Genowefa Grabowska, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Gérard Onesta and Vasco Graça Moura	394
51/2005	Silvana Koch-Mehrin	73
52/2005	David Martin, Paulo Casaca, Peter Skinner, Terence Wynn and Robert Evans	375
53/2005	Charles Tannock, Jana Hybášková, Marek Maciej Siwiec, André Brie and Frédérique Ries	149
54/2005	Den Dover and Kathy Sinnott	103
55/2005	Den Dover and Kathy Sinnott	71
56/2005	Alessandra Mussolini	7
57/2005	Alessandra Mussolini	2
58/2005	Alessandra Mussolini	2
59/2005	Daniel Strož, Miloslav Ransdorf and Jaromír Kohlíček	15
60/2005	Marie-Line Reynaud and Marie-Noëlle Lienemann	65
61/2005	Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Ilda Figueiredo, Bronisław Geremek, Jean Lambert and Martine Roure	142
62/2005	Elizabeth Lynne, María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Anna Záborská	180
63/2005	Terence Wynn, Catherine Stihler, Neil Parish, Paulo Casaca and Elspeth Attwooll	48
64/2005	Sylwester Chruszcz and Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski	43
65/2005	Bruno Gollnisch	6
66/2005	Philip Claeys, Frank Vanhecke, Koenraad Dillen and Carl Lang	12
67/2005	Bruno Gollnisch, Andreas Mölzer and Luca Romagnoli	5
68/2005	Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, José Ribeiro e Castro, Kathy Sinnott, Nathalie Griesbeck and Konrad Szymański	73
69/2005	Emine Bozkurt, Claude Moraes, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Cem Özdemir and Alexander Nuno Alvaro	209
70/2005	Roberta Angelilli, Cristiana Muscardini, Romano Maria La Russa, Alessandro Foglietta and Sergio Berlato	30
71/2005	Nathalie Griesbeck	46
72/2005	Monika Beňová, Miloš Koterec and Vladimír Maňka	43
73/2005	Raül Romeva i Rueda and Gérard Onesta	24
74/2005	Michael Cashman, Emine Bozkurt and Thijs Berman	45
75/2005	Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Philippe Busquin, Joseph Daul, Mario Mauro and Bogusław Sonik	39
76/2005	Alyn Smith	15
77/2005	Alfredo Antoniozzi, Mario Mantovani, Marie-Line Reynaud and Jan Jerzy Kułakowski	54
78/2005	Daniel Strož	7
79/2005	Katalin Lévai, Martine Roure, Anne Van Lancker, Eva-Britt Svensson and Lissy Gröner	33
80/2005	Mario Borghezio	2
81/2005	Luca Romagnoli, Carlo Fatuzzo and Marco Pannella	16
82/2005	Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Feleknas Uca and Panagiotis Beglitis	11

16.   Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting

Pursuant to Rule 172(2), the Minutes of that day's sitting would be submitted to Parliament for its approval at the beginning of the next sitting.

With Parliament's agreement, the texts that had been adopted would be forwarded forthwith to the bodies named therein.

17.   Dates for next sittings

The next sittings would be held from 16.01.2006 to 19.01.2006.

18.   Adjournment of session

The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.

The sitting closed at 16.20.

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