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Volume 51
20 March 2008

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IV   (Notices)

 

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

 

2007-2008 SESSION

 

Sittings of 23 to 26 April 2007

 

Monday 23 April 2007

2008/C 074E/01

MINUTES

1

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

Resumption of session

Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Statements by the President

Documents received

Texts of agreements forwarded by the Council

Decisions concerning certain documents

Oral questions and written declarations (tabling)

Written declarations (Rule 116)

Action taken on Parliament's resolutions

Membership of Parliament

Membership of committees and delegations

Signature of acts adopted under codecision

Order of business

Declaration of financial interests

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Payment services in the internal market ***I (debate)

Advanced therapy medicinal products ***I (debate)

Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***I (debate)

Future enlargements and cohesion (debate)

The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008) (debate)

Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar * (debate)

Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch * (debate)

Green Paper: Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules (debate)

Agenda for next sitting

Closure of sitting

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

16

 

Tuesday 24 April 2007

2008/C 074E/02

MINUTES

18

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

Opening of sitting

Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolutions tabled)

Vote on request for urgent procedure

Discharge for the financial year 2005 (debate)

Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009 (debate)

Welcome

Voting time

EC-Malaysia Agreement on certain aspects of air services * (Rule 131) (vote)

Europol staff salaries and allowances * (Rule 131) (vote)

Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar * (Rule 131) (vote)

Waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section IV, Court of Justice (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section V, Court of Auditors (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section VI, European Economic and Social Committee (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section VIIIA, European Ombudsman (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section VIIIB, European Data Protection Supervisor (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th EDFs (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Environment Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Eurojust (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Training Foundation (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Maritime Safety Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Aviation Safety Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Food Safety Authority (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (Rule 131) (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Network and Information Security Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Payment services in the internal market ***I (vote)

Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch * (vote)

Future enlargements and cohesion (vote)

The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008) (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section III, Commission (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section I, European Parliament (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section II, Council (vote)

Discharge 2005: Section VII, Committee of the Regions (vote)

Discharge 2005: European Agency for Reconstruction (vote)

Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009 (vote)

Explanations of vote

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Community vessel traffic monitoring ***I — Investigation of accidents ***I — Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***I — Port State control ***I — Ship inspection and survey organisations ***I (debate)

Question Time (Commission)

Moving the inadmissibility of a matter (homophobia in Europe)

Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area — Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area * (debate)

Galileo (debate)

Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***II (debate)

Assessment and management of flood risks ***II (debate)

Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources (debate)

Agenda for next sitting

Closure of sitting

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

43

ANNEX I

45

ANNEX II

59

TEXTS ADOPTED

157

P6_TA(2007)0103EC-Malaysia Agreement on certain aspects of air services *European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Malaysia on certain aspects of air services (COM(2006)0619 — C6-0004/2007 — 2006/0202(CNS))

157

P6_TA(2007)0104Europol staff salaries and allowances *European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the initiative by the Republic of Finland with a view to the adoption of a Council decision adjusting the basic salaries and allowances applicable to Europol staff (16333/2006 — C6-0047/2007 — 2007/0801(CNS))

157

P6_TA(2007)0105Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar *European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation opening tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 (COM(2006)0798 — C6-0003/2007 — 2006/0261(CNS))

158

P6_TA(2007)0106Waiver of the immunity of Vural ÖgerDecision of the European Parliament of 24 April 2007 on the request for waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger (2006/2198(IMM))

159

P6_TA(2007)0107Discharge 2005: Section IV, Court of Justice

160

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section IV — Court of Justice (C6-0467/2006 — 2006/2073(DEC))

160

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section IV — Court of Justice (C6-0467/2006 — 2006/2073(DEC))

161

P6_TA(2007)0108Discharge 2005: Section V, Court of Auditors

163

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section V — Court of Auditors (C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC))

163

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section V — Court of Auditors (C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC))

164

P6_TA(2007)0109Discharge 2005: Section VI, European Economic and Social Committee

166

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee (C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC))

166

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee (C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC))

167

P6_TA(2007)01102005 Discharge: Section VIIIA, European Ombudsman

169

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman (C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC))

169

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman (C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC))

170

P6_TA(2007)0111Discharge 2005: Section VIIIB, European Data Protection Supervisor

172

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor (C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC)

172

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor (C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC))

173

P6_TA(2007)0112Discharge 2005: Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds

174

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

174

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

176

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

177

P6_TA(2007)0113Discharge 2005: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

183

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC))

183

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC))

184

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC))

186

P6_TA(2007)0114Discharge 2005: European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

190

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC))

190

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC))

191

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC))

193

P6_TA(2007)0115Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia

196

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC))

196

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC))

197

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC))

199

P6_TA(2007)0116Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

202

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC))

202

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC))

203

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC))

205

P6_TA(2007)0117Discharge 2005: European Environment Agency

208

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC))

208

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC))

209

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC))

211

P6_TA(2007)0118Discharge 2005: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

214

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

214

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

215

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

218

P6_TA(2007)0119Discharge 2005: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union

221

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC))

221

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC))

222

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC))

224

P6_TA(2007)0120Discharge 2005: European Medicines Agency

227

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC))

227

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC))

228

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC))

229

P6_TA(2007)0121Discharge 2005: Eurojust

233

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC))

233

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC))

234

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC))

235

P6_TA(2007)0122Discharge 2005: European Training Foundation

238

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC))

238

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC))

239

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC))

241

P6_TA(2007)0123Discharge 2005: European Maritime Safety Agency

244

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC))

244

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC))

245

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC))

247

P6_TA(2007)0124Discharge 2005: European Aviation Safety Agency

250

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC))

250

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC))

251

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC))

253

P6_TA(2007)0125Discharge 2005: European Food Safety Authority

256

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC))

256

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC))

257

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC))

258

P6_TA(2007)0126Discharge 2005: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

261

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC))

261

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC))

262

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC))

264

P6_TA(2007)0127Discharge 2005: European Network and Information Security Agency

267

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC))

267

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC))

268

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC))

270

P6_TA(2007)0128Payment services in the internal market ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market and amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/12/EC and 2002/65/EC (COM(2005)0603 — C6-0411/2005 — 2005/0245(COD))

272

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0245Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 24 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and Council on payment services in the internal market amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2002/65/EC, 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and repealing Directive 97/5/EC

273

P6_TA(2007)0129Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch *European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch (COM(2006)0827 — C6-0046/2007 — 2006/0268(CNS))

273

P6_TA(2007)0130Future enlargements and cohesionEuropean Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 on the consequences of future enlargements on the effectiveness of cohesion policy (2006/2107(INI))

275

P6_TA(2007)0131The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008)European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 on the Commission's annual policy strategy for the 2008 budget procedure (2007/2017(BUD))

280

ANNEX ITRILOGUE 7 MARCH 2007

287

ANNEX IISTATEMENTS FOLLOWING THE TRILOGUE OF 18 APRIL 2007

287

P6_TA(2007)0132Discharge 2005: Section III — Commission

288

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC))

288

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC))

290

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with comments forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC))

292

P6_TA(2007)0133Discharge 2005: Section I — European Parliament

320

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC))

320

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC))

321

P6_TA(2007)0134Discharge 2005: Section II, Council

337

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section II — Council (C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC))

337

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section II — Council (C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC))

338

P6_TA(2007)0135Discharge 2005: Section VII, Committee of the Regions

339

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VII — Committee of the Regions (C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC))

339

2.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VII — Committee of the Regions (C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC))

340

P6_TA(2007)0136Discharge 2005: European Agency for Reconstruction

342

1.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC))

342

2.   European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC))

343

3.   European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC))

345

P6_TA(2007)0137Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 on combating HIV/AIDS within the European Union and in the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009 (2006/2232(INI))

348

 

Wednesday 25 April 2007

2008/C 074E/03

MINUTES

357

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

Opening of sitting

Transatlantic relations (debate)

Croatia's 2006 progress report (debate)

Mandate of a Member

Voting time

Transmission of national accounts data ***I (Rule 131) (vote)

Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area * (Rule 131) (vote)

Mandate of a Member (continuation)

Voting time (continuation)

Adaption of Title IV of the EC Treaty — Court of Justice * (Rule 131) (vote)

Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation * (Rule 131) (vote)

Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***II (vote)

Welcome

Voting time (continuation)

Assessment and management of flood risks ***II (vote)

Formal sitting — India

Voting time (continuation)

Advanced therapy medicinal products ***I (vote)

Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***I (vote)

Community vessel traffic monitoring ***I (vote)

Investigation of accidents ***I (vote)

Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***I (vote)

Port State control ***I (vote)

Ship inspection and survey organisations ***I (vote)

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) (vote)

Temporary committee on climate change (vote)

Damages actions for breach of competition rules (vote)

Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (vote)

Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources (vote)

Transatlantic relations (vote)

Progress report on Croatia (vote)

Explanations of vote

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter — Moratorium on the death penalty (debate)

Ukraine (debate)

Homophobia in Europe (debate)

Question Time (Council)

Rapid Border Intervention Teams (debate)

Public Finances in the EMU 2006 (debate)

Strengthen European legislation in the field of information and consultation of workers (debate)

Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***I (debate)

Agenda for next sitting

Closure of sitting

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

373

ANNEX I

375

ANNEX II

393

TEXTS ADOPTED

505

P6_TA(2007)0138Transmission of national accounts data ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 with respect to the transmission of national accounts data (COM(2005)0653 — C6-0438/2005 — 2005/0253(COD))

505

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0253Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 with respect to the transmission of national accounts data

505

P6_TA(2007)0139Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area *European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) (COM(2006)0113 — C6-0218/2006 — 2006/0036(CNS))

506

P6_TA(2007)0140Adaption of Title IV of the EC Treaty — Court of Justice *European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the draft Council decision adapting the provisions concerning the Court of Justice in fields covered by Title IV of Part Three of the Treaty establishing the European Community (COM(2006)0346 — C6-0304/2006 — 2006/0808(CNS))

506

P6_TA(2007)0141Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation *European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community of a Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation and of the Protocol on Claims, Legal Proceedings and Indemnification to the Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation (COM(2006)0665 — C6-0475/2006 — 2006/0227(CNS))

507

P6_TA(2007)0142Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***IIEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 (14039/1/2006 — C6-0041/2007 — 2005/0191(COD))

508

P6_TC2-COD(2005)0191Position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002

508

ANNEXCOMMON BASIC STANDARDS FOR SAFEGUARDING CIVIL AVIATION AGAINST ACTS OF UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE (ARTICLE 4)

520

P6_TA(2007)0143Assessment and management of flood risks ***IIEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Council common position with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks (12131/6/2006 — C6-0038/2007 — 2006/0005(COD))

525

P6_TC2-COD(2006)0005Position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks

525

P6_TA(2007)0144Advanced therapy medicinal products ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products and amending Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 (COM(2005)0567 — C6-0401/2005 — 2005/0227(COD))

525

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0227Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products and amending Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004

526

P6_TA(2007)0145Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (COM(2006)0168 — C6-0233/2005 — 2005/0127(COD))

526

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0127Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights

527

P6_TA(2007)0146Community vessel traffic monitoring ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system (COM(2005)0589 — C6-0004/2006 — 2005/0239(COD))

533

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0239Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system

533

P6_TA(2007)0147Investigation of accidents ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC (COM(2005)0590 — C6-0056/2006 — 2005/0240(COD))

546

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0240Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC

547

ANNEX ISAFETY INVESTIGATION REPORT FORMAT AND CONTENT

558

ANNEX IIMARINE CASUALTY OR INCIDENT NOTIFICATION DATA

561

P6_TA(2007)0148Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea and inland waterways in the event of accidents (COM(2005)0592 — C6-0057/2006 — 2005/0241(COD))

562

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0241Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents

563

ANNEX IATHENS CONVENTION RELATING TO THE CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS AND THEIR LUGGAGE BY SEA, 2002

567

ANNEX IIIMO RESERVATION 2006

584

P6_TA(2007)0149Port State control ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast version) (COM(2005)0588 — C6-0028/2006 — 2005/0238(COD))

584

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0238Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast)

584

ANNEX IELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY PORT STATE INSPECTION REGIME

605

ANNEX IIDESIGN OF SHIP RISK PROFILE

609

ANNEX IIINOTIFICATION

610

ANNEX IVLIST OF CERTIFICATES AND DOCUMENTS

610

ANNEX VEXAMPLES OF CLEAR GROUNDS FOR A MORE DETAILED INSPECTION

612

ANNEX VIPROCEDURES FOR THE CONTROL OF SHIPS

613

ANNEX VIIPROCEDURES FOR THE CONTROL OF SHIPS ON SECURITY ASPECTS

613

ANNEX VIIIPROCEDURES FOR EXPANDED INSPECTIONS OF SHIPS

616

ANNEX IXPROVISIONS CONCERNING REFUSAL OF ACCESS TO COMMUNITY PORTS

618

ANNEX XINSPECTION REPORT

620

ANNEX XICRITERIA FOR DETENTION OF A SHIP

621

ANNEX XIIMINIMUM CRITERIA FOR INSPECTORS

625

ANNEX XIIIPUBLICATION OF INFORMATION RELATED TO INSPECTIONS, DETENTIONS AND REFUSALS OF ACCESS IN PORTS OF MEMBER STATES

626

ANNEX XIVDATA PROVIDED IN THE CONTEXT OF MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION

627

ANNEX XV

628

ANNEX XVICORRELATION TABLE

629

P6_TA(2007)0150Ship inspection and survey organisations ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (recast version) (COM(2005)0587 — C6-0038/2006 — 2005/0237(COD))

632

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0237Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime authorities (recast version)

633

ANNEX IMINIMUM CRITERIA FOR RECOGNISED ORGANISATIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3

648

ANNEX II

650

ANNEX IIICORRELATION TABLE

651

P6_TA(2007)0151Temporary committee on climate changeEuropean Parliament decision of 25 April 2007 on setting up a temporary committee on climate change

652

P6_TA(2007)0152Damages actions for breach of competition rulesEuropean Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Green Paper on Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules (2006/2207(INI))

653

P6_TA(2007)0153Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation AreaEuropean Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA)

658

P6_TA(2007)0154Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resourcesEuropean Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on a Thematic Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (2006/2210(INI))

660

P6_TA(2007)0155Transatlantic relationsEuropean Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on transatlantic relations

670

P6_TA(2007)0156Progress report on CroatiaEuropean Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on Croatia's 2006 progress report (2006/2288(INI))

675

 

Thursday 26 April 2007

2008/C 074E/04

MINUTES

680

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

Opening of sitting

Documents received

Transfers of appropriations

Relations between the EU and Switzerland (debate)

Situation of disabled women in the European Union (debate)

Communication of Council common positions

Announcement by the President

Voting time

Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***I (Rule 131) (vote)

Compensation for certain fishery products * (Rule 131) (vote)

Common Fisheries Policy (Regional Advisory Councils) * (Rule 131) (vote)

Situation of disabled women in the European Union (Rule 131) (vote)

Basic information on purchasing power parities ***I (vote)

Rapid Border Intervention Teams ***I (vote)

Conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources * (vote)

Galileo (vote)

Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter (vote)

Moratorium on the death penalty (vote)

Homophobia in Europe (vote)

Public Finances in the EMU 2006 (vote)

Explanations of vote

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Agenda

Zimbabwe (debate)

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

Recent repression of demonstrations in Russia

Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston

Human rights situation in the Philippines

Voting time

Recent repression of demonstrations in Russia (vote)

Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston (vote)

Human rights situation in the Philippines (vote)

Zimbabwe (vote)

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Explanations of vote

Membership of Parliament

Membership of committees and delegations

Verification of credentials

Decisions concerning certain documents

Written declarations entered in the register (Rule 116)

Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting

Dates for next sittings

Adjournment of session

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

699

ANNEX I

701

ANNEX II

711

TEXTS ADOPTED

734

P6_TA(2007)0157Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 89/391/EEC, its individual Directives and Council Directives 83/477/EEC, 91/383/EEC, 92/29/EEC and 94/33/EC with a view to simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation (COM(2006)0390 — C6-0242/2006 — 2006/0127(COD))

734

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0127Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 89/391/EEC, its individual Directives and Council Directives 83/477/EEC, 91/383/EEC, 92/29/EEC and 94/33/EC with a view to simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation

734

P6_TA(2007)0158Compensation for certain fishery products *European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the French departments of Guiana and Réunion from 2007 to 2013 (COM(2006)0740 — C6-0505/2006 — 2006/0247(CNS))

735

P6_TA(2007)0159Common Fisheries Policy (Regional Advisory Councils) *European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2004/585/EC establishing Regional Advisory Councils under the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2006)0732 — C6-0051/2007 — 2006/0240(CNS))

742

P6_TA(2007)0160The situation of women with disabilities in the EUEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the situation of women with disabilities in the European Union (2006/2277(INI))

742

P6_TA(2007)0161Basic information on purchasing power parities ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination (COM(2006)0135 — C6-0100/2006 — 2006/0042(COD))

748

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0042Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination

748

P6_TA(2007)0162Rapid Border Intervention Teams ***IEuropean Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism (COM(2006)0401 — C6-0253/2006 — 2006/0140(COD))

749

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0140Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism and regulating the tasks and powers of guest officers

749

ANNEXSTATEMENT BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSION

750

P6_TA(2007)0163Conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources *European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2006)0587 — C6-0402/2006 — 2006/0190(CNS))

750

P6_TA(2007)0164Galileo concession contract negotiationsEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the Galileo concession contract negotiations

752

P6_TA(2007)0165Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matterEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter (2007/2020(INI))

753

P6_TA(2007)0166Universal moratorium on the death penaltyEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the initiative for a universal moratorium on the death penalty

775

P6_TA(2007)0167Homophobia in EuropeEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on homophobia in Europe

776

P6_TA(2007)0168Public Finances in the EMU 2006European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on Public Finances in the EMU 2006 (2007/2004(INI))

780

P6_TA(2007)0169Recent repression of demonstrations in RussiaEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on Russia

784

P6_TA(2007)0170Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan JohnstonEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston

786

P6_TA(2007)0171Human rights situation in the PhilippinesEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the human rights situation in the Philippines

788

P6_TA(2007)0172ZimbabweEuropean Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on Zimbabwe

791

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 timeUnless 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

DEVE

Committee on Development

INTA

Committee on International Trade

BUDG

Committee on Budgets

CONT

Committee on Budgetary Control

ECON

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

EMPL

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

ENVI

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

ITRE

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

IMCO

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

TRAN

Committee on Transport and Tourism

REGI

Committee on Regional Development

AGRI

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

PECH

Committee on Fisheries

CULT

Committee on Culture and Education

JURI

Committee on Legal Affairs

LIBE

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

AFCO

Committee on Constitutional Affairs

FEMM

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

PETI

Committee on Petitions
Abbreviations used for Political Groups

PPE-DE

Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats

PSE

Socialist Group in the European Parliament

ALDE

Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

UEN

Union for Europe of the Nations Group

Verts/ALE

Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

GUE/NGL

Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left

IND/DEM

Independence and Democracy Group

ITS

Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty Group

NI

Non-attached Members

EN

 

IV (Notices)

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

2007-2008 SESSION

Sittings of 23 to 26 April 2007

Monday 23 April 2007

20.3.2008   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 74/1

MINUTES

(2008/C 74 E/01)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Hans-Gert PÖTTERING

President

1.   Resumption of session

The sitting opened at 17.00.

2.   Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

3.   Statements by the President

On behalf of Parlaiment, the President condemned the murders on 18 April 2007 of three workers at a Christian publishing house in Malatya (Turkey). He called on the Turkish authorities to do their utmost to bring those responsible to justice.

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The President pointed out that Boris Yeltsin, the former President of Russia, had died that day. The President passed on Parliament's condolences to the Russian people.

4.   Documents received

The following documents had been received:

1)

from committees:

1.1)

reports:

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* Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) (COM(2006)0113 — C6-0218/2006 — 2006/0036(CNS)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Eva Lichtenberger (A6-0060/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea and inland waterways in the event of accidents (COM(2005)0592 — C6-0057/2006 — 2005/0241(COD)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0063/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organizations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (COM(2005)0587 — C6-0038/2006 — 2005/0237(COD)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Luis de Grandes Pascual (A6-0070/2007)

—

* Report on the proposal for a Council regulation opening tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 (COM(2006)0798 — C6-0003/2007 — 2006/0261(CNS)) — AGRI Committee.

Rapporteur: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (A6-0072/2007)

—

***I Report on the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (COM(2006)0168 — C6-0233/2005 — 2005/0127(COD)) — JURI Committee.

Rapporteur: Nicola Zingaretti (A6-0073/2007)

—

Report on the situation of women with disabilities in the European Union (2006/2277(INI)) — FEMM Committee.

Rapporteur: Esther Herranz García (A6-0075/2007)

—

Report on Public Finances in EMU 2006 (2007/2004(INI)) — ECON Committee.

Rapporteur: Kurt Joachim Lauk (A6-0076/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination (COM(2006)0135 — C6-0100/2006 — 2006/0042(COD)) — ECON Committee.

Rapporteur: Sharon Bowles (A6-0077/2007)

—

* Report on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2004/585/EC establishing Regional Advisory Councils under the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2006)0732 — C6-0051/2007 — 2006/0240(CNS)) — PECH Committee.

Rapporteur: Elspeth Attwooll (A6-0078/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC (COM(2005)0590 — C6-0056/2006 — 2005/0240(COD)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Jaromír Kohlíček (A6-0079/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the portability of supplementary pension rights (COM(2005)0507 — C6-0331/2005 — 2005/0214(COD)) — EMPL Committee.

Rapporteur: Ria Oomen-Ruijten (A6-0080/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast) (COM(2005)0588 — C6-0028/2006 — 2005/0238(COD)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Dominique Vlasto (A6-0081/2007)

—

* Report on the draft Council decision adapting the provisions concerning the Court of Justice in fields covered by Title IV of Part Three of the Treaty establishing the European Community (COM(2006)0346 — C6-0304/2006 — 2006/0808(CNS)) — JURI Committee.

Rapporteur: József Szájer (A6-0082/2007)

—

* Report on the proposal for a Council regulation introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the French departments of Guiana and Réunion from 2007 to 2013 (COM(2006)0740 — C6-0505/2006 — 2006/0247(CNS)) — PECH Committee.

Rapporteur: Duarte Freitas (A6-0083/2007)

—

* Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2006)0587 — C6-0402/2006 — 2006/0190(CNS)) — PECH Committee.

Rapporteur: Ioannis Gklavakis (A6-0085/2007)

—

***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system (COM(2005)0589 — C6-0004/2006 — 2005/0239(COD)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Dirk Sterckx (A6-0086/2007)

—

Report on the consequences of future enlargements on the effectiveness of cohesion policy (2006/2107(INI)) — REGI Committee.

Rapporteur: Markus Pieper (A6-0087/2007)

—

Report on combating HIV/AIDS within the European Union and in the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009 (2006/2232(INI)) — ENVI Committee.

Rapporteur: Georgs Andrejevs (A6-0091/2007)

—

Report on Croatia's 2006 progress report (2006/2288(INI)) — AFET Committee.

Rapporteur: Hannes Swoboda (A6-0092/2007)

—

* Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Malaysia on certain aspects of air services (COM(2006)0619 — C6-0004/2007 — 2006/0202(CNS)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0093/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (SEC(2006)0915 [[02]] — C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Bart Staes (A6-0094/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for implementation ot the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0915 [[01]] — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Salvador Garriga Polledo (A6-0095/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (N6-0021/2006 — C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0097/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (N6-0022/2006 — C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0098/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (N6-0029/2006 — C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0099/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (N6-0025/2006 — C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0100/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (N6-0028/2006 — C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0101/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (N6-0036/2006 — C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0102/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (N6-0026/2006 — C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0103/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman (SEC(2006)0915 [[08]] — C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0104/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (N6-0027/2006 — C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0105/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section VII — Committee of the Regions (SEC(2006)0915 [[07]] — C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0106/2007)

—

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section V — Court of Auditors (SEC(2006)0915 [[05]] — C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0107/2007)

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Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section II — Council (SEC(2006)0915 [[03]] — C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0108/2007)

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Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section IV — Court of Justice (SEC(2006)0915 [[04]] — C6-0467/2006 — 2006/2073(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0109/2007)

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Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee (SEC(2006)0915 [[06]] — C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0110/2007)

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Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 — Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor (SEC(2006)0915 [[09]] — C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0111/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget for the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (N6-0034/2006 — C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0112/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (N6-0031/2006 — C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0113/2007)

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Report on the discharge of the implementation of the budget for the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (N6-0032/2006 — C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0114/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Mogens N. J. Camre (A6-0115/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (N6-0023/2006 — C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0116/2007)

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***I Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Community programme to improve the operation of taxation systems in the internal market (Fiscalis 2013) (COM(2006)0202 — C6-0159/2006 — 2006/0076(COD)) — ECON Committee.

Rapporteur: Hans-Peter Martin (A6-0117/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (N6-0024/2006 — C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0118/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (N6-0035/2006 — C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0119/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (N6-0030/2006 — C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0120/2007)

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Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (N6-0033/2006 — C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC)) — CONT Committee.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0121/2007)

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***I Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 with respect to the transmission of national accounts data (COM(2005)0653 — C6-0438/2005 — 2005/0253(COD)) — ECON Committee.

Rapporteur: José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (A6-0122/2007)

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Report on the Commission's annual policy strategy for the 2008 budget procedure — Section III — Commission (2007/2017(BUD)) — BUDG Committee.

Rapporteur: Kyösti Virrankoski (A6-0123/2007)

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* Report on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community of a Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation and of the Protocol on Claims, Legal Proceedings and Indemnification to the Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation (COM(2006)0665 — C6-0475/2006 — 2006/0227(CNS)) — ITRE Committee.

Rapporteur: Vladimír Remek (A6-0126/2007)

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Report on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter (2007/2020(INI)) — AFET Committee.

Rapporteur: Simon Coveney (A6-0128/2007)

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***I Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work (second individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (Codified version) (COM(2006)0652 — C6-0378/2006 — 2006/0214(COD)) — JURI Committee.

Rapporteur: Hans-Peter Mayer (A6-0132/2007)

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Report on the Green Paper on Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules (2006/2207(INI)) — ECON Committee.

Rapporteur: Antolín Sánchez Presedo (A6-0133/2007)

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***II Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 (14039/1/2006 — C6-0041/2007 — 2005/0191(COD)) — TRAN Committee.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0134/2007)

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***I Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism (COM(2006)0401 — C6-0253/2006 — 2006/0140(COD)) — LIBE Committee.

Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A6-0135/2007)

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* Report on the initiative of the Republic of Finland with a view to adopting a Council decision adjusting the basic salaries and allowances applicable to Europol staff (16333/2006 — C6-0047/2007 — 2007/0801(CNS)) — LIBE Committee.

Rapporteur: Jean-Marie Cavada (A6-0136/2007)

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* Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch (COM(2006)0827 — C6-0046/2007 — 2006/0268(CNS)) — AGRI Committee.

Rapporteur: Janusz Wojciechowski (A6-0137/2007)

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Report on the request for waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger (2006/2198(IMM)) — JURI Committee.

Rapporteur: Francesco Enrico Speroni (A6-0140/2007)

2)

from Members:

2.1)

oral questions for Question Time (Rule 109) (B6-0017/2007):

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to the Council

Medina Ortega Manuel, Moraes Claude, Ludford Sarah, Willmott Glenis, Bushill-Matthews Philip, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou Marie, Posselt Bernd, Karim Sajjad, Pflüger Tobias, Wagenknecht Sahra, Budreikaitė Danutė, Papastamkos Georgios, Goudin Hélène, Seppänen Esko, Davies Chris, Hutchinson Alain, Evans Robert, Karatzaferis Georgios, Zappalà Stefano, Mavrommatis Manolis, Casaca Paulo, Schmidt Olle, Newton Dunn Bill, Mitchell Gay, Van Hecke Johan, Dillen Koenraad, Paleckis Justas Vincas, Pafilis Athanasios, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou Rodi, Bozkurt Emine, Rutowicz Leopold Józef, Czarnecki Ryszard, Crowley Brian, Ó Neachtain Seán, Aylward Liam, Ryan Eoin, Andrikienė Laima Liucija, Leichtfried Jörg, Manolakou Diamanto, Toussas Georgios, Guerreiro Pedro

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to the Commission

Hutchinson Alain, Guardans Cambó Ignasi, Protasiewicz Jacek, Dimitrov Martin, Ryan Eoin, Susta Gianluca, De Rossa Proinsias, Rutowicz Leopold Józef, Czarnecki Ryszard, Moraes Claude, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou Marie, Willmott Glenis, van Nistelrooij Lambert, Papastamkos Georgios, Starkevičiūtė Margarita, Paleckis Justas Vincas, Dimitrov Konstantin, Ebner Michl, Arnaoutakis Stavros, Medina Ortega Manuel, Mavrommatis Manolis, Bushill-Matthews Philip, Posselt Bernd, Stoyanov Dimitar, Dillen Koenraad, Florenz Karl-Heinz, Pflüger Tobias, Holm Jens, Wagenknecht Sahra, Budreikaitė Danutė, Riis-Jørgensen Karin, Davies Chris, Evans Robert, Schlyter Carl, Karatzaferis Georgios, Yáñez-Barnuevo García Luis, Pleguezuelos Aguilar Francisca, Van Hecke Johan, Seppänen Esko, Zappalà Stefano, Figueiredo Ilda, Schmidt Olle, Newton Dunn Bill, Mitchell Gay, Vanhecke Frank, El Khadraoui Saïd, Galeote Gerardo, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou Rodi, Kuźmiuk Zbigniew Krzysztof, Crowley Brian, Ó Neachtain Seán, Aylward Liam, Toussas Georgios, Andrikienė Laima Liucija, Leichtfried Jörg, Doyle Avril, Manolakou Diamanto, Pafilis Athanasios, Gyürk András

2.2)

motions for resolutions (Rule 113):

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Roberta Angelilli and Cristiana Muscardini. Motion for a resolution on sex tourism (B6-0144/2007)

referred to

responsible: LIBE

 

opinion: FEMM, CULT, TRAN

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Adriana Poli Bortone. Motion for a resolution on aids for the establishment of specialised cure centres for chronic illnesses (B6-0145/2007)

referred to

responsible: ENVI

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Adriana Poli Bortone. Motion for a resolution on new guidelines for the Erasmus programme (B6-0146/2007)

referred to

responsible: CULT

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Salvador Garriga Polledo. Motion for a resolution on the promotion of a volunteer corps within the EU for purposes of tackling natural disasters worldwide (B6-0147/2007)

referred to

responsible: ENVI

 

opinion: BUDG

5.   Texts of agreements forwarded by the Council

The Council had forwarded a certified true copy of the following:

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Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Malaysia on certain aspects of air services

6.   Decisions concerning certain documents

Authorisation to draw up a report (Rule 120)

AFCO Committee

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Interinstitutional Agreement on practical arrangements for the codecision procedure (2005/2125(ACI))

7.   Oral questions and written declarations (tabling)

The following documents had been received from Members:

1)

written declarations for entry in the Register (Rule 116):

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Věra Flasarová, on the establishment of 19 June as a significant EU day: the Day of Equality between Men and Women (0039/2007)

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Jens Holm, Rebecca Harms, John Bowis, Martine Roure and Mojca Drčar Murko, on primates in scientific experiments (0040/2007)

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Geoffrey Van Orden, Struan Stevenson, Ivo Strejček, Syed Kamall and Nina Škottová, on referendums on the Constitution in each Member State (0041/2007),

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Glyn Ford, Bernd Posselt, Viktória Mohácsi, Claude Moraes and Feleknas Uca, on race hate on the Internet (0042/2007)

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Roberto Musacchio, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Françoise Castex, Maria da Assunção Esteves and Jean Lambert, on the role of voluntary service and fire brigades in emergency civil protection operations (0043/2007)

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Diana Wallis, Gérard Onesta, Marc Tarabella, Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Dimitrios Papadimoulis, on the European emergency call number 112 (0044/2007)

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Nikolaos Vakalis, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, David Hammerstein and Pia Elda Locatelli, on water efficiency (0045/2007)

8.   Written declarations (Rule 116)

In accordance with Rule 116(5), written declarations 88, 89, 90, 91/2006, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/2007 lapsed as they had not obtained the required number of signatures.

9.   Action taken on Parliament's resolutions

The Commission communication on the action taken on the resolutions adopted by Parliament during the December 2006 part-session had been distributed.

10.   Membership of Parliament

Adrian-Mihai Cioroianu and Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi had been appointed to the Romanian Government with effect from 03.04.2007.

Under Rule 3(2), second subparagraph of its Rules of Procedure, Parliament noted the appointments and established the vacancies with effect from 03.04.2007, under Article 7(1) of the Act concerning the election of representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage and under Rule 4(1).

Paavo Väyrynen had been elected as a Member of the Finnish Parliament and had been appointed to the Finnish Government with effect from 19.04.2007.

Under Article 7(1) and (2) of the Act concerning the election of representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage and Rule 4(1) of its Rules of Procedure, Parliament noted the appointment and established the vacancy with effect from 19.04.2007.

Albert Jan Maat had resigned as a Member of the European Parliament as of 10.04.2007.

Under Rule 4(1), Parliament established the vacancy as of that date.

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The authorities in the Netherlands had given notice of the appointment of Esther de Lange to replace Albert Jan Maat as Member of Parliament with effect from 12.04.2007.

The Finnish authorities had given notice of the appointment of Samuli Pohjamo to replace Paavo Väyrynen as Member of Parliament with effect from 23.04.2007.

The Italian authorities had notified Parliament that the announcement of the election of Achille Occhetto had been annulled and that the resulting vacancy would be filled by Beniamino Donnici. Parliament noted these decisions with effect from 29.03.2007.

Beniamino Donnici had announced that he had joined the ALDE Group.

Under Rule 3(2), until such time as their credentials had been verified or a ruling had been given on any dispute, and provided that they had previously made written declarations stating that they did not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, Esther de Lange, Beniamino Donnici and Samuli Pohjamo would take their seats in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto.

11.   Membership of committees and delegations

At the request of the PSE Group, Parliament ratified the following appointments:

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BUDG Committee: Vasile Puşcaş

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Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe: Vasile Puşcaş

12.   Signature of acts adopted under codecision

The President announced that, on Wednesday, he and the President of the Council would sign the following acts adopted under the codecision procedure pursuant to Rule 68:

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Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 417/2002 on the accelerated phasing-in of double-hull or equivalent design requirements for single-hull oil tankers (3670/3/2006 — C6-0111/2007 — 2006/0046(COD))

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Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (Esspros) (3672/4/2006 — C6-0112/2007 — 2006/0004(COD)).

13.   Order of business

The next item was the order of business.

Council request for the application of urgent procedure (Rule 134) for:

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Proposal for a Council regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products [COM(2005)0671 — C6-0032/2006 — 2005/0278(CNS)]

Reason for request:

There was a need to establish a new legal framework as soon as possible.

Parliament would vote on the request for urgent procedure at the beginning of the following day's sitting.

The final draft agenda for the April I and II sittings (PE 387.009/PDOJ) had been distributed and a number of changes had been proposed (Rule 132):

Sittings of 23.04.2007 to 26.04.2007

Monday

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Request from the PSE Group to hold over until voting time on Wednesday the vote on the report by Antolín Sánchez Presedo (A6-0133/2007) on the Green Paper on damages actions for breach of EC antitrust rules (Item 8 on the final draft agenda)

Antolín Sánchez Presedo (rapporteur) moved the request.

Parliament agreed to the request.

Tuesday

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no changes

Wednesday

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Request from the ALDE Group to hold over until voting time on Thursday lunchtime the vote on the report by Sharon Bowles on basic information on purchasing power parities (A6-0077/2007) (Item 63 on the final draft agenda)

Sharon Bowles (rapporteur) moved the request.

Parliament agreed to the request.

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Request from the PSE Group for the debate on the Commission statement on strengthening European legislation in the field of information and consultation of workers (Item 129 on the final draft agenda) to be wound up with motions for resolution.

The following spoke: Stephen Hughes, on behalf of the PSE Group, who moved the request, and Gunnar Hökmark, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group.

Parliament agreed to the request by electronic vote (103 in favour, 78 against, 3 abstentions).

Thursday

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no changes

Sittings of 09.05.2007 and 10.05.2007

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no changes

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The order of business was thus established.

14.   Declaration of financial interests

The following Members had not yet updated their declaration of financial interests for 2006 in accordance with Annex I, Article 2(5) to the Rules of Procedure:

Luis Herrero-Tejedor, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Michael Henry Nattrass.

15.   One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Pursuant to Rule 144, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:

Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Yannick Vaugrenard, Graham Watson, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Milan Horáček, Adamos Adamou, Urszula Krupa, Ashley Mote, András Gyürk, Pervenche Berès, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Eduard Raul Hellvig, József Szájer, Teresa Riera Madurell, Georgios Papastamkos, Willy Meyer Pleite, Tunne Kelam, Marios Matsakis, László Surján, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Pál Schmitt, Panayiotis Demetriou, Danutė Budreikaitė, John Attard-Montalto, Alojz Peterle, Ryszard Czarnecki, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Péter Olajos, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Umberto Guidoni, Małgorzata Handzlik and Tatjana Ždanoka.

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO

Vice-President

16.   Payment services in the internal market ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market and amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/12/EC and 2002/65/EC [COM(2005)0603 — C6-0411/2005 — 2005/0245(COD)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Jean-Paul Gauzès (A6-0298/2006)

Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) spoke.

Jean-Paul Gauzès introduced the report.

IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS

Vice-President

The following spoke: Mia De Vits (draftsman of the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Rainer Wieland (draftsman of the opinion of the JURI Committee), Alexander Radwan, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Gianni Pittella, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sharon Bowles, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, John Whittaker, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Pervenche Berès, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, John Purvis, Ieke van den Burg, Zsolt László Becsey, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Charlie McCreevy and Pervenche Berès.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.26.

17.   Advanced therapy medicinal products ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products and amending Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 [COM(2005)0567 — C6-0401/2005 — 2005/0227(COD)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Miroslav Mikolášik (A6-0031/2007)

Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission) spoke.

IN THE CHAIR: Marek SIWIEC

Vice-President

Miroslav Mikolášik introduced the report.

The following spoke: Giles Chichester (draftsman of the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Hiltrud Breyer (draftsman of the opinion of the JURI Committee), John Bowis, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, on behalf of the PSE Group, Frédérique Ries, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the UEN Group, Hiltrud Breyer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Adamos Adamou, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Johannes Blokland, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Françoise Grossetête, Proinsias De Rossa, Marios Matsakis, Urszula Krupa, Peter Liese, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Kathy Sinnott, Antonios Trakatellis, Péter Olajos, John Purvis, Carlo Casini, Bogusław Sonik, Klaus Theo Schröder (President-in-Office of the Council) and Günter Verheugen

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.1.

18.   Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***I (debate)

Report on the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights [COM(2006)0168 — C6-0233/2005 — 2005/0127(COD)] — Committee on Legal Affairs.

Rapporteur: Nicola Zingaretti (A6-0073/2007)

Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission) spoke.

Nicola Zingaretti introduced the report.

The following spoke: David Hammerstein (draftsman of the opinion of the ITRE Committee), Rainer Wieland (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Hans-Peter Mayer, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Manuel Medina Ortega, on behalf of the PSE Group, Toine Manders, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Eva Lichtenberger, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Umberto Guidoni, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jim Allister, Non-attached Member, Jacques Toubon and Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg.

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO

Vice-President

The following spoke: Sharon Bowles, Carl Schlyter, Daniel Strož, Tadeusz Zwiefka, Edith Mastenbroek, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Maria Badia i Cutchet and Günter Verheugen.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.2.

19.   Future enlargements and cohesion (debate)

Report on the consequences of future enlargements on the effectiveness of cohesion policy [2006/2107(INI)] — Committee on Regional Development.

Rapporteur: Markus Pieper (A6-0087/2007)

Markus Pieper introduced the report.

The following spoke: Danuta Hübner (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Nathalie Griesbeck (draftsman of the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Lambert van Nistelrooij, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Gábor Harangozó, on behalf of the PSE Group, Grażyna Staniszewska, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the UEN Group, Gisela Kallenbach, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jens-Peter Bonde, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Dumitru Gheorghe Mircea Coşea, on behalf of the ITS Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, László Surján, Constanze Angela Krehl, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Pedro Guerreiro, Jan Olbrycht, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Danutė Budreikaitė, Margie Sudre, Miloš Koterec, Valdis Dombrovskis, Andrzej Jan Szejna, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg and Danuta Hübner.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.28.

20.   The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008) (debate)

Report on the Commission's annual policy strategy for the 2008 budget procedure Section III — Commission [2007/2017(BUD)] — Committee on Budgets.

Rapporteur: Kyösti Virrankoski (A6-0123/2007)

Kyösti Virrankoski introduced the report.

The following spoke: Dalia Grybauskaitė (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Michael Gahler (draftsman of the opinion of the AFET Committee) and Richard James Ashworth, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Adam BIELAN

Vice-President

The following spoke: Catherine Guy-Quint, on behalf of the PSE Group, Anne E. Jensen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the UEN Group, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Göran Färm, Nathalie Griesbeck, Reimer Böge, Paulo Casaca and Dalia Grybauskaitė.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.29.

21.   Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar * (debate)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation opening tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 [COM(2006)0798 — C6-0003/2007 — 2006/0261(CNS)] — Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Rapporteur: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (A6-0072/2007)

Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf introduced the report.

The following spoke: Mariann Fischer Boel (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Atilla Béla Ladislau Kelemen, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the PSE Group, Dumitru Gheorghe Mircea Coşea, on behalf of the ITS Group, and Mariann Fischer Boel.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.3.

22.   Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch * (debate)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch [COM(2006)0827 — C6-0046/2007 — 2006/0268(CNS)] — Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Rapporteur: Janusz Wojciechowski (A6-0137/2007)

The following spoke: Mariann Fischer Boel (Member of the Commission) spoke.

Janusz Wojciechowski introduced the report.

The following spoke: Esther De Lange, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Bogdan Golik, on behalf of the PSE Group, Kyösti Virrankoski, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Marc Tarabella, Jan Mulder, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Šarūnas Birutis, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk and Mariann Fischer Boel.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.27.

23.   Green Paper: Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules (debate)

Report on the Green Paper on Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules [2006/2207(INI)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Antolín Sánchez Presedo (A6-0133/2007)

Antolín Sánchez Presedo introduced the report.

The following spoke: Neelie Kroes (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Bert Doorn (draftsman of the opinion of the JURI Committee), Jonathan Evans, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Ieke van den Burg, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sharon Bowles, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Pervenche Berès, Diana Wallis and Neelie Kroes.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.10.

24.   Agenda for next sitting

The agenda for the next sitting had been established (‘Agenda’ PE 387.009/OJMA).

25.   Closure of sitting

The sitting closed at 00.05.

Harald Rømer

Secretary-General

Mechtild Rothe

Vice-President

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

The following signed:

Adamou, Aita, Albertini, Allister, Anastase, Andersson, Andrejevs, Andria, Angelilli, Antoniozzi, Arnaoutakis, Ashworth, Assis, Athanasiu, Atkins, Attard-Montalto, Attwooll, Aubert, Audy, Ayala Sender, Aylward, Bachelot-Narquin, Baco, Badia i Cutchet, Bărbuleţiu, Barón Crespo, Barsi-Pataky, Batten, Battilocchio, Batzeli, Bauer, Beaupuy, Beazley, Becsey, Beer, Beglitis, Belder, Belet, Belohorská, Beňová, Berend, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bielan, Birutis, Bliznashki, Blokland, Bloom, Bobošíková, Böge, Bösch, Bonde, Bono, Bonsignore, Booth, Borrell Fontelles, Bourlanges, Bourzai, Bowis, Bowles, Bozkurt, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Breyer, Březina, Brie, Budreikaitė, van Buitenen, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Buruiană-Aprodu, Bushill-Matthews, Busk, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Camre, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casa, Casaca, Cashman, Casini, Caspary, Castex, del Castillo Vera, Cavada, Cederschiöld, Cercas, Chatzimarkakis, Chervenyakov, Chichester, 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Tuesday 24 April 2007

20.3.2008   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 74/18

MINUTES

(2008/C 74 E/02)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO

Vice-President

1.   Opening of sitting

The sitting opened at 09.00.

2.   Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolutions tabled)

Pursuant to Rule 115, the following Members or political groups had requested that such a debate be held on the following motions for resolutions:

I.

RECENT REPRESSION OF DEMONSTRATIONS IN RUSSIA

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Pasqualina Napoletano, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Hannes Swoboda, Reino Paasilinna and Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, on behalf of the PSE Group, on repression of demonstrations in Russia (B6-0172/2007)

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Alexander Lambsdorff, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Marco Cappato, Henrik Lax and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on repression of opposition demonstrations on 14 and 15 April in Moscow and St Petersburg (B6-0175/2007)

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Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Konrad Szymański, Adam Bielan, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Ryszard Czarnecki, Inese Vaidere, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Wojciech Roszkowski, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski and Gintaras Didžiokas, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the opposition demonstrations on 14 and 15 April in Moscow and St Petersburg (B6-0178/2007)

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Bart Staes, Milan Horáček and Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on recent repression of demonstrations in Russia (B6-0179/2007)

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Edward McMillan-Scott, Bernd Posselt, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Tunne Kelam, Eija-Riitta Korhola and Simon Coveney, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on recent repression of demonstrations in Russia (B6-0182/2007)

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Vittorio Agnoletto and André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on recent repression of demonstrations in Russia (B6-0186/2007)

II.

KIDNAPPING IN GAZA OF THE JOURNALIST ALAN JOHNSTON

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Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the case of Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist who was kidnapped in Gaza on 12 March 2007 (B6-0159/2007)

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Pasqualina Napoletano, Richard Howitt and Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, on behalf of the PSE Group, on Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza (B6-0161/2007)

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Elizabeth Lynne, Chris Davies and Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza (B6-0174/2007)

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Francis Wurtz, Luisa Morgantini and André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza (B6-0177/2007)

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Margrete Auken, Jill Evans and Caroline Lucas, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza (B6-0180/2007)

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Ioannis Kasoulides, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Simon Coveney and Charles Tannock, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston (B6-0184/2007)

III.

HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

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Pasqualina Napoletano and Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the human rights situation in the Philippines (B6-0160/2007)

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Jules Maaten and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in the Philippines (B6-0173/2007)

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Tobias Pflüger, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the human rights situation in the Philippines (B6-0176/2007)

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Frithjof Schmidt, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Carl Schlyter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on breaches of human rights in the Philippines (B6-0181/2007)

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Thomas Mann, Bernd Posselt and Eija-Riitta Korhola, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the human rights situation in the Philippines (B6-0183/2007)

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Gintaras Didžiokas, Michał Tomasz Kamiński and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the human rights situation in the Philippines (B6-0185/2007)

Speaking time would be allocated in accordance with Rule 142.

3.   Vote on request for urgent procedure

Council request for the application of urgent procedure (Rule 134) for:

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* Proposal for a Council regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products (COM(2005)0671 — C6-0032/2006 — 2005/0278(CNS)) — AGRI Committee

The following spoke: Marie-Hélène Aubert (rapporteur for the AGRI Committee) spoke.

The request for urgent procedure was rejected.

4.   Discharge for the financial year 2005 (debate)

2005 Discharge: Section III — Commission

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section III — Commission [SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC) — SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Salvador Garriga Polledo (A6-0095/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section I — European Parliament

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section I — European Parliament [C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Bart Staes (A6-0094/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section II — Council

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section II — Council [C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0108/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section IV — Court of Justice

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section IV — Court of Justice [C6-0467/2006 — 2006/2073(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0109/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section V — Court of Auditors

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section V — Court of Auditors [C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0107/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section VI — Economic and Social Committee

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee [C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0110/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section VII — Committee of the Regions

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VII — Committee of the Regions [C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0106/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman [C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0104/2007)

2005 Discharge: Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor [C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0111/2007)

2005 Discharge: sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth European Development Funds

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 [COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Mogens N. J. Camre (A6-0115/2007)

Discharge 2005: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 [C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0097/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 [C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0098/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Agency for Reconstruction

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 [C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0116/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 [C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0118/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 [C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0100/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Environment Agency

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0103/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 [C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0105/2007)

2005 Discharge: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 [C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0101/2007)

Discharge 2005: European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products for the financial year 2005 [C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0099/2007)

2005 Discharge: Eurojust

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 [C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0120/2007)

2005 Discharge 2005: European Training Foundation

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 [C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0113/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Maritime Safety Agency

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0114/2007)

2005 Discharge: European Aviation Safety Agency

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0121/2007)

Discharge 2005: European Food Safety Authority

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 [C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0112/2007)

Discharge 2005: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 [C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0119/2007)

Discharge 2005: European Network and Information Security Agency

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0102/2007)

Salvador Garriga Polledo introduced the report (A6-0095/2007).

Bart Staes introduced the report (A6-0094/2007).

Daniel Caspary introduced the reports A6-0108/2007, A6-0109/2007, A6-0107/2007, A6-0110/2007, A6-0106/2007, A6-0104/2007 and A6-0111/2007.

Mogens N. J. Camre introduced the report A6-0115/2007.

Edit Herczog introduced the reports A6-0097/2007, A6-0098/2007, A6-0116/2007, A6-0118/2007, A6-0100/2007, A6-0103/2007, A6-0105/2007, A6-0101/2007, A6-0099/2007, A6-0120/2007, A6-0113/2007, A6-0114/2007, A6-0121/2007, A6-0112/2007, A6-0119/2007 and A6-0102/2007.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Ralf Walter (draftsman of the opinion of the DEVE Committee) (A6-0095/2007 and A6-0115/2007), Jutta Haug (draftsman of the opinion of the ENVI Committee) (A6-0095/2007, A6-0103/2007, A6-0112/2007 and A6-0119/2007), Michael Cramer (draftsman of the opinion of the TRAN Committee) (A6-0095/2007 and A6-0121/2007), Helga Trüpel (draftsman of the opinion of the CULT Committee) (A6-0095/2007), Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee) (A6-0095/2007 and A6-0120/2007), Lissy Gröner (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee) (A6-0095/2007), Véronique Mathieu, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Dan Jørgensen, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jan Mulder, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, on behalf of the UEN Group, and Bart Staes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS

Vice-President

The following spoke: Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nils Lundgren, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Ashley Mote, on behalf of the ITS Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, Esther De Lange, Edith Mastenbroek, Bill Newton Dunn, Janusz Wojciechowski, Paul van Buitenen, Jiří Maštálka, John Whittaker, Alexander Stubb, Paulo Casaca, Kyösti Virrankoski, Ingeborg Gräßle, Herbert Bösch, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, José Javier Pomés Ruiz, Szabolcs Fazakas, James Elles, Markus Ferber, Siim Kallas and Bart Staes.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.30, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.31, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.32, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.5, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.6, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.7, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.33, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.8, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.9, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.10, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.11, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.12, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.34, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.13, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.14, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.15, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.16, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.17, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.18, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.19, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item.7.20, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.21, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.22, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.23, Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.24 and Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.25.

5.   Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009 (debate)

Report on combating HIV/AIDS within the European Union and in the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009 [2006/2232(INI)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Georgs Andrejevs (A6-0091/2007)

Georgs Andrejevs introduced the report.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Ángel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ

Vice-President

The following spoke: Ulla Schmidt (President-in-Office of the Council) and Markos Kyprianou (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Zita Gurmai (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Antonios Trakatellis, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Dorette Corbey, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Bogusław Rogalski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Umberto Guidoni, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Irena Belohorská, Non-attached Member, Michael Cashman (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Åsa Westlund, Karin Scheele, Ulla Schmidt and Markos Kyprianou.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 7.35.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.50 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO

Vice-President

6.   Welcome

On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed Vicente Fox, the former President of Mexico, who had taken a seat in the distinguished visitors' gallery.

7.   Voting time

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

7.1.   EC-Malaysia Agreement on certain aspects of air services * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Malaysia on certain aspects of air services [COM(2006)0619 — C6-0004/2007 — 2006/0202(CNS)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0093/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0102)

7.2.   Europol staff salaries and allowances * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the initiative by the Republic of Finland with a view to the adoption of a Council decision adjusting the basic salaries and allowances applicable to Europol staff [16333/2006 — C6-0047/2007 — 2007/0801(CNS)] — Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Rapporteur: Jean-Marie Cavada (A6-0136/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0103)

Richard Corbett suggested that all the reports under the simplified procedure be put to the vote collectively (Rule 131) (the President said that he was unable to agree to the suggestion).

7.3.   Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation opening tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 [COM(2006)0798 — C6-0003/2007 — 2006/0261(CNS)] — Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Rapporteur: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (A6-0072/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL, AMENDMENT, and DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0104)

7.4.   Waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the request for waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger [2006/2198(IMM)] — Committee on Legal Affairs.

Rapporteur: Francesco Enrico Speroni (A6-0140/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0105)

7.5.   Discharge 2005: Section IV, Court of Justice (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section IV — Court of Justice [C6-0467/2006 -2006/2073(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0109/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0106)

7.6.   Discharge 2005: Section V, Court of Auditors (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section V — Court of Auditors [C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0107/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0107)

7.7.   Discharge 2005: Section VI, European Economic and Social Committee (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee [C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0110/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0108)

7.8.   Discharge 2005: Section VIIIA, European Ombudsman (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman [C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0104/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0109)

7.9.   Discharge 2005: Section VIIIB, European Data Protection Supervisor (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor [C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0111/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0110)

7.10.   Discharge 2005: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th EDFs (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 [COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Mogens N. J. Camre (A6-0115/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0111)

7.11.   Discharge 2005: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 [C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0097/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0112)

7.12.   Discharge 2005: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 [C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0098/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0113)

7.13.   Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 [C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0118/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0114)

7.14.   Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 [C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0100/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0115)

7.15.   Discharge 2005: European Environment Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0103/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0116)

7.16.   Discharge 2005: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 [C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0105/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0117)

7.17.   Discharge 2005: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 [C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0101/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0118)

7.18.   Discharge 2005: European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products for the financial year 2005 [C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0099/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0119)

7.19.   Discharge 2005: Eurojust (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 [C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0120/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0120)

7.20.   Discharge 2005: European Training Foundation (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 [C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0113/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0121)

7.21.   Discharge 2005: European Maritime Safety Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0114/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0122)

7.22.   Discharge 2005: European Aviation Safety Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0121/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0123)

7.23.   Discharge 2005: European Food Safety Authority (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 [C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0112/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0124)

7.24.   Discharge 2005: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 [C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0119/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0125)

7.25.   Discharge 2005: European Network and Information Security Agency (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 [C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0102/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSALS FOR DECISIONS 1 and 2 and MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0126)

7.26.   Payment services in the internal market ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market and amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/12/EC and 2002/65/EC [COM(2005)0603 — C6-0411/2005 — 2005/0245(COD)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Jean-Paul Gauzès (A6-0298/2006)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 26)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0127)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0127)

The following spoke:

—

Jean-Paul Gauzès (rapporteur), who recommended that amendment 287 be rejected;

—

Pervenche Berès, who moved an oral amendment with a view to adding a new citation to the legislative resolution. The oral amendment was incorporated.

7.27.   Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch * (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch [COM(2006)0827 — C6-0046/2007 — 2006/0268(CNS)] — Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Rapporteur: Janusz Wojciechowski (A6-0137/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 27)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0128)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0128)

The following spoke:

—

Janusz Wojciechowski (rapporteur) on amendment 8.

7.28.   Future enlargements and cohesion (vote)

Report on the consequences of future enlargements on the effectiveness of cohesion policy [2006/2107(INI)] — Committee on Regional Development.

Rapporteur: Markus Pieper (A6-0087/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 28)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Markus Pieper (rapporteur) spoke.

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0129)

The following spoke:

—

Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, who moved an oral amendment to amendment 26, which was incorporated (the oral amendment as amended was then rejected).

7.29.   The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008) (vote)

Report on the Commission's annual policy strategy for the 2008 budget procedure. Section III — Commission [2007/2017(BUD)] — Committee on Budgets.

Rapporteur: Kyösti Virrankoski (A6-0123/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 29)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0130)

The following spoke:

—

Kyösti Virrankoski (rapporteur), who moved an oral amendment to amendment 16, which was incorporated.

7.30.   Discharge 2005: Section III, Commission (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section III — Commission [SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC) — SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Salvador Garriga Polledo (A6-0095/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 30)

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0131)

The closure of the accounts was thereby approved (see Annex V, Article 5(1) to the Rules of Procedure).

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0131)

The following spoke:

—

Salvador Garriga Polledo (rapporteur), who moved oral amendments to paragraphs 37 and 108, which were incorporated.

7.31.   Discharge 2005: Section I, European Parliament (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section I — European Parliament [C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Bart Staes (A6-0094/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 31)

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0132)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0132)

The following spoke:

—

Edith Mastenbroek, on amendment 7;

—

Daniel Caspary, on the conduct of the vote.

7.32.   Discharge 2005: Section II, Council (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section II — Council [C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0108/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 32)

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0133)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0133)

Herbert Bösch (Chairman of the CONT Committee) expressed his disappointment at the Council's absence during the debate (the President noted his remarks).

7.33.   Discharge 2005: Section VII, Committee of the Regions (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005. Section VII — Committee of the Regions [C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Daniel Caspary (A6-0106/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 33)

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0134)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0134)

7.34.   Discharge 2005: European Agency for Reconstruction (vote)

Report on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 [C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC)] — Committee on Budgetary Control.

Rapporteur: Edit Herczog (A6-0116/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 34)

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0135)

The closure of the accounts was thereby approved (see Annex V, Article 5(1) to the Rules of Procedure).

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0135)

7.35.   Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009 (vote)

Report on combating HIV/Aids within the European Union and in the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009 [2006/2232(INI)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Georgs Andrejevs (A6-0091/2007)

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 35)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0136)

8.   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:

—

Report: Janusz Wojciechowski — A6-0137/2007: Danutė Budreikaitė

—

Report: Markus Pieper — A6-0087/2007: Czesław Adam Siekierski, Andreas Mölzer, Zita Pleštinská and Albert Deß

—

Report: Kyösti Virrankoski — A6-0123/2007: Andreas Mölzer

—

Report: Salvador Garriga Polledo — A6-0095/2007: Christopher Heaton-Harris

—

Report: Bart Staes — A6-0094/2007: Christofer Fjellner

—

Report: Daniel Caspary — A6-0106/2007: Christopher Heaton-Harris

—

Report: Georgs Andrejevs — A6-0091/2007: Marcin Libicki and Danutė Budreikaitė

9.   Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Corrections to votes and voting intentions 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 and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.

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* *

Derek Roland Clark had informed the Chair that his intention was not to abstain on paragraph 75 of the motion for resolution within the report by Bart Staes (A6-0094/2007), but to cast no vote.

(The sitting was suspended at 13.20 and resumed at 15.05.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mechtild ROTHE

Vice-President

10.   Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

11.   Community vessel traffic monitoring ***I — Investigation of accidents ***I — Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***I — Port State control ***I — Ship inspection and survey organisations ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system [COM(2005)0589 — C6-0004/2006 — 2005/0239(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Dirk Sterckx (A6-0086/2007)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC [COM(2005)0590 — C6-0056/2006 — 2005/0240(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Jaromír Kohlíček (A6-0079/2007)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea and inland waterways in the event of accidents [COM(2005)0592 — C6-0057/2006 — 2005/0241(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0063/2007)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast version) [COM(2005)0588 — C6-0028/2006 — 2005/0238(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Dominique Vlasto (A6-0081/2007)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (recast version) [COM(2005)0587 — C6-0038/2006 — 2005/0237(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Luis de Grandes Pascual (A6-0070/2007)

The following spoke: Karin Roth (President-in-Office of the Council) and Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission).

Dirk Sterckx introduced the report (A6-0086/2007).

Jaromír Kohlíček introduced the report (A6-0079/2007).

Paolo Costa introduced the report (A6-0063/2007).

Dominique Vlasto introduced the report (A6-0081/2007).

Luis de Grandes Pascual introduced the report (A6-0070/2007).

The following spoke: Willi Piecyk (draftsman of the opinion of the PECH Committee), Piia-Noora Kauppi (draftsman of the opinion of the JURI Committee) and Ioannis Kasoulides, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Luisa MORGANTINI

Vice-President

The following spoke: Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, on behalf of the PSE Group, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Roberts Zīle, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jacky Henin, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Ian Hudghton, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Graham Booth, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Fernand Le Rachinel, on behalf of the ITS Group, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Anne E. Jensen, Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Johannes Blokland, Luca Romagnoli, Philip Bradbourn, Robert Evans, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Athanasios Pafilis, Georgios Karatzaferis, Luís Queiró, Gilles Savary and Stanisław Jałowiecki.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA

Vice-President

The following spoke: Bogusław Liberadzki, Ville Itälä, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Reinhard Rack, Nikolaos Sifunakis, Karin Roth and Jacques Barrot.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.3, Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.4, Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.5, Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.6 and Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.7.

(The sitting was suspended at 17.40 pending Question Time and resumed at 18.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS

Vice-President

12.   Question Time (Commission)

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0017/2007).

Part one

Question 42 (Alain Hutchinson): Blackmail of VW Forest workers — reverse relocations.

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Alain Hutchinson, Jörg Leichtfried and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 43 (Ignasi Guardans Cambó): Potential arbitrary and contradictory application of the new air security measures.

László Kovács (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Reinhard Rack and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Question 44 (Jacek Protasiewicz): Application of state aid rules to support for the employment of disabled persons.

László Kovács answered the question and a supplementary by Jacek Protasiewicz.

Part two

Question 45 (Martin Dimitrov): Amendment of Directive 92/84/EEC with a view to increasing the minimum rates of excise duty on alcoholic beverages.

László Kovács answered the question.

Proinsias De Rossa spoke on question 46 (the President replied that question 46 had been withdrawn).

László Kovács answered supplementaries by Martin Dimitrov, John Purvis, Danutė Budreikaitė and Proinsias De Rossa, whose supplementary referred to question 45.

Carl Schlyter spoke.

Question 47 (Gianluca Susta): European Schools — enrolment.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Lapo Pistelli (deputising for the author), Richard Seeber and Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou.

Question 48 (Proinsias De Rossa): Restructuring of Eurydice.

Siim Kallas answered the question and a supplementary by Proinsias De Rossa.

Question 49 (Leopold Józef Rutowicz): Management of EU funds.

Siim Kallas answered the question and supplementaries by Leopold Józef Rutowicz and Paul Rübig.

Question 50 would receive a written answer.

Question 51 (Claude Moraes): European Regional Development Funds.

Danuta Hübner (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Claude Moraes and Paul Rübig.

Question 52 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Regional policy in respect of island regions.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou and Georgios Papastamkos.

Question 53 (Glenis Willmott): Promoting EU funding in the regions.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and a supplementary by Glenis Willmott.

Question 54 (Lambert van Nistelrooij): Status of Netherlands Antilles and the Structural Funds.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and a supplementary by Lambert van Nistelrooij.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Commission Question Time closed.

13.   Moving the inadmissibility of a matter (homophobia in Europe)

The President announced that he had received notification from the UEN Group, under Rule 167(1), of its intention to move inadmissibility at the beginning of the debate on the Council and Commission statements on homophobia in Europe, which was included on the agenda for the following afternoon.

The motion would be put to the vote immediately.

(The sitting was suspended at 19.35 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO

Vice-President

14.   Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area — Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area * (debate)

Commission statement: Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area

Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) [COM(2006)0113 — C6-0218/2006 — 2006/0036(CNS)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Eva Lichtenberger (A6-0060/2007)

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statement.

Eva Lichtenberger introduced the report.

The following spoke: Georg Jarzembowski, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Saïd El Khadraoui, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Vladimír Remek, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jean-Claude Martinez, on behalf of the ITS Group, Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Arūnas Degutis and Jacques Barrot.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.11.

15.   Galileo (debate)

Commission statement: Galileo

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Etelka Barsi-Pataky, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Norbert Glante, on behalf of the PSE Group, Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group, David Hammerstein, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Józef Pinior and Jacques Barrot.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

—

Angelika Niebler, on behalf of the ITRE Committee, on the Galileo concession contract negotiations (B6-0155/2007).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 8.8.

16.   Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***II (debate)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 [14039/1/2006 — C6-0041/2007 — 2005/0191(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0134/2007)

Paolo Costa introduced the recommendation for second reading.

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Philip Bradbourn, who began his contribution by expressing his disappointment that the item had been scheduled during the night sitting, and then continued on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Saïd El Khadraoui, on behalf of the PSE Group, Vladimír Remek, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Georg Jarzembowski, Ulrich Stockmann, Jim Higgins, Robert Evans, Reinhard Rack and Jacques Barrot.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 7.3.

17.   Assessment and management of flood risks ***II (debate)

Recommendation on the Council common position with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks [12131/6/2006 — C6-0038/2007 — 2006/0005(COD)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Richard Seeber (A6-0064/2007)

Richard Seeber introduced the recommendation for second reading.

The following spoke: Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Anja Weisgerber, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Edite Estrela, on behalf of the PSE Group, Vittorio Prodi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, on behalf of the UEN Group, Urszula Krupa, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Andreas Mölzer, on behalf of the ITS Group, Péter Olajos, Karin Scheele, Johannes Blokland and Stavros Dimas.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 9.1.

18.   Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources (debate)

Report on a Thematic Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources [2006/2210(INI)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Kartika Tamara Liotard (A6-0054/2007)

Kartika Tamara Liotard introduced the report.

The following spoke: Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Avril Doyle, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Gyula Hegyi, on behalf of the PSE Group, Mojca Drčar Murko, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, on behalf of the UEN Group, Satu Hassi, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Irena Belohorská, Non-attached Member, Riitta Myller, Evangelia Tzampazi and Stavros Dimas.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.12.

19.   Agenda for next sitting

The agenda for the next sitting had been established (‘Agenda’ PE 387.009/OJME).

20.   Closure of sitting

The sitting closed at 23.45.

Harald Rømer

Secretary-General

Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

Vice-President

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

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ANNEX I

RESULTS OF VOTES

Abbreviations and symbols

+

adopted

-

rejected

↓

lapsed

W

withdrawn

RCV (..., ..., ...)

roll-call vote (in favour, against, abstentions)

EV (..., ..., ...)

electronic vote (in favour, against, abstentions)

split

split vote

sep

separate vote

am

amendment

CA

compromise amendment

CP

corresponding part

D

deleting amendment

=

identical amendments

§

paragraph

art

article

rec

recital

MOT

motion for a resolution

JT MOT

joint motion for a resolution

SEC

secret ballot

1.   EC-Malaysia Agreement on certain aspects of air services *

Report: Paolo COSTA (A6-0093/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

RCV

+

518, 7, 19

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

2.   Europol staff salaries and allowances *

Report: Jean-Marie CAVADA (A6-0136/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

3.   Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar *

Report: Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE zu BARINGDORF (A6-0072/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

4.   Request for waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger

Report: Francesco Enrico SPERONI (A6-0140/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

RCV

+

584, 9, 38

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

5.   2005 discharge: Section IV — Court of Justice

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0109/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

6.   2005 discharge: Section V — Court of Auditors

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0107/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

7.   2005 discharge: Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee *

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0110/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

RCV

+

580, 50, 23

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

8.   2005 discharge: Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0104/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

9.   2005 discharge: Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0111/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

10.   2005 discharge: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th EDF

Report: Mogens N.J. CAMRE (A6-0115/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

11.   2005 discharge: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0097/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

12.   2005 discharge: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0098/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

13.   2005 discharge: European Monitoring Centre for Racism and Xenophobia

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0118/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

14.   2005 discharge: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0100/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

15.   2005 discharge: European Environment Agency

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0103/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

16.   2005 discharge: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0105/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

17.   2005 discharge: Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0101/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

18.   2005 discharge: European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0099/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

19.   2005 discharge: Eurojust

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0120/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

20.   2005 discharge: European Training Foundation

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0113/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

21.   2005 discharge: European Maritime Safety Agency

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0114/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

RCV

+

587, 49, 22

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: final vote

22.   2005 discharge: European Aviation Safety Agency

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0121/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

23.   2005 discharge: European Food Safety Authority

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0112/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

RCV

+

604, 23, 50

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: final vote

24.   2005 discharge: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0119/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

25.   2005 discharge: European Network and Information Security Agency

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0102/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

26.   Payment services in the internal market ***I

Report: Jean-Paul GAUZÈS (A6-0298/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

text as a whole

286

PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE

 

+

 

1-285

committee

 

↓

 

art 71

287

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

amended orally

Other information

Pervenche Berès, Chairwoman of the ECON Committee, moved an oral amendment with a view to adding the following new citation to the legislative resolution:

—

having regard to the letter of 1 March 2007 sent to the President of the Parliament by the chairman of the working party set up under art 29 of Directive 95/46/EC regarding the issues connected with data protection, especially in the operation of the SWIFT system,

27.   Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch *

Report: Bernard Piotr WOJCIECHOWSKI (A6-0137/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1-4

committee

 

+

 

art 2, after § 2

8

UEN, GRAEFE ZU BARINGDORF

EV

-

294, 354, 25

annex

5

UEN

 

-

 

6

UEN

 

-

 

7

UEN

 

-

 

vote: amended proposal

RCV

+

586, 74, 20

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: amended proposal

28.   Future enlargements and cohesion

Report: Markus PIEPER (A6-0087/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

before § 1

25

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

210, 453, 18

§ 1

20

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 2

§

original text

sep

+

 

after § 2

26

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

27

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

§ 4

9D

ALDE

 

-

 

28

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

74, 599, 8

§ 9

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 11

10D

ALDE

 

-

 

§ 12

11D

ALDE

 

-

 

21

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 13

12D

ALDE

 

-

 

22

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

188, 477, 13

§ 14

13D=

23D=

39D=

ALDE

Verts/ALE

PSE

EV

+

405, 267, 10

after § 14

37

DESS et al

 

-

 

38

DESS et al

 

-

 

§ 16

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 17

1D=

14D=

PPE-DE

ALDE

RCV

+

511, 138, 24

29

GUE/NGL

 

_

 

§

original text

 

↓

 

§ 18

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/RCV

+

382, 277, 21

§ 20

30

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

170, 496, 15

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 21

24D

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

111, 552, 22

31

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

69, 597, 21

2=

15=

PPE-DE

ALDE

 

+

 

§ 22

32

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 23

16D

ALDE

 

-

 

after § 23

33

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

108, 563, 14

§ 24

34

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/RCV

+

584, 86, 8

§ 25

17D

ALDE

RCV

+

339, 331, 19

35

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

§ 26

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 28

36

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

§ 32

§

original text

RCV

+

601, 68, 18

rec D

3

ALDE

 

-

 

rec E

4D

ALDE

 

-

 

after rec E

5

ALDE

 

+

 

rec F

6D

ALDE

EV

+

370, 262, 48

rec L

7

ALDE

 

-

 

rec N

18

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

rec P

8D

ALDE

 

-

 

19

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

rec S

§

original text

sep

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

473, 113, 104

Requests for roll-call votes

GUE/NGL: ams 1D/14D, 17D, 24D, 25, 28, 30, 31 and 33, § 32

PPE-DE: final vote

Verts/ALE: am 22

Requests for separate votes

GUE/NGL: §§ 2, 16, 20, 22 and 26

Verts/ALE: rec S

Requests for split votes

GUE/NGL

§ 1

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘in the light of budgetary realities’

2nd part: those words

§ 9

1st part:‘Stresses the importance ... interests of Union citizens’

2nd part: remainder

§ 18

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘particularly in regions ... received EU funding or many years’

2nd part: those words

§ 24

1st part:‘Notes that the success ... national economic policies’

2nd part: remainder

Other information

Helmuth Markov had also signed the GUE/NGL Group amendment.

29.   The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008)

Report: Kyösti VIRRANKOSKI (A6-0123/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

§ 1

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/RCV

+

531, 122, 24

§ 3

1

Verts/ALE

EV

+

374, 280, 16

10

PSE

 

+

 

§ 4

11

PSE

 

-

 

§ 6

8

PPE-DE

 

W

 

after § 7

9

PPE-DE

 

W

 

§ 8

13

PSE

 

-

 

§ 11

12

PSE

 

-

 

§ 13

14

PSE

 

-

 

§ 16

15

PSE

 

-

 

§ 17

16

PSE

 

+

oral amendment

§ 18

2

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 24

17

PSE

 

-

 

§ 27

18

PSE

 

+

 

after § 30

21

PSE

 

-

 

§ 31

3

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

19

PSE

EV

-

317, 349, 9

§ 32

4

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 34

5

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 40

6

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 47

7=

20=

Verts/ALE

PSE

 

-

 

after § 47

22

ALDE

 

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

Requests for split votes

IND/DEM

§ 1

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘and a renewed ... Constitutional Treaty’

2nd part: those words

Other information

Kyösti Virrankoski moved an oral amendment to amendment 16, which then read as follows:

Paragraph 17

17. Is concerned that the creation of executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies may lead to a growth in the number of EU officials and contractual agents, unless posts in the relevant Commission Directorate-General are reduced to offset the increase, and to a weakening of the oversight of the EU administration; requests the Commission to explain in the 2008 PDB how posts requested in new executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies will be offset by reductions in the responsible Directorate-General; further requests the Commission to address in the 2008 PDB the issue of appropriate oversight of executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies so as to ensure democratic accountability; urges an improvement of the Code of Conduct on the Setting-up of Executive Agencies, in particular as regards parliamentary scrutiny of financing and staffing of the agencies;

30.   2005 discharge: Section III — Commission

Report: Salvador GARRIGA POLLEDO (A6-0095/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

decision on discharge

vote: decision (as a whole)

RCV

+

567, 62, 43

motion for a resolution

§37

§

original text

 

+

amended orally

§ 40

3

PPE-DE

EV

+

332, 298, 53

after § 76

1

Verts/ALE

EV

+

437, 221, 20

§ 77

4

PPE-DE

 

+

 

§ 97

2

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 108

§

original text

 

+

amended orally

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

605, 57, 26

The decision to grant discharge also constitutes closure of the accounts (see annex V, Article 5(1) to the Rules of Procedure).

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: vote on discharge and final vote

Other information

Salvador Garriga Polledo (rapporteur) moved an oral amendment to paragraphs 37 and 108 with a view to removing the footnotes they contained.

31.   2005 discharge: Section I — European Parliament

Report: Bart STAES (A6-0094/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

decision on discharge

vote: decision (as a whole)

RCV

+

614, 55, 18

motion for a resolution

§ 30

3

PPE-DE

 

+

 

after § 57

1

FJELLNER et al

RCV

+

475, 201, 12

§ 59

§

original text

sep

-

 

§ 74

§

original text

RCV

+

457, 197, 34

§ 75

§

original text

RCV

+

457, 189, 26

§ 76

§

original text

RCV

+

416, 222, 32

§ 77

§

original text

RCV

+

421, 222, 29

§ 78

§

original text

RCV

+

438, 210, 29

§ 79

4D

PPE-DE

RCV

+

473, 190, 20

§ 80

5D

PPE-DE

RCV

+

458, 200, 19

§ 81

6D

PPE-DE

RCV

+

455, 199, 25

§ 82

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/RCV

+

447, 194, 41

§ 83

7D

PPE-DE

RCV

+

466, 193, 27

§ 84

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 85

§

original text

RCV

+

462, 193, 24

§ 88

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/RCV

-

174, 473, 37

after § 94

2

FJELLNER et al

RCV

+

448, 224, 11

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

579, 66, 41

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: ams 1, 2, vote on discharge and final vote

Verts/ALE: ams 4, 5, 6, 7, §§ 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 85 and 82-2nd part, 88-2nd part

Requests for separate vote

PPE-DE: § 59

PSE: §§ 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 84, 85

Requests for split votes

PSE

§ 82

1st part:‘Notes that the Voluntary ... be highly volatile’

2nd part: remainder

§ 88

1st part:‘Takes the view that ... the necessary measures,’

2nd part: remainder

32.   2005 discharge: Section II — Council

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0108/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

decision on discharge

vote: decision (as a whole)

RCV

+

499, 161, 23

motion for a resolution

§ 10

1

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

135, 517, 29

after § 12

2

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

124, 532, 30

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

583, 68, 28

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: vote on discharge and final vote

Verts/ALE: ams 1, 2

33.   2005 discharge: Section VII — Committee of the Regions

Report: Daniel CASPARY (A6-0106/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

decision on discharge

vote: decision (as a whole)

RCV

+

516, 101, 53

motion for a resolution

after § 7

1=

6=

Verts/ALE

IND/DEM

RCV

-

156, 506, 4

§ 8

2=

7=

Verts/ALE

IND/DEM

RCV

+

380, 291, 5

after § 8

3=

8=

Verts/ALE

IND/DEM

RCV

-

115, 552, 11

4=

9=

Verts/ALE

IND/DEM

RCV

-

149, 524, 6

5=

10=

Verts/ALE

IND/DEM

RCV

-

111, 543, 10

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

604, 64, 12

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: vote on discharge and final vote

IND/DEM: vote on discharge, ams 6-10 and final vote

34.   2005 discharge: European Agency for Reconstruction

Report: Edit HERCZOG (A6-0116/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

decision on discharge

vote: decision (as a whole)

 

+

 

motion for a resolution

§ 23

1=

2=

PSE

PPE-DE

 

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

The decision to grant discharge also constitutes closure of the accounts (see annex V, Article 5(1) to the Rules of Procedure).

35.   Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009

Report: Georgs ANDREJEVS (A6-0091/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

§ 2

13

Verts/ALE

EV

+

369, 236, 11

§ 5

14

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

§ 10

5

PSE

 

-

 

§ 12

15

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 15

16

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 19

17

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

§ 23

3

ALDE

 

+

 

§ 24

18

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

§ 29

§

original text

split/RCV

 

 

1

+

607, 6, 15

2

+

570, 45, 18

after § 30

19

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

§ 32

§

original text

RCV

+

592, 39, 4

after § 32

20

Verts/ALE

RCV

+

357, 271, 12

§ 36

21

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

after § 38

4

ALDE

 

+

 

rec C

1

ALDE

 

+

 

after rec C

6

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

after rec G

7

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

rec H

8

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

rec L

§

original text

RCV

+

580, 42, 14

rec M

9

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

after rec M

10

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

rec P

§

original text

split/RCV

 

 

1

+

603, 9, 19

2

+

541, 43, 15

rec Q

2

ALDE

 

+

 

11

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

after rec W

12

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: rec L, § 32, am 20, rec P and § 29

Requests for split votes

IND/DEM

rec P

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘reproductive’

2nd part: those words

§ 29

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘sexual and reproductive’

2nd part: those words

ANNEX II

RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES

1.   Costa report A6-0093/2007

Resolution

For: 518

ALDE: Andria, Attwooll, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Lundgren, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Mihăescu, Romagnoli

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Callanan, Casa, Casini, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Jarzembowski, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Škottová, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weisgerber, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tarabella, Thomsen, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hudghton, Joan i Marí, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 7

ALDE: De Sarnez

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Wise

PSE: Siwiec

Abstention: 19

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Krupa

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Kilroy-Silk

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Schlyter

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Paul Rübig, Rainer Wieland, Marielle De Sarnez

2.   Speroni report A6-0140/2007

Resolution

For: 584

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, De Sarnez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Goudin, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Turmes

Against: 9

IND/DEM: Louis

ITS: Mihăescu, Romagnoli

PPE-DE: Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Christensen, Jørgensen, Schaldemose

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Abstention: 38

ALDE: Matsakis

IND/DEM: Krupa, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Sonik

UEN: Bielan, Kamiński, Libicki

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Horáček, Hudghton, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Ždanoka

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

3.   Caspary report A6-0110/2007

Resolution

For: 580

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, De Sarnez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers

ITS: Coşea, Mihăescu

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 50

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Krupa, Nattrass, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Gargani, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kirkhope, Lulling, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Abstention: 23

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Pflüger, Toussas, Wagenknecht

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki, McMillan-Scott, Szabó

UEN: Camre

4.   Herczog report A6-0114/2007

Resolution

For: 587

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, De Sarnez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Krupa, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Coşea, Mihăescu

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 49

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Mote

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, Lulling, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

Abstention: 22

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Pflüger, Toussas, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Baco, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

UEN: Musumeci

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Manolis Mavrommatis

5.   Herczog report A6-0112/2007

Resolution

For: 604

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, De Sarnez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Mihăescu

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 23

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Strejček, Tannock

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Abstention: 50

ALDE: Ek

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Pflüger, Toussas, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Krupa

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Harbour, Jałowiecki, Kamall, Kirkhope, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Sturdy, Sumberg, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Alfonso Andria

Abstention: Charles Tannock

6.   Wojciechowski report A6-0137/2007

For: 586

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bowles, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Karatzaferis, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Galeote, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Ibrisagic, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Kristovskis, Kuc, La Russa, Maldeikis, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 74

ALDE: Birutis, Juknevičienė, Staniszewska

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Coşea, Mote

NI: Allister, Baco, Belohorská, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Anastase, Březina, Buzek, Caspary, Chmielewski, Descamps, Dombrovskis, Handzlik, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jałowiecki, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kelam, Klich, Kudrycka, Lewandowski, Marinescu, Novak, Olajos, Ouzký, Protasiewicz, Saryusz-Wolski, Siekierski, Škottová, Spautz, Strejček, Vatanen, Vlasák, Zaleski, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Corbey, Geringer de Oedenberg

UEN: Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Grabowski, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rutowicz

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Budreikaitė

IND/DEM: Krupa, Železný

PPE-DE: Ganţ, Higgins, Olbrycht, Pleštinská, Záborská

PSE: Beňová

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Musumeci, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Marie-Hélène Descamps

7.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 25

For: 210

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Strož, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Sinnott

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Casini, Dombrovskis, Gklavakis, Hatzidakis, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Šťastný, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Bono, Bourzai, Bullmann, Carlotti, Carnero González, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Cottigny, De Keyser, Désir, Douay, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, Gomes, Hamon, Jørgensen, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Muscat, Pahor, Patrie, Poignant, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Roure, Sifunakis, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Xenogiannakopoulou

UEN: Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Kuźmiuk, Ó Neachtain, Podkański, Rogalski, Wojciechowski Janusz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 453

ALDE: Chatzimarkakis, in 't Veld

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Battilocchio, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Assis, Athanasiu, Barón Crespo, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Casaca, Cashman, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Rühle, Schlyter

Abstention: 18

ALDE: Manders, Mulder

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Manolakou, Meijer, Pafilis, Søndergaard, Svensson, Toussas

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Belohorská, Kilroy-Silk

PSE: Grech

UEN: Musumeci

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Pervenche Berès

Against: Dan Jørgensen

8.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 28

For: 74

ALDE: Bărbuleţiu

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bliznashki, Bono, Bourzai, Carlotti, Castex, Cottigny, Désir, Douay, Estrela, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Obiols i Germà, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Xenogiannakopoulou

UEN: Angelilli, Czarnecki Ryszard, Rogalski, Tatarella, Wojciechowski Janusz

Against: 599

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Abstention: 8

IND/DEM: Sinnott

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PSE: Paparizov

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Jonckheer, Voggenhuber

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Edite Estrela, Rainer Wieland

9.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 22

For: 188

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Sinnott

NI: Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Carlotti, Castex, Gomes, Grech, Hutchinson, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Martínez Martínez, Muscat, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Sifunakis, Szejna, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Weiler, Xenogiannakopoulou

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Libicki, Rogalski, Wojciechowski Janusz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 477

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 13

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

NI: Allister, Baco, Belohorská, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PSE: Hamon, Roure

UEN: Tatarella

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Voggenhuber

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Maria Matsouka, Charlotte Cederschiöld

Against: Joel Hasse Ferreira

10.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendments 1 + 14

For: 511

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, Gargani, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Vits, Díez González, Estrela, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Kinnock, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Leichtfried, Leinen, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Roure, Sacconi, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 138

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mihăescu

PPE-DE: Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fjellner, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Ibrisagic, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Beňová, van den Berg, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bulfon, Bullmann, Christensen, Corbey, Dobolyi, Douay, Fazakas, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gröner, Groote, Haug, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lehtinen, Mann Erika, Myller, Paasilinna, Panzeri, Paparizov, Piecyk, Prets, Rapkay, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Sakalas, dos Santos, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Stockmann, Tarabella, Thomsen, Walter

UEN: Foglietta

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 24

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PSE: Andersson, Dîncu, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Gierek, Liberadzki, Muscat, Paşcu, Rosati, Swoboda

UEN: Angelilli, Camre, Rogalski, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Pierre Schapira, Brigitte Douay

Against: Inger Segelström, Gunnar Hökmark

11.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Paragraph 18/2

For: 382

ALDE: Alvaro, Andria, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Meijer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gauzès, Gawronski, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, Grosch, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Handzlik, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mauro, Mayer, Mikolášik, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Rübig, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Assis, Athanasiu, van den Berg, Borrell Fontelles, Bulfon, Bullmann, Christensen, De Vits, Dobolyi, Fernandes, Geringer de Oedenberg, Glante, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Hänsch, Haug, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Leichtfried, Martínez Martínez, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Rapkay, Schaldemose, Scheele, Sifunakis, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Thomsen, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Weiler

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Jonckheer, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Onesta, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 277

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Cappato, Ciornei, Harkin, Kacin, Kułakowski, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Şerbu

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Bachelot-Narquin, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Elles, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fraga Estévez, Galeote, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Gyürk, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Kamall, Kirkhope, Lulling, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayor Oreja, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nicholson, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sumberg, Tannock, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gierek, Gill, Goebbels, Gomes, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Poignant, Prets, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schapira, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Buitenweg, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Lagendijk, Lipietz, Romeva i Rueda, Voggenhuber

Abstention: 21

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík, Martin Hans-Peter

PSE: Creţu Corina, Dührkop Dührkop, Harangozó, Liberadzki, Muscat, Panzeri, Paparizov, Rosati

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Othmar Karas

Against: Stavros Lambrinidis, Nikolaos Sifunakis, Ole Christensen, Christel Schaldemose, Britta Thomsen

12.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 30

For: 170

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Gollnisch, Mihăescu, Popeangă

NI: Baco, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Bachelot-Narquin, Becsey, Descamps, De Veyrac, Gklavakis, Grossetête, Guellec, Hatzidakis, Mathieu, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Sonik, Strejček, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Vlasto

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, Bulfon, Corbey, Estrela, Hegyi, Lambrinidis, Liberadzki, Matsouka, Sifunakis, Tzampazi, Xenogiannakopoulou

UEN: Borghezio, Crowley, Kamiński, La Russa, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain

Against: 496

GUE/NGL: Liotard, Morgantini

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 15

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PSE: Paparizov

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Kartika Tamara Liotard

Against: Edite Estrela

13.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 24

For: 111

ALDE: Ilchev, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Baco, Bobošíková

PPE-DE: Gklavakis, Hatzidakis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Berès, Bono, Bourzai, Carlotti, Castex, Corbey, Cottigny, De Keyser, Douay, Dumitrescu, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, Hamon, Haug, Herczog, Jørgensen, Laignel, Paparizov, Patrie, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Trautmann, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud

UEN: Angelilli, Crowley, Kamiński, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 552

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mote

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hegyi, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Rühle, Schlyter

Abstention: 22

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Bonde

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Papastamkos, Siekierski

PSE: Grech

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Dan Jørgensen

14.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 31

For: 69

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Hatzidakis, Mavrommatis, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, De Keyser, Estrela, Hamon, Lambrinidis, Matsouka, Obiols i Germà, Paparizov, Severin, Sifunakis, Tzampazi, Xenogiannakopoulou

UEN: Muscardini

Against: 597

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Mote, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 21

ALDE: Morţun

IND/DEM: Louis, Sinnott, de Villiers

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Edite Estrela

15.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 33

For: 108

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Beglitis, Casaca, De Keyser, Dumitrescu, Gomes, Grech, Hutchinson, Lambrinidis, Matsouka, Muscat, Obiols i Germà, Sifunakis, Tzampazi, Xenogiannakopoulou

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 563

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Gollnisch, Mote, Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Frassoni

Abstention: 14

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Nattrass, Sinnott, Whittaker, Wise

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Katerina Batzeli

16.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Paragraph 24/2

For: 584

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Sinnott

ITS: Coşea

NI: Allister, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Ryan, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 86

ALDE: Geremek, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Strejček, Sumberg

PSE: El Khadraoui, Gierek, Van Lancker

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Muscardini, Rutowicz, Wojciechowski Janusz

Abstention: 8

IND/DEM: Bonde, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík, Martin Hans-Peter

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Anne Van Lancker

17.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Amendment 17

For: 339

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Dombrovskis, Grosch, Kušķis, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Pīks, Strejček

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Kamiński, Ó Neachtain, Rogalski, Wojciechowski Janusz

Against: 331

ALDE: Beaupuy, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pistelli, Sterckx

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Allister

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Gierek, Stihler

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 19

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík, Martin Hans-Peter

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Catherine Stihler

18.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Paragraph 32

For: 601

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Karatzaferis, Sinnott, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 68

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Strejček

UEN: Crowley, Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter

Abstention: 18

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Manolakou, Meijer, Pafilis, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Toussas

NI: Allister, Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Beazley

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Schlyter

19.   Pieper report A6-0087/2007

Resolution

For: 473

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cornillet, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Ilchev, Laperrouze, Ludford, Matsakis, Morţun, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Sbarbati, Sterckx, Veraldi, Virrankoski

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 113

ALDE: Alvaro, Budreikaitė, Chatzimarkakis, in 't Veld, Szent-Iványi

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Coşea, Mote

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Deß, Toubon

PSE: Cashman, Corbett, Evans Robert, Gill, Honeyball, Howitt, Kinnock, Laignel, Martin David, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Westlund, Willmott

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 104

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Busk, Cappato, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Karatzaferis, Louis, Sinnott, de Villiers, Železný

ITS: Stoyanov

NI: Baco

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Evans Jonathan, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Stevenson, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden

PSE: Ford, McAvan

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Åsa Westlund

20.   Virrankoski report A6-0123/2007

Paragraph 1/2

For: 531

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Bonde

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Gollnisch, Mihăescu, Popeangă, Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Siwiec, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Gobbo, Kamiński, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 122

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Mote

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Iturgaiz Angulo, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

UEN: Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Schlyter

Abstention: 24

ITS: Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík

PSE: Cashman, Evans Robert, Ford, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kinnock, Martin David, Moraes, Skinner, Stihler, Willmott

UEN: Krasts

Verts/ALE: Hudghton, Lucas

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Jens-Peter Bonde

Abstention: Linda McAvan, Gary Titley

21.   Garriga Polledo report A6-0095/2007

Decision

For: 567

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Markov, Triantaphyllides

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Sinnott

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc, Mote

NI: Belohorská, Kilroy-Silk, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Spautz, Šťastný, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 62

GUE/NGL: Kohlíček, Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Mihăescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bushill-Matthews, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Abstention: 43

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Battilocchio

UEN: Camre, Podkański

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Jerzy Buzek

Against: Malcolm Harbour, Philip Bradbourn

22.   Garriga Polledo report A6-0095/2007

Resolution

For: 605

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Sinnott

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 57

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Barsi-Pataky, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, García-Margallo y Marfil, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

Abstention: 26

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Pflüger, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Baco, Bobošíková

PSE: Roth-Behrendt

UEN: Camre

23.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Decision

For: 614

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Lundgren, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 55

GUE/NGL: Ransdorf

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Coşea, Mote

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Spautz, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Abstention: 18

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Bonde

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

24.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Amendment 1

For: 475

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hökmark, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Kauppi, Kelam, Kirkhope, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Attard-Montalto, van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, Cashman, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, De Vits, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Gill, Grabowska, Grech, Guy-Quint, Haug, Hegyi, Honeyball, Howitt, Jørgensen, Kinnock, Koterec, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Locatelli, McAvan, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Muscat, Myller, Paasilinna, Paparizov, Rasmussen, Rosati, Schaldemose, Segelström, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Thomsen, Titley, Van Lancker, Westlund, Willmott

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 201

ALDE: Beaupuy, Cornillet, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze

GUE/NGL: Henin, Markov, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská

PPE-DE: Albertini, Böge, Caspary, Daul, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Ebner, Esteves, Ferber, Florenz, Gauzès, Grossetête, Guellec, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Karas, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, Mathieu, Musotto, Nassauer, Pack, Posselt, Queiró, Radwan, Schwab, Spautz, Toubon, von Wogau, Záborská

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Herczog, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Maldeikis

Abstention: 12

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kilroy-Silk, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

PSE: Beňová, Bliznashki, Leichtfried, Swoboda, Wiersma

UEN: Didžiokas

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Stephen Hughes, Ieke van den Burg, Catherine Guy-Quint

Against: Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin

25.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 74

For: 457

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Färm, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Mikko, Paparizov, Segelström, Stihler, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 197

ALDE: Andria, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Guardans Cambó, Pistelli, Polfer, Sbarbati, Toia, Veraldi

ITS: Coşea, Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Fatuzzo, Gawronski, Mantovani, Musotto, Tajani, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli

Abstention: 34

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Posselt

PSE: Beňová, van den Burg, Ferreira Anne, Muscat, Roth-Behrendt, Scheele

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Anne Van Lancker, Hélène Goudin, Nils Lundgren

26.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 75

For: 457

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Färm, Falbr, Grabowska, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Paparizov, Segelström, Stihler, Vergnaud, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 189

ALDE: Andria, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Toia, Veraldi

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Gawronski, Mantovani, Musotto, Tajani, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: de Groen-Kouwenhoven

Abstention: 26

ALDE: Polfer

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Clark

ITS: Claeys, Gollnisch, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Baco, Kozlík, Rivera

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Leichtfried, Muscat, Roth-Behrendt, Sacconi, Scheele, Swoboda

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Anne Van Lancker, Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven

Abstention: Ieke van den Burg

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Paragraph 76

For: 416

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Mölzer, Moisuc, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Attard-Montalto, Beňová, van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Evans Robert, Färm, Grech, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Muscat, Segelström, Stihler, Van Lancker, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 222

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

ITS: Coşea

NI: Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Gawronski, Gklavakis, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Jarzembowski, Karas, Lulling, Mantovani, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayor Oreja, Musotto, Nassauer, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Pirker, Rack, Rübig, Schierhuber, Seeber, Siekierski, Spautz, Tajani, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Záborská, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Borghezio, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Gobbo, Kamiński, Krasts, Maldeikis, Musumeci, Speroni, Tatarella

Abstention: 32

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Toussas

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Belet, Brepoels, Dehaene, Grosch, Nicholson, Schwab, Thyssen, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Koterec, Roth-Behrendt, Rouček, Sacconi, Scheele, Swoboda

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg

28.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 77

For: 421

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Lundgren, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Beňová, van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, van den Burg, Corbey, Evans Robert, Färm, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Muscat, Segelström, Siwiec, Stihler, Van Lancker, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 222

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cappato, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Daul, Gawronski, Gklavakis, Grosch, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Jarzembowski, Karas, Lulling, Mantovani, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Musotto, Nassauer, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Pirker, Rack, Rübig, Schierhuber, Seeber, Spautz, Tajani, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Záborská, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Borghezio, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Gobbo, Krasts, Maldeikis, Muscardini, Musumeci, Speroni, Tatarella

Abstention: 29

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Toussas

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Belet, Brepoels, Dehaene, Schwab, Thyssen, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Leichtfried, Roth-Behrendt, Rouček, Sacconi, Scheele, Swoboda

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Joseph Muscat,

Against: Louis Grech

29.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 78

For: 438

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Dillen, Mihăescu, Mölzer

NI: Allister, Baco, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Attard-Montalto, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Dührkop Dührkop, Evans Robert, Färm, Grech, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Muscat, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Segelström, Stihler, Van Lancker, Westlund

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 210

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Morgantini

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Gawronski, Gklavakis, Hatzidakis, Jarzembowski, Karas, Lulling, Mantovani, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Musotto, Nassauer, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Pirker, Rack, Rübig, Schierhuber, Seeber, Spautz, Tajani, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Záborská, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

Abstention: 29

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Toussas

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Daul, Schwab, Varvitsiotis

PSE: van den Burg, Koterec, Leichtfried, Roth-Behrendt, Rouček, Scheele, Swoboda, Zingaretti

30.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Amendment 4

For: 473

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Gibault, Griesbeck, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Laperrouze, Ludford, Onyszkiewicz, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Lundgren, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 190

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

NI: Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Belet, Brepoels, Callanan, Dehaene, Doorn, Fjellner, Grosch, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Kamall, De Lange, Langendries, Martens, van Nistelrooij, Oomen-Ruijten, Post, Silva Peneda, Sumberg, Thyssen, Van Orden, Wortmann-Kool

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Corbey, Färm, Fazakas, Goebbels, Grabowska, Kósáné Kovács, Leichtfried, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Muscat, Myller, Paparizov, dos Santos, Segelström, Stihler, Van Lancker, Westlund

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Toia

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Varvitsiotis

PSE: Koterec, Scheele, Schulz

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Louis Grech, Charlotte Cederschiöld, Hélène Goudin, Nils Lundgren

Abstention: Ieke van den Burg

31.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Amendment 5

For: 458

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Toia, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Krupa, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mölzer, Moisuc

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Krehl, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 200

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Callanan, Doorn, Fjellner, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Kamall, De Lange, Martens, van Nistelrooij, Oomen-Ruijten, Post, Sumberg, Van Orden, Wortmann-Kool

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Goebbels, Grabowska, Kósáné Kovács, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Leinen, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Muscat, Myller, Scheele, Segelström, Stihler, Stockmann, Van Lancker, Westlund

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 19

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann, Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PSE: Gröner, Leichtfried

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Louis Grech, Charlotte Cederschiöld,

Abstention: Ieke van den Burg

32.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Amendment 6

For: 455

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Prodi, Sbarbati, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Krupa, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 199

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Geremek, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Mölzer, Romagnoli, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Belet, Callanan, Dehaene, Fjellner, Grosch, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Kamall, De Lange, Langendries, Sumberg, Thyssen, Van Orden

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Bozkurt, Corbey, De Vits, Evans Robert, Färm, Fazakas, Goebbels, Hänsch, Kósáné Kovács, Mastenbroek, Muscat, Myller, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paparizov, dos Santos, Segelström, Siwiec, Van Lancker, Westlund

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 25

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann, Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Brepoels, Doorn, Martens, van Nistelrooij, Oomen-Ruijten, Post

PSE: Leichtfried, Rapkay, Roth-Behrendt, Scheele

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Mia De Vits

Against: Louis Grech, Charlotte Cederschiöld, Ieke van den Burg, Thijs Berman, Corien Wortmann-Kool

33.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 82/2

For: 447

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Moisuc

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Cottigny, Dobolyi, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Stihler, Tabajdi, Van Lancker

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 194

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cappato, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

ITS: Coşea, Stănescu

NI: Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Gawronski, Hennicot-Schoepges, Lulling, Mantovani, Mauro, Musotto, Spautz, Tajani, Záborská, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

Abstention: 41

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Kozlík

PSE: Andersson, Attard-Montalto, Beňová, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Leichtfried, Muscat, Paparizov, Roth-Behrendt, Rouček, Segelström, Westlund, Zingaretti

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Rainer Wieland, Ieke van den Burg

34.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Amendment 7

For: 466

ALDE: Andria, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Gentvilas, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Pannella, Piskorski, Pistelli, Prodi, Sbarbati, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Romeva i Rueda

Against: 193

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Pohjamo, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Mölzer, Romagnoli, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Callanan, Doorn, Doyle, Fjellner, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Kamall, De Lange, Martens, Musotto, van Nistelrooij, Oomen-Ruijten, Pieper, Post, Strejček, Sumberg, Van Orden, Wortmann-Kool

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Bozkurt, Evans Robert, Färm, Ford, Lehtinen, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Mikko, Muscat, Paparizov, dos Santos, Segelström, Van Lancker, Weiler, Westlund

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 27

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, de Villiers

ITS: Coşea, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PSE: Beňová, Leichtfried, McAvan, Stihler, Swoboda, Zingaretti

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Rainer Wieland

Against: Louis Grech, Charlotte Cederschiöld,

Abstention: Ieke van den Burg

35.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 85

For: 462

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Moisuc, Vanhecke

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbey, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Grabowska, Leinen, McAvan, Mastenbroek, Segelström, Siwiec, Stihler, Szejna, Van Lancker, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 193

ALDE: Andria, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

NI: Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Albertini, Antoniozzi, Braghetto, Casini, Gawronski, Mantovani, Mauro, Musotto, Tajani, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Borghezio, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Kamiński, Krasts, La Russa, Maldeikis, Muscardini, Musumeci, Speroni, Tatarella

Abstention: 24

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Toussas

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Baco, Kozlík

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Beňová, Grech, Gröner, Koterec, Muscat, Roth-Behrendt

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Ieke van den Burg

36.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Paragraph 88/2

For: 174

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Aita, Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Musacchio, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Mölzer, Moisuc, Romagnoli, Vanhecke

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Callanan, Fjellner, Gargani, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Kamall, Kasoulides, Sumberg, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Vernola

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Bozkurt, Corbett, Corbey, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gomes, Harangozó, Mastenbroek, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pittella, Rouček, Sacconi, Segelström, Siwiec, Tabajdi, Tarand, Westlund, Wiersma

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 473

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Gibault, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Kilroy-Silk, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stockmann, Szejna, Tarabella, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 37

ALDE: Fourtou, Toia

GUE/NGL: Markov, Meyer Pleite, Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Beňová, Grech, Gröner, McAvan, Muscat, Roth-Behrendt, Stihler

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Charlotte Cederschiöld

Abstention: Ieke van den Burg

37.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Amendment 2

For: 448

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gawronski, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Higgins, Hökmark, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vlasák, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Attard-Montalto, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bozkurt, van den Burg, Cashman, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, De Vits, Dobolyi, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Gill, Grech, Gröner, Haug, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Locatelli, McAvan, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Muscat, Paasilinna, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Segelström, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Thomsen, Titley, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Westlund, Willmott, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 224

ALDE: Andria, Beaupuy, Cappato, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Laperrouze, Pannella, Pistelli, Sbarbati

GUE/NGL: Aita, Henin, Kohlíček, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Bachelot-Narquin, Böge, Braghetto, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Ehler, Ferber, Gauzès, Gewalt, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iturgaiz Angulo, Karas, Klamt, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, Mantovani, Mathieu, Mauro, Musotto, Nassauer, Pack, Pirker, Radwan, Schröder, Schwab, Spautz, Tajani, Toubon, Ulmer, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, von Wogau, Záborská, Zappalà

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Herczog, Jöns, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Napoletano, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Kamiński, Libicki

Abstention: 11

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Markov

IND/DEM: Krupa

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Kilroy-Silk

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

PSE: Beňová, Bullmann, Hegyi, Leichtfried

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Hubert Pirker

38.   Staes report A6-0094/2007

Resolution

For: 579

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Lundgren, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Moisuc, Romagnoli, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wortmann-Kool, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 66

ALDE: Pannella, Sbarbati

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Coşea, Mote

NI: Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, De Veyrac, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Kamall, Kirkhope, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mantovani, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Spautz, Stevenson, Strejček, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zappalà, Zvěřina

PSE: Corbey, Goebbels, Hasse Ferreira, Kósáné Kovács, Leinen, Roth-Behrendt, dos Santos

UEN: Krasts

Abstention: 41

ALDE: Cappato, Cocilovo, Costa, Pistelli

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers, Železný

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Baco, Bobošíková

PPE-DE: Braghetto, Casini, Descamps, Deß, Ferber, Gauzès, Grossetête, Jałowiecki, Musotto, Sturdy, Toubon, Weber Manfred

PSE: Dührkop Dührkop, Gebhardt, Gottardi, Sacconi, Trautmann

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Véronique De Keyser, Alain Hutchinson,

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Decision

For: 499

ALDE: Andrejevs, Andria, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Deprez, Gentvilas, Hellvig, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Laperrouze, Pannella, Prodi, Sbarbati, Şerbu, Virrankoski

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Flasarová, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc, Popeangă

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Piotrowski, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 161

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Costa, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Savi, Schuth, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Dillen, Gollnisch, Mote, Romagnoli, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Kilroy-Silk, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Iturgaiz Angulo, Kamall, Kirkhope, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mato Adrover, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Pomés Ruiz, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Badia i Cutchet, Creţu Corina, Stihler

UEN: Podkański, Wojciechowski Janusz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 23

ALDE: Degutis, Kułakowski, Matsakis, Samuelsen

GUE/NGL: Figueiredo, Guerreiro, Manolakou, Markov, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Bonde

ITS: Claeys, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

PSE: Hasse Ferreira

UEN: Pęk

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Marie-Hélène Descamps, Christine De Veyrac

Against: Catherine Stihler

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Amendment 1

For: 135

ALDE: Samuelsen

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Kaufmann, McDonald, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Sinnott

NI: Allister, Baco, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, De Veyrac, Fjellner, Higgins, Hökmark, Itälä, Ouzký, Pleštinská, Zahradil

PSE: Andersson, Beňová, Berman, De Vits, Evans Robert, Färm, Ford, Grabowska, Hegyi, Leichtfried, McAvan, Mihalache, Roth-Behrendt, Saks, Segelström, Stihler, Tzampazi, Westlund

UEN: Angelilli, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 517

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Henin, Kohlíček, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kilroy-Silk, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, van den Berg, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Rapkay, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Didžiokas, Maldeikis, Ó Neachtain, Ryan

Abstention: 29

ALDE: Ek, Resetarits

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Pafilis, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Toussas

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Schenardi, Vanhecke

NI: Kozlík

PSE: Berlinguer, Falbr, Hasse Ferreira

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Alexander Alvaro, Karin Resetarits, Frédérique Ries,

Against: Evangelia Tzampazi

41.   Caspary report A6-0108/2007

Amendment 2

For: 124

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis, Sinnott

NI: Baco, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Ebner, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Gargani, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kirkhope, Koch, Konrad, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tajani, Tannock, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vernola, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Corbey, Hegyi, Locatelli, Mastenbroek, Stihler

UEN: Bielan, Kristovskis, Kuc, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 532

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kilroy-Silk, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zīle

Abstention: 30

ALDE: Resetarits

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Markov, Pafilis, Toussas

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Kozlík

PSE: Creţu Gabriela, Hasse Ferreira, McAvan, Zani

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Malcolm Harbour

Against: Rainer Wieland

42.   Caspary report A6-0108/2007

Resolution

For: 583

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, McDonald, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Onesta, Schlyter, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 68

ALDE: Hennis-Plasschaert

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Gräßle, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hoppenstedt, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Gierek, Roth-Behrendt

Verts/ALE: Voggenhuber

Abstention: 28

ALDE: Davies

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Manolakou, Markov, Pafilis, Pflüger, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Wagenknecht

ITS: Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Baco

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

PSE: Berlinguer, Hasse Ferreira

UEN: Foglietta

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Lucas, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ingeborg Gräßle

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Decision

For: 516

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Riis-Jørgensen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Markov

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Coşea, Gollnisch, Moisuc, Stănescu

NI: Belohorská, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 101

ALDE: Hennis-Plasschaert

GUE/NGL: Kohlíček, Strož

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Gierek, Kinnock, Kirilov

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 53

ALDE: Ek

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki, Purvis

PSE: Hasse Ferreira

UEN: Camre

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Rainer Wieland

Against: John Purvis

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Amendments 1 + 6

For: 156

ALDE: Cornillet

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Florenz, Grosch, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Capoulas Santos, Cashman, Falbr, Pahor, Stockmann

UEN: Angelilli, Camre, Podkański, Wojciechowski Janusz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 506

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Abstention: 4

ALDE: Davies

IND/DEM: Železný

ITS: Mote

PSE: Muscat

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Michael Cashman

Abstention: Louis Grech

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Amendments 2 + 7

For: 380

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Tabajdi

UEN: Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 291

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Gobbo, Kamiński, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella

Abstention: 5

ALDE: Davies

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kozlík, Rivera

46.   Caspary report A6-0106/2007

Amendments 3 + 8

For: 115

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Pleštinská

PSE: Chiesa

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 552

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 11

ALDE: Davies

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

PPE-DE: Callanan, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Sumberg, Van Orden

PSE: Muscat

Verts/ALE: Frassoni

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Louis Grech

47.   Caspary report A6-0106/2007

Amendments 4 + 9

For: 149

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 524

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 6

ALDE: Davies, Ek

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

PSE: Ford, Muscat

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Louis Grech

48.   Caspary report A6-0106/2007

Amendments 5 + 10

For: 111

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Sinnott, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Martin Hans-Peter

PSE: Borrell Fontelles, dos Santos

UEN: Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Wojciechowski Janusz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 543

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 10

ALDE: Ek

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

PPE-DE: Callanan, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Sumberg, Van Orden

PSE: Roth-Behrendt

49.   Caspary report A6-0106/2007

Resolution

For: 604

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Sinnott

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hatzidakis, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 64

ALDE: Ek

IND/DEM: Batten, Bloom, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Atkins, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Ouzký, Parish, Purvis, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Tannock, Thyssen, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Simpson, Skinner

Abstention: 12

ALDE: Davies

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis, Pflüger, Toussas, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

NI: Baco

PPE-DE: Jałowiecki

PSE: Hasse Ferreira, Roth-Behrendt

UEN: Camre

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Brian Simpson

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ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 6

IND/DEM: Bonde, Booth, Clark, Karatzaferis, Wise

PPE-DE: Rudi Ubeda

Abstention: 15

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

PPE-DE: Mauro, Zieleniec

UEN: Rutowicz

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Rainer Wieland

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ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Krasts, Kristovskis, Rutowicz, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 45

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Krupa, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Casini, Posselt, Záborská

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Abstention: 18

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

PPE-DE: Mauro, Zieleniec

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Rainer Wieland

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For: 592

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Ashworth, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 39

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Krupa, Sinnott, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Antoniozzi, De Veyrac, Post, Szabó, Tannock

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Ryan

Abstention: 4

ITS: Mote

PPE-DE: Mauro, Posselt

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

53.   Andrejevs report A6-0091/2007

Amendment 20

For: 357

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Goudin, Lundgren

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Bauer, Belet, Brepoels, Buzek, Cederschiöld, Dehaene, Fjellner, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gräßle, Ibrisagic, Kušķis, Nicholson, Sumberg, Thyssen

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Gobbo, Kristovskis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 271

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Gurmai, Hänsch

UEN: Angelilli, Bielan, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Muscardini, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 12

ALDE: Takkula

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Wise

ITS: Mihăescu

PPE-DE: Coveney, Szabó

UEN: Aylward, Rogalski, Ryan

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Gunnar Hökmark

54.   Andrejevs report A6-0091/2007

Recital L

For: 580

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Mölzer, Moisuc, Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Kristovskis, Kuc, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 42

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Krupa, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Mitchell, Posselt

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Abstention: 14

ALDE: Takkula

ITS: Coşea, Gollnisch, Mihăescu, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Mauro, Szabó, Zieleniec

UEN: Rogalski

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

55.   Andrejevs report A6-0091/2007

Recital P/1

For: 603

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Sinnott, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Thomsen, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Xenogiannakopoulou, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 9

IND/DEM: Bonde, Booth, Clark, Karatzaferis, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard

Abstention: 19

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, de Villiers

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

PPE-DE: Posselt, Zieleniec

UEN: Rogalski

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

56.   Andrejevs report A6-0091/2007

Recital P/2

For: 541

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou,Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Laperrouze, Lax, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, McDonald, Manolakou, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Toussas, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Moisuc

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Elles, Esteves, Evans Jonathan, Fatuzzo, Fernández Martín, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gauzès, Gawronski, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hatzidakis, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Lehne, Liese, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Sturdy, Sumberg, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Riera Madurell, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Tzampazi, Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 43

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Krupa, Sinnott, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Posselt

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foglietta, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Abstention: 15

ALDE: Takkula

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, de Villiers

ITS: Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Mauro, Zieleniec

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Rogalski

TEXTS ADOPTED

 

P6_TA(2007)0103

EC-Malaysia Agreement on certain aspects of air services *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Malaysia on certain aspects of air services (COM(2006)0619 — C6-0004/2007 — 2006/0202(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (COM(2006)0619) (1),

—

having regard to Articles 80(2) and 300(2), first subparagraph, first sentence, of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0004/2007),

—

having regard to Rules 51, 83(7) and 43(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0093/2007),

1.

Approves the conclusion of the Agreement;

2.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the Government of Malaysia.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TA(2007)0104

Europol staff salaries and allowances *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the initiative by the Republic of Finland with a view to the adoption of a Council decision adjusting the basic salaries and allowances applicable to Europol staff (16333/2006 — C6-0047/2007 — 2007/0801(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the initiative of the Republic of Finland (16333/2006) (1),

—

having regard to the Council Act of 3 December 1998 laying down the Staff Regulations applicable to Europol employees (2), and in particular Article 44 thereof,

—

having regard to Article 39(1) of the EU Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0047/2007),

—

having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council entitled ‘Democratic Control over Europol’ (COM(2002)0095),

—

having regard to its recommendation of 30 May 2002 to the Council on the future development of Europol and its automatic incorporation into the institutional system of the European Union (3),

—

having regard to its recommendation of 10 April 2003 to the Council on the future development of Europol (4),

—

having regard to Rules 93, 51 and 43(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0136/2007),

1.

Approves the initiative by the Republic of Finland;

2.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

3.

Calls on the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the initiative by the Republic of Finland substantially;

4.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, and to the government of the Republic of Finland.

(1)  OJ C 41, 24.2.2007, p. 3.

(2)  OJ C 26, 30.1.1999, p. 23.

(3)  OJ C 187 E, 7.8.2003, p. 144.

(4)  OJ C 64 E, 12.3.2004, p. 588.

P6_TA(2007)0105

Tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation opening tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 (COM(2006)0798 — C6-0003/2007 — 2006/0261(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0798) (1),

—

having regard to Article 37(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0003/2007),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (A6-0072/2007),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

4.

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

5.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 1

Article 1, paragraph 3a (new)

 

3a. From the marketing year 2009/2010, no additional tariff quotas shall be allocated other than under Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 of 10 December 2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004 (2) (the ‘Everything But Arms’ Regulation) or in relation to preferential market access for African, Caribbean and Pacific States.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

(2)   OJ L 346, 31.12.2001, p. 1.

P6_TA(2007)0106

Waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger

Decision of the European Parliament of 24 April 2007 on the request for waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger (2006/2198(IMM))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the request for waiver of the immunity of Vural Öger, forwarded by the representative of the Public Prosecutor at the Brussels Court of Appeal on 11 May 2006, and announced in plenary sitting on 6 July 2006,

—

having heard Vural Öger in accordance with Rule 7(3) of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to Article 10 of the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities and Article 6(2) of the Act of 20 September 1976 concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage,

—

having regard to the judgments of 12 May 1964 and 10 July 1986 (1) of the Court of Justice of the European Communities,

—

having regard to Rules 6(2) and 7 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0140/2007),

A.

whereas Vural Öger was elected to the European Parliament at the sixth European election held from 10 to 13 June 2004, and whereas his credentials were verified by Parliament on 14 December 2004,

B.

whereas, by virtue of Article 10 of the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities, Vural Öger is immune from any measure of detention and from legal proceedings on the territory of Member States other than the Member State of which he is a national,

1.

Decides not to waive the immunity of Vural Öger;

2.

Instructs its President to forward this decision, and the report of the committee responsible, immediately to the competent authorities of the Kingdom of Belgium.

(1)  Case 101/63 Wagner v Fohrmann and Krier [1964] ECR 195 and Case 149/85 Wybot v Faure and others [1986] ECR 2391.

P6_TA(2007)0107

Discharge 2005: Section IV, Court of Justice

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section IV — Court of Justice (C6-0467/2006 — 2006/2073(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0467/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0109/2007),

1.

Grants the Court of Justice's Registrar discharge for implementation of the Court of Justice budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section IV — Court of Justice (C6-0467/2006 — 2006/2073(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0467/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0109/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had available commitment appropriations amounting to a total of EUR 232 602 467,74 (2004: 235 041 565) with a utilisation rate of 92,66 %;

2.

Notes that following the introduction of accrual accounting with effect from 1 January 2005 the ECJ's financial statements disclose a negative economic out-turn for the year (EUR 30 747 924) and an excess of liabilities over assets of EUR 43 902 361;

3.

Notes that the ECJ's balance sheet includes an amount of EUR 105 879 903 corresponding to its liability in respect of judges' pensions; points out that this liability is offset partly by the ECJ's tangible and intangible fixed assets and partly by an amount to be called up from the Member States (EUR 43 902 361);

4.

Recalls that in paragraph 9.21 of the Annual Report concerning the financial year 2004 the European Court of Auditors (ECA) criticised the fact that the head of the Internal Audit Service was responsible for ex ante verification of the authorising officers' operations; points out that the same situation was noted concerning the financial year 2005 (Annual Report paragraph 10.13);

5.

Welcomes the information contained in the replies by the ECJ to the ECA's Annual Report that, in the light of the comments made in this regard by the control and discharge authorities, the administration of the ECJ, in the course of preparing the estimate of the revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2007, proposed modifying this organisation by creating an administrative unit with exclusive competence for verification, which to this end would be provided with two new posts (one administrator responsible for management and an assistant to reinforce the team responsible for verifications);

6.

Notes with satisfaction the information contained in the ECJ's replies to the ECA's Annual Report (paragraph 10.14) that after having become fully operational in September 2005 the ECJ's Internal Auditor carried out some specific audits and addressed recommendations to the services concerned (the absence of such specific audits having been criticised in previous years);

7.

Congratulates the ECJ on having reduced the number of negotiated contracts as a proportion of the number of contracts awarded from 72 % in 2004 to 27 % in 2005; notes, however, with concern its difficulties in recruiting qualified staff for several posts on the basis of the competitions organised by EPSO;

8.

Notes that in 2005 the development of the ECJ as an institution was notable chiefly for the taking-up of its duties by the Civil Service Tribunal, composed of seven judges;

9.

Notes with satisfaction that the number of completed cases per year in the ECJ rose from 494 in 2003 to 574 in 2005 while the number of cases pending fell from 974 to 740;

10.

Points out that in 2005 the number of officials and agents (members of auxiliary and temporary staff, contract agents) in service rose over the year from 1 512 to 1 704 (13 %) and the number of Members grew by eight (as a result of the creation of the Civil Service Tribunal);

11.

Notes with concern the repeated references, in a number of administrative sectors described in the ECJ's activity report, to problems in recruiting qualified staff covered by the Staff Regulations;

12.

Notes that no ex post verifications were carried out in 2005;

13.

Welcomes the inclusion in the ECJ's activity report of a chapter setting out the follow-up given during the year to earlier discharge decisions by the European Parliament and reports by the ECA;

14.

Notes that following the creation of the Civil Service Tribunal and the accession of Bulgaria and Romania the overall number of judges, advocates-general and registrars has now reached 72 and that the ECJ's expenditure on vehicles has increased by some 50 % from EUR 809 853.24 in 2005 (out-turn) to EUR 1 218 000 in 2007 (budget estimate);

15.

Notes that at the ECJ ex ante verification is carried out on the basis of a centralised system connected by line management to the Authorising Officer by Delegation and the ECJ's view that this appears to be the most suitable system, having regard to the size of the institution and the purely administrative nature of its financial transactions;

16.

Notes with satisfaction that following the comments contained in its previous year's discharge resolution, the Members of the Institution have agreed to set up, among themselves, a working group with the task of conducting a study on the advisability of drawing up a code of conduct applicable to them and of the contents of any such code; the question of a declaration of the Member's financial interests forms part of that study; notes that the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal are also associated with this initiative;

17.

Stresses the repeated request of the European Parliament for publication of the declarations of economic and financial interests made by the judges of all three courts; calls on the ECJ to inform Parliament by 30 September 2007 of what appropriate measures it will take;

18.

Notes with satisfaction the measures taken by the ECJ to reduce the quantity of documents to be translated which contributes to a reduction of the workload of translators; also calls upon the ECJ to explore the possibility of reducing the length of rulings in order to contribute to a further reduction in costs and to a better understanding of these rulings.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

P6_TA(2007)0108

Discharge 2005: Section V, Court of Auditors

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section V — Court of Auditors (C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0468/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0107/2007),

1.

Grants the Court of Auditors' Secretary-General discharge for the implementation of the Court of Auditors budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section V — Court of Auditors (C6-0468/2006 — 2006/2074(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0468/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0107/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the European Court of Auditors (ECA) had available commitment appropriations amounting to a total of EUR 107 548 618,24 with a utilisation rate of 87,22 %;

2.

Notes that following the introduction of accrual accounting with effect from 1 January 2005 the ECA's 2005 financial statements disclose a negative economic out-turn for the year (EUR 16 820 000) and an excess of liabilities over assets of EUR 11 450 000;

3.

Recalls that as regards the financial year 2005 (as was also the case for the financial year 2004) the ECA's accounts were audited by an external firm, KPMG, which concluded that:

‘[t]he attached financial statements give a true and fair view, in accordance with Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002, the implementing rules, generally accepted accounting principles and the European Court of Auditor's Internal Rules, of the assets and financial position of the European Court of Auditors at 31 December 2005 and of the economic out-turn and the revenue and expenditure for the financial year then ended.’

4.

Notes, however, that KPMG made that statement subject to the effect of any rectifications that might prove necessary with respect to the treatment given, as regards accounting, to the ECA's Members' pensions, bearing in mind that the relevant accounting standard No 12 was then being revised; points out that the revised standard was adopted by the Commission's accounting officer in October 2006;

5.

Recalls that in its 2004 accounts the ECA recorded, for the first time, a provision for its Members' pensions combined with a long-term claim on the Member States to the value of EUR 43 689 621; the amount of the provision was calculated on the basis of an actuarial analysis carried out by the European Community;

6.

Notes that, in the absence of an equivalent provision as regards its Members' pensions, the ECA's balance sheet for the financial year 2005 discloses a deficit of EUR 16 800 000 (compared with balanced assets and liabilities in 2004);

7.

Believes that both the liability for future pension payments and also the long-term claim against the Member States — by virtue of their guaranteeing the financing of the pension scheme — should be included in the balance sheet in order to reflect the principles of accrual accounting applicable from 1 January 2005;

8.

Recognises that the ECA has correctly applied the relevant accounting standard; expresses, however, its concern at the current position with regard to the ECA's balance sheet under which the ECA's Members' future pensions are included under liabilities without a balancing asset; notes the apparent explanation that the Member States' guarantee in respect of such pension rights cannot properly be considered as an asset within the meaning of the Commission's accounting standard No 12 (employee benefits);

9.

Notes with concern the ECA's difficulty in recruiting qualified staff for several posts from the competitions organised by EPSO;

10.

Recalls that Mr Weber, President of the ECA, in a speech in Strasbourg on 14 November 2005, told the Committee on Budgetary Control that the ECA was carrying out a self-assessment of its organisation and methods to be followed by a ‘peer review’;

11.

Reiterates its hope that it will be possible to devise a more rational structure for the ECA before the next enlargement; asks the ECA to consider existing models with a view to reducing the total number of ECA Members; calls for consideration of proposals to introduce a rotating system similar to that applying to the Governing Council of the European Central Bank or a system with a single Auditor-General;

12.

Notes from the ECA's activity report that in 2005 it decided to begin a self-assessment exercise based on the Common Assessment Framework model jointly developed by the European Institute of Public Administration and the Innovative Public Service Group as a result of the cooperation among EU ministers responsible for public administration;

13.

Welcomes the information contained in the ECA's replies to the rapporteur's questionnaire that following that self-assessment an action plan had been adopted by the ECA, and implementation has started with actions covering broad areas such as mission and strategic objectives, programming and performance measuring, audit methodology, human resource strategy, internal and external communication and administrative procedures;

14.

Notes that the action plan will be subjected to a ‘peer review’ and that the President of the ECA will give more details on its contents during his presentation of the ECA's annual work programme for 2007;

15.

Notes in relation to declarations of Members' financial interests that in compliance with the ECA's Code of Conduct, ECA Members communicate a declaration of their financial interests and other assets (including shares, convertible bonds and investment certificates, as well as land and real property, together with their spouses' professional activities) to the President of the ECA, who keeps them under confidential custody, and that these declarations are not published;

16.

States that, as a matter of principle and in the interests of transparency, Members of all EU institutions should be required to submit a declaration of financial interests which should be accessible on the Internet via a public register; calls on the ECA to inform Parliament by 30 September 2007 of what appropriate measures it will take;

17.

Recalls that the Court of Justice has, at Parliament's suggestion, set up a working group to study the feasibility of requiring, inter alia, a declaration of its Members' financial interests; considers that this question could form a useful part of the ECA's current self-assessment and peer review process.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

P6_TA(2007)0109

Discharge 2005: Section VI, European Economic and Social Committee

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee (C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0469/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0110/2007),

1.

Grants the European Economic and Social Committee's Secretary-General discharge for the implementation of the European Economic and Social Committee budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VI — European Economic and Social Committee (C6-0469/2006 — 2006/2075(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0469/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0110/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) had available commitment appropriations amounting to a total of EUR 106 880 105,67 with a utilisation rate of 94,99 %;

2.

Notes that following the introduction of accrual accounting with effect from 1 January 2005 the EESC's financial statements disclose a negative economic out-turn of EUR 3 811 889,47 (deficit) and identical amounts (EUR 168 387 721,19) in respect of both assets and liabilities;

3.

Notes the remark by the Court of Auditors in paragraph 10.16 of its 2005 Annual Report that, notwithstanding the setting-up, in the course of 2005, of a unit responsible for coordinating financial and contractual activities throughout the joint services of the EESC and the Committee of the Regions (CoR), some weaknesses still appeared concerning the operational management of certain procurement and coordination procedures between the new unit and the operating units which had not been clearly defined;

4.

Recalls that in 2005 the EESC began discussions with the Commission about taking over the office space in the van Maerlant building; notes further the EESC's reply to the questionnaire concerning the office space requirements of the EESC/CoR that following their expansion into the van Maerlant building the two Institutions do not expect to need further buildings in the coming years;

5.

Welcomes the fact that since 2004 all plenary sessions of the EESC have taken place in the European Parliament's premises;

6.

Notes, from the EESC's activity report, that its Registry has called upon the financial actors concerned and the Quaestors' Group to consider establishing a clearer procedure for refunding travel expenses and paying travel and subsistence allowances, particularly in situations which are not explicitly envisaged by the rules;

7.

Observes that further to the Belgian criminal proceedings against a former EESC Member concerning travel expenses (referred to in paragraph 4 of Parliament's discharge resolution of 27 April 2006 (6)) the EESC has brought a civil action for damages and that the Belgian Court is expected to give its judgment towards the middle of 2007;

8.

Notes with interest that the Secretary-General and Internal Auditor have regular meetings at the same time each week to enable the Internal Auditor to remain abreast of activities and events in the Institution and to permit the Secretary-General to take maximum account of the Internal Auditor's comments;

9.

Notes that the EESC and the CoR are currently considering whether they should continue to manage certain activities in common through the joint services, and, if so, what form that collaboration should in future take;

10.

Notes that the administrative cooperation between the CoR and the EESC should be beneficial to both committees and financially advantageous for European taxpayers; insists that any new structures of administrative cooperation between the two committees should result in financial benefits; demands that both committees find a way to continue the administrative cooperation already in place;

11.

Recalls that the CoR and the EESC, through their joint services, manage certain activities in common (translation, printing, buildings, security, library, procurement, catering, ushers, medical service, cars and drivers, IT, etc.) and that their cooperation agreement has recently been renewed for 6 months (with an option to extend it for a further 6 months) pending a decision on whether such cooperation should continue in future;

12.

Invites the CoR and the EESC, having regard to the substantial divergences between the findings of the reports of the joint services and the CoR's two external experts, to conduct a joint analysis based on appropriate benchmarks — if necessary with the help of the Court of Auditors — of the precise costs, benefits and savings generated by cooperation and to submit the results of their examination to the competent committee by 31 October 2007.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 41.

P6_TA(2007)0110

2005 Discharge: Section VIIIA, European Ombudsman

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman (C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0471/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0104/2007),

1.

Grants the European Ombudsman discharge for implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIA — European Ombudsman (C6-0471/2006 — 2006/2063(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0471/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0104/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the European Ombudsman (‘the Ombudsman’) had available commitment appropriations amounting to a total of EUR 7 224 554 (2004: EUR 5 782 968) with a utilisation rate of 84,27 %;

2.

Notes that the Ombudsman's 2005 financial statements disclose a negative economic out-turn for the year (EUR 98 482) and identical totals of assets and liabilities (EUR 890 853);

3.

Points out that the Court of Auditors in its Annual Report on the 2005 financial year indicates that the audit did not give rise to any observations as regards the Ombudsman;

4.

Notes that according to the Internal Auditor's report to the Institution No 6/81: (i) the internal auditor's work in 2005 did not reveal any areas of significant risk to the Ombudsman's budgetary operations; and (ii) the Institution's internal management and control systems are effective and provide reasonable assurance of attaining the control objectives on a consistent basis;

5.

Notes the information given by the Principal Authorising Officer by Delegation in his activity statement that a self-assessment of the efficiency of the internal control framework of the Ombudsman's services was carried out in early 2006 and that the global picture resulting from this exercise was that of an overall satisfactory level of implementation of the internal control standards (76 %); also notes however that improvements in effectiveness were needed in some areas (risk assessment, sensitive functions, multi-annual programming);

6.

Recalls that since 2004 the Ombudsman has had autonomy and full control over the financial transactions relating to his section of the budget;

7.

Notes that a new framework cooperation agreement of indefinite duration between the Ombudsman and the European Parliament concerning the provision of certain administrative services, including translation and office premises, was negotiated during 2005 and signed in March 2006;

8.

Records that the Ombudsman's annual caseload has increased from roughly 800 in 1996 to nearly 4 000 in 2005, according to the Ombudsman's Annual Report for 2005, with a particularly sharp rise between 2003 and 2004 (53 %);

9.

Remarks that during 2005 the Ombudsman's Office experienced the full budgetary impact of the 2004 enlargement and that in the years 2004 and 2005 the budgetary authority authorised the Ombudsman to add to his establishment plan 20 new posts, which were added to the 31 that existed in 2003 (a 65 % increase in staff), while at the same time the level of appropriations authorised in the budget rose from EUR 4 438 653 in 2003 to EUR 7 312 614 in 2005 (also a 65 % increase);

10.

Notes from the Ombudsman's Annual Report that in 2005 he continued his information visits to the Member States with a view to improving citizens' awareness about their rights, raising the profile of the Ombudsman's work among key members of the judicial, legislative and executive branches and enriching his collaboration with his national counterparts; stresses the importance of that information campaign;

11.

Notes further that in 2005 the Ombudsman and his staff pursued their efforts to present the work of the Institution, making 120 presentations at conferences, seminars and meetings during 2005, together with 50 interviews with journalists;

12.

Notes that according to his replies to the rapporteur's questionnaire the Ombudsman seeks to target information to those countries where the level of complaints received is lower than might be expected given the size of the population, for example, Germany and Italy and that the Ombudsman's media strategy is therefore to raise the Ombudsman's profile in such Member States; considers that in order to identify target countries, the Ombudsman should rely on surveys on the awareness of the citizens about his work in the various Member States rather than the number of complaints;

13.

Points to the remark in the Ombudsman's activity statement that the year 2005 was an exceptional year for the Ombudsman from a communications perspective in that in addition to the Institution's usual activities in giving information on its work it also organised an extensive series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the Ombudsman; moreover, the Institution's communications capacity was significantly expanded through the recruitment of personnel to fill three new specialist communications posts and the assignment to the newly-created communications sector of a further member of staff from within the existing personnel;

14.

Recalls that the Ombudsman's Statute laid down by the European Parliament in 1994 imposes no obligation on the Ombudsman to publish his financial and economic interests;

15.

Notes that the Statute places the Ombudsman on a footing comparable with that of a Judge of the European Court of Justice (ECJ); points out that the ECJ — on the European Parliament's suggestion — has set up a working group to examine the most appropriate way of ensuring transparency with regard to the judges' financial interests; asks that pending the outcome of the inquiry the Ombudsman should follow the example set by the European Data Protection Supervisor and his deputy in publishing a declaration of financial interests based on the form used for the Register of Financial Interests of Members of the European Parliament.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

P6_TA(2007)0111

Discharge 2005: Section VIIIB, European Data Protection Supervisor

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor (C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0472/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0111/2007),

1.

Grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge for the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VIIIB — European Data Protection Supervisor (C6-0472/2006 — 2006/2170(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0472/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0111/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) had available commitment appropriations amounting to a total of EUR 2 840 733 with a utilisation rate of 82,77 %;

2.

Notes that the audit of the EDPS by the European Court of Auditors did not give rise to any material observations; notes that following the introduction of accrual accounting with effect from 1 January 2005 the EDPS's 2005 financial statements disclose a positive economic out-turn of EUR 211 631 and an excess of liabilities over assets of EUR 202 504;

3.

Notes that 2005 was the first year in which the EDPS was fully operational; recalls that the 2005 budget represented an increase of 48,8 % over the 2004 budget;

4.

Notes that the EDPS submitted a budget for 2007 of EUR 5 080 699 representing an increase of 23 % over the 2006 final budget (EUR 4 147 378), reflecting a request for five new posts, an expansion in office space and an increase in translation costs;

5.

Recalls that on 24 June 2004 the Secretaries-General of the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council signed, together with the EDPS, an administrative cooperation agreement to assist the EDPS for a start-up period of three years, under which:

—

the Commission's Accounting Officer and Internal Auditor have been appointed as the EDPS's Accounting Officer and Auditor,

—

Commission departments provide assistance for all tasks concerning the management of persons linked to the institution (determination of entitlements, payment of salaries, reimbursement of medical costs, mission payments, etc.),

—

Commission departments also help the EDPS in establishing and implementing the budget,

—

the EDPS is installed in the premises of the European Parliament; the European Parliament's departments assist the EDPS as regards material facilities and know-how relating to his installation in the premises (security of the buildings, mail, computers, telephones, offices and supplies),

—

the Council provides translation facilities;

6.

Notes that on 7 December 2006 the administrative cooperation agreement was renewed for a further period of 3 years with effect from 16 January 2007;

7.

Notes that by decision of 7 November 2006 the EDPS decided to set up an internal control structure appropriate to the Institution's activities and requirements;

8.

Welcomes the decision by the EDPS and the assistant supervisor to publish, every year, a declaration of their economic and financial interests as soon as their new website is completed in early 2007; notes that in the meantime they have forwarded written statements concerning their financial interests for the years 2005 and 2006 in a form similar to that filled in annually by Members of the European Parliament, disclosing no declarable professional activities, remunerated posts or activities or other relevant information;

9.

Welcomes the readiness of the EDPS to join the interinstitutional agreement on OLAF and encourages him to take all necessary steps as soon as possible.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

P6_TA(2007)0112

Discharge 2005: Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission report on the follow-up to the 2004 discharge decisions (COM(2006)0641 and its annex SEC(2006)1376),

—

having regard to the financial statements and revenue and expenditure accounts for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006) (1),

—

having regard to the report on the financial management of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the year 2005 (COM(2006)0405),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' annual report on the activities funded by the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005, together with the audited institutions' replies (2),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (3),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendations of 27 February 2007 (6061/2007 — C6-0094/2007, 6062/2007 — C6-0095/2007, 6063/2007 — C6-0096/2007, 6064/2007 — C6-0097/2007),

—

having regard to Article 33 of the Internal Agreement of 20 December 1995, between the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of the Community aid under the Second Financial Protocol to the fourth ACP-EC Convention (4),

—

having regard to Article 32 of the Internal Agreement of 18 September 2000, between the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of Community aid under the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Community and its Member States signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000, and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies (5),

—

having regard to Article 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Article 74 of the Financial Regulation of 16 June 1998 applicable to development finance cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention (6),

—

having regard to Article 119 of the Financial Regulation of 27 March 2003 applicable to the Ninth European Development Fund (7),

—

having regard to Rules 70 and 71, third indent, of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Development (A6-0115/2007),

A.

whereas, in its statement of assurance on the European Development Funds (EDFs), the Court of Auditors concludes that, with certain exceptions, the accounts for the financial year 2005 reliably reflect the revenue and expenditure for the financial year and the financial situation at the end of the year,

B.

whereas the Court of Auditors' conclusion on the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions is based, inter alia, on the audit of a sample of transactions,

C.

whereas the Court of Auditors, on the basis of the documentation examined, is of the opinion that the revenue entered in the accounts, the EDF allocations and the commitments and payments are, taken as a whole, legal and regular,

1.

Grants the Commission discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the accompanying resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and to have them published in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 265, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 205.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 213.

(4)  OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108.

(5)  OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 355.

(6)  OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53.

(7)  OJ L 83, 1.4.2003, p. 1.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission report on the follow-up to the 2004 discharge decisions (COM(2006)0641 and its annex SEC(2006)1376),

—

having regard to the financial statements and revenue and expenditure accounts for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006) (1),

—

having regard to the report on the financial management of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the year 2005 (COM(2006)0405),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' annual report on the activities funded by the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005, together with the audited institutions' replies (2),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (3),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendations of 27 February 2007 (6061/2007 — C6-0094/2007, 6062/2007 — C6-0095/2007, 6063/2007 — C6-0096/2007, 6064/2007 — C6-0097/2007),

—

having regard to Article 33 of the Internal Agreement of 20 December 1995, between the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of the Community aid under the Second Financial Protocol to the fourth ACP-EC Convention (4),

—

having regard to Article 32 of the Internal Agreement of 18 September 2000, between the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of Community aid under the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Community and its Member States signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000, and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies (5),

—

having regard to Article 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Article 74 of the Financial Regulation of 16 June 1998 applicable to development finance cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention (6),

—

having regard to Article 119 of the Financial Regulation of 27 March 2003 applicable to the Ninth European Development Fund (7),

—

having regard to Rules 70 and 71, third indent, of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Development (A6-0115/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds are as follows:

(million EUR)

Table 1 — Cumulative utilisation of EDF resources as at 31 December 2005

 

Situation at end of 2004

Budgetary implementation during the financial year 2005

Situation at end of 2005

 

Global amount

Implementation rate% (8)

6th EDF

7th EDF

8th EDF

9th EDF

Global amount

6th EDF

7th EDF

8th EDF

9th EDF

Global amount

Implementation rate% (8)

A. Resources  (9)

43 801,8

 

-24,6

-86,1

-275,1

1 038,9

653,2

7 414,8

10 781,6

11 315,6

14 943,0

44 455,0

 

B. Utilisation

1.

Financial commitments

35 692,2

81,5

-24,6

-86,1

-275,1

3 420,8

3 035,1

7 414,8

10 781,6

11 315,6

9 215,3

38 727,3

87,1

2.

Individual legal commitments

30 313,2

69,2

-1,3

110,5

472,0

2 070,9

2 652,1

7 377,0

10 529,0

10 247,2

4 812,1

32 965,3

74,2

3. Payments  (8)

25 918,0

59,2

21,6

235,3

854,1

1 373,7

2 484,7

7 333,7

10 084,9

8 385,2

2 598,9

28 402,7

63,9

C. Outstanding payments (B1-B3)

9 774,2

22,3

 

 

 

 

 

81,1

696,7

2 930,3

6 616,4

10 324,5

23,2

D. Available balance (A-B1)

8 109,6

18,5

 

 

 

 

 

0,0

0,0

0,0

5 727,7

5 727,7

12,9

Source: Court of Auditors, based on the EDF reports on financial implementation and financial statements at 31 December 2005.

2.

Approves closing the accounts for the implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 265, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 205.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 213.

(4)  OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108.

(5)  OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 355.

(6)  OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53.

(7)  OJ L 83, 1.4.2003, p. 1.

(8)  As a percentage of resources.

(9)  Initial allocations to the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th EDFs, interest, sundry resources and transfers from previous EDFs.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

— having regard to the Commission report on the follow-up to the 2004 discharge decisions (COM(2006)0641 and its annex SEC(2006)1376),

—

having regard to the financial statements and revenue and expenditure accounts for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006) (1),

—

— having regard to the report on the financial management of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the year 2005 (COM(2006)0405),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' annual report on the activities funded by the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005, together with the audited institutions' replies (2),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (3),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendations of 27 February 2007 (6061/2007 — C6-0094/2007, 6062/2007 — C6-0095/2007, 6063/2007 — C6-0096/2007, 6064/2007 — C6-0097/2007),

—

having regard to Article 33 of the Internal Agreement of 20 December 1995, between the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of the Community aid under the Second Financial Protocol to the fourth ACP-EC Convention (4),

—

having regard to Article 32 of the Internal Agreement of 18 September 2000, between the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of Community aid under the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Community and its Member States signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000, and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies (5),

—

having regard to Article 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Article 74 of the Financial Regulation of 16 June 1998 applicable to development finance cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention (6),

—

having regard to Article 119 of the Financial Regulation of 27 March 2003 applicable to the Ninth European Development Fund (7),

—

having regard to Rules 70 and 71, third indent, of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Development (A6-0115/2007),

A.

whereas Article 119 of the Financial Regulation of 27 March 2003 requires the Commission to take all appropriate steps to act on the observations accompanying the decision giving discharge and to report, at the request of the European Parliament, on the measures taken in the light of those observations and comments,

B.

whereas the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (8), was revised by the agreement signed in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (9),

The statement of assurance

1.

Notes that, notwithstanding the problems detailed below, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) is of the opinion that the accounts reliably reflect the revenue and expenditure relating to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds (EDFs):

(a)

the inability of the existing IT system to provide full accounting information;

(b)

incomplete information on bank guarantees, resulting in an understatement of guarantees of 4%;

2.

Notes that, with regard to the underlying transactions, the ECA is of the opinion that the revenue, EDF allocations, commitments and payments are, taken as a whole, legal and regular;

3.

Recalls that about half of the total allocations consist of programmable aid, intended for the implementation of projects; observes that these funds are implemented in two steps: the Commission takes the financing decision — shown in the accounts as financial commitment; the conclusion of contracts — shown in the accounts as individual legal commitments — and the authorization of payments are carried out by the national authorising officer (NAO) of the country concerned, in accordance with the financing agreement between the Commission and that particular country;

4.

Highlights that the ECA observed an increased risk of errors affecting transactions that fall within the responsibility of the NAOs; notes that, as regards individual legal commitments, the errors detected concerned, for example, the use of appropriate tendering procedures, in particular under the programme estimates and grant agreements, banking guarantees and the failure to meet deadlines for starting the implementation of programmes; observes that, with regard to payments, errors concerned the amounts of payments and other errors such as non-compliance with contractual obligations;

5.

Recognises, in line with the ECA, the Commission's efforts to build the NAOs' management capacity by providing technical assistance, equipment and training; is however worried that the ECA may judge the results of these efforts to be variable; requests the Commission to refine its support strategy as regards problematic cases;

Enhancing accountability in the Commission's management of EDF funds

6.

Recalls that, in the previous discharge resolution, Parliament called upon the Commission to clarify the breakdown of the Commissioners' responsibilities as regards the EDF and external aid; is conscious of the Commission's position that the division of responsibilities, despite a certain complexity due to the need for coordination of different Commission services, works well in practice; nevertheless, calls upon the Commission to reflect on possible ways to simplify the current management structure in order to minimise the risk of ambiguities as regards responsibilities for the EDF;

Stepping up democratic control over EDF funds managed by the European Investment Bank

7.

Notes that, out of the total initial allocation of the Ninth EDF, which amounts to EUR 13 800 million, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is responsible for EUR 2 200 million, which is spent through the EDF investment facility; observes that the investment facility is neither covered by the ECA's statement of assurance nor by the Parliament's discharge procedure;

8.

Proposes that the EIB give an account of its management of the EDF investment facility before Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and points out that, pursuant to Title VII of the Financial Regulation applicable to the Ninth EDF, the EIB-managed EDF accounts are subject to examination by the ECA;

9.

Reiterates the view taken in previous discharge resolutions that there is a certain discrepancy in the current EDF Financial Regulation as regards the EDF accounts: whereas, in the course of the discharge procedure, the Commission presents the consolidated EDF accounts to Parliament including the financial statements and information supplied by the EIB, Parliament subsequently only examines the accounts excluding the information provided by the EIB;

10.

Recalls that the ECA, in its opinion No 12/2002 (10), regretted that the EDF operations managed by the EIB were not subject to a discharge procedure involving the Parliament and the Council; supports the ECA's arguments that those operations were conducted by the EIB on behalf of and at the Community's risk and that, in the beginning, the funds for those operations were contributed by European taxpayers and not by the financial markets;

11.

Is convinced that transparency and democratic control over EDF funds managed by the EIB would be strengthened if these operations were subject to a discharge procedure involving the Parliament and the Council; calls on Member States, the Commission and the EIB to address this issue during the forthcoming revision of the EDF Financial Regulation;

Tackling resource constraints

12.

Concludes once again that integration of the EDF into the EU budget would enhance the overall consistency of European development cooperation, ensure greater transparency and effectiveness and facilitate democratic scrutiny;

13.

Is concerned that the Commission, in its financial management report, indicates that, due to resource constraints, some areas of financial control were overlooked, with the monitoring of Stabex programmes and the implementation of ex post controls constituting appropriate examples; furthermore notes that annual activity reports by both DG AIDCO (EuropeAid) and DG Development predict a shortage of staff in the face of significant increases in workload during the coming years;

14.

Notes that the Commission uses benchmarks derived from the comparison with other donors, and that the Commission has set itself the target of maintaining a ratio of 4,5 staff per EUR 10 million of assistance; is of the opinion that the fact of reaching a certain overall ratio of staff per EUR 10 million of assistance cannot in itself give the discharge authority sufficient assurance that implementation and financial control do not suffer from the existing shortage of staff as recognised by the Commission itself;

15.

Requests, in line with the ECA, that the Commission, in its financial management report for 2006, indicates the priorities which have been established as a result of the existing resource constraints and the impact on the implementation of the EDFs;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to review its audit strategy and to reorganise existing audit structures and staff and, not least in view of the possible resource constraints, to consider closer cooperation with national experts from the Member States' administrations in the financial management of EDF funds in general and the extended use of well known and highly reputable private enterprises from the Member States in the execution of programmes and individual projects;

Building solid IT systems for accounting and management purposes

17.

Shares the ECA's concerns with regard to the fact that the current accounting system did not deliver full accounting information for the financial year 2005 and that, therefore, the accounts had to be complemented manually in order to comply with accrual accounting principles;

18.

Is worried about the result of an audit of EuropeAid's local IT system carried out by EuropeAid's internal audit capacity, stating that application controls were adequate, but that system administration and system security only met the minimum standards according to ‘leading practices’;

19.

Notes that the management of EDF funds will be migrated to the same IT system used for the management of development aid financed from the general budget (CRIS — ABAC); observes that the migration has been delayed and is now scheduled to be carried out by the end of 2007, on time for the start of the Tenth EDF in 2008; calls upon the Commission to inform Parliament about the results of the migration process; expects the Commission to ensure that during the migration process complete and reliable accounting information be provided to the ECA and the discharge authority;

20.

Welcomes the Commission's willingness to inform Parliament about the integration of the financial administration of the EDF into the Common RELEX Information System (CRIS) in July and then again in September;

21.

Supports the Commission's intention to improve EuropeAid's IT system not only as regards its functioning as an accounting tool, but also as a management tool; requests the Commission, in this context, to pay particular attention to an improved and coherent follow-up of audit findings;

Evaluating the impact of EU funding of development aid through the EDF

22.

Is convinced that measuring the output of EU development aid funded through the EDF requires — as a first step — that the Commission work with the partners in the beneficiary countries towards setting as precise objectives as possible, which allow for progress to be easily and exactly measured at each stage of implementation;

23.

Notes that the Commission, in its follow-up to the 2004 discharge which was presented in October 2006, indicates that, with regard to the 2007-2013 round of country programming, it is in the process of developing recommendations for the use of meaningful indicators in each of the domains of concentration covered by the programming documents;

24.

Considers that it is crucial that meaningful performance indicators be included in the programming process right from the beginning; calls upon the Commission to indicate, in its financial management report for 2006, to what extent the recommendations for the setting of performance indicators have been implemented in time in the programming process for the period 2007-13;

25.

Expects the Commission to instruct its delegations in the beneficiary countries as a general rule to spell out in its reports the practical results of the deployment of EU funds so that the Commission can gauge and publicise the results of EU development cooperation;

Further improving the implementation of EDF funds

26.

Is hopeful that the forecast in the performance assessment will come true, stating that all funds of the Ninth EDF will be committed by the end of 2007 when the Ninth EDF expires; requests the Commission to inform Parliament, in time for the discharge concerning the financial year 2006, about the evolution of the commitments concerning the Ninth EDF, the situation with regard to previous EDFs and the situation with regard to payments;

27.

Recalls that the reduction of outstanding commitments (reste à liquider (RAL)) has been a long-standing concern of Parliament in previous discharge exercises; supports the Commission's recent initiatives to reduce the RAL; notes that, in 2006, the RAL was reduced for the first time and now stands at EUR 10 324 million; notes that the ‘old’ RAL, i. e. commitments which are over 5 years old, has been reduced from EUR 1,62 billion to EUR 867 million; notes that the dormant commitments, i. e. those for which no contract has been signed and for which no payments have been made over the last two years, have been reduced from EUR 350 million to EUR 285 million; requests the Commission to pursue its efforts to reduce the RAL and to report back, in detail, to the discharge authority on progress made;

28.

Notes that the report on financial management for the financial year 2005 was forwarded late; expects the Commission to provide, in its financial management report for the financial year 2006, more detailed information as requested by the ECA, in particular information on the strategy to reduce the level of dormant commitments;

29.

Welcomes the fact that the share of EU funding spent on the basic health and basic education sectors was raised from 4,98 % to 6,83 %; regrets however the fact that this share is still far removed from the 20 % target which it set in the 2005 budget; cannot accept the fact that the Commission is using the legitimate and necessary objective of better donor coordination and work-sharing between donors as an excuse for too low a level of investment in the basic health and basic education sectors and urges it to adopt measures forthwith to achieve the 20 % target and inform Parliament in writing at least twice a year about the progress of implementation and about the factors taken into account in the calculation;

30.

Regrets the fact that the Commission has not so far developed any comprehensive strategy together with the beneficiary countries for making the health and education sectors priorities in the new country strategy papers;

31.

Further regrets that, despite assurances to the contrary from the Commission, country strategy papers currently under preparation generally lack a clear Millenium Development Goal (MDG) profile, not to mention specific targets and timetables for achieving each MDG, and fail to treat adequately the Community's contribution to achieving them;

32.

Calls on the Commission to keep a closer watch on the emigration of skilled labour from developing countries to EU countries and to propose appropriate measures for enabling skilled people from developing countries to remain in, or return to, their home countries so that action by donors, for example in the health and education sectors, can be of long-term and effective benefit in combating poverty in the developing countries;

33.

Welcomes the Commission's efforts to implement the strategy for incorporating the environment into development cooperation, and calls on the Commission to continue to press ahead with the environmental dimension in development policy, including measures to promote environmentally friendly energy supply;

Ensuring sound financial management with regard to budget support

34.

Observes that the Commission considers budget support granted to the beneficiary countries to be an ever more important tool for efficient delivery of development policies; notes that the share of EDF commitments in the field of general and sectoral budget support rose considerably, from 18 % in 2004 to 32 % in 2005;

35.

Points out that the ECAs' control powers in the field of budget support are limited; quotes the example that, with regard to the legality and regularity of underlying transactions, the ECA can only verify that the relevant conditions have been properly assessed by the Commission; therefore, strongly supports the ECAs' request that the Commission should set out in a structured and detailed manner, in its financial management report for 2006, the criteria leading to the Commission's conclusions on the relevant country's eligibility for budget support; welcomes the Commission's commitment to provide the information requested;

36.

Reiterates that Parliament, in line with the ECA, attaches great importance to the role of national supreme audit institutions (SAIs) in countries which are the recipients of budget support; insists on receiving, as requested in the previous discharge resolution, the Commission's assessment of the different possibilities for the European Community to cooperate with those SAIs;

37.

Welcomes the Commission's initiative to support twinning projects involving national experts from Member States' SAIs and SAIs in budget support recipient countries, such as the cooperation between the UK National Audit Office and the Ghana Audit Office; asks the Commission to further explore the use of expertise of Member States' SAIs in order to step up public financial control in the partner countries;

Supervisory and control systems

38.

Notes the ECAs' view that a coherent overall control strategy with regard to the management of EDF funds and external aid has yet to be established; welcomes the ECAs' concrete recommendations for elements to be included in this strategy; observes that the Commission's Action Plan towards an Integrated Internal Control Framework (11) envisages common guidelines which are to be established for each policy family and that this should result in clearer and more coherent reporting in the annual activity reports; recognises the Commission's willingness to further improve the supervisory and control systems and the concrete measures it proposed in this respect; asks the Commission to report, in the light of the ECAs' concrete recommendations, on the progress achieved in the forthcoming annual activity reports;

39.

Welcomes the fact that the ECA has recorded an improvement in the Commission's supervisory and control systems; regrets however the fact that this improvement does not extend to supervision, control and audit of the implementing institutions; considers it unacceptable that, as a result, such a large number of material errors continue to occur at a central point in the chain between the European taxpayer and the final beneficiary in the developing country;

40.

Calls on the Commission to develop and implement a comprehensive approach towards supervision, control and audit of the implementing organisations so as to ensure the proper application of contractual procedures by the implementing organisations, which has too often not been the case hitherto;

41.

Calls on the Commission, with a view to improving financial supervision, to ensure that EuropeAid provides better support for the operational financial personnel in delegations and central services, arranges for better risk analysis focusing on particularly high-risk sectors and more monitoring visits, achieves better central supervision of performance and follow-up of external audits initiated by delegations and central services and initiates fewer ex post verifications while at the same time improving their scope, timing and quality control;

42.

In general, strongly supports the ECAs' request that the Commission should set out in detail how it has followed up the ECAs' audit findings in the annual activity reports and in the reports on financial management of the EDF funds.

(1)  OJ C 265, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 205.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 213.

(4)  OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108.

(5)  OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 355.

(6)  OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53.

(7)  OJ L 83, 1.4.2003, p. 1.

(8)  OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3.

(9)  OJ L 287, 28.10.2005, p. 4.

(10)  OJ C 12, 17.1.2003, p. 19.

(11)  OJ C 67, 18.3.2006, p. 32.

P6_TA(2007)0113

Discharge 2005: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 of 10 February 1975 establishing a European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (4), and in particular Article 12a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0097/2007),

1.

Grants to the director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 28.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 60.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 39, 13.2.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2051/2004 (OJ L 355, 1.12.2004, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3) and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 of 10 February 1975 establishing a European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (4), and in particular Article 12a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0097/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Commission subsidies

16 418

13 700

Assigned revenue

573

724

Miscellaneous revenue

36

42

Total revenue (a)

17 027

14 466

Budgetary expenditure for the financial year

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

8 862

8 579

— Appropriations carried over

213

466

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

865

768

— Appropriations carried over

334

542

Operating activities — Title III of the budget (except for assigned revenue)

— Payments against payment appropriations for the financial year

2 466

2 508

— Payments against outstanding commitments at 31.12.2003

2 119

2 702

— Appropriations carried over

 

 

Assigned revenue (Phare and third countries)

— Payments

68

415

— Appropriations carried over

505

309

Total expenditure (b)

15 433

16 289

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

1 594

-1 823

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

375

-993

N-1 appropriations carried over and cancelled (Title I and II non-differentiated)

111

56

Cancelled appropriation carried over from assigned revenue (non-differentiated appropriation Title III)

Neutralisation of N-1 carry-over for Title III connected with changeover to differentiated appropriations

93

3 138

Sums for re-use from the previous financial year not used

 

1

Refunds to the Commission

 

0

Exchange-rate differences

1

-4

Balance for the financial year

2 173

375

Source: Information supplied by the Centre — This table summarises the data provided by the Centre.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 28.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 60.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 39, 13.2.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2051/2004 (OJ L 355, 1.12.2004, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (C6-0386/2006 — 2006/2153(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3) and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 of 10 February 1975 establishing a European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (4), and in particular Article 12a thereof,

—

having regard to the Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0097/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable, and the underlying transactions, subject to the reservation, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Centre's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

urged the Centre to ensure that the accounts were complete and that all activities including the staff canteen's purchases and sales were properly controlled,

—

was concerned by the irregularities noted by the Court of Auditors in the contract award procedure; noted the steps taken by the Centre to ensure that such irregularities would not be repeated; called on the Centre to ensure that tendering specifications and competition rules would be strictly applied;

—

stressed the need for fairness, openness and transparency in recruitment;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Invites the Centre to avoid a similar situation as for the financial year 2005 where it had an utilisation rate of 90 % of commitment appropriations and approximately 85 % of payment appropriations; recalls that, however, the appropriations for operating activities were under-utilised (cancellations of 15 % of commitment appropriations, 20 % of payment appropriations and 15 % of appropriations carried over), in particular after the reorganisation of the procedures for awarding contracts;

22.

Invites the Centre to fine-tune its programming and improve the monitoring exercise throughout the year; recalls that, in this connection, the Court of Auditors notes that activity-based management has not been introduced, even though the Centre's financial regulation provides for this form of management with a view to improved performance monitoring;

23.

Invites the Centre to remedy the shortcomings in the accounting software (FIBUS) used by it, which does not allow expired commitments to be blocked, where the procedure for the electronic signing of payment orders does not comply with the provisions currently in force and where operations cannot easily be traced within the system;

24.

Demands the full application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer to avoid situations as in 2005 where some of the accounting officer's duties were performed by departments for which the authorising officer is responsible;

25.

Notes that the Centre refers in its reply to the fact that the measures adopted now ensure the regularity of procedures and is therefore confident that the Centre is implementing the recommendations of the Court of Auditors, particularly since in the autumn of 2006 the Internal Audit Service could not find any further irregularities and certified that the measures taken by the Centre have produced the desired outcome;

26.

Invites the Centre to urgently carry out a risk analysis, to define the nature and frequency of ex post checks, and to describe the management procedures and internal control systems;

27.

Invites the Centre to urgently formulate the exact mandate of the committee to deal with staff complaints, which should in no case act beyond its powers;

28.

Insists that the Centre should apply standard recruitment procedures in order to avoid a situation as in 2005 where an important management post was filled via an internal selection procedure when an external procedure would have provided a wider range of candidates;

29.

Is worried about the very high rate of irregularities found by the Court of Auditors in the examined contracts where out of six all but one were affected by irregularities (7); insists that the Centre should remedy the weaknesses found in its organisation and tender procedures;

30.

Is of the opinion that the Centre should harmonise its approach to IT questions, in particular when setting up internet and intranet sites, and that the current fragmentation engenders technical risks and excessive costs;

31.

Encourages the Centre to continue its efforts to improve further its communications in order to ensure that the public is better informed about its activities.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 28.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 60.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 39, 13.2.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2051/2004 (OJ L 355, 1.12.2004, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 63.

(7)  Failure to justify the chosen procedure or say why the tenderers invited to submit tenders were selected, plus inadequate documentation thereof.

P6_TA(2007)0114

Discharge 2005: European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005, together with the Foundation's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75 of 26 May 1975 on the creation of a European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (4), and in particular Article 16 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0098/2007),

1.

Grants the executive director of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions discharge for the implementation of the Foundation's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 37.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 80.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 139, 30.5.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1111/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005, together with the Foundation's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75 of 26 May 1975 on the creation of a European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (4), and in particular Article 16 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5) and, in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0098/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Commission subsidies

18 800

18 000

Miscellaneous revenue

5

5

Revenue from services rendered

158

81

Total revenue (a)

18 963

18 086

Expenditure

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

8 814

8 606

— Appropriations carried over

157

132

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

875

1 267

— Appropriations carried over

507

489

Operating activities — Title III of the budget

— Payments

4 967

5 056

— Appropriations carried over

3 809

2 522

Total expenditure (b)

19 130

18 072

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

-167

14

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

-1 224

-1 296

Appropriations carried over and cancelled

71

34

Sums from the previous financial year for re-use and not used

0

18

Phare revenue collected

260

0

Phare revenue to be collected

0

0

Phare expenditure

-145

0

Other adjustments

0

10

Exchange rate differences

0

-4

Balance for the financial year

-1 205

-1 224

Source: The Foundation's data. This table summarises the data provided by the Foundation in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 37.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 80.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 139, 30.5.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1111/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (C6-0387/2006 — 2006/2154(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2005, together with the Foundation's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75 of 26 May 1975 on the creation of a European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (4), and in particular Article 16 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0098/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Foundation's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

noted the Court of Auditors' finding that 37 % of appropriations carried over into 2005 related to commitments entered into in December 2004 and that the majority of these related contracts for studies to be carried out in 2005;

—

reminded the Foundation of the principle of budget annuality and urged it to respect this principle in order to allow a correct and transparent implementation of the budgets set by the Budgetary Authority;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Invites the Foundation to pay better attention to carry-over rates in 2005 in respect to commitments for administrative expenditure (Title II) and operating activities (Title III), which remained high at 37 % and 44 % respectively;

22.

Invites the Commission and the Foundation to continue to clarify the situation of non-cancelled appropriations;

23.

Invites the Foundation to present a work programme which expresses its contribution in operational and measurable terms;

24.

Considers the Foundation to be a source of important information for all EU institutions, for political decision-making and for the general public;

25.

Is worried that there was in 2005 no comprehensive document analysing the risks arising from the financial and operational aspects of the Foundation's activities, nor a validation of the procedures introduced by the Authorising Officers in order to ensure the accuracy and the exhaustivity of the financial information it sent to the Accounting Officer, except as regards data-processing aspects;

26.

Encourages the Foundation to continue its efforts to improve further its methods of communication in order to ensure that the public can be better informed about the findings of its studies and that the public debate on important issues, such as the effects and causes of restructuring measures by companies, is thereby enhanced.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 37.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 80.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 139, 30.5.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1111/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340. 6.12.2006, p. 69.

P6_TA(2007)0115

Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1035/97 of 2 June 1997 establishing a European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (4), and in particular Article 12a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0118/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 46.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 93.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 151, 10.6.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1652/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 33).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1035/97 of 2 June 1997 establishing a European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (4), and in particular Article 12a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0118/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Community subsidies

8 189

5 675

Other revenue

151

455

Financial revenue

 

21

Phare subsidy

90

82

Total revenue (a)

8 430

6 233

Expenditure

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

3 008

2 645

— Appropriations carried over

70

85

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

550

447

— Appropriations carried over

582

37

Operating activities — Title III of the budget

— Payments

2 731

2 352

— Appropriations carried over

667

745

Assigned revenue (Phare and other)

— Payments

0

7

— Appropriations carried over

90

0

Total expenditure (b)

7 698

6 318

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

732

-85

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

231

98

Appropriations carried over, cancelled

210

241

Appropriations for re-use from the previous financial year, not used

 

0

Amounts due written off

 

-23

Exchange-rate differences

-2

0

Balance for the financial year

1 171

231

Source: Data compiled by the Centre. This table summarises the data supplied by the Centre in its own annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 46.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 93.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 151, 10.6.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1652/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 33).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (C6-0389/2006 — 2006/2156(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3) and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1035/97 of 2 June 1997 establishing a European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (4), and in particular Article 12a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0118/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable, and that, the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the Centre's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

expressed its concern about the high level of cancelled carry-overs in particular in Title I (staff expenditure);

—

was concerned by the irregularities noted by the Court of Auditors in contract tendering and awards;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that although the Centre's rate of commitment for the appropriations for the financial year 2005 was over 90 %, it was found that more than 50 % of the commitments for administrative expenditure were carried over and that in general there was a high rate of cancellation of the appropriations carried over (between 15 % and 25 %, depending on the title); invites the Centre to improve its expenditure planning and the way it monitors the implementation of this expenditure; underlines that transfers between budget headings need to be justified and documented in accordance with the provisions in force;

22.

Notes that no activity-based management had been brought in despite the Centre's financial regulation making provision for its introduction on the lines of that applied to the general budget with a view to improving the monitoring of performance; invites the Centre to present a work programme which expresses its contributions in operational and measurable terms;

23.

Notes that the Centre had no system for planning and managing its equipment acquisitions and that it did not make any cyclical checks on its inventory, although this would have improved the inventory's reliability; invites the Centre to remedy this situation;

24.

Notes that the Centre's internal control system suffered from various shortcomings, such as for instance the fact that the financial circuits set up by the authorising officer had not been described, the systems whereby the authorising officer and his delegates supplied information to the accounting officer had in particular not been validated by the latter and the principle of the segregation of duties was not applied strictly, especially between the duties of initiation and verification; invites the Centre, in relation to commitments, to include sound financial management in the list of matters to be covered by ex ante verifications;

25.

Invites the Centre to fully apply the rule whereby members of the selection boards must always be of a grade equivalent to or higher than that of the post to be filled;

26.

Notes that the invitations to tender issued by the Centre do not offer much by way of explanation as regards the minimum quality of bids and the weighting of price factors; invites the Centre to apply the rules for tenders strictly.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 46.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 93.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 151, 10.6.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1652/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 33).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 80.

P6_TA(2007)0116

Discharge 2005: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 of 8 February 1993 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (4), and in particular Article 11a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0100/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 43.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 86.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 36, 12.2.1993, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1651/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 30).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 of 8 February 1993 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (4), and in particular Article 11a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0100/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Subsidies from the Commission

12 000

11 730

Subsidies from Norway

516

514

Assigned revenue

190

211

Miscellaneous revenue

93

33

Total revenue (a)

12799

12488

Budgetary expenditure for the financial year

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

5 762

5 832

— Appropriations carried over

154

122

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

1 094

1 088

— Appropriations carried over

650

356

Operating activities — Title III of the budget (except assigned revenue)

— Payments against payment appropriations for the financial year

4 159

2 342

— Appropriations carried over

 

1 260

Assigned revenue (Phare and third countries)

101

201

Total expenditure (b)

11 920

11 200

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

879

1 288

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

1 508

295

Appropriations carried over and cancelled

1 239

245

Sums for re-use from the previous financial year not used

-58

15

Refunds to the Commission

-1 508

-3

Refunds to Norway

-128

81

Exchange-rate differences

1

-1

Balance for the financial year (EC grant + Norway contribution)

1 933

1 920

Norway Grant 2005

-516

 

Balance for the financial Year only EC Grant

1 417

 

Source: Information supplied by the Monitoring Centre — This table summarises the data provided by the Monitoring Centre in its own annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 43.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 86.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 36, 12.2.1993, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1651/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 30).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0390/2006 — 2006/2157(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 of 8 February 1993 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (4), and in particular Article 11a thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0100/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable, and that, the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Centre's budget for the for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

regretted the very high level of transfers made; urged the Centre to respect more closely the budget originally set by the Budgetary Authority;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the utilisation rate of commitment appropriations is greater than 90 %, whereas the corresponding rate for payment appropriations is only 85 %; notes also that expenditure on administration shows a high carry-over rate of almost 40 %; invites the Centre to manage its procurement policy better, in order to avoid carrying over appropriations, which makes management more cumbersome;

22.

Welcomes that, for the purposes of management, the Centre has prepared an activity-based budget; invites the Centre to take further this initiative with a view to improved performance monitoring and evaluation of its effectiveness by introducing analytical accounts so that the cost of the Centre's various activities can be ascertained;

23.

Invites the Centre to include the fixed asset inventory systems into the general accounts as without a reliable labelling system, the traceability of the assets entered in the inventory cannot be assured;

24.

Notes deficiencies in staff recruitment procedures; invites the Centre to apply recruitment procedures correctly;

25.

Notes that at the end of 2004, a member of staff was sent on a long-term (two-year) mission to Brussels; invites the centre to explain fully this procedure; asks the Centre and the Commission to investigate the case and to take measures to avoid recurrence of such a case in the future;

26.

Notes that a number of anomalies were revealed in the course of checks on procurement and contracting procedures; invites the Centre to fully apply procurement and contracting procedures in order to avoid similar situations as occurred in 2005.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 43.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 86.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 36, 12.2.1993, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1651/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 30).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 85.

P6_TA(2007)0117

Discharge 2005: European Environment Agency

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 of 7 May 1990 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network (4), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0103/2007),

1.

Grants the executive director of the European Environment Agency discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of the European Environment Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 36.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1641/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 of 7 May 1990 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network (4), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0103/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

EC subsidy

34 970

29 658

Other subsidies

745

1 998

Bank interest

153

126

Total revenue (a)

35 868

31 782

Expenditure

Total expenditure for Title I of the budget

— Payments

13 958

12 447

— Payments — Assigned revenues

207

2

— Appropriations carried over

51

435

— Appropriations carried over — Assigned revenue

343

66

Total expenditure for Title II of the budget

— Payments

2 960

3 451 (6)

— Payments — Assigned revenue

16

 

— Appropriations carried over

896

394

— Appropriations carried over — Assigned revenue

63

0

Total expenditure for Title III of the budget

— Payments

8 942

9 543

— Payments — Assigned revenue

841

14

— Appropriations carried over

4 075

4845

— Appropriations carried over — Assigned revenue

1 891

2 419

Total expenditure (b)

34 702

33 616

Net result for the year (a-b)

1 164

-2 822

Appropriations carried over and cancelled

373

507

Refunds carried over and cancelled

 

0

Adjustment for carry-over from the previous year of appropriations available at 31.12 arising from assigned revenue

2 997

0

Balance carried over from the previous year

-6 360

-4 190

Assigned revenue cancelled

 

98

Exchange-rate differences

-7

3

Regularisation regarding previous years

0

43

Balance carried forward

-1 832

-6 360

NB: Variations in total; are due to the effects of rounding.

Source: Information supplied by the Agency — This table summarises the data provided by the Agency in its annual report.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Environment Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 36.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1641/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  Includes EUR 905 823 of property taxes paid to the Danish government. The Agency is on the opinion that the amount should be refunded.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0391/2006 — 2006/2158(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 of 7 May 1990 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation network (4), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0103/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

noted that surplus appropriations in 2004 had been committed for operations to be carried out in 2005, and that appropriations relating to staff expenditure were carried over; insisted that the Agency respect the principle of budget annuality as defined in the Financial Regulation and the rule prohibiting carry over of appropriations relating to staff expenditure, in order to allow a correct and transparent implementation of the budgets as set by the Budgetary Authority;

—

noted the weaknesses in checking and omissions found by the Court of Auditors in its audit of the inventory;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the Agency committed nearly all the appropriations in its budget for the financial year 2005; notes nevertheless that the carry-over rate (over 30 %) for commitments for its operating activities (Title III) is high; invites the Agency to ensure a reduction in carry-overs, whose volume hampers the management of the following year's appropriations, which subsequently creates delays in implementation or even increases them;

22.

Notes that there is no description of the internal control systems and that the authorising officers have not provided a formal description of the systems that they use for supplying and substantiating accounts information and the accounting officer has therefore still not been able to validate them; invites the Agency to remedy this;

23.

Notes that there are still shortcomings in the authorising officer's annual activity report which does not supply adequate information on the results of the year's activities in relation to the objectives established, the associated risks, the use of resources and the functioning of the internal control systems; asks the Agency to solve this problem;

24.

Notes that during the audit of the procedures for the recruitment of temporary staff, it was observed that certain internal provisions concerning the joint nature of the selection committees and the inalterability of the selection criteria adopted beforehand did not comply with the provisions of the conditions of employment of other servants of the Communities; demands that in future the procedures for recruitment should be fully respected;

25.

Invites the Agency to respect evaluation criteria in procurement procedures;

26.

Considers the Agency to be a source of important environmental information for all EU institutions and policy-making; notes with satisfaction that the Agency has been able to transform some complicated data into clear conclusions and to communicate them to the public; acknowledges, in particular, the importance of the report ‘The European environment — State and outlook 2005’ in providing user-friendly information on the environment and pinpointing the key challenges facing the EU and Member States;

27.

Encourages the Agency to continue its efforts to further develop its communication methods in order to attract more media coverage for its findings and thus feed public debate on important environmental issues, such as climate change, biodiversity and the management of natural resources;

28.

Points out that the impact of environmental programmes is often hampered by the lack of assessment of environmental impacts of other Community policies; invites the Agency to further develop its work in the field of environmental impact assessment;

29.

Requests that, before 1 January 2010 and every five years thereafter, the Agency commission an independent external evaluation of its achievements on the basis of its founding Regulation and the work programmes decided by the Management Board; requests that the evaluation assess the working practices and the impact of the Agency and take into account the views of the stakeholders, at both Community and national level; requests further that the Management Board of the Agency examine the conclusions of the evaluation and draft such recommendations to the Commission and Parliament as may be necessary regarding changes in the Agency, its working practices and programmes, that the evaluation and the recommendations to the Commission and Parliament be made public, for example on their websites, and that the funds needed to carry out the external evaluation shall be allocated through the budget of the corresponding DG;

30.

Emphasises the role of the Agency in the evaluation of the implementation of EU environmental legislation.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 36.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1641/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 90.

P6_TA(2007)0118

Discharge 2005: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 of 18 July 1994 establishing a European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (4), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0105/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 19.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 24.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 216, 20.8.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1112/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005, p. 5).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 of 18 July 1994 establishing a European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (4), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0105/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Community subsidies

12 209

9 542

Other subsidies

150

66

Other revenue

66

111

Phare revenue

340

121

Total revenue (a)

12 765

9 840

Expenditure

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

3 435

3 379

— Appropriations carried over

75

60

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

1 052

966

— Appropriations carried over

331

248

Operating activities — Title III of the budget

— Payments

4 589

2 426

— Appropriations carried over

2 213

2 549

Phare expenditure

— Payments

133

0

— Appropriations carried over

206

0

Total expenditure (b)

12 035

9 628

Outturn for the financial year (c = a-b)

730

212

Appropriations carried over and cancelled

404

887

Sums to be reused from the previous financial year and not used

0

0

RO (Phare II) appropriations not used

0

144

Payments against commitment cancelled in 2002

0

0

Exchange-rate differences

0

0

Phare amount to be refunded to the Commission

0

-39

Adjustment entries

24

3

Outturn for the financial year before economic adjustments (d)

1 158

1 208

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

-779

-1 987

Accumulated outturn before economic adjustments (e)

379

-779

Budget revenue to be recovered

 

0

Other revenue to be recovered

 

0

Acquisitions of fixed assets

171

57

Depreciation

-161

-174

Stock

0

-6

Scrapping of fixed assets

0

-91

Depreciation

0

88

Miscellaneous expenditure

 

-34

Cumulated 2005 budgetary outturn to reimburse to the EC

-379

 

Phare III — Prefinancing received

-206

 

Prefinancing given

-314

 

Long term receivables

4

 

Adjustment of budgetary expenses

1 990

 

Adjustment of incomes

-806

 

Reversal of accual operations

1 585

 

Amounts paid carry over 2004-2005

-2 453

 

Economic adjustments (f)

-571

-161

Balance for the financial year (e+f)

587

-940

Source: The Agency's data — This table summarises the data provided by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 19.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 24.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 216, 20.8.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1112/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005, p. 5).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 of 18 July 1994 establishing a European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (4), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0105/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

welcomed the reduction in carry-overs achieved;

—

urged the Agency to put in place detailed rules for the implementation of its new financial regulation and internal control procedures based on risk analysis as soon as possible;

—

insisted that the Agency respects the rules concerning the duration of framework contracts;

—

expected the Agency, in future, to include negative balances at year and in amending budgets for the following financial year;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the commitment rate for appropriations entered in the budget for the financial year 2005 was over 90 % and that the carry-over rate remained high for operating expenditure (Title III), at 30 %, whereas the cancellation rate for appropriations carried over was close to 15 %; invites the Agency to improve its programming and adhere to it more strictly; notes that the management of the budget shows a high number of transfers of appropriations between budget lines and considers that the supporting documentation for these transfers is inadequate; invites the Agency to guarantee that the rules and limits applicable to transfers are observed;

22.

Considers the Agency to be a source of important information for all EU institutions, for political decision-making, for the business world and for the general public;

23.

Notes that the implementation of the internal control system was not yet complete in 2005 and that the Governing Board had not adopted any internal control standards; deplores the fact that there is no risk analysis and no checklists to meet the needs of authorising officers and staff who perform operational checks; invites the Agency to tackle these issues in the interests of transparency and efficiency;

24.

Notes that the general implementing provisions concerning the recruitment of staff to the Agency do not specify the criteria and formalities to be observed at the various stages of the selection of candidates; insists that decisions taken in this regard must be rigorously documented in order to ensure the transparency and impartiality of decisions made;

25.

Considers it regrettable that in public procurement procedures often no supporting evidence was given for the tender evaluation committee's assessments of the quality of the bids; considers it regrettable further that the evaluation reports were signed only by the authorising officer responsible and not by all the members of the tender evaluation committee; invites the Agency to put even more effort into the correct documentation of procurement procedures;

26.

Welcomes the fact that the Agency has improved its methods of communication and that greater use is being made of its specialist know-how by small and medium-sized enterprises in particular.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 19.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 24.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 216, 20.8.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1112/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005, p. 5.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 96.

P6_TA(2007)0119

Discharge 2005: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union (4), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0101/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 25.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 48.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 314, 7.12.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1645/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 13).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union (4), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0101/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Operating revenue

Invoicing for the financial year

30 408

23 423

Miscellaneous revenue

372

150

Total operating revenue (a)

30 780

23 573

Operating expenditure

Current expenses

13 200

11 929

Buildings, equipment and sundry operating expenditure

3 547

2 734

Operational expenditure

7 397

5 919

Allocation to provisions

1 849

1 410

Total operating expenditure (b)

25 993

21 992

Operating result (c = a-b)

4 787

1 581

Financial income

Bank interest

428

387

Exchange-rate gain

1

1

Total financial income (d)

429

388

Financial expenses

Bank charges

4

7

Total financial expenses (e)

4

7

Financial result (f = d-e)

425

381

Result for ordinary activities (g = c+f)

5 212

1 962

Exceptional income (h)

0

2 230

Exceptional expenses (i)

0

0

Exceptional result (j = h-i))

0

2 230

Result for the financial year (g+j)

5 212

4 192

Source: Data compiled by the Centre. This table summarises the data supplied by the Centre in its own annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 25.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 48.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 314, 7.12.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1645/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 13).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (C6-0393/2006 — 2006/2160(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union (4), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

—

having regard to the Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0101/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that, except for a number of irregularities noted in the award of contracts, the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Centre's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

noted the high level of appropriations cancelled by the Centre in 2004; insisted that the Centre improve its estimates in order that the budget as implemented more closely resembled the budget adopted by the Budgetary Authority;

—

was disappointed to note that the conflict concerning payment of employer's pension contributions was still not resolved; urged the Centre to step up its efforts to settle this dispute;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that for the financial year 2005, the overall rate of implementation for commitment appropriations was over 90 % and the same was true for payment appropriations, and that under-utilisation was noted with regard to expenditure on administration (Title II), where less than 75 % of the appropriations were committed, and 24 % of commitments were carried over; is concerned as, for the same period, more than 50 % of the total commitments carried over from the previous year were cancelled; insists that the Centre has to improve its programming of administrative expenditure;

22.

Invites the Centre to seek clarification of the intellectual property rights linked to the IATE database;

23.

Expresses its hope that the conflict between the Centre and the Commission as to the employer's portion of pension contributions for staff can be solved as quickly as possible.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 25.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 48.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 314, 7.12.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1645/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 13).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 102.

P6_TA(2007)0120

Discharge 2005: European Medicines Agency

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (4), and in particular Article 68 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0099/2007),

1.

Grants the executive director of the European Medicines Agency discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of the European Medicines Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 4.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 12.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 (OJ L 378, 27.12.2006, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (4), and in particular Article 68 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0099/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Fees relating to marketing authorisations

72 613

68 412

Commission subsidy including contributions received from the EE

22 847

20 529

Community subsidy for orphan medicines

6 110

4 026

Contributions for Community programmes

0

0

Administrative revenue

3 423

1 973

Sundry revenue

1 643

1 473

Total revenue (a)

106 636

96 413

Expenditure

Staff expenditure

40 057

34 333

Administrative expenditure

17 022

11 224

Operating expenditure

41 999

38 573

Depreciation

5 333

3 650

Other expenses

104

280

Total expenditure (b)

104 515

88 060

Operating result (c = a-b)

2 121

8 353

Financial result (e)

2 257

1 160

Economic outturn (f = c+e)

4 378

9 513

Source: The Agency's data — This table summarises the data provided by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Medicines Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 4.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 12.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 (OJ L 378, 27.12.2006, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0394/2006 — 2006/2161(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (4), and in particular Article 68 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0099/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

noted the Court of Auditor's finding that contracts concluded with banks had been in force for over five years, in contravention of the Agency's financial regulation implementing rules, which require a new invitation to tender at least every five years; noted the Agency's reply, explaining the reasons for the delay in launching a call for tendering, and setting out the benefits achieved through direct negotiation with the bank, and will bear this in mind when considering revisions to the Financial Regulation;

—

pointed out that the new pharmaceuticals legislation, which was adopted in 2004, had a considerable impact on the Agency's work and management structures;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission and to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the implementation of the budget, the utilisation rates for commitment appropriations (94 %) and payment appropriations (82 %) were on the whole high, and that for administrative expenditure (Title II) the utilisation rate for commitment appropriations was less than 90 %, with more than 40 % of the commitments made being carried over to the following financial year;

22.

Notes that the budget of the Agency has grown considerably between 2003 and 2005 due to the enlargement of the European Union and new tasks; is very pleased with the increased appropriations for, and the full implementation of, the Orphan Drugs budget line;

23.

Invites the Agency to make sure that only staff members with delegation rights have access to the corresponding computer system;

24.

Invites the Agency to integrate into its accounts the funds (7) collected from other Agencies and bodies to finance a common support service to develop their financial management information systems;

25.

Demands that contract award procedures should be transparent and follow the guiding rules including in the IT area;

26.

Invites the Agency to inform Parliament about the new call for tender concerning bank contracts according to standard rules as soon as possible;

27.

Points out that the new pharmaceuticals legislation, which was adopted in 2004, has had a considerable impact on the Agency's work, management structures and staff; congratulates the Agency on successfully adapting to the new regulatory framework, which entered into force in November 2005;

28.

Is pleased at the launch of the ‘SME office’, providing financial and administrative assistance to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2049/2005 (8);

29.

Welcomes the efforts of the Agency to provide more scientific advice at early stages of the development of new medicines as well as the introduction of measures to accelerate the assessment of medicines that are of critical importance to public health; notes the work done by the Agency to facilitate a quick assessment of vaccines in the event of an influenza pandemic;

30.

Requests that, before 1 January 2010 and every five years thereafter, the Agency commission an independent external evaluation of its achievements on the basis of its founding Regulation and the work programmes decided by the Management Board; requests further that the evaluation assess the working practices and the impact of the Agency and take into account the views of the stakeholders, at both Community and national level; requests that the Management Board of the Agency examine the conclusions of the evaluation and draft such recommendations to the Commission and Parliament as may be necessary regarding changes in the Agency, its working practices and programmes, that the evaluation and the recommendations to the Commission and Parliament shall be made public, for example on their websites, and that the Funds needed to carry out the external evaluation shall be allocated through the budget of the corresponding DG.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 4.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 12.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 (OJ L 378, 27.12.2006, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 107.

(7)  Approximately EUR 400 000.

(8)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 2049/2005 of 15 December 2005 laying down, pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, rules regarding the payment of fees to, and the receipt of administrative assistance from, the European Medicines Agency by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. (OJ L 329, 16.12.2005, p. 4).

P6_TA(2007)0121

Discharge 2005: Eurojust

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005, together with Eurojust's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof, and the EU Treaty, and in particular Article 41 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Decision 2002/187/JHA of 28 February 2002 setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight against serious crime (4), and in particular Article 36 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0120/2007),

1.

Grants the administrative director of Eurojust discharge for the implementation of Eurojust's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the administrative director of Eurojust, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 34.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 67.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 63, 6.3.2002, p. 1. Decision as amended by Decision 2003/659/JHA (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 44).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005, together with Eurojust's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof, and the EU Treaty, and in particular Article 41 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Decision 2002/187/JHA of 28 February 2002 setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight against serious crime (4), and in particular Article 36 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0120/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Operating revenue

Community subsidies

11 991

8 726

Miscellaneous revenue

59

397

Total (a)

12 050

9 123

Operating expenditure

Purchases of goods and services

4 854

4 476

Staff costs

5 149

4 142

Depreciation

508

332

Total (b)

10 511

8 950

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

1 539

173

Source: Eurojust data — This table summarises the data supplied by Eurojust in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the administrative director of Eurojust, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 34.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 67.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 63, 6.3.2002, p. 1. Decision as amended by Decision 2003/659/JHA (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 44).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (C6-0395/2006 — 2006/2162(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2005, together with Eurojust's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof, and the EU Treaty, and in particular Article 41 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Decision 2002/187/JHA of 28 February 2002 setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight against serious crime (4), and in particular Article 36 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0120/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of Eurojust's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

expressed its wish to be kept fully informed of the intentions of the Dutch host authorities regarding any new premises for Eurojust; in particular, wished to be informed of the possibilities for Eurojust and Europol to occupy the same premises and of the conditions of such a move and the financial support that the host state would grant to Eurojust in that respect;

—

noted that Eurojust implemented a different budget from the one set by the Budgetary Authority; insisted that Eurojust follow the correct procedures and await approval from the Budgetary Authority before implementing any such changes in future;

—

stressed that the principle of the segregation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer should be respected and that there should be no repetition of the situation occurring in 2004 when one member of staff filled both roles;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the implementation of the budget showed that 90 % of the appropriations granted for the year had been committed and that the overall rate of payment was 84 %; notes furthermore that the utilisation rate of appropriations for operating activities (Title III) was only 80 % of the commitment appropriations for the financial year and that a third of commitments had to be carried over; notes that more than 15 % of the commitments carried over to the year had to be cancelled; invites Eurojust to even further improve the programming of operating expenditure;

22.

Notes that the College decided to authorise a non-automatic carryover of appropriations for a total of EUR 285 484 and recalls that such carryovers are permitted only if most of the stages preparatory to the act of commitment have been completed before the end of the financial year, and that this was not the case;

23.

Underlines that Eurojust still does not have its own financial regulation and has continued to apply Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002; invites the Commission to inform Parliament of its opinion concerning the draft regulation submitted by Eurojust;

24.

Invites Eurojust to improve its inventory procedure;

25.

Invites Eurojust to inform Parliament about the adoption by its Board of any internal control standard; is concerned that the formalisation of operating and accounting procedures was mostly lacking and that in 2005 the checklists describing the checks to be carried out on budgetary commitments relating to important operating procedures (procurement and recruitment) were insufficiently developed; invites Eurojust to present Parliament with a short description of any improvements in this field in time for the 2006 discharge procedure;

26.

Invites Eurojust to respect public procurement procedures and contract management and to respect the time limits for framework contracts as laid down in the regulatory provisions.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 34.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 67.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 63, 6.3.2002, p. 1. Decision as amended by Decision 2003/659/JHA (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 44).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 112.

P6_TA(2007)0122

Discharge 2005: European Training Foundation

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005, together with the Foundation's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 of 7 May 1990 establishing a European Training Foundation (4), and in particular Article 11 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0113/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the European Training Foundation discharge for the implementation of the Foundation's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Training Foundation, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 40.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 73.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 131, 23.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by regulation (EC) No 1648/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 22).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005, together with the Foundation's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 of 7 May 1990 establishing a European Training Foundation (4), and in particular Article 11 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0113/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Commission subsidies

18 500

17 600

Other donors — Italian Ministry Foreign Affairs

479

800

Other donors — CE — ETE MED convention

2 500

0

Other donors — CE — Tempus TA 2004/05 convention

1 739

0

Miscellaneous revenue

34

80

Total revenue (a)

23 252

18 480

Expenditure

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

11 310

11 122

— Appropriations carried over

478

123

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

1 232

1 213

— Appropriations carried over

326

247

Operating activities — Title III of the budget

— Payments

2 818

3 449

— Appropriations carried over

1 925

1 168

Earmarked revenue — Title IV

— Payments

123

260

— Appropriations received — not paid in 2005

356

540

CE — ETE MED convention — Title V

— Payments

135

0

— Appropriations received — not paid in 2005

2 365

0

CE — Tempus TA 2004/05 convention — Title VI

— Payments

677

0

— Appropriations received — not paid in 2005

1 062

0

Total expenditure (b)

22 808

18 122

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

444

358

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

-759

-1 318

Appropriations carried over and cancelled

388

204

Reimbursements to the Commission

0

0

Exchange-rate differences

1

-4

Balance for the financial year

74

-759

Source: Foundation data — This table summarises the data supplied by the Foundation in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision it to the director of the European Training Foundation, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 40.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 73.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 131, 23.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1648/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 22).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (C6-0396/2006 — 2006/2163(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2005, together with the Foundation's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 of 7 May 1990 establishing a European Training Foundation (4), and in particular Article 11 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0113/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Foundation's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

was disappointed to note that the Foundation had still not solved the problem concerning the correct presentation in its accounts of expenditure related to the Tempus programme; noted that this problem had persisted despite repeated criticism from the Court of Auditors in annual reports since 1999, and that the Court of Auditors had placed a reserve on the Foundation's accounts as a consequence; insisted that the accounts of the Foundation respect the principles of unity and budget accuracy;

—

insisted that the Agency comply with the regulations in force concerning the publication of a budget sub-divided into articles and items and including an establishment plan;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new Agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the commitment rate for the appropriations for the financial year is high (practically 100 % for the Foundation's own activities) and draws the Foundation's attention to the high rate (over 40 %) of carry-overs of commitments for operating activities (Title III); is particularly concerned as a similar situation prevails for the implementation of MEDA and Tempus activities; invites the Foundation to better ensure its programming;

22.

Considers the Foundation to be a source of important information and of exchange of experience for the partner countries of the European Union and for all EU institutions;

23.

Points out that training programmes and the improvement thereof form the basis for the development and expansion of democracy; consequently encourages the Foundation to step up its activities in partner countries where major obstacles stand in the way of the progress of democracy;

24.

Criticises the fact that, as in previous years and in infringement of its financial regulation, the Foundation only published a summary of its budget in the Official Journal;

25.

Invites the Foundation to present a new budget nomenclature which corresponds better to the Foundation's reality and which could avoid constant transfers; invites the Foundation to improve coordination between the financial unit and the operational units, which should lead to a decrease in transfers which are necessary;

26.

Invites the Foundation to improve compliance with existing rules for final accounts;

27.

Deplores the fact that the Foundation has still not finished introducing its system of internal control and the fact that at the end of 2005 there was no analysis of operational risks and ex post checks and that at the same time the accounting officer had not yet validated the accounts information and inventory systems;

28.

Welcomes the fact that the Foundation has continued to step up its work on the development of human resources, thus enabling partner countries to make better use of its experience when tackling the reform of their training and further training systems;

29.

Insists that the Foundation has to overcome shortcomings in the field of the documentation of staff selection procedures.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 40.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 73.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 131, 23.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1648/2003 (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 22).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 117.

P6_TA(2007)0123

Discharge 2005: European Maritime Safety Agency

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency (4), and in particular Article 19 thereof,

—

having regard to the Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0114/2007),

1.

Grants to the executive director of the European Maritime Safety Agency discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 13.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 30.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency (4), and in particular Article 19 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0114/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

Community subsidies

16 060

12 800

Other revenue

 

5

Total budget revenue (a)

16 060

12 805

Expenditure

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

6 063

3 594

— Appropriations carried over

161

143

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

1 598

635

— Appropriations carried over

333

684

Operating activities — Title III of the budget

— Payments

7 515

437

— Appropriations carried over

 

2 074

Total budget expenditure (b)

15 670

7 567

Balance (c = a-b)

390

5 238

Appropriations carried over and cancelled

126

251

Exchange-rate differences

-1

-1

Balance of the budget implementation for the financial year

515

5 488

Variation in automatic carry-overs of appropriations and invoices t

-1 021

2 089

Variation in investments for the financial year

469

242

Variation in debts (Commission)

-52

-5 489

Depreciation for the financial year

-151

-43

Variation in advances/Pre-financing to suppliers

5 296

56

Provisions

-106

 

Other items

-515

 

Outturn of the economic adjustments for the financial year (e)

4 435

2 343

NB: Variations in totals are due to the effects of rounding.

Source: Agency data. This table summarises the data supplied by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 13.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 30.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0397/2006 — 2006/2164(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency (4), and in particular Article 19 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0114/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

noted the Court of Auditors' finding of a number of failures in the internal control system;

—

regretted the little use made of appropriations for maritime anti-pollution measures; only EUR 200 000 of the EUR 700 000 available in both commitment and payment appropriations was used, representing a rate of 28 %;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 was affected by delays in staff recruitment and that this situation had repercussions on the utilisation of appropriations for administrative expenditure;

22.

Notes that activity-based management was not brought in, even though the Agency's financial regulation made provision for its introduction on the model that was applied to the general budget with a view to better monitoring performance;

23.

Is concerned that the Agency's computerised accounting system for the general accounts allows direct changes to be made to accounting records without corrective journal entries;

24.

Insists that the register of liabilities to be entered in the balance sheet should be checked more carefully as liabilities are actually overestimated by at least EUR 92 000 (i.e. almost 10 % of current liabilities), corresponding to goods and services not yet received as at 31 December 2005;

25.

Notes that the documentation of transactions, a prerequisite for a valid system of internal control, showed some weaknesses and that files which relate to commitments and payments were often incomplete or confused;

26.

Is concerned that it is difficult to ascertain the total number of contracts concluded during the financial year and the number of contracts in progress; insists that the system of control must be tightened up, beginning with the adoption of minimum standards for administrative and control procedures, including the nature and organisation of data;

27.

Notes that contract clauses which provide for pre-financing are not standardised with regard to the provision of bank guarantees; invites the Agency to solve this problem immediately;

28.

Notes furthermore various shortcomings in public procurement management and insists that the Agency has to comply with the regulatory requirements;

29.

Deplores the fact that delays in staff recruitment have had repercussions on the utilisation of appropriations for operating activities (Title III); welcomes the Agency's decision to establish a recruitment plan and insists that similar delays be avoided in the future in order for the Agency to be fully operational.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 13.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 30.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 123.

P6_TA(2007)0124

Discharge 2005: European Aviation Safety Agency

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2002 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency (4), and in particular Article 49 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5) and, in particular, Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0121/2007),

1.

Grants the executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 6.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 240, 7.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1701/2003 (OJ L 243, 27.9.2003, p. 5).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2002 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency (4), and in particular Article 49 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0121/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Operating revenue

Community subsidies

17 416

7 777

Other subsidies

1 446

248

Fees and charges revenue

10 888

 

Reimbursement of expenditure

26

3

Other revenue

693

350

Total (a)

30 469

8 378

Operating expenditure

Staff

13 636

5 556

Buildings and related expenditure

2 121

689

Other administrative expenditure

1 319

743

Allocation to provisions

576

89

Operating expenditure

11 660

2 081

Total (b)

29 312

9 158

Operating outturn (c = a-b)

1 157

-780

Financial income (d)

41

0

Financial expenses (e)

-14

2

Financial outturn (f = d-e)

27

-2

Outturn for the financial year (g = c+f)

1 184

-782

Source: Agency data — This table summarises the data supplied by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 6.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 240, 7.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1701/2003 (OJ L 243, 27.9.2003, p. 5).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0398/2006 — 2006/2165(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2002 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency (4), and in particular Article 49 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0121/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

was concerned by the anomalies noted by the Court of Auditors in budgetary management, including a lack of any indication in the amending budgets about transfers carried out or about the reasons for these transfers and a failure to inform the Management Board about transfers and payment of advances outside the budget;

—

noted that in 2004 the Agency had not yet adopted the implementing rules for its financial regulation and had not carried out any risk analysis or prepared any internal control standards;

—

noted that staff selection procedures at the Agency have varied from one round of selections to another and urged the Commission and the Agency to agree on a transparent and coherent recruitment procedure consistent with the Agency's needs in terms of specifically qualified personnel;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the utilisation rate for commitment and payment appropriations was less than 80 % and that this situation was due to the low rate of implementation of commitment and payment appropriations (69 % and 32 % respectively) for operating expenditure; notes furthermore that the cancellation rate for appropriations for the financial year is also high (ranging from 7% to more than 30 % depending on the title of the expenditure and the nature of the appropriations) and that the cancellation rates for appropriations carried over from the previous year are also high; invites the Agency in this context to improve and step up the monitoring of its planning so as to ensure that resources are not mobilised unnecessarily;

22.

Notes the failure to introduce activity-based management, even though the Agency's financial regulation provides for it, along the lines applied to the general budget, so as to allow better monitoring of performance;

23.

Regrets that the Management Board did not adopt minimal internal-control standards by the end of 2005 and that management and internal-control systems and procedures were not always described; notes that procedures introduced by the authorising officers to guarantee the accuracy and exhaustiveness of the financial information they submit to the accounting officer were not validated and that at the end of 2005 the Agency still did not have a system for ensuring that the fees which it charges its clients for the services it provides were sufficient to cover the cost of those services; invites the Agency to overcome this situation as quickly as possible;

24.

Welcomes the Management Board's decision to adopt internal-control standards based on the standards adopted by the Commission and on ISO 9000; urges the Agency to press ahead with the implementation of these standards;

25.

Deplores the fact that the principle of open competition was not always observed and invites the Agency to do so in the future.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 6.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 240, 7.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1701/2003 (OJ L 243, 27.9.2003, p. 5).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 128.

P6_TA(2007)0125

Discharge 2005: European Food Safety Authority

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005, together with the Authority's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (4), and in particular Article 44 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0112/2007),

1.

Grants the executive director of the European Food Safety Authority discharge for the implementation of the Authority's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of the European Food Safety Authority, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 22.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 42.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 575/2006 (OJ L 100, 8.4.2006, p. 3).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005, together with the Authority's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (4), and in particular Article 44 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0112/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Operating revenue

27 405

20 591

Total operating revenue

27 405

20 591

Administrative expenditure

 

 

Staff expenditure

-13 012

-7 564

Buildings and related expenditure

-3 627

-4 192

Other expenditure (including expenses with consolidated EC entities)

-2 205

-1 263

Depreciation and reduction in value of consolidated entities

-603

-333

Operating expenditure (including expenses with consolidated EC entities)

-8 413

-6 431

Total operating expenditure

-27 674

-19 783

Operating profit/(loss)

-761

808

Revenue from financial operations

-

0

Expenditure from financial operations

-7

-7

Profit/(loss) on financial operations

-7

-6

Current profit/(loss)

-768

802

Extraordinary revenue

 

 

Extraordinary expenditure

-

-27

Extraordinary profit /(loss)

-

-27

Economic outturn for the financial year

-768

775

Source: The Authority's data — This table summarises the data provided by the Authority in its own annual accounts.

NB: Variations in totals are due to the effects of rounding.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Food Safety Authority, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 22.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 42.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 575/2006 (OJ L 100, 8.4.2006, p. 3).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (C6-0399/2006 — 2006/2166(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2005, together with the Authority's replies (2),

—

having regard to Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (4), and in particular Article 44 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0112/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated, that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable, and the underlying transactions, subject to reservation, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Authority's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

was disappointed to note that the Court of Auditors again discovered anomalies in the application of the rules concerning staff recruitment, and urged the Authority to apply with more transparency the rules regarding selection procedures;

—

was concerned by the irregularities noted by the Court of Auditors in contract award procedures;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the financial year 2005 was marked by a significant under-implementation of the budget, with only 80 % of commitment and payment appropriations being used; considers that the Authority should make a serious effort to improve the use it makes of the appropriations with which it is entrusted to achieve its objectives;

22.

Strongly deplores the fact that the changes it made to the establishment plan were not respected and that it restored the grades initially provided for in the draft budget in respect of 19 posts without informing Parliament;

23.

Notes the failure to introduce activity-based management although this is laid down by the Authority's financial regulation, along the lines of what was applied to the general budget with a view to improving performance monitoring;

24.

Regrets the fact that the Authority did not carry out a risk analysis or formally lay down the internal control systems and procedures it follows and invites the Authority to do so as quickly as possible;

25.

Notes with regard to recruitment that the Authority rejected candidates on the basis of criteria other than those provided for in the vacancy notices and, in addition, did not observe the regulatory provisions concerning the grades of selection board members in relation to the posts to be filled; insists on the strict application of the relevant criteria and on an effective check as to whether the documents submitted by candidates in support of their applications actually offer genuine proof;

26.

Notes that the Authority had difficulties in recruiting highly skilled scientific staff in Parma;

27.

Regrets that a considerable number of anomalies were revealed during the audits carried out on the award and conclusion of contracts; invites the Authority to urgently tighten up its internal control system;

28.

Notes that buildings intended to house the Authority permanently are still not available and that the Authority was thus obliged to rent and fit out temporary premises (cost in 2005: approximately EUR 3 500 000); invites the Authority, together with the Commission, to clarify this situation with the national authorities, in particular with a view to any financial compensation.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 22.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 42.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 575/2006 (OJ L 100, 8.4.2006, p. 3).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 134.

P6_TA(2007)0126

Discharge 2005: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (4), and in particular Article 23 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0119/2007),

1.

Grants the executive director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the executive director of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 31.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 54.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (4), and in particular Article 23 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0119/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 are as follows:

(in EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial year 2005  (6)

 

2005

Revenue

Commission subsidy (for the operating budget of the agency)

3 402 280,45

Fee income

 

Other revenue

 

Total revenue (a)

3 402 280,45

Expenditure

Title I: Staff

— Payments

- 500 909,02

— Appropriations carried over

- 361 771,74

Title II: Administrative Expenses

— Payments

- 597 024,15

— Appropriations carried over

- 534 581,62

Title III: Operating Expenditure

— Payments

-69 773,55

— Appropriations carried over

- 540 654,36

Total expenditure (b)

-2 604 714,44

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

797 566,01

Cancellation of unused payment appropriations carried over from previous year

 

Adjustment for carry-over from the previous year of appropriations available at 31 December arising from assigned revenue

 

Exchange differences for the year (gain +/loss -)

-10 168,55

Balance of the budget implementation for the financial year

787 397,46

Part of the subsidy to reimburse to EC

- 787 397,46

Impact on Assets

 

Impact of assets and depreciation

222 011,07

Impact on the Accruals of the year

 

Carry Overs

1 437 007,72

Accruals

- 363 538,58

Other adjustments

 

Pending liabilities

- 448 377,86

Prepayments and Deferred expenses

20 636,80

Goods in transit

63 108,90

Payment of services by the Commission

-8 490,00

Exceptional revenue

31 250,85

Outturn of the economic adjustments for the financial year (e)

953 608,90

NB: Variations in totals are due to the effects of rounding.

Source: Agency data — This table summarises the data supplied by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the executive director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 31.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 54.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  Only figures for 2005 due to the fact it is a newly created Agency.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (C6-0400/2006 — 2006/2167(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2005, together with the Centre's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (4), and in particular Article 23 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0119/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated, that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 was marked by a low rate of commitment (84 %) and a substantial rate of carry-overs (35 % overall and almost 90 % for operating expenditure); notes that this situation was in part due to problems inherent in the Centre's start-up period;

22.

Notes that the Centre's establishment phase was given a further boost by the global concern over a potential influenza pandemic; congratulates the Centre on its ability to consolidate its position in the field of surveillance of communicable diseases in a very short time;

23.

Points out that the Commission (DG SANCO) was responsible for the budgetary management of the Centre in 2005;

24.

Notes that no activity-based management has been brought in, despite the Centre's financial regulation making provision for its introduction, on the lines of that applied to the general budget, with a view to improving the monitoring of performance;

25.

Insists that requests to the Commission for the payment of subsidies should be justified by a forecast of cash needs (6) and regrets that the Centre had no such system for producing forecasts;

26.

Notes that the Centre's financial regulation stipulates that the authorising officer should make a budgetary commitment before entering into a legal commitment in relation to third parties and regrets that no budgetary commitments were made for the Centre's expenditure in 2005 prior to such legal commitments; regrets that for the same period, all the Centre's payments were made by the accounting officer without the authorising officer having issued any payment orders (7);

27.

Notes that contrary to the provisions of the Centre's financial regulation, its accounts were not kept in accordance with the double-entry method during 2005, thus creating the risk of errors; insists that this should be rectified as soon as possible;

28.

Notes that there were shortcomings in the documentation of the Centre's staff selection procedures (lack of formalisation of decisions on the appointment and composition of selection boards, lack of final report by selection boards on their work); insists on the strict application of its selection procedures.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 31.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 54.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  Article 50 of the Centre's financial regulation.

(7)  Article 66 of the Centre's financial regulation.

P6_TA(2007)0127

Discharge 2005: European Network and Information Security Agency

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 460/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 establishing a European Network and Information Security Agency (4), and in particular Article 17 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0102/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the European Network and Information Security Agency Discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Network and Information Security Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 16.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 77, 13.3.2004, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 460/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 establishing a European Network and Information Security Agency (4), and in particular Article 17 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0102/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial year 2005  (6)

 

2005

Revenue

Commission subsidies

4 400

Assigned revenue

 

Miscellaneous revenue

 

Total revenue (a)

4 400

Budgetary expenditure for the financial year

Staff — Title I of the budget

— Payments

-1 490

— Appropriations carried over

-257

Administration — Title II of the budget

— Payments

-453

— Appropriations carried over

-1 065

Operating activities — Title III of the budget (except for assigned revenue)

— Payments against payment appropriations for the financial year

-196

— Payments against outstanding commitments at 31.12.2003

 

— Appropriations carried over

-790

Assigned revenue (Phare and third countries)

— Payments

 

— Appropriations carried over

 

Total expenditure (b)

-4 251

Outturn for the financial year (a-b)

149

Balance carried over from the previous financial year

 

N-1 appropriations carried over and cancelled (Title I and II non-differentiated)

 

Neutralisation of N-1 carry-over for Title III connected with changeover to differentiated appropriations

 

Sums for re-use from the previous financial year not used

 

Refunds to the Commission

 

Exchange-rate differences

 

Balance for the financial year

149

Source: Information supplied by the Agency — This table summarises the data provided by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the European Network and Information Security Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 16.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 77, 13.3.2004, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  Only figures for 2005 due to the fact it is a newly created Agency.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (C6-0401/2006 — 2006/2168(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Network and Information Security Agency for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Regulation (EC) No 460/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 establishing a European Network and Information Security Agency (4), and in particular Article 17 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0102/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable, and the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, were legal and regular,

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new Agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Notes that the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 was marked by a low rate of commitment (70%) and a substantial rate of carry-over (more than 40 % overall and up to almost 80 % for operating expenditure) and that this situation was in part due to problems inherent in the Agency's start-up period and to the fact that it did not start becoming operational until the second half of 2005;

22.

Notes that no activity-based management has been brought in, despite the Agency's financial regulation making provision for its introduction, on the lines of that applied to the general budget, with a view to improving the monitoring of performance.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 16.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 77, 13.3.2004, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

P6_TA(2007)0128

Payment services in the internal market ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market and amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/12/EC and 2002/65/EC (COM(2005)0603 — C6-0411/2005 — 2005/0245(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and to the Council (COM(2005)0603) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2), Article 47(2), first and third sentences, and Article 95 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the proposal was submitted by the Commission (C6-0411/2005),

—

having regard to the letter of 1 March 2007 sent to the President of the Parliament by the chairman of the working party set up under Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC regarding the issues connected with data protection, especially in the operation of the SWIFT system,

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the opinions of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0298/2006),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0245

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 24 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and Council on payment services in the internal market amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2002/65/EC, 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and repealing Directive 97/5/EC

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive 2007/64/EC.)

P6_TA(2007)0129

Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch (COM(2006)0827 — C6-0046/2007 — 2006/0268(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0827) (1),

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having regard to Article 37 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0046/2007),

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having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (A6-0137/2007),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

4.

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

5.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 1

RECITAL 3

(3) Producer Member States should allocate their quotas for a period of two years among all potato starch manufacturers on the basis of the quotas for the 2006/2007 marketing year.

(3) Producer Member States should allocate their quotas for a period of four years among all potato starch manufacturers on the basis of the quotas for the 2006/2007 marketing year.

Amendment 2

ARTICLE 1, POINT 1

Article 2, paragraph 1 (Regulation (EC) No 1868/94)

1. The potato-starch producing Member States shall be allocated quotas for the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years in accordance with the Annex.

1. The potato-starch producing Member States shall be allocated quotas for the 2007/2008 , 2008/2009 , 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 marketing years in accordance with the Annex.

Amendment 3

ARTICLE 1, POINT 1

Article 2, paragraph 2, subparagraph 1 (Regulation (EC) No 1868/94)

2. Each producer Member State referred to in the Annex shall allocate its quota among potato-starch manufacturers for use in the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years on the basis of the sub-quotas available to each manufacturer in 2006/2007, subject to application of the second subparagraph.

2. Each producer Member State referred to in the Annex shall allocate its quota among potato-starch manufacturers for use in the 2007/2008 , 2008/2009 , 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 marketing years on the basis of the sub-quotas available to each manufacturer in 2006/2007, subject to application of the second subparagraph.

Amendment 4

ARTICLE 1, POINT 1

Article 3 (Regulation (EC) No 1868/94)

The Commission shall present the Council, before 1 January 2009 , with a report on the functioning of the quota system within the Community, accompanied by appropriate proposals. This report shall take account of developments on the potato starch and cereal starch markets.

The Commission shall present the Council, before 1 January 2011 , with a report on the functioning of the quota system within the Community, accompanied by appropriate proposals. This report shall take account of developments on the potato starch and cereal starch markets. However, should an agreement within the World Trade Organization lead to a reduction in export refunds and in import duties for tapioca-starch, the Commission shall present the European Parliament and the Council with an impact report before that deadline.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TA(2007)0130

Future enlargements and cohesion

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 on the consequences of future enlargements on the effectiveness of cohesion policy (2006/2107(INI))

The European Parliament,

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having regard to its resolution of 16 March 2006 on the Commission's 2005 enlargement strategy paper (1),

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having regard to the Commission's Communication of 8 November 2006 on Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2006 — 2007, including the special report annexed thereto on the EU's capacity to integrate new members (COM(2006)0649),

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having regard to its resolution of 13 December 2006 (2) on the Commission's Communication on the Enlargement Strategy,

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having regard to its resolution of 13 December 2006 on the institutional aspects of the European Union's capacity to integrate new Member States (3),

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having regard to the Commission's Communication of 3 May 2006: Enlargement, Two Years After — An Economic Success (COM(2006)0200),

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having regard to its resolution of 28 September 2005 on the opening of negotiations with Turkey (4),

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having regard to the Conclusions of the General Affairs and External Relations Council of 3 October 2005 (5) on the opening of negotiations with Croatia,

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having regard to the Presidency Conclusions of the European Council of 15 and 16 June 2006 (6),

—

having regard to its resolution of 27 September 2006 on Turkey's progress towards accession (7),

—

having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (8),

—

having regard to the Commission's Third report on economic and social cohesion of 18 February 2004 (COM(2004)0107),

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having regard to the Commission's Communication of 12 June 2006 on the Growth and Jobs Strategy and the Reform of European cohesion policy: Fourth progress report on cohesion (COM(2006)0281),

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having regard to the Presidency Conclusions of the European Council of 21 and 22 June 1993 in Copenhagen and of 16 and 17 December 2004 and 14 and 15 December 2006 in Brussels,

—

having regard to Article 49 of the EU Treaty and Article 158 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Regional Development and the opinion of the Committee on Budgets (A6-0087/2007),

A.

whereas, under Article 2 of the EU Treaty, social, economic and territorial cohesion is an important objective of the European Union and provides citizens with a visible sign of European solidarity,

B.

whereas the European Union's cohesion policy has enjoyed considerable successes in terms of achieving the objective of social, economic and territorial cohesion, as is shown in particular in the Commission's Fourth progress report on cohesion,

C.

whereas the EU's past enlargements have contributed to ensuring peace, security, stability, democracy and the rule of law, as well as growth and prosperity in the Union as a whole, benefits that have helped the EU to become a more competitive and dynamic economy and which therefore must be borne in mind when deciding on future enlargements,

D.

whereas further significant efforts will, nonetheless, be needed to achieve the convergence of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, since their economic point of departure was lower than that of acceding states in previous enlargements, while at the same time a radical change had to take place in their political and economic systems,

E.

whereas the effects of globalisation impede the process of convergence and also give rise to new business location problems for the Union as a whole,

F.

whereas well managed cohesion policy can help regions cope with some of the challenges of globalisation,

G.

whereas pressure on government budgets is increasing, whereas many Member States are infringing the stability criteria and whereas demographic trends will place additional demands on budgets and weaken economic growth,

H.

whereas the EU should remain an open community and structural policy issues must not stand as an obstacle to future enlargement, provided that necessary reforms guarantee integration capacity,

I.

whereas, since October 2005, the Community has been holding open-ended accession negotiations with Turkey and Croatia, and in December 2005 the European Council granted the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia candidate status; whereas the other states of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia (including Kosovo)) are regarded as potential candidates for membership; whereas the reform process in all these countries is already receiving support from pre-accession programmes containing structural policy components,

J.

whereas, with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, special rules entered into force on claiming appropriations from the Structural Funds, and the full effects of this accession on structural policy have yet to be determined,

K.

whereas all countries receiving EU pre-accession aid as well as the full consideration of Romania and Bulgaria would require an additional EUR 150 billion in the current funding period on the basis of the structural policy scheme in force; whereas, however, the accession of all countries receiving pre-accession aid will not happen simultaneously,

L.

whereas the accession of Romania and Bulgaria increased the area of EU-25 eligible for EU structural funding by 9% and its population by 6 % and decreased its per-capita GDP by 5%; whereas the accession of Croatia would increase the area of EU-27 by 1.3 % and its population by 0.9 %, while it would decrease its per-capita GDP by 0.6 %; whereas the accession of Turkey would increase the area of EU-27 by 18.3 % and its population by 14.7 %, while it would decrease its per-capita GDP by 10.5 %; whereas the accession of the other Western Balkan states would increase the area of EU-27 by 4.8 % and its population by 4%, while it would decrease its per-capita GDP by 3.5 %,

M.

whereas there is an urgent need for institutional, financial and political reform of the institutions of the European Union which underpin the EU's integration capacity; whereas accession to the EU is fully dependent on meeting the Copenhagen criteria and thus on democratic development in the countries mentioned in recital I,

N.

whereas, in a 34-Member State European Union, Croatia would account for only 7% of this additional structural funding, calculated under existing rules, and the other Western Balkan states currently receiving pre-accession assistance for 9.2 %, while Turkey alone would receive 63 %,

O.

whereas the accession of the Western Balkan states taken individually, even during the current financial framework, would not give rise to any statistical effect on the eligibility of Member State regions, nor would it lead to any dramatic financial impact on the cohesion policy of the current Union of 27 Member States due to their size, population and economic development; whereas Croatia, with which negotiations are the furthest advanced and which is even more developed in socio-economic terms than some current Member States, would, in comparative terms, represent the smallest financial burden for the Union, given the country's size, population and level of economic development and would not give rise to any statistical effect in relation to the eligible areas at regional and national level, even in the current financial period,

P.

whereas , under the current rules and conditions, the accession of Turkey would lend an entirely new scale to EU cohesion policy, which has never yet been applied to a country of such a size, with such a low level of economic development and such large regional disparities,

Q.

whereas, the Presidency Conclusions of the June 2006 European Council pointed out that, in accepting new Member States, the EU should remain in a position to maintain the dynamic of European integration and ‘that every effort should be made to protect the cohesion and the effectiveness of the Union’,

R.

whereas, in its Communication of 8 November 2006, the Commission calls for the effects on the EU budget to be examined in detail ahead of any further enlargements, taking into account the future development of relevant policy areas such as agriculture and cohesion policy,

S.

whereas regional policy, as one of the largest EU budget items, will come under particularly intensive discussion — not least with reference to efficiency criteria — in the review of the EU financial framework scheduled for 2008-2009,

T.

whereas, in a still enlarging Union, the efficiency of Community policies is needed more than ever, the effectiveness of cohesion policy and its demonstrated genuine added-value being heavily dependent on the financial resources available; whereas, therefore, the utmost attention should be paid to the review of the Community's system of own resources,

1.

Considers that the integration capacity of the European Union means in particular that it must be in a position, in the light of budgetary realities, to pursue the objective of social, economic and territorial cohesion; considers therefore that it is necessary at the time of the accession of every candidate country to decide whether the EU is capable of integrating the state in question;

2.

Considers that institutional, financial and political reform is also necessary in the context of a review of the EU's financial framework; in this connection, believes that a comparison should be made between the effects of the various main funding instruments (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) on the development of EU-27, thus enabling appropriate budgetary decisions to be taken;

3.

Considers that future enlargements must not lead to ever more regions ceasing to be eligible for cohesion policy funding under the current Objective 1 as a result of the statistical effect and without existing disparities really being eliminated;

4.

Stresses that an honest and efficient cohesion policy is impossible without an increase in EU spending to 1,18 % of EU GNI, as was stated by Parliament in its resolution of 8 June 2005 on Policy Challenges and Budgetary Means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (9);

5.

Regrets, therefore, that, in its Communication of 8 November 2006 on Enlargement Strategy, the Commission does not offer any in-depth analysis of the financial consequences of future enlargements;

6.

Calls on the Commission to present a detailed impact analysis in order to enable a proper forecast to be made of the full effects on structural policy of the accession of Romania and Bulgaria;

7.

Calls also on the Commission, in connection with forthcoming enlargements, regularly to calculate, showing separate figures for each state, the regional policy expenditure which the EU would be likely to incur, using the current as well as the amended and extended criteria, and what consequences this would have on the existing eligibility for funding of the regions; in this respect, notes that the databases and analytical instruments of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) could also be used; believes that consideration should also be given to improving the integration of the various EU funding instruments;

8.

Considers that there is a need for ongoing studies that are based on experience gained with previous enlargements and that include the socio-economic improvements that will take place during the current programming period, in order to develop scenarios for the future financing of EU cohesion policy;

9.

Stresses the importance of a very strict approach in terms of quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the use of the Structural Funds entailing sound management and appropriate monitoring in order, in the interests of Union citizens, to optimise the cost-benefit ratio of the EU's cohesion expenditure;

10.

Calls on the Commission to devote a chapter in its forthcoming Fourth cohesion report to its view of the sustainability of current cohesion policy and to the future measures that might, where appropriate, impact on cohesion policy;

11.

Considers that, in view of the current state of the EU's resources system, it would be difficult to finance future enlargements without jeopardising the effectiveness of current cohesion policies;

12.

Urges the Commission to issue a communication setting out a proposal for a graduated model for cohesion policy, making it possible to draw a further distinction between pre-accession assistance and membership and enabling potential accession candidates to receive effective support for regional development, subject to their political progress, prior to possible membership of the European Union;

13.

Calls for a graduated approach to Turkey in particular, more closely focused on the funding of specific thematic areas (such as industry clusters, institution-building and equality) and regions, so as to avoid the unthinking adoption of the usual accession-related financial measures and achieve more targeted effects on cohesion and growth;

14.

Asks for the co-decision procedure to apply to the evaluation and reform of pre-accession assistance from 2010 onwards;

15.

Calls on the Commission to define in more detail what it means by ‘reinforcing the neighbourhood policy’, and in this context to give more thought to structural funding instruments;

16.

Considers it essential for the effectiveness of cohesion policy that the individual responsibility of the Member States should be increased in the future;

17.

Proposes, in the context of the debate on future cohesion policy, that the EU should make greater use of the leverage effect of loan financing — particularly in regions that have already received EU funding for many years — in order to improve the effectiveness of Community support, albeit without replacing it;

18.

Considers in this connection that more favourable conditions should be set for the financing of loans and grants for the least developed regions of the EU;

19.

Calls on the Commission to devise proposals for a future cohesion policy tailored more closely to the actual needs of the regions, since regions which have been receiving aid from EU funds for 10, 20 or 30 years have clearly achieved a different level of development than those which have not yet received any funding; believes that greater differentiation may possibly be the answer to the future challenges facing EU cohesion policy;

20.

Expresses concern at the fact that in some regions EU aid is poorly targeted, as a result of which the situation in those regions is failing to improve despite many years of financial support, meaning that Community resources are being wasted;

21.

Calls for more use to be made of private funds as a source of co-financing structural funding, and for the private co-financing of projects and programmes under the Structural Funds to be significantly simplified in line with best practice;

22.

Calls for future structural funding to be geared so as to avoid displacement effects as well as the EU funding of company relocations, and considers that the Commission must look critically, in the context of cohesion policy, at whether subsidies given to firms are effective in influencing business decisions regarding location, taking into account the size of the firms in question;

23.

Notes that the success of cohesion policy is linked to national economic policies and that in this connection the implementation of the National Action Plans for the Lisbon Strategy has a particular influence on the success of cohesion policy;

24.

Urges the Commission to ensure that, in the framework of future programmes for regional competitiveness and for territorial cooperation, funding is concentrated more closely on the Europeanisation of the regional economy and on infrastructures of European importance;

25.

Calls for greater use to be made of the Structural Funds in future in order to cushion the effects of demographic change and resulting regional migration;

26.

Considers that greater use should be made in future of the European Social Fund as a horizontal instrument, among other things, to help regions cope with the social challenges of globalisation as well as the effects of demographic change;

27.

Stresses that the results of cohesion policy can only be reviewed if the award of Structural Funds takes place in a transparent manner, and therefore calls for the European Union to employ very stringent transparency criteria for the award of funding;

28.

Calls for tougher sanctions in the event of proven abuse of funding and more effective procedures for the recovery of funds;

29.

Notes that successful measures to combat corruption, and the building of administrative capacity to implement Structural Fund programmes efficiently and transparently, are crucial preconditions for the receipt of structural funding; calls for consistent and rigid application of the control instruments;

30.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider all these points when conducting its mid-term review of the EU's current financial framework scheduled for 2008-2009;

31.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the Committee of the Regions.

(1)  OJ C 291 E, 30.11.2006, p. 402.

(2)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0568.

(3)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0569.

(4)  OJ C 227 E, 21.9.2006, p. 163.

(5)  12877/05, 4.10.2005.

(6)  10633/1/06, 17.6.2006.

(7)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0381.

(8)  OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

(9)  OJ C 124 E, 25.5.2006, p. 373.

P6_TA(2007)0131

The Commission's annual strategic priorities (Budget 2008)

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 on the Commission's annual policy strategy for the 2008 budget procedure (2007/2017(BUD))

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Annual Policy Strategy for 2008 (COM(2007)0065),

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having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (1),

—

having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty and Article 177 of the Euratom Treaty,

—

having regard to Rule 112(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets and the opinions of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Trade (A6-0123/2007),

A.

whereas the EU budget for 2008 will be the second to be agreed in the framework of the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) on budgetary discipline and sound financial management agreed on 17 May 2006,

B.

whereas the 2008 budget will be the first to be agreed with Romania and Bulgaria as members of the EU,

C.

whereas the process of globalisation continues apace, with all of its attendant opportunities and challenges in the economic, social, and environmental spheres; whereas the 2008 budget must ensure that the EU continues to be in a position to benefit from the opportunities and meet the challenges of globalisation and to cope with its responsibility as a global actor through an appropriate mix of forward-looking internal and external policies,

D.

whereas 2007 will be the first year of implementation of many new EU spending programmes for the 2007-2013 financial programming period, following the adoption of many new legal bases during 2006; whereas data on implementation of the 2007 budget, particularly in terms of commitment appropriations, will provide important information as to the capacity of the Commission and the Member States to implement Parliament's priorities,

Political context

1.

Highlights that the 2008 budget will be prepared, presented and debated against a backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome and a renewed push to see progress on the Constitutional Treaty; notes that 2007 will see the start of preparatory work on the 2008-2009 full, wideranging review (mid-term review) of the 2007-2013 multi-annual financial framework (MFF); also notes its resolution of 29 March 2007 on the future of the European Union's own resources (2);

2.

Underlines the importance it attaches to the capacity of an EU of 27 members to make globalisation an opportunity for its citizens and to lead international action in meeting the challenges that globalisation presents; highlights, in this context, the importance of ensuring that the EU's financial and human resources are appropriately allocated so as to secure the proper functioning of the EU;

3.

Notes the proposals indicated by the Commission under the labels prosperity, solidarity, security, external projection; agrees that, at the same time, the EU must maintain its focus on the Lisbon agenda and specifically on sustainable development, growth and jobs, competitiveness and SMEs, and social cohesion; considers that, in many cases, such as the area of energy policy and climate change, these proposals are an example of a more flexible approach by the EU to engaging with the real challenges that European citizens face; points out however that, as a result of very small margins under the different ceilings of expenditure, the EU's capacity to react to policy changes in budgetary terms is extremely limited;

4.

Considers it its responsibility as budgetary authority to ensure that the funding allocated to the EU budget is spent with a view to delivering value for money, in particular to optimise the limited resources; intends to pursue a budget for results building on the approach initiated in the 2007 budget in cooperation with the specialised committees;

5.

Reiterates its call for the EU's annual policy priorities to be set out in a manner that can be effectively communicated to the citizens of Europe and stresses that this resolution sets out the views of the European Parliament as regards the forthcoming budgetary procedure; strongly regrets that the Annual Policy Strategy (APS) does not adequately reflect Parliament's priorities; expects to see due account taken of this resolution in the 2008 preliminary draft budget (PDB); emphasises that the various initiatives proposed by the Commission in the 2008 APS should be seen in the context of the very recently agreed spending programmes and political priorities that underpin the overall financial envelopes agreed for the 2007-2013 MFF in the IIA of 17 May 2006;

6.

Notes the presentation by Commissioner Wallström to the Conference of Presidents on 8 February 2007 on the Commission's legislative and work programme for 2007 but regrets the lack of interaction between the Legislative Work Programme and the budget procedure; in line with the Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission, insists upon a better coherence between the two procedures; reminds the Commission of its commitment made during the 2007 budget procedure and the letter from President Barroso of December 2006 concerning an improved matching of legislative priorities and budgetary decisions; in this context, takes note of the Commission priorities set out in the APS Communication and expects the Commission to adjust these priorities on the basis of the decisions to be taken by the budgetary authority in the course of the annual procedure;

A budget for results — transparent presentation, clear objectives, accurate implementation

7.

Underlines once again the importance that it attaches to EU spending programmes effectively delivering on the political objectives which they were legislated to achieve; considers that policy delivery, and clear evidence thereof, has always been fundamental to the legitimacy of the EU in the eyes of its citizens; affirms its intention, therefore, to give to its work on the 2008 budget the philosophy of a ‘budget for results’; stresses that those results will not be assessed solely on the basis of accounting criteria and points out that this approach will be followed in a spirit of sound interinstitutional cooperation;

8.

As a first step towards a budget for results, stresses the importance of clarity, consistency and transparency in the presentation of the budget; supports the Activity based budgeting (ABB) approach, which aims to match financial and human resources to political objectives according to the policy areas of Commission spending; notes that the ABB nomenclature is not easily reconciled with the categories of the MFF headings; further regrets that the APS classifications of prosperity, solidarity, security and external projection represent a third classification system that is rather arbitrary as regards the classification of policy areas under the different chapters, does not have any major value from a budgetary perspective and cannot easily be reconciled with the ABB and MFF categorisations; demands that the Commission respect more closely the ABB and MFF structures and provide clear indications on the correspondence between this third classification and the budgetary headings of the IIA of 17 May 2006;

9.

Considers that the Activity Statements produced by the Commission for each policy area in the PDB constitute a key element in the effective oversight of EU spending by the budgetary authority; underlines that, if policy objectives are not clear, then effective policy evaluation is impossible; requests an improvement in the clarity of presentation of these Activity Statements in the 2008 PDB; demands greater focus on policy objectives and measurement of policy outcomes and less information on administrative process than has frequently been the case in previous PDB documents;

10.

Underlines the importance of monitoring budget implementation as a tool for examining the delivery of policy; welcomes the recent improvements in the provision of data on implementation by the Commission and in particular the Budget Forecast Alert (BFA) system; notes that due to the BFA, initial implementation figures for the first year of spending of the new programmes for 2007-2013 will become available during 2007; considers that this information may prove useful in pushing the Commission and the Member States to respect fully the Parliament's political priorities defined in the 2007 budget and in this resolution;

Human resources — appropriate allocation, personal responsibility, monitored outsourcing

11.

Is strongly of the view that an effective and cost-efficient administrative system for the European Union must be equipped with the necessary level of resources; awaits with interest the results of the screening exercise being carried out by the Commission services on the Commission's real staff needs that is due to be presented on 30 April 2007; is convinced that this screening of Commission staff is a key exercise allowing the Commission to identify its real potential and to provide more staff for the new political priorities such as energy, climate change, immigration, the implementation of multi-annual programmes and oversight of the transposition of EU law in the Member States; will evaluate the outcome of the screening in great depth in order to meet future political challenges starting from the 2008 budget procedure;

12.

Welcomes the further indications in the 2008 APS of the Commission's efforts to re-direct its human resources towards political priorities but rejects the presentation of these priorities according to the labels prosperity, solidarity, security and external projection; therefore requests the Commission to set out clearly in the PDB, according to the ABB structure, further information regarding human resources policy and redeployment strategy for 2008, taking into account the results of the screening exercise;

13.

Expresses its concern that the expansion of existing decentralised agencies will reduce the margins available under the headings of the MFF; is further concerned that this reduction in available margins will reduce the scope for funding new priorities, such as pilot projects and preparatory actions, and will also reduce the funds available for the expansion of existing programmes; notes that point 47 of the IIA of 17 May 2006 obliges the Commission to assess the budgetary implications for the expenditure heading concerned when drawing up a proposal for the creation of a new decentralised agency; will seek to ensure that the functioning of decentralised agencies brings added value and furthers the interests of EU citizens;

14.

Notes that any further expansion in the number of executive agencies and other bodies would need to be financed from the relevant programme envelope; expresses its concern, therefore, that any further growth in executive agencies and other bodies may reduce the operational funds available within programme envelopes;

15.

Is determined to clarify the definition, the role and the cost of all bodies defined under Article 185 of the Financial Regulation, to assess the cost-effectiveness of such modes of governance and to secure on a systematic basis at interinstitutional level the application of the procedure laid down in point 47 of the IIA of 17 May 2006 in the course of the 2008 annual budget procedure;

16.

Considers that decentralisation of responsibilities to the different Directorates-General and personal responsibility of EU officials are an important element of the Activity-based management approach; notes that further work may be necessary to clarify some of the chains of responsibility within the EU institutions; considers that this issue is of particular importance in light of the apparent trend towards ‘outsourcing’ or ‘externalisation’ of implementation tasks to executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies;

17.

Is concerned that the creation of executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies may lead to a growth in the number of EU officials and contractual agents, unless posts in the relevant Commission Directorate-General are reduced to offset the increase, and to a weakening of the oversight of the EU administration; requests the Commission to explain in the 2008 PDB how posts requested in new executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies will be offset by reductions in the responsible Directorate-General; further requests the Commission to address in the 2008 PDB the issue of appropriate oversight of executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies so as to ensure democratic accountability; urges an improvement of the Code of Conduct on the Setting-up of Executive Agencies, in particular as regards parliamentary scrutiny of financing and staffing of the agencies;

Multiannual Financial Framework — programming, margins, front- and back-loading

18.

Takes note of the Commission's latest update of the financial programming 2007-2013; notes the limited, and in some cases decreasing, margins left under headings 1a and 3 and strongly opposes the Commission's proposal to use the small margins left available under these two headings for new initiatives; expresses its strong concern that additional margins would be created mainly by back-loading existing multiannual programmes; considers that the small margins limit the possibility of addressing efficiently any urgent or new political priority; asks the Commission to present at the next trialogue an overview of the margins in the different headings, and an update of the financial programming, in accordance with point 46 of the IIA of 17 May 2006, and the potential financial consequences of the proposals announced in the legislative programme;

19.

Wishes to explore possibilities for a better presentation, facilitating easier and better understanding of the different financial programming and budget documents provided to the budgetary authority (financial programming and APS document); points out that, at the moment, there is neither a clear indication of the exact changes made compared to the previous financial programming in the tables annexed to the financial programming nor a clear indication of how increases are being compensated for or how back- and frontloadings are taking place;

20.

Recalls that, as regards pilot projects and preparatory actions for the 2008 budget procedure, according to Annex II, Part D, of the IIA of 17 May 2006‘both arms of the budgetary authority will inform the Commission by mid-June of their intentions’; expresses its concern that, in some headings and sub-headings of the budget, there may not be sufficient margins available for major new pilot projects and preparatory actions;

21.

Notes with concern the possible impact of the changes that the Commission proposes to the financial programming in Section III of the 2008 APS on what are already small margins and/or operational programmes, especially as a result of increased funding for agencies or the creation of new funds; regrets that such proposals were presented less than one month after the most recent financial programming update; expects the Commission to present these proposals in due course in the 2008 PDB and next Financial Programming, especially if they would imply a change to the MFF;

22.

Expresses its concern about the proposed back-loading of certain programmes in the 2008 APS and the problems that this may be storing up for future years of the MFF taking into account the problem of increasing RALs; further notes that in the 2007 budget, for its own priority areas, Parliament adopted commitment levels above the average level of commitments foreseen in the multi-annual programme envelopes for a number of programmes; observes that some degree of interinstitutional cooperation regarding front- and back-loading of commitments across the budget may be necessary to ensure a coherent programming of commitments over the duration of the MFF respecting the priorities of the Parliament as expressed in the IIA of 17 May 2006;

Specific points

23.

Supports the Commission's intention to include the concepts of Better Regulation and the simplification of procedure in all new initiatives, reforms and working methods in order to make them more understandable for citizens; recalls that as stated in its resolution of 13 December 2006 on the Commission's legislative and work programme for 2007 (3), the implementation of the concept ‘Better regulation’ should respect fully the principles and conditions laid down in its resolution of 16 May 2006 on the strategy for simplification of the regulatory environment (4);

24.

Highlights that energy efficiency is a highly future-oriented priority for tackling the problem of climate change; agrees that such a policy requires a cross-cutting strategy and asks the Commission to continue to take decisive action towards this aim;

25.

Welcomes the Commission's intention to undertake key actions in the field of research and innovation to bring forward the implementation of the Lisbon strategy in 2008; supports, in particular, the preparatory work in order to ensure that a decision to set up a European Institute of Technology (EIT) is adopted in the course of 2007; urges the Commission to come up with further clarification on the financing of the EIT and expects that its financing would be assured by additional financial appropriations, and not by reducing any financial resources of the FP7; awaits further information on the proposed Executive Agency for the management parts of FP7;

26.

Welcomes the outcome of the trilogue held on 7 March 2007 on the financing of the Joint Undertaking for ITER and on the further development of the procedure foreseen by point 47 of the IIA of 17 May 2006, the conclusions of which are attached as Annex I to this resolution;

27.

Is worried about the Commission's proposed ‘back-loading’ for many of the new programmes under heading 1a; considers that this does not constitute a proper method of financial programming; requests the Commission to provide information on the effects this back-loading exercise has on all programmes including those for which the legal basis has not yet been adopted and the effects on the available margins for the forthcoming years; reminds the Commission that, according to point 37 of the IIA of 17 May 2006, the budgetary authority and the Commission are allowed to depart by up to 5% from the amount foreseen in the legislative act;

28.

Calls upon the Commission, with a view to achieving enhanced solidarity and prosperity, to clarify its intentions regarding the financial programming of ‘Lifelong learning’ and to treat it as a priority; considers that an increase in financial resources for four agencies (ERA, EMSA, EASA, GSA) should avoid any reduction in the TEN-T financial programme and therefore requests clarification on how the Commission intends to compensate the TEN-T programme in the years to come, so that the total financial envelope agreed for the TEN-Ts in the MFF is implemented;

29.

Agrees with the Commission that 2008 will be crucial for European cohesion policy as the first full year of implementation of the new operational programmes 2007-2013; therefore hopes that cohesion policy will remain a priority for both arms of the budgetary authority during the 2008 budget procedure;

30.

Takes note that the Commission proposes to decrease the margin for heading 2 by EUR 2 million in order to cover additional activities of the European Environment Agency; further notes the Commission's intention under heading 3a to increase the appropriations for Frontex by EUR 10 900 000 in 2008 and to reinforce funding for EUROJUST by an additional EUR 2 500 000 per year for the period 2008 to 2013; reminds the Commission that all of these increases have to be agreed by the budgetary authority within the framework of the annual budget procedure and/or by the legislative authority if it implies a change in the reference amounts of adopted programmes;

31.

Reminds the Commission that, under the IIA of 17 May 2006, most financial resources for the environment policy areas are concentrated under heading 2; notes the IIA decision to distribute an additional EUR 100 million to heading 2, of which EUR 50 million are being reserved for the new financial instrument for the environment LIFE+; recalls that a final agreement on LIFE+ for the years 2007-2013 was reached on 27 March 2007; stresses the importance of leaving sufficient margins until all pending legislative procedures are completed;

32.

Expects precise proposals from the Commission as regards the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy; asks therefore to be informed about the arrangements for and scope of the mid-term review the Commission intends to conduct with a view to assessing the initial results of the 2003 reform;

33.

Considers that the core business of communication and information policy is to inform the EU citizens on the actions and programmes realised by the EU and the improvements generated over recent years; is of the opinion that the campaign on political priorities should be defined at a later stage of the budgetary procedure taking into account Parliament's priorities and focusing on policy areas duly identified at the time of the first reading;

34.

Recalls that all Institutions have the right to implement communication policy as part of their institutional autonomy, as established in Article 49 of the Financial Regulation; encourages the Commission to continue to defend, as the other Institutions do, its own autonomy in this matter; recognises the need for coordination of the different communication policies implemented by the Institutions within the Interinstitutional group on information and communication; calls on the Interinstitutional group to present a more concrete and coordinated working plan for 2008 by the end of October 2007; in this regard, invites the Commission to remain ambitious concerning its communication policy towards citizens, bearing in mind that 2008 is the year preceding the next European elections and the need to prepare the ground for the expected re-launch of the institutional reform;

35.

Notes the Commission's Communication Priorities for 2008 which will not change the financial programming for heading 3b;

36.

Broadly endorses the objectives for external actions as set out in the APS, which have been developed on a continuity basis and which are to be implemented, for the second year, through the new set of EU external instruments adopted in 2006; puts major emphasis on effective implementation and respect for Parliament's rights within this framework; calls for a first assessment of its launch already in the second half of 2007;

37.

Looks forward to meaningful cooperation with the Commission in the framework of working groups established by the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Development to monitor the programming and implementation of the new external assistance instruments; notes the envisaged mid-term review of the functioning of the external assistance instruments; reiterates Parliament's will to be fully involved in this process;

38.

Stresses the importance of multilingualism as a fundamental part of the European heritage, as well as the need for citizens to be provided with information in their own mother tongues;

39.

Asks for further reinforcement of cooperation with the developing countries, in particular on climate change and migration, with continuous commitments for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals especially in basic health and basic education;

40.

Notes the Commission's concept of an ‘external projection of priorities’, such as the Global Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) or the Global Climate Policy Alliance, and the fact that these new priorities in heading 4 appear to require a EUR 23 100 000 reinforcement in 2008; insists, however, upon clarity concerning the origin of the proposed funding for each action;

41.

Notes that the overall margin forecast for heading 4 is EUR 334 million in order to allow for an adequate response to future needs, such as the outcome of negotiations on the final status of Kosovo and the Middle-East Peace process; emphasises strongly that this margin of EUR 334 million is, in fact, artificially high insofar as it contains EUR 200 million originally foreseen for the Guarantee Fund for loans, which will now only need to be provisioned as from 2009 for transitional reasons; underlines, therefore, that an extra EUR 200 million is available in 2008 on an exceptional basis and urges caution that this is not automatically allocated to longer-term needs which could not then necessarily be financed in later years;

42.

Notes an increased focus in the APS on linking external and internal objectives, and the use of the term ‘full coherence’; takes the view that this issue merits further analysis and explanation by the Commission, especially given that one of the main criticisms of EU policy in the past has been an alleged lack of coherence between external and internal policies; further underlines the importance of democracy and positive change in partner countries and regions;

43.

Insists that funding allocations in all external and enlargement instruments reflect the priority given by the EU to support for democracy and human rights, including minority rights;

44.

Notes that the Commission plans to conclude Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with ACP countries in 2007; asks the Commission and the Member States to provide further help to support ACP countries in the transition period from the current trade regime to EPAs;

45.

Considers that the rapidly evolving situation in the field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) merits continuous scrutiny and cooperation between the institutions; underlines, in this respect, the importance it attaches to the fulfilment of the CFSP provisions in the IIA of 17 May 2006 and the tools provided therein; considers that the foreign policy and the linked financial resources needed can only be properly assessed once the Council has consulted Parliament, by 15 June 2007, on the main aspects and basic choices of the CFSP;

46.

Notes the Commission's proposal for the allocation of human resources in 2008, which includes 890 new posts related to recent enlargements; recalls that 2008 is the final year of the human resources plan related to the 2004 enlargement, according to which 640 additional posts are requested for 2008; further recalls that 250 new posts following the enlargement to Bulgaria and Romania are requested for 2008, with a similar request expected in 2009; notes that only 50 % of the additional posts for 2008 are due to be allocated to the extension of activities due to the recent enlargements; considers that the Commission's review of human resources should be in line with the Better Regulation strategy initiated in 2006 while fully taking into account the need for proper and efficient implementation of the new spending programmes for the 2007-2013 financial programming period;

47.

Welcomes the principle of the redeployment of staff according to political priorities but considers that the rate of redeployment should be more ambitious than 1%; recalls that this redeployment must take full account of the priorities identified by Parliament; expects the Commission to take the opportunity of the ongoing screening exercise to make a significant shift in the prioritisation of staff allocation and the proportion of overhead; will assess the level of Commission staff needs in the global context of heading 5 during the annual budgetary procedure; notes the Commission's proposed redeployment of 565 staff, with 287 redeployed between departments and 278 redeployed within departments; requests the Commission to supply more detailed information in the PDB regarding the redeployment of staff so that Parliament has the necessary information to assess whether the 1% target is an appropriate target; considers that the creation of a central redeployment pool should be in line with the principle of administrative simplification, and better delivery of programmes and actions while avoiding unnecessary administrative burdens;

48.

Takes note of the trilogue of 18 April 2007 and the agreement that was reached between the three institutions on Community bodies falling under Article 185 of the Financial Regulation; welcomes the positive attitude of the Council in favour of better control and assessment of agencies; underlines the importance of the issues highlighted such as the operational/administrative expenditure ratio, discharge procedure, assessment, evaluation and cost-effectiveness of existing agencies, and the importance of further progress in relation to the procedure under point 47 of the IIA of 17 May 2006; notes that a procedural approach, as set out in the statements attached as Annex II to this resolution, in line with the provisions of the Financial Regulation, has been found to allow urgent transfers in favour of the Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT); underlines the need to have a broader discussion on issues related to Commission governance methods in connection with the outcome of the Commission's screening exercise that is due to be completed on 24 April 2007;

49.

Considers that the opinions of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on International Trade contributed important elements to be taken into consideration during the 2008 budget procedure;

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50.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors.

(1)  OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

(2)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0098.

(3)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0565.

(4)  OJ C 297 E, 7.12.2006, p. 136.

ANNEX I

TRILOGUE 7 MARCH 2007

Conclusions

The trilogue meeting was organised in application of point 47 of the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) on budget discipline and sound financial management of 17 May 2006.

These conclusions are meant to take stock of the agreement reached by the three institutions.

1.   Joint Undertaking for ITER

The European Parliament and Council agreed that:

—

the ITER Joint Undertaking is to be considered as a Community agency for the purpose of the application of point 47 of the IIA;

—

the European Parliament will be given responsibility for the discharge of the implementation of the budget of ITER Joint Undertaking

The European Parliament and Council acknowledged the Community contribution to ITER stemming from the 7th Framework Programme for Euratom (EUR 986 million (1) for the period 2007-2011 as a maximum) as proposed by the Commission. While noting that the ITER project is planned to continue well beyond 2011, and the need to continue till 2041, the corresponding amounts for the years 2012 and 2013 are foreseen in the financial programming. The future financing will be part of the discussions on the next financial framework.

2.   Agencies

With the aim of optimizing the functioning of existing agencies and the procedures applicable to the creation of new agencies, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agree to pursue an in depth discussion, in particular regarding a thorough cost/benefit assessment, including administrative costs, before the setting up of new agencies and the implementation of the review clauses foreseen in the specific regulations of the existing ones.

In this context, they express their willingness to work towards continuing and deepening the discussion on the further development of the procedure foreseen by Point 47 of the IIA.

These discussions will be pursued during the forthcoming Trilogues, the first being on 18 April 2007.

(1)  Out of an indicative total EU budget contribution to the Joint Undertaking for ITER and the development of fusion energy of EUR 1 290 million.

ANNEX II

STATEMENTS FOLLOWING THE TRILOGUE OF 18 APRIL 2007

1.   Statement of the European Parliament and the Council on Community agencies

‘1. For better clarity and transparency, the two arms of the budgetary authority invite the Commission to provide annually with the Preliminary Draft Budget a budgetary overview covering all existing and future Community agencies, other bodies falling under Article 185 of the Financial Regulation and executive agencies. This overview should include budgetary information regarding their basic acts, key budgetary indicators and staff numbers and the ratio between operational and administrative expenditure.

2. The two arms of the budgetary authority remind the Commission to apply a thorough cost/benefit analysis and to strictly respect and foster the procedure foreseen by Point 47 of the IIA before setting up new agencies.

3. As regards the decentralised agencies, the two arms of the budgetary authority remind the Executive Directors and Management Boards of those agencies of their responsibility to present realistic budget demands, in line with real needs and avoiding over-budgeting.

4. The two arms of the budgetary authority invite the Commission to regularly evaluate the existing Community agencies, focusing particularly on their cost/benefit, and agree to assess the evaluation of the analysis prepared by the Commission for a selected number of agencies. Criteria for the selection of agencies to be assessed could be exceeding a defined operational/administrative expenditure ratio, agencies showing particular problems in the Court of Auditors' reports and in the discharge procedure. The results of these analyses, and possibly others to be conducted by other institutions, should be reviewed each year at the Trilogue in October at the latest.

5. The two arms of the budgetary authority invite the Commission to implement the review clauses foreseen in their specific regulation. The budgetary authority will assess whether the existing strategy on decentralised agencies should be pursued.

6. Further to the conclusions of the Trilogue of 7 March 2007 in view of the further development of the procedure foreseen by Point 47 of the IIA of 17 May 2006, the institutions agree, in principle, to set up a procedure implementing Point 47 of the IIA in the framework of the forthcoming Trilogues.’

2.   Statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Frontex

‘The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission stress that in the case of a situation of urgent and exceptional pressure at the external border requiring the intervention of a Rapid Border Intervention Team (Rabit) and possible insufficiency of financial means in the budget of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the external borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex) to do so, all possibilities to ensure funding should be explored. The Commission will verify with extreme urgency whether a possible redeployment of funds could be made. Should a decision of the budgetary authority become necessary, the Commission will initiate a procedure that is in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Regulation, namely Articles 23 and 24, in order to secure a timely decision of the two arms of the budgetary authority on the means to provide for additional funding for Frontex to deploy a Rabit team. The budgetary authority commits itself to act as quickly as possible taking into account the urgency.’

P6_TA(2007)0132

Discharge 2005: Section III — Commission

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005  (1),

—

having regard to the final accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I — (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006, SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Commission's annual report to the discharge authority on the follow-up to 2004 discharge decisions (COM(2006)0642, COM(2006)0641), and the Commission staff working paper — Annex to the report from the Commission to the European Parliament on the follow-up to 2004 discharge decisions (SEC(2006)1376, SEC(2006)1377),

—

having regard to the Commission communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, entitled ‘Policy Achievements in 2005’ (COM(2006)0124),

—

having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘Synthesis of the Commission's management achievements in 2005’ (COM(2006)0277),

—

having regard to the Commission's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2005 (COM(2006)0279),

—

having regard to the Commission's report on Member States' replies to the Court of Auditors' 2004 annual report (COM(2006)0184),

—

having regard to the Green Paper on the European Transparency Initiative adopted by the Commission on 3 May 2006(COM(2006)0194),

—

having regard to Opinion No 2/2004 of the Court of Auditors on the ‘single audit’ model (and a proposal for a Community internal control framework) (3),

—

having regard to the Commission communication on a roadmap to an integrated internal control framework (COM(2005)0252),

—

having regard to the Commission's action plan towards an integrated internal control framework (COM(2006)0009),

—

having regard to the first report on the scoreboard for the application of the Commission action plan towards an integrated internal control framework published on 19 July 2006 (SEC(2006)1009),

—

having regard to the House of Lords European Union Committee report entitled ‘Financial Management and Fraud in the European Union: Perceptions, Facts and Proposals’, which was published on 13 November 2006,

—

having regard to the Court of Auditor's annual report on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 (4) and its special reports, each accompanied by the replies of the institutions audited,

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (5),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5710/2007 — C6-0081/2007),

—

having regard to Articles 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty and Articles 179a and 180b of the Euratom Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (6), and in particular Articles 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Opinion No 4/2006 of the Court of Auditors on the draft Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (7),

—

having regard to Rule 70 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinions of the other committees concerned (A6-0095/2007),

A.

whereas under Article 274 of the EC Treaty the Commission implements the budget on its own responsibility, having regard to the principles of sound financial management,

1.

Grants the Commission discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision, and the resolution that forms an integral part of it, to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and the national and regional audit institutions of the Member States, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 107, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(5)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(6)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(7)  OJ C 273, 9.11.2006, p. 2.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005  (1),

—

having regard to the final accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I — (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006, SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006)  (2),

—

having regard to the Commission's annual report to the discharge authority on the follow-up to 2004 discharge decisions (COM(2006)0642, COM(2006)0641), and the Commission staff working paper — Annex to the report from the Commission to the European Parliament on the follow-up to 2004 discharge decisions (SEC(2006)1376, SEC(2006)1377),

—

having regard to the Commission communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, entitled ‘Policy Achievements in 2005’ (COM(2006)0124),

—

having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘Synthesis of the Commission's management achievements in 2005’ (COM(2006)0277),

—

having regard to the Commission's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2005 (COM(2006)0279),

—

having regard to the Commission's report on Member States' replies to the Court of Auditors' 2004 annual report (COM(2006)0184),

—

having regard to the Green Paper on the European Transparency Initiative adopted by the Commission on 3 May 2006(COM(2006)0194),

—

having regard to Opinion No 2/2004 of the Court of Auditors on the ‘single audit’ model (and a proposal for a Community internal control framework) (3),

—

having regard to the Commission communication on a roadmap to an integrated internal control framework (COM(2005)0252),

—

having regard to the Commission's action plan towards an integrated internal control framework (COM(2006)0009),

—

having regard to the first report on the scoreboard for the application of the Commission action plan towards an integrated internal control framework published on 19 July 2006 (SEC(2006)1009),

—

having regard to the House of Lords European Union Committee report entitled ‘Financial Management and Fraud in the European Union: Perceptions, Facts and Proposals’, which was published on 13 November 2006,

—

having regard to the Court of Auditor's annual report on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 (4) and its special reports, each accompanied by the replies of the institutions audited,

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (5),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5710/2007 — C6-0081/2007),

—

having regard to Articles 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty and Articles 179a and 180b of the Euratom Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (6), and in particular Articles 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Opinion No 4/2006 of the Court of Auditors on the draft Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (7),

—

having regard to Rule 70 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinions of the other committees concerned (A6-0095/2007),

A.

whereas under Article 275 of the EC Treaty the Commission is responsible for drawing up the accounts,

1.

Approves closing the accounts for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and to the national and regional audit institutions of the Member States, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 107, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(5)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(6)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(7)  OJ C 273, 9.11.2006, p. 2.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with comments forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section III — Commission (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC)) (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006 — 2006/2070(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I — (SEC(2006)0916 — C6-0263/2006, SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0262/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Commission's annual report to the discharge authority on the follow-up to 2004 discharge decisions (COM(2006)0642, COM(2006)0641), and the Commission staff working paper — Annex to the report from the Commission to the European Parliament on the follow-up to 2004 discharge decisions (SEC(2006)1376, SEC(2006)1377),

—

having regard to the Commission communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, entitled ‘Policy Achievements in 2005’ (COM(2006)0124),

—

having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘Synthesis of the Commission's management achievements in 2005’ (COM(2006)0277),

—

having regard to the Commission's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2005 (COM(2006)0279),

—

having regard to the Commission's report on Member States' replies to the Court of Auditors' 2004 annual report (COM(2006)0184),

—

having regard to the Green Paper on the European Transparency Initiative adopted by the Commission on 3 May 2006 (COM(2006)0194),

—

having regard to Opinion No 2/2004 of the Court of Auditors on the ‘single audit’ model (and a proposal for a Community internal control framework) (3),

—

having regard to the Commission communication on a roadmap to an integrated internal control framework (COM(2005)0252),

—

having regard to the Commission's action plan towards an integrated internal control framework (COM(2006)0009),

—

having regard to the first report on the scoreboard for the application of the Commission action plan towards an integrated internal control framework published on 19 July 2006 (SEC(2006)1009),

—

having regard to the House of Lords European Union Committee report entitled ‘Financial Management and Fraud in the European Union: Perceptions, Facts and Proposals’, which was published on 13 November 2006,

—

having regard to the Court of Auditor's annual report on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 (4) and its special reports, each accompanied by the replies of the institutions audited,

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (5),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5710/2007 — C6-0081/2007),

—

having regard to Articles 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty and Articles 179a and 180b of the Euratom Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (6), and in particular Articles 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Opinion No 4/2006 of the Court of Auditors on the draft Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (7),

—

having regard to Rule 70 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinions of the other committees concerned (A6-0095/2007),

A.

whereas Article 274 of the EC Treaty establishes that responsibility for implementation of the Community budget lies with the Commission and must be exercised with regard to the principles of sound financial management, in cooperation with the Member States,

B.

whereas the most effective means for the Commission to demonstrate that it is genuinely committed to ensuring transparency and sound financial management is to do all it can to support measures seeking to enhance the quality of financial management, with a view to obtaining a positive statement of assurance (DAS — ‘Déclaration d'assurance’) from the European Court of Auditors,

C.

whereas improvement of the financial management in the Union must be supported and given momentum by a close monitoring of progress in the Commission and in the Member States,

D.

whereas the implementation of EU policies is characterised by the ‘shared management’ of the Community budget by the Commission and the Member States, under which 80 % of Community expenditure is administered by the Member States,

E.

whereas Member States' assumption of control responsibilities in connection with the production of financial information and the requirement, in particular in implementation of point 44 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (8) (IIA), concerning summaries of the audits and declarations available, should make a substantial contribution towards improving management of the Community budget, ensuring the completion of an EU integrated internal control framework and obtaining a positive DAS,

F.

whereas in its resolutions of 12 April 2005 (9) and 27 April 2006 (10), on the 2003 and 2004 discharges respectively, Parliament proposed that each Member State should provide an ex ante disclosure statement and an annual ex post statement of assurance as regards its use of EU funding,

G.

whereas the overriding principle sought by Parliament is that, in accordance with the EC Treaty, both the Commission's final responsibility for management of the Community budget and the Member States' powers to manage the funds made available to them should be fully shouldered,

H.

whereas in its conclusions of 8 November 2005, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council rejected Parliament's proposal regarding national level declarations (11),

I.

whereas point 44 of the IIA of 17 May 2006 states that the relevant audit authorities in Member States will produce an assessment concerning the compliance of management and control systems with the regulations of the Community and that Member States therefore undertake to produce an annual summary at the appropriate national level of the available audits and declarations,

J.

whereas the principle of effective internal control is one of the budgetary principles set out in the Financial Regulation following its amendment by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006, as proposed by the Commission in the action plan referred to above,

K.

whereas in paragraph 2.10 of its annual report for 2005, in connection with the establishment of an integrated internal control framework, the Court of Auditors stresses that ‘one of the most important objectives approved by the Commission is represented by the proportionality and cost-effectiveness of controls’, stating that in this context, the process of simplification (e.g. greater use of flat-rate and lumpsum payments, simplified rules on procurement and grants) and the use of audit certificates and assurance declarations from third parties responsible for budget implementation tasks could play a significant role,

L.

whereas in the abovementioned conclusions of 8 November 2005 the Economic and Financial Affairs Council also took the view that it was of fundamental importance to introduce an integrated internal control system and simplify the legislation on controls and requested ‘that the Commission assess the cost of controls by area of expenditure’ (paragraph 5);

M.

whereas the work of its Committee on Budgetary Control in general and the discharge procedure in particular form part of a process seeking to: (1) establish full accountability from the Commission as a whole and individual Commissioners, as well as from all other relevant actors, for financial management in the EU, in accordance with the Treaty; (2) implement an annual procedure that will facilitate this and enable Parliament to remain in direct contact with the key stakeholders in charge of such management; and (3) improve financial management in the EU in the light of the Court of Auditors' audit results and thereby create a more solid basis for decision-taking,

N.

whereas its Committee on Budgets should take due account of the 2005 discharge results and recommendations during the next budgetary procedure,

O.

whereas by the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal of 13 December 2006 in Case F-17/05 Carvalho, the Commission decision of 22 September 2004 prolonging invalidity was annulled,

HORIZONTAL ISSUES

Statement of Assurance

Reliability of the accounts

1.

Notes that, with some exceptions referred to in its observations, the Court takes the view that the final annual accounts of the European Communities present fairly the financial position of the Communities as of 31 December 2005, and the results of their operations and cash flows for the year then ended (Chapter 1, Statement of Assurance, paragraphs V to VIII); asks the Court for further remarks, in future annual reports, about the policy areas and Member States particularly affected;

2.

Welcomes in particular the efforts made by the Commission to adopt the accounts for the financial year within the Financial Regulation deadlines for the production of the financial statements;

3.

Expresses concern, nonetheless, at the Court's observations regarding errors in amounts registered in the accounting system (overstatement of the accounts payable and of the total amount of long-term and short-term pre-financings) and errors in the local accounting systems of some directorates-general;

4.

Calls on the Commission to take urgent steps to remedy the shortcomings noted by the Court, with a view to preventing them from affecting the reliability of the financial statements for 2006;

5.

Welcomes the fact that, in response to repeated requests from Parliament, new Article 61 of the Financial Regulation establishes that the Commission's accounting officer shall sign off the accounts and is empowered to check the information received and to make reservations; stresses that the accounting officer needs clear empowerment to execute this responsibility, in particular concerning carrying out checks; invites the Commission to inform the Committee on Budgetary Control which organisational changes it has taken or plans to take in order to allow the accounting officer to fulfil his duties under the new Article 61;

6.

Notes that, as a result of the 2004 discharge resolution, the Commission has submitted information on the unknown accounts; regrets the fact that the information submitted has not yet made the transactions via those accounts transparent; notes that the funds credited to the accounts should be transferred back to the budget as other revenue; calls on the Commission in this connection to explain why the ‘Economat’ supermarket operating accounts operated outside the budget have still not been incorporated into the budget;

7.

Regrets that, as noted by the Court of Auditors in paragraph 1.49 of its 2005 annual report, the accounting officer failed fully to comply with Accounting Rules Nos 2 and 12 with regard to the new structure and presentation of the balance sheet and the revised treatment of the Communities' pension liabilities; notes that the Commission's accounting officer revised Accounting Rules Nos 2 and 12 in October 2006;

8.

Expresses concern at the fact that the Court notes errors in the pre-financing amounts recorded, and calls on the Commission to take urgent steps to remedy these shortcomings with a view to ensuring that the accounts reflect the Community's financial position as accurately as possible; reminds the Commission of its undertaking to provide the budgetary authority with six-monthly reports on the management of prefinancing operations;

Budgetary management

9.

Is concerned at the renewed increase in outstanding commitments and calls for a higher rate of utilisation over the next three years;

10.

Points out that the majority of the cancellations under the year n+2 rule relate to the European Social Fund (ESF); calls on the Member States to ensure that requests for payments are submitted to the Commission more rapidly since the measures funded by the ESF are intended to improve employability and boost human resources and are crucial for the attainment of the Lisbon objectives; a slow rate of utilisation is extremely worrying particularly in the light of the newly created European Globalisation Fund and the objective of that fund;

11.

Calls on the Commission and the Court of Auditors to keep due account of beneficiaries applying for relatively small amounts for projects or organisations, which are, due to their size, not able to hire the necessary audit and evaluation expertise, in order to achieve the right balance between the costs of the project and the costs and manpower of auditing and reporting;

Legality of the underlying transactions

12.

Notes the Court's observations to the effect that in areas in which the Commission has applied appropriate supervisory and control systems, there were no significant findings as to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions (Chapter 1, Statement of Assurance, paragraph IX);

13.

Deplores, nonetheless, that in extremely important Community spending areas (CAP spending that does not come under the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), Structural Funds, internal policies, external actions, Sapard), the Court notes that the supervisory and control systems need to become more efficient, given that there remain shortcomings that prevent a positive DAS being given in those areas (Chapter 1, Statement of Assurance, paragraph IX to XI);

14.

Expresses grave concern at the large number of errors detected by the Court in transactions at final beneficiary level and notes that, where there is a shared management arrangement, responsibility for preventing, identifying and correcting errors at final beneficiary level lies with the Member States whilst at the same time the Commission is responsible for giving clear, efficient and effective guidelines to Member States on how to prevent, identify and correct these errors;

15.

Calls on the Commission to further improve its effective supervision of controls delegated to the Member States; insists that the Commission in the case where Member States' control systems are still insufficient should impose clear deadlines and apply sanctions where those deadlines are not met;

16.

Considers that the central issue that needs to be addressed in connection with the DAS is whether supervisory and control systems are being properly applied at both Community and national levels and whether they ensure the legality and regularity of the underlying operations;

17.

Believes that, on this basis, the Court's audits will enable the origin of the shortcomings noted to be determined and will help to remedy the limitations to a much greater extent than the mere pointing up of errors in transactions;

18.

Welcomes the revised DAS approach that the Court of Auditors started to introduce in 2002, particularly the latest change approved in February 2006 (12), which will be implemented for the first time in the Court's 2006 annual report;

National management declarations

19.

Points out that, in accordance with Article 274 of the EC Treaty, each and every one of the Member States must fully shoulder its management responsibilities and take appropriate steps to minimise the risk of errors arising in the underlying transactions;

20.

Welcomes as a first step towards national management declarations the agreement reached in the IIA that Member States have to provide annual summaries of available audits and declarations;

21.

Draws attention to the urgent need to introduce national declarations at an appropriate political level, covering all Community funds coming under the shared management arrangement, as proposed by Parliament in its 2003 and 2004 discharge resolutions;

22.

Stresses the importance of the action plan towards an integrated internal control framework and fully endorses the proposal made by the Commission under Action 5 of the action plan, namely that ‘Member States should designate a national coordinating body’ for each Community policy, to provide an overview of the assurance available in respect of Community actions managed by each Member State;

23.

Points out that States, not regions, are members of the EU, and therefore does not consider it acceptable for a Member State to reject national declarations on the grounds of its territorial organisation, and considers that each Member State must be able to take responsibility for the management of EU funds received, either through a single national management declaration or in the form of several declarations within a national framework;

24.

Takes the view that national management declarations which could take the form of comprising several declarations within a national framework, rather than one alone, in order to acknowledge the federal and decentralised political systems in existence in some Member States, as pointed in its resolution of 2 February 2006 on national management declarations (13), would, without a doubt, improve the quality of the relevant national supervisory and control systems, and, without detracting from the independence of the Court of Auditors, could facilitate a positive DAS being obtained from it, since such declarations form a vital element in achieving an EU integrated internal control framework and as such would be an important factor in obtaining a positive DAS;

25.

Warmly welcomes the initiative taken by the Netherlands, whose government approved the adoption of a national declaration on the management of Community funding, based on sub-declarations covering the various spending areas, which will be signed on behalf of the Dutch government by the finance minister as the final authority;

26.

Welcomes furthermore the decision taken by the United Kingdom and Sweden to take steps with a view to introducing national declarations on the management of Community funding, with in case of the United Kingdom provision being made for the declaration to be signed by a senior official with due authority in the relevant area; points out further that the Danish national audit body is to give an audit opinion on the management of community funding under shared management;

27.

Expresses concern at the fact that, despite these initiatives in favour of national declarations, most Member States are resisting their introduction;

28.

Calls nonetheless on the Commission to submit before the end of 2007 to the Council a proposal for a national (management) declaration covering all Community funds under shared management, based on sub-declarations by the various national bodies responsible for the management of expenditure; is of the opinion that a common approach towards the implementation and construction of national declarations, carried out according to the same principles, and if possible ensuring the participation of national audit bodies, is necessary to assure that the national declaration is of value to the Commission and the Court of Auditors;

29.

Calls on the Council to reopen the debate on the matter urgently;

30.

Calls on the national parliaments (particularly the national committees responsible for oversight of public finances and the committees of the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC)) to discuss the introduction of national declarations and to inform the house of the outcome of this discussion;

Point 44 of the IIA

31.

Stresses that point 44 of the IIA requires the relevant audit authorities in the Member States to produce an assessment concerning the compliance of management and control systems with the regulations of the Community, with Member States undertaking to produce an annual summary at the appropriate national level of the available audits and declarations;

32.

Takes the view that the audit authorities referred to in point 44 of the IIA must shoulder this new responsibility for the local use of EU funds and that this national-level control should form the basis on which the national authorities draw up their national management declarations;

33.

Stresses that this is the only way of giving true meaning to national management declarations which, in Parliament's view, should provide a genuine guarantee that national supervisory and control systems are functioning properly;

34.

Calls on the Commission to ask the Member States for the information referred to in point 44 of the IIA and to draw up, on the basis of that information, a document analysing the strengths and weaknesses of each Member State's national system for the administration and control of Community funds and the results of the audits conducted, and to forward that document to Parliament and the Council;

35.

Considers that it would be extremely useful for the Economic and Financial Affairs Council to use the final document drawn up by the Commission as the basis for a comparative analysis and a debate on the suitability of the systems used by Member States for control of the funds they receive from the Community budget;

Suspension of payments and financial corrections

36.

Recalls the Commission's communication of 15 June 2005 on a roadmap to an integrated internal control framework (COM(2005)0252), whose point B states: ‘When a Member State fails to adequately address the risks of error, the Commission will protect the EC budget by rigorously applying the existing provisions for the suspension of payments and financial corrections’;

Suspension of payments

37.

Assures the Commission of its full support in the rigorous application of the legislation on suspension of payments, and welcomes the measures already initiated for the non-transfer of funds where the Commission does not have an absolute guarantee of the reliability of the management and control systems of the Member State which is the beneficiary of those funds;

38.

Believes that, in the case of recurrent reserves for expenditure programmes in a particular Member State, suspension of payments, as a means of pressure, will contribute to the greater involvement of the Member States in the correct use of Community funds received;

39.

Calls on the Commission to simplify the rules and apply the existing legislation on suspension of payments in the cases where it is necessary, and to inform the Council, Parliament and the Court of Auditors in good time concerning the suspensions of payments and their results;

40.

Insists that payments should be fully or partly suspended in the case where Member States are not complying with basic requirements, as in the case of the IACS system in Greece, and where the Greek authorities do not remedy the existing problems within the time limits set, as scheduled by the jointly adopted action plan which the Commission has requested from the Greek authorities for a fully functioning IACS system;

41.

Considers it detrimental for the image of the EU if individual Member States can apply different control standards;

Financial corrections in the multiannual payments

42.

Considers that, in the case of shared or decentralised management, the Commission should fully apply Article 53(5) of the Financial Regulation, thus assuming final responsibility for the execution of the budget, in line with Article 274 of the Treaty, by means of ‘clearance-of-accounts procedures or financial correction mechanisms’;

43.

Stresses that, given the multiannual character of expenditure in Community programmes, it is only at the end of a multiannual cycle that the Commission can proceed to the application of those ‘clearance-ofaccounts procedures or financial correction mechanisms’, whose aim is the a posteriori rectification of errors detected, if comprehensive and clearly comprehensible documentation on programme implementation is available; further emphasises the need to undertake financial corrections as soon as uncorrected irregularities are detected by the Member States, without waiting for the end of the multiannual cycle;

44.

Notes with concern that the Court is extremely critical of the financial corrections applied by the Commission, which do not ‘ensure the prevention and timely identification and correction of errors’, do not take sufficient account of the deficiencies identified in the underlying operations, that is, at the level of the final beneficiary, and do not ‘encourage Member States to take action to prevent irregularities or to improve their management and control systems’ (paragraphs 1.64 and 6.35 of the Court of Auditors' annual report);

45.

Notes that the objective of the final decisions and corrective measures (14) is to remove Community funding from expenditure which has not been carried out in conformity with Community rules, and that such decisions, which are a matter for the Commission, should constitute a major instrument in the control and monitoring systems;

46.

Notes that the final corrective measures, where they are not charged directly to the operations at the level of the final beneficiary, have the effect in practice — as the Court points out — of transferring the costs of illegal and irregular operations from the Community budget to national taxpayers as a whole, rather than to the final beneficiary who is responsible for the error (paragraph 1.65 of the Court of Auditors' annual report); notes that those corrections therefore have only a limited preventive and deterrent effect on beneficiaries and managers;

47.

Stresses, therefore, the great importance of the Member States having appropriate systems for improving the prevention and identification of errors at the level of the final beneficiary, thus reducing the need for the Commission to apply final corrective measures;

48.

Notes that, as a result of the principle of efficient and effective use of appropriations, there must be effective recovery; takes the view that improved recovery would provide proof of the effectiveness of EUpenalties and further boost the European institutions' credibility;

49.

Notes that effective recovery can only take place via the Member States' enforcement agencies; calls therefore, in connection with recovery, for Member States' costs for their enforcement agencies to be taken into account;

50.

Is convinced that an improvement in the recovery rate can be achieved by revealing the identities of debtors who have been found liable by the courts and can no longer appeal, but are unwilling to make payment;

51.

Concludes that the Commission, for its part and in the light of the Court's severe criticisms, needs to take all appropriate action in order to prevent errors and irregularities in occurring in the first place and regrets that the Commission apparently puts more emphasis on final financial correction mechanisms which, as the Court notes, have serious weaknesses and ‘cannot be regarded as mechanisms to ensure theprevention and timely identification and correction of errors’ (paragraph 1.64 of the annual report of the European Court of Auditors);

52.

Regrets the Commission's criticism of the Court of Auditors concerning the financial correction measures applied by the Commission in 2005, as manifested notably during the presentation of the Court's annual report to the Committee on Budgetary Control on 23 October 2006, since citizens' confidence in the ability of the European institutions to function is based inter alia on the guaranteed independence of the Court of Auditors as an external audit body;

53.

Calls on the Commission to supply both Parliament and the Court of Auditors with an explicit definition of the different concepts grouped under the term ‘financial correction mechanisms’, as well as with the amounts actually involved in the corrections of 2005;

54.

Calls on the Commission to submit in future a detailed annual report including the amounts actually involved in the financial corrections;

The Commission's internal control system

The Action Plan for an integrated internal control framework

55.

Welcomes the Commission's adoption on 17 January 2006 of its communication to the Council, the European Parliament and the Court of Auditors: Commission Action Plan towards an Integrated Internal Control Framework (COM(2006)0009 and SEC(2006)0049), which sets out 16 concrete actions to be undertaken in order to contribute to ensuring more effective internal controls over EU funds;

56.

Welcomes the first half-yearly scoreboard submitted by the Commission on 19 July 2006 (SEC(2006)1001) on the implementation of the above Action Plan, pursuant to Parliament's request in its resolution on the discharge for 2004; expects that the second half-yearly scoreboard will reach Parliament before 1 January 2008;

57.

Regrets, however, the fact that, as that report states, some of the actions have not even been started and there is thus already a degree of delay with regard to the planned calendar, particularly concerning Actions 7, 9 and 10 (15);

Value for money — Analysis of the existing balance between operational expenditure and the cost of the control system — Error index or acceptable risk of error

58.

Points out that the Court of Auditors, in its annual report for 2005 and with respect to the establishment of an integrated internal control framework, takes the view that ‘one of the most important objectives approved by the Commission is represented by the proportionality and cost-effectiveness of controls’ (paragraphs 2.9 and 2.10);

59.

Recalls, furthermore, that the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 8 November 2005, as mentioned above, laid major stress on the need to implement an integrated internal control system, and stated: ‘The Council believes, in line with the Court's opinion 2/2004, that it should reach an understanding with the European Parliament regarding the risks to be tolerated in the underlying transactions, having regard to the costs and benefits of controls for the different policy areas and the value of the expenditure concerned’; expects the Council to act on its own decision promptly;

60.

Recalls Action 4 of the above-mentioned Action Plan, which, in line with the recommendations of Parliament, proposes initiating ‘interinstitutional dialogue on risks to be tolerated in the underlying transactions’;

61.

Also recalls Action 10, which proposes making an ‘analysis of the costs of controls’, in view of the ‘need to reach an appropriate balance between the costs and benefits of controls’, and which states that the results will be presented in early 2007; notes, however, that implementation of this action has scarcely begun;

62.

Stresses, in this context, the importance of Opinion No 2/2004 of the Court of Auditors regarding the Single Audit Model, namely as regards the need to insure the coincidence between the level of authority that legislates, finances and benefits from controls (point 24), as regards proportionality between costs and benefits of controls (point 25) and as regards transparency of controls (point 26);

63.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors when, in its Opinion No 4/2006, it regrets that the relationship between tolerable risk levels and the cost-benefit ratio of controls has yet to be established and that, even though it is a vital concept for the integrated control system, it has not yet been clarified how an ‘acceptable risk level’ is to be determined;

64.

Considers, therefore, that the Commission, in line with the principles of proportionality and cost efficiency (value for money) of the control systems, should evaluate the relationship between, on the one hand, the resources available for each particular policy, and, on the other, the part of those resources dedicated to the control systems broken down by area of expenditure, and any resources lost thanks to errors thus detected;

65.

Invites the Commission to fully disclose to the public the methods it uses for the determination of the rates of error, and encourages the Commission to pursue an interinstitutional dialogue on audit methodology;

66.

Considers it essential for the Commission to have a credible roadmap to achieve a positive DAS;

67.

Calls on the Commission to carry out that comparative analysis, as forming the sole basis which will make it possible to establish an ‘acceptable risk level’, and to forward it to Parliament, the Council and the Court of Auditors, in compliance with the wishes of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council;

68.

Believes that the cost-benefit ratio existing between the resources dedicated to control activities and the results obtained by the controls should be a key element to be taken into account by the Court of Auditors when it delivers its statement of assurance;

Political responsibility and administrative responsibility at the Commission

69.

Stresses that the differing information content of services' annual activity reports is a hindrance to this procedure; is concerned at the Court's statement that some of those reports still do not include sufficient evidence for its statement of assurance (paragraphs 2.15, 2.18 and 2.19 of the annual report for 2005);

70.

Asks the Commission to ensure that its annual activity reports and statements go into much greater detail — where possible on the level of the individual Member States — in the evaluation of the existing systems, the shortcomings detected by them and their financial impact;

71.

Asks the Commission once again to ensure that its Secretary-General, when preparing the synthesis report, draws up a statement of assurance which includes reference to the statements of each of the directors-general, with the aim of making express mention of their assistance to the Commissioners in the adoption of that report;

Participation of the Commissioners

72.

Stresses the importance of the opinion expressed by the Commission's internal auditor in his annual report on the internal audits to the effect that ‘a full involvement of Commissioners to evaluate political risks would allow better overall management of risks and thus improve planning, resource allocation and policy delivery’ (16);

73.

Notes the criticism that Commissioners are not fully involved; asks the Commission to determine what actions are needed to ensure the full involvement of the Commissioners, as called for by the internal auditor, while at the same time clarifying the relationship between the directors-general and the Commissioners, and to supply full information on the matter to Parliament;

74.

Regrets the difference in quality of the presentation by Commissioners in its Budgetary Control Committee and expresses the hope that this does not reflect the importance given by individual Commissioners to sound financial management in their area of competence; insists that, with some exceptions, Commissioners need to be better prepared for hearings concerning the 2006 discharge procedure;

Ethics

75.

Warmly welcomes the Commission's European Transparency Initiative, as mentioned above, which proposes launching ‘a debate with the other European institutions on the rules and standards on professional ethics of public office holders in the European institutions’; calls for the debate to be launched quickly so that any necessary measures become effective at the start of Parliament's new term in June 2009 and the Commission's new term in November 2009;

76.

Supports the idea of such a debate, and calls on the Commission to fill the gap that now exists and to ensure that the Commissioners' binding code of conduct incorporates the necessary ethical rules and the principal guidelines to be observed by Commissioners in the conduct of their office, in particular when appointing colleagues, especially to their ‘cabinets’;

77.

Calls on the Commission to pay due attention to and propose solutions for, in the framework of the Transparency initiative, the fact that a substantial number of former and actual high ranking members of staff in sensitive positions have left the Commission, sometimes on unpaid leave, to join lobbyists and law firms for example representing clients who are either under investigation by DG Competition or appeal against fines imposed on them;

Transparency

78.

Welcomes the Commission's transparency initiative and expects it to lead to practical action and legislative initiatives which in turn result in transparency in the use and management of EU funds; expects Member States to support and complement this important initiative by ensuring that they in turn are fully transparent in their use of EU funds;

79.

Expects its administration, in collaboration with the Committee on Budgetary Control, to be involved in further deliberations for drawing up the specific legislative initiatives;

80.

Strongly urges the Commission to do its utmost to encourage the Member States to allow public access to information concerning projects and recipients of all EU funds which are subject to joint management;

81.

Expects a simple and transparent system to be set up to access all this information via a central and easily accessible website;

82.

Welcomes the Commission's initiatives to ensure that the funds paid out under the Community's agricultural support schemes will now be made public;

83.

Expects the Commission as swiftly as possible to instruct the Member States to standardise the information concerning agricultural funding placed on the internet, so that it can be compared across the board between Member States;

84.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission has recognised the need to allow access to information about the various forms of expert groups which it uses in its work;

85.

Strongly urges the Commission to complete the process of achieving greater transparency by allowing for easy access to information on who is represented in these groups and what their tasks are;

86.

Calls on the Commission to publish the names of those people who take part in these groups, and the names of the special advisers which the individual Commissioners and/or Directorates-General and/or ‘cabinets’ have engaged;

SECTORAL ISSUES

Revenue

87.

Welcomes the fact that the Court's monitoring did not reveal significant irregularities with regard to payments corresponding to the VAT and GNI own resources;

VAT

88.

Regrets the Court's reference to the greater number of pending reservations in the VAT statements for 2005 and the lack of an effective instrument that would ensure that the Member States provided suitable information enabling the Commission decide on the maintenance of the reserves (paragraphs 4.13 to 4.15 of the annual report);

89.

Calls on the Commission to deal with the matter with the Member States in the context of the regular meetings of the Advisory Committee on Own Resources, and to inform the competent committee of Parliament of the measures it has taken or intends to take with the ultimate objective of eliminating those reserves;

GNI

90.

Regrets the fact that the Court states in its annual report for 2005 that the Commission is still not properly monitoring the underlying national accounts, and that the Commission's inspections, as part of the control and monitoring systems, have been limited to documentary controls (paragraph 4.16);

91.

Notes, in addition, that, according to the Court, since 2005 new rules on the allocation of Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured have been in force, adopted as long ago as 2002, which, according to Eurostat, will lead to a significant increase in GNI; regrets the fact that the Commission has so far not submitted a proposal to the Council to apply those modifications when calculating the own resources (paragraphs 4.20 and 4.21);

92.

Disapproves of the fact that, in the case of Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured, the Commission evidently takes a different approach from that taken to including illegal activities in GNI (paragraph 4.19), which are included in the calculation of own resources although uniform application by the Member States is not ensured and the Commission has therefore notified reservations making it possible to adjust the figures retrospectively;

93.

Assumes that allocated Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured will automatically be included in the own resource decision, for GNI own resource purposes, since, in its proposal for a Council decision on the system of the European Communities' own resources (COM(2006)0099), the Commission entered no limiting reservation in that respect;

94.

Calls on the Commission to take action, as a matter of urgency, to remedy the shortcomings identified by the Court;

The common agricultural policy

95.

Warmly welcomes the Court's acknowledgement that, suitably applied, IACS constitutes an effective monitoring system for reducing the risk of error or of irregular expenditure;

96.

Is concerned, however, at the Court's repeated criticism regarding the procedures currently applied in the settlement of CAP accounts (reports from the certifying bodies and compliance decisions), procedures which (according to the Court) are not designed to ensure that operations in the form of payments to final beneficiaries (farmers and operators) are legal and regular;

97.

States once again that cooperation between the Member States and the Commission for the purpose of providing guarantees in respect of operations relating to final beneficiaries is essential and urges the Commission to step up post-payment checks and to ensure that irregular payments are recovered;

98.

Regrets the fact that the Court continues to detect problems in the implementation of the IACS in Greece, fully supports the action plan which the Commission has requested from the Greek authorities (involving specific deadlines and objectives designed to correct errors), and also supports the Commission's intention (as stated to its competent committee) to ensure that current legislation on the suspension of payments is strictly enforced if the Greek Government does not remedy the existing problems within the time-limits set;

99.

Notes the current problems with the implementation of the IACS in the new Member States audited by the Court (countries in which systems are still unreliable) and calls upon the Commission and those Member States to do all they can to remedy the weaknesses detected;

100.

Also notes the serious shortcomings reported by the Court in the checks relating to rural development, in export refunds and especially in the olive-oil sector in Spain, Greece and Italy, and calls upon the Commission to carry out before the end of 2007 more stringent checks in those areas and to inform Parliament before the 2006 discharge procedure on the outcome of these checks; notes that the options concerning the implementation of the recent reform of the olive oil sector, in conjunction with the full development and operation of the agricultural information systems available to the producer Member States, minimise any risk of irregularities in respect of aid provided under the common organisation of the market;

101.

Approves of the financial corrections adopted by the Commission in the sector relating to olive-oil production aid with a view to reducing loss to the Community budget, and supports the Commission's proposal to the Council concerning simplification of the scheme;

Structural measures, employment and social affairs

102.

Is particularly pleased at the fact that, in connection with the European Transparency Initiative and pursuant to the new rules governing the Structural Funds for the 2007-2013 period, Member States will be required to provide information concerning the beneficiaries of Community funding and the Commission will be required to make such information public; calls on the Commission to publish all this information and information on beneficiaries from all other Union's policies in such a away that it is easily accessible, including for the wider public, and to ensure that information from different Member-States can be compared;

103.

Notes and welcomes the fact that, pursuant to the above-mentioned new rules governing the Structural Funds for the 2007-2013 period, the Commission will not reimburse expenditure unless it has previously received a written declaration from an independent body certifying that national administration and control systems exist in conformity with Community rules (17);

104.

Regrets the fact that, for yet another year, the Court has detected shortcomings in the Member States' control systems and a significant level of errors which undermine the reliability of the Member States' final expenditure declarations (paragraphs 6.26 and 6.29 of the annual report); also regrets the fact that, according to the Court, the Commission does not effectively supervise the checks delegated to the Member States and calls upon the Commission to remedy this shortcoming as a matter of urgency;

105.

Points out that, for the purposes of sound financial management and the DAS, the main issue is not so much the errors detected as the existence of adequate supervision systems which will enable the Commission to carry out proper monitoring of the risks to the Community budget and to make the appropriate financial corrections;

106.

Regrets the fact that within a small group of Member States there continue to be known problems which give rise to recurrent reservations and urges the Commission to supervise closely the action taken by the Member States' authorities, to ensure that such action is appropriate and to keep Parliament's competent committee reliably informed regarding progress made;

107.

Also regrets the fact that, according to the Court, Member States have not correctly complied with the requirement to supply on a systematic basis the information which they are required to submit periodically to the Commission concerning cancellations and amounts recoverable (paragraph 6.36 of the annual report);

108.

Calls upon the Commission to do all in its power to ensure that the Member Status comply correctly with the above requirement to provide information and not to make any payment unless the Member States' authorities have supplied the requisite information;

109.

Is aware that between 2004 and 2006 the Commission took action in order to suspend on a temporary basis ERDF and ESF payments to certain Member States in which there were errors giving rise to recurrent reservations, and supports that action;

110.

Calls upon the Commission — in line with what is set out in paragraphs 38 et seq of this Resolution and in view of the absence of guarantees from one Member State — to apply the Community rules on the suspension of payments (18) in its capacity as the body ultimately responsible for the sound financial management of Community funds;

Internal policies

111.

Regrets the fact that, according to the Court, there are still within the field of direct management by the Commission the same problems as in earlier years (errors in expenditure reimbursed, complexity of applicable rules and lack of an effective penalty system), and calls upon the Commission to continue its efforts to simplify and further clarify the rules for shared-cost programmes, in particular as regards time recording commensurate with documentation effort (Court of Auditors' annual report for 2005, paragraph 7.29), to do its utmost, in a suitable dialogue with recipients of financial assistance, to clarify the rules, manuals and forms applicable and to ensure that the existing penalty system is effectively and appropriately applied whenever necessary (where appropriate by proposing the changes necessary in order to make the system more effective), and, in addition, to improve the scope and quality of and follow-up to the audits of national agencies' systems though improved information and mutual exchanges (Court of Auditors' annual report for 2005, paragraph 7.29, and Parliament amendment to Article 35a (new) of the reformed Financial Regulation implementing rules (19)); calls on the Commission to explain to the budgetary authority, in a catalogue of specific measures, how it intends in its current term of office to obtain an unconditional statement of assurance in the area of direct management;

Transport and tourism

112.

Notes that in the 2005 budget, as finally adopted and amended in the course of the year, a total of EUR 917 200 000 was included for transport policies in commitment appropriations and EUR 931 800 000 was available in payment appropriations; further notes that of these totals:

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EUR 671 400 000 was available in commitment appropriations for Trans-European Networks for Transport (TEN-T) and EUR 747 900 000 in payment appropriations,

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EUR 15 900 000 was available in commitments and EUR 18 100 000 in payments for transport safety,

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EUR 30 500 000 was available in commitments for the Marco Polo programme and EUR 8 200 000 in payments,

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EUR 69 000 000 was available in commitments and EUR 62 000 000 in payments for transport agencies;

113.

Welcomes the continuing high rates of utilisation of both commitment and payment appropriations for TEN-T projects, both reaching almost 100 %, but regrets that, despite this, project implementation continues to be slow and unsatisfactory although the completion of transport infrastructure projects usually takes several years;

114.

Expresses its concern that for all projects the EU contribution limit was unclear because the Financial Regulation does not specify whether the 10 % EU funding limit applies to expenditure to date or to the total anticipated cost of the project; notes that this led the Court of Auditors to remark that there had been an overspend of EUR 146 million; welcomes the fact that the Commission has now adopted a clear position and agrees that percentage limits should be calculated as percentages of final project costs;

115.

Welcomes the fact that DG TREN is now auditing 49 % of the total cost of TEN-T projects, but calls for this progress to be supported by auditing 20 % of all projects;

116.

Expresses concern at the error rate found for research contracts in the field of transport, which is above the average error rate, and calls for remedial action in this area; calls on the Court of Auditors to reexamine this in its 2006 annual report;

117.

Notes with concern that the payment utilisation rate for transport safety was 74 % of the appropriations available; is also concerned that the utilisation rate for Marco Polo payment appropriations was 53 %; finds these rates of utilisation for a key objective identified in the White Paper on Transport wholly unacceptable, particularly the sharp decline in the utilisation of payment appropriations;

118.

Invites the Commission to forward to the Parliament and the Council each year a more detailed description of expenditure against each budget line compared with the comments made in respect of each line;

Environment, public health and food safety

119.

Considers the overall implementation rates of the budget headings for environment, public health and food safety satisfactory;

120.

Calls on the Commission to take steps to promote further assistance to applicants in the context of multiannual programmes; welcomes the efforts to better focus calls for tenders and to provide more assistance to applicants in order to avoid the submission of project applications which are clearly not eligible for funding or of poor quality; notes that further work is needed in order to attain a satisfactory situation; invites the Commission to examine the different stages of implementation with a view to bringing the implementation cycle forward in the year;

121.

Notes that the payment rates for both environment and health and food safety policy areas were below 80 %; acknowledges the difficulties in planning payment appropriation needs, as the Commission depends in part on a swift submission of bills by beneficiaries and contractors; calls on the Commission, however, to continue its efforts to improve its own procedures which have an impact on the implementation of payment appropriations;

122.

Hopes that the model introduced under the new Financial Framework, i.e. to gather all activities within one policy area under one single programme and budget line, will increase the efficient use of available appropriations;

Culture and education

123.

Sees the further simplification of requirements to be fulfilled by an applicant under the new multiannual programmes such as Youth in Action, Europe for Citizens and Culture 2007 as a necessary step towards a more citizen-friendly Union and expects the Commission to further explore such possibilities within the framework of the revised financial regulation;

124.

Believes that, in keeping with the Financial Regulation, the Commission should consider whether to standardise contract award procedures under flat-rate arrangements, using Commission decisions to finance programmes;

125.

Encourages the Commission to make further efforts to monitor the work of each of the 99 national agencies involved in programme management and which in a number of cases have revealed considerable short-comings in the auditing procedures applied;

126.

Expects the work of the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency to bring about improved operational procedures; stresses that especially the organisations within its scope depend on reliable and timely information as regards project support; notes in this context that these applicants are often very small organisations or natural persons which lack the means or the expertise to perform a professional audit;

127.

Notes that the costs for project auditing on the spot are extremely high; believes, however, given that the aim is to reduce the risk of error as far as possible, that the cost of the checks carried out must be made commensurate with their effectiveness in order to establish the optimum relationship between the resources invested in the implementation of Community policies and those earmarked for the purpose of conducting checks;

128.

Wishes to ensure that communication support for information campaigns which are established in cooperation between Member States and the Commission follows the principle of additionality and asks the Commission to request certification from Member States demonstrating that financial support does not serve to simply replace Member States' financial support for national measures concerning EU information policy;

129.

Calls on the Commission to ensure that, when allocating aid, national agencies do not depart from the general criteria, as occurred in Poland in the case of a project involving young homosexuals, that due regard is taken of Article 13 of the EC Treaty and that, if programme criteria have been infringed, recovery of EU funds will be an option to take into consideration;

Women's rights and gender equality

130.

Points out that, by virtue of Article 3(2) of the EC Treaty, the promotion of equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the EU and is an objective which has relevance across the full range of all Community activities and policies; reiterates its demand for gender mainstreaming to be taken into due consideration as a priority objective in budgetary planning, in accordance with the principle of gender budgeting, and calls on the Commission to provide data for evaluation;

131.

Repeats its demand for the information on gender mainstreaming policies and gender-specific data to be included in the budget discharge reports; regrets that the Commission has not supplied this information;

132.

Notes with concern the low payment implementation rate of the ‘Daphne’ programme (58 %); while being aware of the Commission's arguments on maintaining quality standards for projects, notes that many high-quality projects were refused financial support, and therefore welcomes the increase in funding allocated for the third stage of the Daphne programme, but is concerned by the unchanged administrative capacity; calls, therefore, for an investigation to explain in greater detail to what this low payment implementation rate may be attributable;

133.

Draws attention to the absence of data relating to activities promoting gender equality that have received Structural Fund support and calls on the Commission to remedy this situation;

134.

Considers that greater attention should be paid to promoting women's participation in the knowledge society and, consequently, to the high-quality training and employment of women in the field of information and communication technologies;

135.

Welcomes the noteworthy progress achieved by the Commission as regards annual targets for the recruitment and appointment of women to management and other A*/AD level posts in the Commission administration; urges the Commission to maintain efforts in this domain;

Civil liberties, justice and home affairs

136.

Welcomes the fact that some progress has been achieved in the level of implementation of commitments of the budget in respect of an area of freedom, security and justice; deplores the increasingly low level of implementation of payments (79,8 % according to the Court of Auditors in comparison to 83,8 % in 2004); notes that this level is one of the lowest of the Commission; calls on the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security to improve implementation of the budget in the future;

Research and development

137.

Regrets the fact that, according to the Court, the Commission has still not managed to introduce a reliable system for the recording of personnel costs in the research sphere; considers that ‘it is essential that there is a clear requirement in the grant agreements to substantiate the working time of personnel involved in the action’ (paragraph 7.7 of the annual report) (20);

138.

Notes with concern that, despite its high cost, the audit-certificate system has in 2005 not yet provided the hoped-for guarantees, since the Court has detected erroneous statements relating to staff costs and general expenditure, in respect of which ‘clean’ audit certificates have been issued; notes however that the quality of the audit certificate has improved after the requirements for these certificates were published; invites the Commission to further develop suitable criteria for audit certificates in order to improve their usefulness;

139.

Encourages the Commission to speed up the implementation of the measures provided for in the abovementioned Action Plan towards an Integrated Internal Control Framework, in particular Action 7 (Promote best practices for increasing the cost-benefits of audits at project level);

140.

Calls upon the Commission to fulfil the requirement of the FP7 rules for participation to introduce a flat-rate payment procedure, inter alia, and to inform its competent committee in the framework of the midterm review;

141.

Regrets the fact that, according to the Court, there continues to be uncertainty owing to excessively general contractual provisions and a lack of clarity, particularly in the case of the criteria for the granting of subsidies and the independence of auditors responsible for certification, and notes that the Commission has undertaken (21) to simplify the Community framework and to rejig the use of audit certificates;

142.

Also notes that the Commission's Internal Audit Service considers there to be a risk that undue amounts will not be identified on account of the fact that there is no effective checking system in operation during the process of releasing budget commitments, for which reason it calls upon the Commission to adopt suitable monitoring measures;

External actions

143.

Notes that the Court did not detect any errors in its examination of a sample of delegation payments, although it did do so in its sample of bids and its sample of operations carried out by the implementing bodies;

144.

Considers that priority must be attached to ensuring that Community policies which have an impact on developing countries are consistent, for which purpose the division of labour within the Directorates-General responsible for running external actions must be clarified;

145.

Notes with concern that, according to the Court, the risk analyses carried out by EuropeAid did not take into account the risks represented by the various types of implementing body (NGO, international organisation, government institution, etc.) and the financing methods used (subsidy, budget support, trust fund, etc.); calls on the Commission to establish greater clarity, through more discriminating reporting, as to the effectiveness of individual assistance instruments; proposes with regard to the issue of aid for developing countries that the introduction of a system of stages be looked into, the aim being that at the first stage, by assisting individual projects, the basic preconditions for granting budget aid, i.e. a form of democratic budgetary control plus independent auditing structures, are also established;

146.

Regrets in particular the fact that, since EuropeAid's checks did not adequately cover operations by implementing bodies, the contribution made by those checks to the overall assurance of the legality and regularity of the underlying operations is limited (paragraph 8.12 of the annual report);

147.

Calls upon EuropeAid to implement a programme of checks applicable to the implementing bodies and to devote all its efforts to ex-post audits on the various NGOs with which it cooperates;

148.

Is concerned at the fact that, as regards the effectiveness of Tacis programme expenditure, the Court maintains that at the end of 2005 the Commission was unable to determine how the programme had contributed to improving the safety of nuclear power stations (paragraph 8.36 of the annual report); regards such a criticism as extremely serious, since it reveals a lack of guarantees as regards the fundamental, priority aspect of Community action — i.e. value for money;

149.

Notes the Court's criticisms concerning the limited use made of the Common Relex Information System (CRIS), from which little or no financial information is extracted upon which to base a more detailed risk analysis (paragraph 8.6 of the annual report); calls upon the Commission to remedy the weaknesses in the CRIS as a matter of urgency and to exploit the system's full potential in order to obtain the information required for control systems;

150.

Notes the information from the Commission (answer to Written Question E-4481/06) to the effect that, in connection with the fraud and bribery affair concerning the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, three firms which received EU assistance have been fined by the Lesotho High Court: Schneider Electric SA (France), Impregilo Spa (Italy) and Lahmeyer International GmbH (Germany);

151.

Criticises the fact that, in the case of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, the Commission has evidently not taken any decision pursuant to Article 93(1)(e) of the Financial Regulation (exclusion from the award of contracts); expects the Commission now to take and announce the appropriate decisions by June 2007 at the latest and to submit a comprehensive report on the affair to Parliament, together with the European Investment Bank (which is also involved), in September 2007 at the latest which also makes it clear what efforts have been made to recover monies;

Development

152.

Welcomes the fact that the share of EU funding spent on the basic health and basic education sectors has been raised from 4,98 % to 6,83 %; however, regrets the fact that this share is still far removed from the 20 % target which was set in the 2005 budget; cannot accept the fact that the Commission is using the legitimate and necessary objective of better donor coordination and work-sharing between donors as an excuse for too low a level of investment in the basic health and basic education sectors and urges it to adopt measures forthwith to achieve the 20 % target and to inform Parliament in writing at least twice a year about the progress of implementation and about the factors taken into account in the calculation;

153.

Regrets the fact that the Commission has not so far developed any comprehensive strategy together with the beneficiary countries for making the health and education sectors priorities in the new country strategy papers;

154.

Further regrets that, despite assurances to the contrary from the Commission, country strategy papers currently under preparation generally lack a clear Millennium Development Goal (MDG) profile, not to mention specific targets and timetables for achieving each MDG, and fail to treat adequately the Community's contribution to achieving them;

155.

Welcomes the Commission's statements on the incomplete implementation of certain budget headings, in particular those for the Community contribution towards schemes concerning developing countries carried out by non-governmental organisations (Article 21 02 03), for the environment in developing countries (Article 21 02 05), for aid for poverty-related diseases in developing countries (Item 21 02 07 02), for aid for population and reproductive healthcare (Item 21 02 07 03) and for decentralised cooperation (Article 21 02 13); calls, however, for a further increase in efforts to implement the budget in full;

156.

Calls on the Commission to keep a closer watch on the emigration of skilled labour from developing countries to EU countries and to propose appropriate measures for enabling skilled people from developing countries to remain in, or return to, their home countries so that action by donors e.g. in the health and education sectors, can be of long-term and effective benefit in combating poverty in the developing countries;

157.

Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors has recorded an improvement in the Commission's supervisory and control systems; however, regrets the fact that this improvement does not extend to supervision, control and audit of the implementing bodies; considers it unacceptable that, as a result, such a large number of material errors continue to occur at a central point in the chain between the European taxpayer and the final beneficiary in the developing country; calls on the Commission to ensure that, in particular, public procurement procedures which are required are carried out and that no double entries occur;

158.

Calls on the Commission to take action to enable the Court of Auditors to carry out effective checks on EU financial resources set aside for measures implemented by international organisations, in particular UN agencies;

159.

Expects the Commission to instruct its delegations in the beneficiary countries as a general rule to spell out in their reports the practical results of the deployment of EU funds so that the Commission can gauge and publicise the results of EU development cooperation;

160.

Calls on the Commission to verify regularly the use made of the operating appropriations of its delegations and the compatibility of their fields of action with the priorities of the European Union;

161.

Welcomes the Commission's efforts to implement the strategy for incorporating the environment into development cooperation and calls on the Commission to continue to press ahead with the environmental dimension in development policy, including measures to promote environmentally friendly energy supply;

162.

Welcomes the positive overall deployment of humanitarian aid by the Commission in connection with the tsunami disaster; however, regrets the fact that the emergency aid measures were not adequately coordinated; calls on the Commission to define more clearly the roles of DG ECHO and DG Environment (Community procedures for disaster management) and to develop approaches that ensure the support of the regions concerned when coordinating the different donors, and welcomes the Commission's willingness to inform Parliament regularly in writing of progress;

163.

Concludes once again that integration of the European Development Fund into the EU budget would enhance the overall consistency of European development cooperation, ensure greater transparency and effectiveness and facilitate democratic scrutiny;

Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

164.

Is pleased with the Court's assessment that considerable improvements have been made by the Commission in relation to management of the MEDA programme; urges the Commission to further enhance its effectiveness and efficiency and to ensure a smooth transition to the new financial instruments; insists that the Commission should keep Parliament informed about the translation into practice of objectives set out in the strategy papers and indicative programmes under the new instruments;

165.

Calls on the Commission to present a more substantial evaluation system concerning all external assistance expenditure where the link between expenditure and political results or the lack thereof is more transparent, in order to enable Parliament to effectively exercise its prerogatives and obligations as budgetary authority;

Eastern neighbours

166.

Is pleased with the Commission's efforts to further improve management of projects under Tacis in Russia and other beneficiary countries; recognises that the Commission has addressed many of the weaknesses highlighted in the Court's special report No 2/2006;

167.

Awaits with interest the evaluation of the contribution made to improving safety in the various nuclear power stations under the Tacis programme, which the Commission began in 2006;

168.

Reiterates its request to the Commission to clarify with the United Nations agencies the Court of Auditors' right of access to projects managed by those agencies;

169.

Asks the Commission to insist on the traceability of funds granted by the European Union to international organisations such as United Nations agencies and the World Bank, and transparency in the way these funds are managed, and to forward this information to Parliament;

170.

Takes the view that the European Union's image should have a higher profile; calls on the Commission and Council to continue their reflections on their method of communication to ensure that the European Union's external policy is more transparent and more visible;

Pre-accession strategy

171.

Notes that the Court states that the Sapard transactions which it audited were affected by significant errors and that although there were improvements in the Commission's supervisory and control systems, major weaknesses were noted within the Member States (paragraphs 9.10 and 9.19);

172.

Recommends, therefore, that the Commission should improve its monitoring of Member States' systems, devote particular attention to final expenditure declarations relating to the programmes in general and ensure that the Sapard paying bodies in particular are closely monitored;

173.

Is concerned by the delays in the EDIS accreditation for Phare and ISPA in Bulgaria, leading to only partial completion of that process before enlargement; notes the extended preparatory phase on the Bulgarian side, which has made progress but still needs to improve supervisory and control systems as well as the administrative capacities necessary for timely and effective implementation of projects; urges the Commission to continue to cooperate with the Bulgarian and Romanian authorities in order to support them in further adapting to the requirements of EDIS;

174.

Is pleased with the Court's assessment that the decentralised management introduced for CARDS projects in Croatia has proved unproblematic; invites the Commission to continue working with the national implementing agencies so as to enhance their management capacities;

175.

While recognising the importance of cooperating with international financial institutions, insists that the Commission should decide to participate in joint projects only if they ensure an effective use of funds; insists on the need for EU assistance to provide clear added value, and requests that the performance of joint projects be closely monitored by the Commission;

176.

Encourages the Commission to continue working on the successful implementation of the verification clause contained in the Financial and Administrative Framework Agreement as well as on guidelines regarding an agreed level of detail needed when UN agencies report on the implementation of projects, thus safeguarding the financial interests of the EU and the prerogatives of the Court of Auditors;

Administrative expenditure

177.

Notes with satisfaction that the Court's audits brought to light no significant error affecting the legality of administrative expenditure;

178.

Calls on the Commission to inform Parliament before the end of 2007 of progress made by the new Member States, in particular Romania and Bulgaria, in the introduction of anti-corruption legislation; regrets that the anti-corruption legislation proposed by the Romanian Government, specifically the Minister of Justice, has been blocked by the Romanian Parliament; fully supports the Government in its efforts to have this legislation approved and introduced;

179.

Expresses however its concern for the growing cost of invalidity pensions and considers the use of mandatory invalidity pensions based on psychological disorders to resolve any conflicting relationship with Commission personnel as unacceptable;

Agencies

180.

Considers that the ever growing number of Agencies does not always reflect the real needs of the Union and its citizens; invites the Commission therefore to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new Agency and calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

181.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

182.

Regrets the fact that — as the Court points out in its annual report — there has been another year of weaknesses in staff recruitment and in the procedures for the awarding of contracts by the agencies (activity-based management still not having been introduced);

183.

Notes that, in its 2005 Annual Report, the IAS issued a reservation concerning the fact that it has too few staff to be able to satisfy the requirement laid down in the Financial Regulation to the effect that the agencies should be audited annually; calls on the Internal Auditor to explain to the budgetary authority as soon as possible what additional staff are required for this;

184.

Considers that, in view of the increasing number of regulatory agencies, there is an ever- greater need for the responsibilities of the Community's various institutional players vis-à-vis those agencies to be clarified and for clear rules on the subject to be drawn up, including on the subject of the allocation of monitoring tasks;

185.

Regrets the fact that the Commission has been unable to make any progress in the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies, which was adopted in February 2005 (COM(2005)0059);

186.

Notes that, with the help of the IAS, the agencies have started to establish their own internal control departments and that in future the IAS will carry out periodic reviews of those departments; also considers that the IAS must check that the agencies' internal control systems are functioning properly and that it must inform Parliament regarding the checks it carries out and the progress it achieves;

187.

Calls on the Commission to consider the idea of organising an audit for each of the Agencies with a view to examining their operations, with a view notably to human resource management, the budget and whether or not the tasks required of them have been performed;

188.

Notes that the Common Support Service has been established by a number of agencies for the purpose of adapting financial management information systems in order to make them compatible with those used by the Commission; notes that the contributions to that Service were managed outside the agencies' budget systems (paragraph 10.27 of the 2005 annual report); takes the view — as did the Court — that such cooperation should not disregard the budgetary principles of unity and transparency and that such contributions to the Common Support Service should thus be treated as assigned revenue included in the agencies' budget systems;

189.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its annual report devoted to the Agencies in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by the Agencies;

European Schools

190.

Notes the Court's favourable report concerning the European Schools' annual accounts; observes, however, that it is pointed out in that report that the Schools' internal control system does not follow the principle of the separation of functions between authorising officers and accounting officers and that authorising tasks are performed by delegation by two heads of unit in respect of all budget headings and with no financial ceiling; hopes that the new Financial Regulation for the European Schools (which has been in force since 1 January 2007) will remedy the weaknesses to which the Court has drawn attention; hopes that, in future, the Commission will shoulder its responsibility for a sustainable schools policy to a greater extent, commensurate with its share of funding of the European Schools and not with its formal voting rights on the highest decision-taking bodies, and work towards a long-term and, for stakeholders, reliable policy guaranteeing planning certainty; calls, in the medium term, for voting rights to be brought into line with funding share;

Questions in connection with the Community's buildings

191.

Notes the complaint lodged by the Director-General of the Office for Infrastructure and Logistics in Brussels (OIB) in his Annual Activity Report on the structural deficit generated by the cost of maintaining the Berlaymont building following its refurbishment (22), and also his references to a series of accounting and management problems; considers that the structural-deficit problems highlighted should be resolved as a matter of urgency and calls upon the Commission to take appropriate action and to notify Parliament thereof;

192.

Will also return to other questions in connection with the Berlaymont building as soon as the Court of Auditors' special report on buildings policy, notice of which has been given, is available;

193.

Notes the Commission reports of 21 February 2007 about a lifts and escalators cartel, the members of which have been fined more than EUR 990 000 000; expects a report from the Commission by September 2007 which shows the extent to which Community institutions, too, have fallen victim to that cartel, in connection with their various building projects, and what steps have been taken to assert claims for damages;

CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING THE SPECIAL REPORTS ISSUED BY THE COURT OF AUDITORS

Special Report No 6/2005 on the Trans-European Network for Transport

194.

Points to the fact that the new 2007-2013 financial perspective will have a considerable impact on the TEN-T, as the amount agreed upon is approximately 40 % lower than the original Commission proposal; is of the opinion that as a consequence selecting and prioritising projects will become even more important;

195.

Is of the opinion that in the current financial environment preference should be given to crossborder sections of priority projects involving more than one Member State;

196.

Calls on the Member States to support a European added-value approach rather than fighting for the ‘fair share’ principle;

197.

Is of the opinion that the Commission has to further improve cooperation with Member States when priority projects at national and EU level are selected;

198.

Is, in this context, deeply concerned about the slow execution of TEN-T priority projects and urges the Commission and Member States to improve coordination of EU transport infrastructure funding in annual and multiannual programmes;

199.

Calls on the Commission to continue its effort to establish clear legal frameworks and procedures, and also to guarantee rigorous monitoring and thorough evaluation of projects and programmes and to set up a comprehensive list of clear criteria which allow projects to be prioritised in a transparent manner;

200.

Asks the Commission to clarify the procedure for the appointment of European coordinators when setting up the regulatory framework for the content of their reports;

201.

Urges the Commission to establish a clear and transparent division of institutional responsibilities and define a framework for the coordination of activities between DG REGIO and DG TREN with a view to avoiding double-financing of the same projects;

202.

Notes that the Court has dismissed the first cost-benefit analysis for the creation of an Executive Agency as superficial; asks the Court to evaluate the second one, which was finalised in July 2005, in time for the competent committee's own initiative report;

203.

Points out that Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 of 19 December 2002 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes (23) requires, in its Article 3(1), a cost-benefit analysis, taking into account a number of factors, before the establishment of an executive agency can be requested; regrets that the Commission was not in a position to present the European Court of Auditors with a satisfactory cost-benefit analysis of the establishment of an executive agency at the outset; remains, together with the European Court of Auditors, doubtful with regard to the quality of the revised version of the cost-benefit analysis concerning the externalisation of the management of Community financial support to the TEN-T networks; for the future, calls on the Commission to seek a positive opinion on cost-benefit analyses from the European Court of Auditors before forwarding a request for the establishment of an executive agency to the budgetary authorities;

204.

Is of the opinion that the Commission should consider proposing that the Community's contribution to the TEN-T budget line be increased for cross-border projects; welcomes in this context the cooperation agreement with the European Investment Bank;

Special Report No 1/2006 on the contribution of the ESF in combating early school leaving

205.

Attaches great importance to an efficient and responsible use of the EU budget and to the application of the principle that an initiative that is insufficiently verifiable should not be financed by public money and therefore regrets that no clear correlation between reduction of early school leaving and EU funding has been found;

206.

Recognises that the Commission has an appropriate monitoring and control mechanism to ensure compliance with the principles of sound financial management but stresses that this mechanism must be improved in accordance with what the Commission itself has stated; in this respect, calls upon the Commission to propose how it plans to go about this;

207.

Encourages the Commission to work with the Member States and their national statistics offices to properly define and identify the incidence of early school leaving and encourage the exchange of information and best practice between all local and national organisations responsible for tackling early school leaving;

208.

Calls for a common understanding between the 27 Member States as to measuring standards and definitions related to the problem of early school leavers in order to ensure that national data is comparable and as to the necessary quality required to establish whether the Lisbon Strategy priorities in this respect are in fact being met;

209.

Calls upon the Commission to ensure that a thorough assessment is carried out in the new Member States as early as possible and in time to make remedial action possible, if required; calls, furthermore, upon the Court of Auditors to conduct in parallel, in the new Member States themselves, a similar audit to the one it conducted in the past in the 15 Member States on the impact of early school leaving funding;

Special Report No 2/2006 concerning the performance of projects financed under Tacis in the Russian Federation

210.

Stresses that, despite the positive results in many areas, the overall impact of the Tacis programme has not always been efficient and sustainable, as was intended; notes that the nature of the irregularities identified by the Court was mainly mismanagement in the programming process on the part of the Commission;

211.

Calls on the Commission to engage the Russian Government in further dialogue to identify national needs and direction accurately and to seek to define and identify priorities and objectives to reach by actions taken; considers that the Commission should keep in mind the principle of ‘value for money’ and therefore urges the Commission to monitor and evaluate the programme more prudently and closely than before;

212.

Urges the Commission to pursue its policy of focusing on a limited number of sectors and a limited number of programmes; takes the view that the Commission should change its scope from a project approach to a programme approach, since the project approach has too often led to limited dialogue, ownership and flexibility as well as to stand-alone projects unlikely to produce the broader and longer term objectives set out in the current partnership and cooperation agreement;

213.

Calls on the Commission to take action in preparing a proposal for a legal basis enabling the use of Tacis funds for co-financing with the Russian Federation and considers the financial involvement of regional and local players and the social partners and a greater participation by the private sector to be essential;

214.

Calls on the Commission to ensure frequent project-based evaluation, beyond the time of project completion, in order to improve feed-back from past experience and also to ensure clear information on ongoing projects and the various programmes designed to facilitate public access to information, and to increase openness and transparency about the utilisation of funds and decision-making;

Special Report No 3/2006 concerning the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Response to the Tsunami

215.

Welcomes the Court of Auditors' overall positive evaluation of DG ECHO's humanitarian aid response;

216.

Urges the Commission to clarify the role of DG ECHO, and DG Environment (via the Civil Protection Mechanism) in response to humanitarian needs, with a view to ensuring coherent action;

217.

Invites the Commission to strengthen the role of DG ECHO to continue to improve its coordination and its response capacity to meet rapidly and efficiently the needs of victims of future humanitarian catastrophes and to give adequate consideration to the importance of linking short-term humanitarian aid with longer term rehabilitation and reconstruction; notes that at present the two phases belong to different DGs, procedures and mandates;

218.

Insists on sound financial management and considers that provision of detailed financial information is necessary to facilitate the effective monitoring of project implementation;

219.

Emphasizes the recommendation of the Court that DG ECHO should strengthen its monitoring system;

220.

Understands that an increase in prices of goods and labour costs might be unavoidable in exceptional situations; invites however the Commission to give consideration to measures aimed at controlling and monitoring costs as much as possible;

221.

Voices its concern with regard to brand promotion and competition for visibility amongst humanitarian donors in humanitarian catastrophes which attract high media attention, as this practice has a negative impact on the coordination of humanitarian aid and the perception of the aid by the victims of such catastrophes;

222.

Asks the Commission to define clearly what an NGO is;

Special Report No 4/2006 concerning Phare investment projects in Bulgaria and Romania

223.

Deplores the practice of the Commission whereby the need for certain projects financed under the Phare programme was not proven in advance and thus the principles of legality and regularity were not respected;

224.

Urges the Commission to involve the Bulgarian and Romanian authorities in mutual cooperation with a view to identifying the two countries' requirements and capabilities more precisely, and to endeavour to define and determine the priorities and the objectives to be achieved;

225.

Notes that although certain steps have been taken in order to solve the problem of insufficient administrative capability and deficiencies in the rule of contractual law, and to ensure that co-financing requirements are complied with, efforts still need to be made;

226.

Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention to establishing in Romania and Bulgaria administrative structures and information systems capable of managing and controlling EU funds and to supervise the reorganisation of the departments responsible for investing those funds;

227.

Calls on the Commission to ensure that clear information is provided concerning current projects and the various programmes, and on the Romanian and Bulgarian administrations' overall management and independent monitoring capability, and to ensure that there is greater openness and transparency in the use of funding and in the taking of decisions relating thereto;

228.

Calls on the Commission for an independent opinion concerning the ability of the Romanian and Bulgarian administrations to carry out the sound financial management of Community funding;

Special Report No 6/2006 concerning the environmental aspects of the Commission's development cooperation

229.

Urges the Commission, on the basis of the new development policy signed in December 2005, to establish a comprehensive environment strategy for its development cooperation;

230.

Considers that such a strategy should recognise the importance not only of mainstreaming the environment into all development programmes and projects but also making the environment a priority field for expenditure;

231.

Believes that training in environmental mainstreaming should be compulsory for key officials; urges the Commission to complete the preparation of a manual on environmental mainstreaming as soon as possible;

232.

Asks the Commission to ensure that it has sufficient in-house environmental expertise and that clear environmental integration procedures are both defined and complied with;

233.

Invites the Commission to make greater use of the recognised expertise of the national aid administrations of the Member States and of private companies that have an established experience as partners of the national aid administrations in managing environmental projects in the context of national development cooperation programmes;

234.

Insists that projects must be planned on the basis of detailed specifications with clearly defined aims and that external monitors should be engaged to evaluate the success rate of each project and to identify clearly any failures or weaknesses;

Special Report No 7/2006 concerning Rural Development Investments: Do they effectively address the problems of rural areas?

235.

Welcomes the publication of the report and urges the Commission to take on board those shortcomings identified in the report which are not addressed in the new Rural Development Regulation or its detailed implementation rules, in particular when approving national programmes;

236.

Calls in particular upon the Commission to set clearer strategies which relate to specific objectives and work in close cooperation with the Member States to improve the definition of objectives, beneficiaries and areas, as well as the selection of the most appropriate projects, and to include this in the programming documents for the 2007-2013 period;

237.

Believes that the time-frame for Commission approval of national programmes might have to be extended slightly in order to allow for thorough analysis, as the quality of national programmes will to a large extent determine whether the allocation of funds to the most needy areas and beneficiaries is clearly justified and the effectiveness of investment measures can be better measured in the future;

238.

Reiterates the importance it attaches to an efficient and responsible use of the EU budget and to the application of the principle that an initiative that is insufficiently verifiable should not be financed by public money; considers that setting clear objectives and defining clear strategies in national programmes are essential in this context;

239.

Believes that the achievement of the two-fold structural and agricultural objectives of investment measures should be implemented through a carefully balanced sectoral (for agriculture) and territorial (for economic and social cohesion) approach;

240.

Considers the second pillar of the CAP to be an indispensable tool in the further development of rural areas in the EU, and thus invites the Commission to encourage Member States to analyse key success factors in investment projects and to disseminate cases of good practice;

241.

Encourages the Commission, in close cooperation with Member States, to improve monitoring and evaluation systems, for example by developing relevant qualitative indicators that enable Member States and Commission to determine whether measures were effective and which objectives were achieved;

242.

Welcomes the fact that the discussion of this special report took place at the same time as the first introductory presentation of the Commission's proposal for reform of the fruit and vegetable sector, to take effect from 2008;

Special Report No 8/2006 on: Growing Success? The effectiveness of the European Union support for fruit and vegetable producers

243.

Reiterates its commitment to Community support for the fruit and vegetables sector in the EU, which is needed to make the sector more sustainable and more competitive;

244.

Stresses that producer organisations are the cornerstone of the CMO for fruit and vegetable products, and therefore supports the Commission when it encourages and supports growers to form producer organisations;

245.

Expresses its support for moving away from interventionist measures, such as withdrawals or support for processed products, which it considers to be counterproductive to the objectives set out for the fruit and vegetable sector;

246.

Believes that support systems for operational programmes for fruit and vegetable producer organisations form a far more promising tool than interventionist measures;

247.

Notes and welcomes the evaluation study foreseen for 2009 and calls for the Commission to set up an appropriate monitoring and control mechanism for the fruit and vegetable sector to ensure compliance with the principle of sound financial management;

248.

Welcomes the Commission's statement that it will improve its capacity to collect data and to develop relevant qualitative and quantitative indicators in order to measure effectiveness and efficiency; believes that these indicators should better address a wider range of benefits of programmes, which should be monitored at a higher aggregation level; proposes, moreover, that the Commission review as soon as possible the relevance and accurateness of existing indicators and statistics;

249.

Agrees with the Court that the current system needs close review in order to improve its efficiency and effectiveness; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to closely monitor and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the system of producers' operational programmes and to study the success factors of the more promising results obtained and draw conclusions on that basis for better implementation at Member State level, especially in the less well organised regions;

250.

Supports therefore the Court's recommendations to clarify and simplify eligibility criteria in order increase transparency and to reduce administrative costs incurred by payment schemes;

251.

Asks the Commission to align the aid scheme's procedures and rules with those of the Rural Development Funds in order to clarify when they can complement each other and when they exclude each other;

252.

Calls upon the Commission to closely monitor and control the implementation of the scheme in new Member States;

Special Report No 9/2006 concerning translation expenditure incurred by the Commission, the Parliament and the Council

253.

Underlines the fact that the total cost of all the linguistic services of the EU institutions — translation and interpretation combined — represents merely 1% of the total EU budget;

254.

Is surprised that institutions have so far calculated neither their total translation costs (24) nor their costs per page; notes that, in 2005, the volume of translations was 1 324 000 pages at the Commission (1 450 translators), 1 080 000 pages at Parliament (550 translators) and 475 000 pages at the Council (660 translators); notes furthermore that the Court of Auditors estimated the full cost of translation, in 2003, at EUR 414 200 000, being EUR 214 800 000 for the Commission, EUR 99 000 000 for Parliament and EUR 100 400 000 for the Council; notes that for the same year the average cost per page stood at EUR 166,37: EUR 150,2 for the Commission, EUR 149,7 for Parliament, and EUR 251,8 for the Council;

255.

Considers that the institutions should take appropriate measures to further improve the productivity of the EU translation services by comparison with the private sector;

256.

Considers that clarifications are required as to why the prices that Parliament pays for freelance translators are on average 12 % higher than the prices paid by the Commission;

257.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission and the Council have managed to limit the increase in translation volume after the EU-10 enlargement, thereby curbing any cost increase;

258.

Considers that the three institutions should establish translation costs on an annual basis using the same criteria and calculation methods; takes the view that the figures obtained should be used not only for budgetary purposes, but also to raise cost awareness among users;

259.

Welcomes the Commission's readiness to address the authorisation procedure and the screening of translation requests in 2006; also welcomes the fact that, in 2003, the Council established a list of core documents, thereby limiting the translation of other texts;

260.

Recommends that greater use be made of limits on the length of documents and of written summaries;

261.

Encourages parliamentary committees and delegations to provide texts only in the languages of committee members and their substitutes; suggests that additional language versions could be provided upon specific request;

262.

Is generally of the opinion that the institutions must take the necessary measures to guarantee a high translation quality standard; takes the view, therefore, that the Council, Parliament and the Commission should report back to the Court and the Committee on Budgetary Control on measures taken to monitor and improve the quality of translations in time for the 2006 discharge procedure;

263.

Considers that the institutions should improve further the information available to management for monitoring the translation process, taking into consideration the performance indicators proposed by the Court (25);

264.

Considers that the Council, Parliament and the Commission should make efficient and effective use of internal and external resources such as databases, computer-assisted translations, teleworking and outsourcing;

265.

Considers that each institution should verify spare translation capacities in the other two institutions before outsourcing translations;

Special Report No 10/2006 on ex post evaluations of Objectives 1 and 3 programmes 1994-1999 (Structural Funds)

266.

Invites the Commission to demonstrate to what extent the methodology for ex ante, mid-term and ex post evaluation has been consolidated in order to prevent as far as possible, for the 2000-2006 ex post evaluation exercise, the logical errors established by the Court's special report;

267.

Suggests that cooperation between DG REGIO and DG EMPL be expanded with regard to the points which the evaluation methods have in common;

268.

Notes that the methodology concerning the current use of the HERMIN model poses major problems; is concerned that the current methodology does not allow sufficient account to be taken of the importance of the tertiary sector for some economies, such as tourism; fears that there will be serious difficulties for Structural Fund evaluation in the countries which joined the European Union in 2004 because of the specific circumstances of their young market economies; calls on the Commission to demonstrate — before commencing the 2000-2006 evaluation — to what extent it has modified the methodology to take account of this criticism;

269.

Calls also for the methodology to be enlarged upon in order to gauge microeconomic effects; considers private investment important for Structural Fund impact in the long term and for job creation; insists that it be taken into consideration in the 2000-2006 ex post evaluation exercise;

270.

Calls, in the interests of ensuring a coherent approach to Structural Fund evaluation in general, for the conclusions of the Court's special report to be taken into account for future ex ante, mid-term and ex post evaluations for the 2000-2006, 2007-2013 and subsequent programming periods;

271.

Backs the notion that Structural Fund evaluation ought to be viewed as an ongoing process with permanent input from the conclusions drawn from the various ex ante, mid-term and ex post exercises; calls for Member States to be involved in this process and for the Commission to demonstrate how it is going to put these notions into practice as soon as possible;

272.

Takes the view that, in the interests of demonstrating the European added value of the Structural Funds to the public, future evaluations should also highlight the indirect effects of the Structural Funds;

273.

Calls on the Commission in relation to the steering group for the 2000-2006 ex post evaluation to explore the scope for increased cooperation with the academic community (to include the opinions of outside experts) in the form of partnerships with specialised institutes and studies on specific subjects;

274.

Is of the opinion that such cooperation would make it possible to refine the evaluation and exploit the potential of the Structural Funds to a greater extent; invites the Commission to follow this approach in order to establish a ‘beacon’ model for evaluation of economic, social and territorial cohesion measures which would be a specifically European model, but would have the potential to serve as an example at global level.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 107, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(5)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(6)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(7)  OJ C 273, 9.11.2006, p. 2.

(8)  OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

(9)  OJ L 196, 27.7.2005, p. 1.

(10)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 5.

(11)  See Council document 14138/05.

(12)  Paragraph 1.59 of the Court of Auditors' annual report for 2005.

(13)  OJ C 288 E, 25.11.2006, p. 83.

(14)  Liquidation of accounts for the EAGGF (Guarantee), closure of the operational programmes under the Structural Funds, and completion of the audits for the decentralised management of external actions.

(15)  Action 7: Promote best practices for increasing the cost-benefit of audits at project level; Action 9: Promote the single audit approach; Action 10: Make an initial estimate and analysis of the costs of controls.

(16)  Annual report for 2005 of the internal auditors to the discharge authority (Article 86.4 of the Financial Regulation) (COM(2006)0279), point 2.1, p. 4.

(17)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006, Article 71 (OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25).

(18)  Article 106(4) of the implementing rules for the Financial Regulation and sector-specific rules laid down in Articles 38(5) and 39(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999.

(19)  See Texts Adopted of 13.2.2007, P6_TA(2007)0027, amendment 10.

(20)  See also Opinion No 1/2006 on the Seventh Research and Development Programme.

(21)  In its Communication ‘Synthesis of the Commission's management achievements in 2005’.

(22)  Paragraph 2.2.1.2. of the OIB's Annual Activity Report, ‘Risk management’, page 23.

(23)  OJ L 11, 16.1.2003, p. 1.

(24)  According to the Court these figures cover costs for translators, secretaries, management, service staff, planning, buildings, IT and human resource management (i.e. training).

(25)  See paragraphs 53 and 88 of the Court's report.

P6_TA(2007)0133

Discharge 2005: Section I — European Parliament

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0465/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Report on budgetary and financial management for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (3),

—

having regard to the Internal Auditor's annual report for 2005,

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005, together with the institutions' replies (4),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (5),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10) and 275 of the EC Treaty and Article 179a of the Euratom Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (6), and in particular Articles 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Article 13 of the Internal Rules for the implementation of the European Parliament's budget (7),

—

having regard to Article 147(1) of the Financial Regulation, which requires each Community institution to take all appropriate steps to act on the observations accompanying the European Parliament's discharge decision,

—

having regard to Rules 71 and 74(3) of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0094/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors' audit did not reveal any material errors (paragraph 10.4),

B.

whereas the Court of Auditors pointed to persistent weaknesses in supervisory and control systems (paragraphs 10.5 to 10.10),

C.

whereas the Parliament in its replies outlined the measures taken to overcome the weaknesses observed by the Court of Auditors,

D.

whereas Parliament's Rules of Procedure were amended on 23 October 2002 to provide that discharge is to be given to the President rather than to the Secretary-General,

1.

Grants its President discharge for implementation of the European Parliament budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3 2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  DV/614096EN.doc.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(5)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(6)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(7)  PE 349.540/Bur/ann/def.

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (C6-0465/2006 — 2006/2071(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (SEC(2006)0915 — C6-0465/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Report on budgetary and financial management for the financial year 2005, Section I — European Parliament (3),

—

having regard to the Internal Auditor's annual report for 2005,

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005, together with the institutions' replies (4),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (5),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10) and 275 of the EC Treaty and Article 179a of the Euratom Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (6), and in particular Articles 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Article 13 of the Internal Rules for the implementation of the European Parliament's budget (7),

—

having regard to Article 147(1) of the Financial Regulation, which requires each Community institution to take all appropriate steps to act on the observations accompanying the European Parliament's discharge decision,

—

having regard to Rules 71 and 74(3) of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0094/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors' audit did not reveal any material errors (paragraph 10.4),

B.

whereas the Court of Auditors pointed to persisting weaknesses in supervisory and control systems (paragraphs 10.5 — 10.10),

C.

whereas the Parliament in its replies outlined the measures taken to overcome the weaknesses observed by the Court of Auditors,

D.

whereas Parliament's Rules of Procedure were amended on 23 October 2002 to provide that discharge is to be given to the President rather than to the Secretary-General,

E.

whereas its resolution of 26 September 2006 (8) on the discharge for the financial year 2004 should be followed up and progress in implementing its recommendations assessed,

F.

whereas the Statute for Members of the European Parliament of 28 September 2005 (9), following the Council's agreement on 19 July 2005, will enter into force on the first day of the parliamentary term commencing in 2009,

G.

whereas the Codex for Parliamentary Assistants was adopted by the Bureau on 25 September 2006 (10),

The European Parliament's accounts, focusing in particular on property policy

1.

Notes that in 2005 Parliament received revenue amounting to EUR 112 393 557 (2004:EUR 117 409 824);

2.

Takes note of the figures with which Parliament's accounts for the financial year 2005 were closed, namely:

(in EUR)

Use of appropriations

Appropriations for the 2005 financial year

Appropriations carried over from the 2004 financial year

Appropriations 2005

Appropriations from assigned revenue

Article 9(1) and 9(4) of Financial Regulation

Appropriations available

1 264 024 722 (100 %)

31 412 881 (100 %)

281 461 344 (100 %)

Commitments entered into

1 249 096 468 (98,82 %)

 

-

Payments made

941 932 832 (75,40 %)

29 679 028 (94,48 %)

259 853 230 (92,32 %)

Appropriations carried over to 2006

 

 

 

Article 9(1) and (2) of the Financial Regulation

307 163 636

 

 

Article 9(1), 9(2)(a) and 9 (5) of the Financial Regulation

200 000

 

 

Cancelled appropriations

14 728 254

-

21 608 114 (7,68 %)

Balance sheet at 31 December 2005: 1 520 822 777

3.

Notes that, in 2005, 98,82 % of the appropriations entered in Parliament's budget were committed with a cancellation rate of 1,18 % and that, as in previous years, a very high level of budget implementation was achieved;

4.

Recalls, however, that this high level of implementation is partly attributable to the consistent practice since 1992 of making ‘mopping-up’ transfers for the purposes of transferring any appropriations available at year-end to the budget lines for buildings and, in particular, for advance capital payments to reduce future interest payments; in this context EUR 124 144 556 (approximately 10 % of the appropriations) were made available by means of a mopping-up transfer at the end of 2005; of this amount

—

EUR 75,7 million were used to for the purchase of the ‘Winston Churchill’ (WIC) and Salvador de Madariaga (SDM) buildings in Strasbourg,

—

EUR 46,2 million were transferred for an early disbursement against the annual lease payment due for the D4 and D5 buildings in Brussels,

—

and EUR 2,3 million were set aside for the Europe House in Valetta;

in addition, by means of normal transfers, the Parliament purchased — jointly with the Commission — the Europe Houses in Copenhagen (EUR 10,6 million) and The Hague (EUR 7,4 million);

5.

Reminds its competent bodies of its decision that ‘... repayment on buildings ... should be set as part of the budgetary strategy’ (11); criticises therefore its competent bodies for continuously failing to budget with sufficient clarity Parliament's property policy for future acquisitions (the budget line ‘acquisition of immovable property’ only shows token entries for 2005, 2006 and 2007);

6.

Restates its demand to amend Article 16 of the Internal Rules for the implementation of the European Parliament's budget with a view to making building projects with significant financial implications for Parliament's budget subject to the agreement of the Committee on Budgets;

7.

Calls yet again on the budgetary authority to establish budget forecasts ensuring that the amounts entered in the draft budget reflect real requirements in Parliament's various policies; asks the authorising officers by delegation to state clearly in their annual activity reports the annual appropriations received, commitments entered into, payments made and unused amounts; furthermore calls on authorising officers by delegation to set out the reasons — as has already occurred to some extent — why budget appropriations have not been fully utilised;

8.

Is aware of the fact that the Court of Auditors will publish a special report on the buildings policies of the Institutions in the near future; calls for its competent committee to draw up an own-initiative report on the basis of this special report; is furthermore of the opinion that this committee should have the right to draw up own-initiative reports without prior authorisation and outside the set quota for such reports, on any special report of the Court of Auditors should the committee so decide;

9.

Regrets that the budget line for the EP Information Offices remains undifferentiated and expresses its wish for having a best practices review of all the Information Offices taking into account the cost-benefit ratio;

Court of Auditors' comments on the financial year 2005

10.

Welcomes that the Court's audit did not reveal any material errors (paragraph 10.4);

11.

Notes the Court's observations with regard to the new computer application for the calculation of staff remunerations and also the reply of the competent Parliament service underlining that systematic expost controls have been in place since March 2006;

12.

Acknowledges the Court's criticism with regard to the flat-rate payments for staff travels between the three usual work-places; accepts, however, that it was the intention of Parliament's administration to strike a balance between the requirements of the regulatory framework and the demands of the institution's particular working environment; asks the Court to monitor the functioning of the flat-rate system and alert the discharge authority if it finds any indication of misuse;

13.

Notes that the Court pointed to weaknesses in supervisory and control systems (paragraph 10.9) relating to the payment of allowances of Members of the European Parliament; considers it worrying that by mid-2006 only 54 % of the service providers, and only 29 % of the paying agents had submitted invoices relating to the period July 2004 to June 2005; notes that the internal audit of Members' parliamentary assistance allowance will be finalised in time for the 2006 discharge procedure;

The Internal Auditor's annual report

14.

Notes that, in 2005, the Internal Audit Service finalised 7 reports: the Internal Auditor's annual report, reports on the follow-up to its review of the Internal Control Framework of directorates-general, on the procurement process, and on two of Parliament's Information Offices (it also adopted two reports on the European Ombudsman);

15.

Welcomes the fact that the Internal Auditor was not only prepared to assist Parliament's discharge rapporteur, but also to present — for the first time in person — the findings of his 2005 annual report officially to the Committee on Budgetary Control, thereby establishing that his report is not only an internal management tool, but an important point of reference in the annual discharge;

16.

Underlines that the audits have confirmed that the institution is still in a phase of transition between two fundamentally different concepts of internal control, and that it will take more time for full implementation of the Internal Control Framework (ICF) in all departments;

17.

Welcomes the fact that the Internal Auditor concentrated his work in 2005 on the procurement process and on the follow-up to the agreed action plans resulting from the review of the ICF in 2003 and 2004;

18.

Highlights in the area of procurement the following:

—

reasonable assurance must be obtained that the tender will meet underlying needs, be regular, costeffective and transparent,

—

clear and comprehensive tender documentation must be provided,

—

adequate exclusion, selection and award criteria must be established,

—

timeliness, equal treatment and transparency in contacts with tenderers must be ensured,

—

transparent and consistent decisions by the opening committee must be guaranteed,

—

the evaluation of tenders must be based on the announced criteria,

—

a complete audit trail in the awarding of contracts must be kept,

—

contractual provisions must comply with the tender specifications,

—

achievement of these objectives implies adequate controls at the early critical stage of the procurement process,

—

the effectiveness of the ex-ante verification of budgetary commitments for procurements must be enhanced;

19.

Asks the Court of Auditors to assess, at the latest in the financial year 2008, to what extent these targets in the area of procurement have been achieved;

20.

Reiterates that ICFs put in place by authorising officers by delegation have the following control objectives: compliance with applicable legislation, rules and practices, the reliability of management information and records, and the economy, effectiveness and efficiency of operations;

21.

Recalling furthermore that authorising officers must comply with 22 minimum standards in order to realise the control objectives; those standards can be grouped into five control categories: control environment, performance and risk management, information and communication, control activities and monitoring (audit and evaluation);

22.

Underlines in the area of the ICF the following (the Internal Audit Service agreed 454 actions with authorising departments in 2003/2004 and has carried out follow-up procedures to determine whether these were properly implemented; so far, the status of 341 actions has been thus validated):

—

of the 37 actions from the review of the computerised system used to manage budgetary transactions, only 3 were not yet implemented by the end of 2005, and a further 9 were partly implemented

—

of the 304 actions reviewing the degree of compliance with minimum standards of internal control and control objectives 150 were fully implemented, 86 implemented in part and no action had yet been taken by departments on the other 68;

—

for all other actions that have not yet been fully implemented, the Internal Audit Service has agreed a revised schedule with the authorising departments, which it will follow up in 2007;

23.

Regrets that the audit of Members' parliamentary assistance allowances was not ready in time for the 2005 discharge procedure; calls on its competent committee to pay due attention to the findings of this audit at a later stage;

The European Parliament's financial management

24.

Notes that the analysis of financial management accompanying the 2005 accounts provides a useful statement of the principal financial events of the year under review;

25.

Points out that a proportion of management activity in Parliament in 2005 was still geared to adjusting to the new requirements of the Financial Regulation, setting up new control systems, methodologies and working methods, devising training programmes and establishing new lines of responsibility;

26.

Notes that initial experience with applying the terms of the new Financial Regulation in an institution such as Parliament, with an administrative budget to manage, indicates in some cases that overly complex systems and financial circuits have been set up;

27.

Notes that some directorates-general continue to hold the view that certain provisions of the Financial Regulation and its implementing rules lead to excessive bureaucratisation of the overall internal control process and constitute an undue burden on management;

28.

Notes that in the former Directorate for Financial Control 18 staff members (out of a total staff complement of 20) were engaged in control duties, whereas under the new structure, introduced by the new Financial Regulation, 44 staff members are assigned to these tasks in the different directorates-general; in addition to which there are 10 auditors (out of a total staff complement of 12) working in the Internal Audit Service;

29.

Reaffirms, yet again, the view expressed in its resolutions of 26 September 2006, 12 April 2005 (12), 21 April 2004 (13) and 8 April 2003 (14) that ‘the scope of the discharge procedure should cover not only the management activities of Parliament's Secretary-General and Administration, but also the decisions taken by its governing bodies, i.e. its President, Bureau and Conference of Presidents’;

30.

Emphasises that Parliament grants discharge not to the Secretary-General, but, rather, to the President as it is elected members, not officials, who are ultimately politically responsible for the preparation and implementation of the budget; therefore invites the President and the Vice-President responsible for the budget to participate in future meetings of the Committee on Budgetary Control as appropriate and to agree with the Committee on an appropriate format to have a fruitful political dialogue during the discharge procedure;

31.

Welcomes that the Bureau has started discussions about its relations with the budgetary and discharge authority with a view to clarifying the precise practical meaning of the political responsibility attaching to the Members of Parliament's governing bodies as regards the exercise of powers and the taking of decisions with significant financial consequences; calls on the newly-elected Bureau to resume this discussion involving the committees concerned in this debate;

32.

Welcomes the fact that the Secretary-General has drawn up a brief and easy-to-read document explaining the budget of 2004 and 2005, which is also available on Parliament's website;

The activity reports of the directors-general

33.

Points out that Parliament's Secretary-General forwarded the 2005 activity reports of the directorsgeneral to the Committee on Budgetary Control on 10 April 2006; in that connection the Secretary-General, in his capacity as authorising officer by delegation, declared that he had reasonable assurances that Parliament's budget had been implemented in accordance with the principles of sound financial management and that the control framework put in place afforded the requisite guarantees as to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions;

34.

Welcomes the fact that all directors-general have issued an unqualified declaration of assurance for their departments' financial transactions;

35.

Appreciates the progress which has been made in harmonising the presentation and structure of the annual activity reports; remains however of the opinion that further progress should be possible to improve readability and comparability; asks its services to include a one-page executive summary stating the appropriations received, commitments entered into, payments made and what use was made of amounts not spent (i.e. carry-overs, transfers, mopping-up, etc.), as well as major events of the past financial year;

36.

Notes that the conclusions in the activity reports identify the following general challenges:

—

putting the internal control framework into practice is more time-consuming than was originally assumed,

—

implementing the budget execution under the new Financial Regulation,

—

implementing political requests at short notice,

—

recruiting and integrating new staff;

Procurement

37.

Recalls that according to Articles 54 and 119 of the implementing rules for the Financial Regulation (15) institutions forward reports to the budgetary authority on negotiated procedures and on contracts not coming under public procurement directives; a list of contractors awarded contracts worth more than EUR 50 000, but less than the threshold under the directives referred to, is published in the Official Journal, and contracts worth between EUR 13 800 and EUR 50 000 are published on institutions' websites; in addition, in 2003 Parliament called on its Secretary-General to report annually on contracts concluded (16);

38.

Notes that the annual report contains the following information on contracts of a value equal to or greater than EUR 13 800 awarded in 2005:

Type of contract

Number [2004 in ()]

Percentage [2004 in ()]

Amount in EUR [2004 in ()]

Percentage [2004 in ()]

Services

199 (229)

64 % (58 %)

89 551 639

(180 927 304)

44 % (75 %)

Supplies

53 (99)

17 % (25 %)

29 036 604

(26 500 867)

14 % (11 %)

Works

48 (60)

15 % (15 %)

13 763 856

(18 876 271)

7 % (8 %)

Buildings

12 (4)

4 % (2 %)

73 149 658

(15 593 025)

35 % (6%)

Total

312 (392)

100 %

205 501 756

(241 897 467)

100 %

Type of procedure

Number [2004 in ()]

Percentage [2004 in ()]

Amount in EUR [2004 in ()]

Percentage [2004 in ()]

Avge amount [2004 in ()]

Open

64 (95)

21% (24 %)

94 187 176

(157 909 034)

71 % (70 %)

1 471 675

(1 662 200)

Restricted

112 (110)

37% (28 %)

26 676 276

(39 897 441)

20 % (18 %)

238 181

(362 704)

Negotiated

124 (183)

42% (48 %)

11 488 646

(28 497 967)

9 % (12 %)

92 650

(155 727)

Total

300 (388)

100%

132 352 098

(226 304 442)

100 %

441 174

(585 259)

39.

Points out that of the 312 contracts awarded 147 were worth at least EUR 50 000 whereas 165 were worth between EUR 13 800 and EUR 50 000; asks its administration whether it considers the procedures in place to award the latter kind of contracts under the revised Financial Regulation to be sufficiently effective;

40.

Recalls that the Internal Auditor has completed an institution-wide audit of the procurement process; his recommendations can be found above;

41.

Welcomes that — with regard to value — 91 % of the contracts were awarded under open (71 %) and restricted (20 %) procedures;

42.

Takes note of the Secretary General's reply (17) setting out the measures taken to establish the contracts database pursuant to Article 95 of the Financial Regulation; acknowledges at the same time that the revised Financial Regulation now envisages a single central database for all institutions, managed by the Commission;

Political groups (review of accounts and procedures — budget Item 3701)

43.

Recalls that paragraph 2.7.3 of the Rules on the use of appropriations from budget Item 3701 (18) requires the Bureau and the Committee on Budgetary Control to deal with the audited annual accounts of the political groups in accordance with the powers conferred upon them by the Rules of Procedure;

44.

Reiterates that the political groups are themselves responsible for the management and use of their funds from Parliament's budget and that the remit of Parliament's Internal Audit Service does not extend to the conditions under which use is made of the appropriations against budget Item 3701;

45.

Welcomes the fact that the political groups have published their internal financial rules and accounts for 2005 on Parliament's website;

46.

Records the following outturn figures for appropriations entered against budget item 3701 in 2005:

(in 1000 EUR)

Total available in budget

61 973

Non-attached Members

1 329

Amount available for groups

60 644

Group

Allocated from Parliament's budget

Groups' own resources and carry-forwards

Expenditure in 2005

Utilisation rate

Carry-forward ceiling (19)

Carried forward to 2006

PPE-DE

17 282

4 510

15 066

69 %

8 641

6 727

PSE

13 107

5 447

11 679

63 %

6 554

6 554

ALDE

5 783

2 251

4 354

54 %

2 892

2 892

Verts/ALE

2 712

777

2 448

71 %

1 356

1 040

GUE/NGL

2 726

1 223

2 735

69 %

1 363

1 214

UEN

1 672

284

1 525

78 %

836

430

IND/DEM

2 182

688

2 044

71 %

1 091

826

NI

1 110

219

986

74 %

555

260

TOTAL

46 575

15 399

40 837

66 %

23 287

19 942

47.

Notes the confirmations by the political groups' external auditors that the accounts complied with current rules and international accounting standards;

48.

Notes that, on 3 July 2006, the Bureau approved the groups' reports on budget implementation and the respective auditors' reports; in this context the PSE Group refunded EUR 322 107 and the ALDE refunded 788 845 of unused money to the Parliament's budget, as these amounts could not be carried over;

49.

Notes that the political groups only utilised — on average — 66 % of the appropriations available to them (2004: 74 %);

Political parties at European level

50.

Notes the following presentation of accounts for the closure of the 2005 budget year:

(EUR)

2005 budget execution under the agreement

Party (20)

own resources

total grant from EP

total revenue

grant as% of eligible expend. (max. 75 %)

PPE

1 053 583.60

2 398 941.14

3 452 524.74

70,08 %

PSE

848 943.72

2 489 175.00

3 338 118.72

74,76 %

ELDR

358 234.17

819 562.69

1 177 796.86

70,10 %

EFGP

205 699.82

568 261.00

773 960.82

73,64 %

AEN

38 184.98

114 330.48

152 515.46

74,96 %

PDE

85 932.25

253 933.49

339 865.74

74,86 %

GE

121 956.00

365 868.00

487 824.00

69,49 %

EFA

84 530.51

217 906.00

302 436.51

72,05 %

Total

2 797 065.05

7 117 977.80

10 025 042.85

72,18 %

51.

Underscores the fact that the parties' external auditors have confirmed that the accounts were in conformity with the statutory provisions set out in Articles 6, 7, 8 and 10 of Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 on the regulations governing political parties at European level and the rules regarding their funding (21) and that the accounts presented a true and faithful picture of the financial situation of the political parties at the close of the 2005 financial year;

52.

Observes, however, that

—

the Party of the European Left (GE) exceeded its provisional budget and made a loss of EUR 42 000, which is not entirely covered by existing capital; the party must therefore significantly improve its internal control structures and immediately recapitalise the party in order to meet the liabilities for 2005 and to guarantee a sufficient reserve for the future,

—

the budget implementation of the Union for Europe of the Nations (AEN) and the European Democratic Party (PDE) fell short of their provisional budgets, which led to a reduction of the grant and the recovery of the excess paid (EUR 110 669,52 from the AEN and EUR 113 690,51 from the PDE);

53.

Highlights the fact that parties at European level have arrived at a high utilisation of the appropriations available to them;

54.

Emphasises again the relevance of its proposals for the further improvement of Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 as mapped out in its resolution of 23 March 2006 (22);

55.

Is pleased that the following improvements could be achieved with regard to the financing of political parties at European level following a decision by the Bureau of 1 February 2006:

—

eligible expenses under the current year's grant (n) can be paid in the year n+1,

—

the Bureau adopted an indicative multi-annual budget for the period 2007-2009;

56.

Remains convinced that European political parties must be allowed to establish reserves to meet their statutory obligations towards their employees and contractors should the party be disbanded; asks the Commission no longer to default in honouring its undertaking given in the conciliation procedure of 21 November 2006 to submit a proposal for amending Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 by introducing appropriate provisions for exempting from the no-profit rule set up in Article 109 of the Financial regulation the own resources, in particular contributions and membership fees, aggregated in the annual operations of a political party at European level which exceed the 25 % of eligible cost to be borne by the beneficiary according to Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003;

Parliament's property policy

57.

Acknowledges that it is Parliament's established policy to become the owner of the premises it uses; as a consequence it invested a total of EUR 1 400 million in immovable property from 1992 to 2005, thereby saving, according to its own calculations, approximately EUR 700 million in rent and charges up to the end of 2006;

58.

Asks the Secretary-General to provide the relevant parliamentary committee with details of the costs of maintaining Parliament's three places of work in total and by location, as the last update requested was for the year 2000 when the Union had only 15 Member States, so that Parliament can get a better insight into its cost structure and can identify areas where savings can be made;

Strasbourg

59.

Reiterates that the Committee on Budgetary Control has comprehensively reviewed the events surrounding the purchase of the Winston Churchill (WIC), Salvador de Madariaga (SDM) and IPE III buildings in preparation for the Parliament's 2004 discharge;

60.

Underlines that since then Parliament has become the owner of the three buildings, following the unanimous decision of its Bureau on 23 October 2006; the financial and legal provisions in the deed of sale foresaw:

—

a sale price of EUR 143 125 000, payable in cash at the time of signature, the two sites being assigned for the symbolic price of EUR 1 each,

—

Parliament would enjoy possession of the buildings with effect from the date of signature of the deed,

—

the programme of renovation work on the buildings, initially agreed with SCI-Erasme, would be continued and completed under the responsibility of the City of Strasbourg,

—

the City of Strasbourg would arrange for the financing and execution of work necessary in order for the IPE III building to be classified as a ‘public-access building, first category’ by 31 December 2007 at the latest;

61.

Notes that the Bureau, on that occasion, also authorised the payment of rent for the three buildings covering the year 2006 until the signature of the framework agreement (28 September 2006), in accordance with the opinion delivered by the Legal Service on 26 June 2006: EUR 7 352 644,14 for the WIC and SDM buildings, and EUR 4 023 329,90 for the IPE III building;

62.

Notes furthermore that the deed of sale provided that if Parliament assigned the whole building complex — to a third party other than a European Union institution or body — ownership of the site(s) would revert to the City of Strasbourg for the symbolic price of EUR 1; the price for the buildings would be mutually agreed between Parliament and the City of Strasbourg or — failing that — be determined by an expert assessment,

Luxembourg

63.

Notes the elements of the framework agreement between the Luxembourg authorities and the Parliament concerning the extension of the Konrad-Adenauer-Building (KAD I and II); the framework agreement covers the land, the Parliament's right to let all or part of the buildings and the terms for granting a right in rem to any purchaser of the buildings;

64.

Notes furthermore that costs for project management for carrying out further studies, project management for KAD upgrading work and for work contracts were estimated at EUR 345 170 900 (value May 2005);

65.

Highlights that it will be seeking environmental certification for the KAD extension, in line with its adherence to the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS);

Brussels

66.

Recalls that on 10 October 2004 it signed the long lease with the developer conferring the right in rem for the construction of the D4-D5 buildings with the option to purchase; the overall budget stands at EUR 325,2 million; advance payments of EUR 192,6 million have been made;

67.

Notes that the Bureau approved the setting-up of a cultural amenities area and of a European Visitors Centre in the D4 building in July 2005;

68.

Emphasises that the Belgian Government, most recently in a letter from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of 28 September 2004, guaranteed that the land and the land development costs would be reimbursed to Parliament, and that this is the standard procedure also applying to the other European institutions;

69.

Regrets, however, that the Belgian authorities have not — until now — honoured the agreement on the land cost estimated at EUR 43 million and that they dispute the total amount to be reimbursed to Parliament for the land development costs of the site for the D4-D5 buildings, estimated by Parliament's services at EUR 30,8 million;

70.

Considers the offer of EUR 15 million, made by the Belgian authorities, to be unacceptable; is of the opinion that the costs for paving the roof covering the railway station, which is a public thoroughfare, cannot — as a matter of principle — be funded from Parliament's budget;

71.

Expresses its support to the President and Bureau to solve the disputes that have arisen between the Belgian authorities and Parliament while safeguarding the Parliaments' financial and institutional concerns;

72.

Calls therefore on the Belgian government to honour the aforementioned agreement;

73.

Is of the opinion that the construction of the new buildings of the Parliament and the subsequent investments in construction around these buildings has had an effect on the surrounding neighbourhood in terms of housing, traffic and working and living conditions, and calls therefore on its Secretary-General to pursue a policy of regular consultations with representatives of the inhabitants of the area and to report on the results achieved to limit the possible negative impact of Parliament's presence in coordination with the local authorities in time for the next discharge;

Voluntary Pension Scheme

74.

Recalls that the Court of Auditors has repeatedly pointed out in its Annual Reports, most recently in 2005 (Table 10.2), that a sufficient legal basis for Parliament's additional pension scheme must be created; recalls that, in addition, according to the Court, clear rules must be established to cover the eventuality of a deficit; notes however that the view of Parliament's legal services is that a sufficient legal basis for the additional pension scheme already exists under the regulatory autonomy of the European Parliament laid down in Article 199 of the EC Treaty (formerly Article 142 of the EEC Treaty) which confers on the European Parliament the right to take whatever measures it requires for its internal organisation and that furthermore, once the Members' Statute comes into force, Article 27 of that Statute will constitute the legal basis for the Pension Fund;

75.

Notes that in November 2005 the Voluntary Pension Fund had 475 members, who paid a monthly contribution — directly deducted from the general expenditure allowance — of EUR 948, representing one third; at the same time Parliament paid a monthly contribution of EUR 1 896 per member;

76.

Calls on the members of the Voluntary Pension Fund to prove by end of November 2007 that their contributions deducted from the general expenditure allowance have been repaid from a private source of income; otherwise fund members remain exposed to allegations of generating hidden additional income;

77.

Calls on its administration to discontinue payments — as of January 2008 — for Members who did not prove that their personal contribution to the Voluntary Pension Fund was refunded from a private source of income;

78.

Reminds the Bureau and its administration that they were supposed to propose measures, before 30 March 2007, ensuring that personal payments by Fund members to the pension scheme are made through direct debit orders from a personal source of income (23);

79.

Notes that the Voluntary Pension Fund managed to reduce its actuarial deficit, already existing for five years, from EUR 43 756 745 in 2004 to EUR 28 875 471 in 2005, thereby improving the fund's actuary funding position from 76,8 % in 2004 to 86,1 % in 2005; underlines that over the past years the stock market has proved to be highly volatile and that there is therefore no certainty as to the direction in which the Fund's actuarial deficit will develop;

80.

Calls on the investment manager of the Fund to favour ‘low-risk’ investments and to observe the ethical investment standards as expressed in Parliament's resolutions;

81.

Notes that, as from January 2006, a member can draw a monthly pension of EUR 1 304 from age 60 onwards and after only five years of contributions;

82.

Welcomes the fact that its Bureau has set up a working party to look into the financial situation of the Voluntary Pension Fund on the basis of an independent actuarial study; asks that its Committee on Budgetary Control be informed of the working party's findings on a regular basis;

83.

Takes the view that the relationship between Parliament and the Pension Fund must be placed on a contractual footing once the Bureau working party has completed its task;

84.

Takes the view that once the Statute for Members of the European Parliament enters into force the Voluntary Pension Fund should confine itself to honouring rights (acquired up to June 2009), meaning that neither Members of the European Parliament nor members of the Fund can continue to pay into the Fund; calls on the Bureau to take the necessary measures,

Parliamentary Assistants in the European Parliament

85.

Welcomes the decision of its Bureau of 25 September 2006 by which it adopted a Codex for parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament; is of the opinion that each Member should be issued a personal copy of the codex in his or her language;

86.

Notes, based on figures provide by the Secretary-General on 24 January 2007, that the total number of assistants that are accredited is 1 416 at present, of which 433 are service providers (natural persons), about 583 have a direct employment contract with the Member and the other 400 are employed via a service provider; from those, approximately 138 have an employment contract under Belgian law (14 % of the accredited assistants under employment contracts); in 2005 there were 4 060 contracts for parliamentary assistants (including 1 673 employees and 2 387 service-providers — of which 1 687 are natural persons and 700 legal persons) and 492 stagiaires were paid from the parliamentary assistance allowance;

87.

Underlines, in this context, the importance of the audit of the Members' parliamentary assistance allowance, which will only be available later this year; asks, therefore, the Committee on Budgetary Control to follow-up this audit report together with its earlier observations on Members' allowances (24) during the 2006 discharge;

88.

Takes note that the development of a Statute for Assistants requires negotiations with the Commission and the Council and that the Bureau also wishes to consult the Committee on Legal Affaires; calls therefore on the newly-elected Bureau to press ahead with this subject with a view to regulating recruitment and working conditions and also social security and taxation arrangements for assistants;

89.

Holds the view that in light of the on-going debate on this issue the mandate of the parliamentary working party on Members' assistants should be extended;

A Kyoto-plus Plan for the European Parliament

90.

Recalls some of the key figures which reflect the enormous impact the European Parliament has on the environment (figures for 2004):

—

electricity expenditure EUR 6,2 million

—

heating and gas 235 364 GJ/year

—

CO2 emissions 11 245 t/year

—

paper/printshop 70 523 boxes of 2 500 sheets A4 (846.3 t)

—

water 167 830 m3 = EUR 258 836

—

ordinary waste 2 098 t = EUR 347 387

—

car parks 5 156 spaces

91.

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the relevant parliamentary committee with an analysis of the environmental impact of the Parliament's three work places overall and by location, and of the related travel requirements;

92.

Welcomes the Bureau decision of 19 April 2004 establishing an Environmental Management System at the European Parliament, in accordance with the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme Regulation (EMAS Regulation), which offers an excellent tool for managing the environmental impact of Parliament's activities;

93.

Welcomes also other initiatives to reduce its impact on the environment, such as the reorganisation of the print shop, the introduction of new and lighter containers for transport of documents, the availability of bicycles in Brussels and Luxemburg, the organisation of videoconferences and the recycling of ink cartridges;

94.

Welcomes the EMAS registration as a very positive step; regrets however that the EMAS action plan sets only very modest reduction targets (i. e. 5% for heating and air conditioning), proposes late deadlines (i.e. 2011 for reducing energy consumption for lighting), and establishes various study groups working on single improvements;

95.

Points out that the European Union plays a leading role in the debate about climate change at international level; considers therefore that Parliament should not only contribute actively to meeting the EU commitments under the Kyoto-Protocol, but also to meeting the targets in its own resolutions on climate change, in particular a reduction of CO2 emissions by 30 % by 2020;

96.

Calls on its administration to elaborate a Kyoto-plus Plan setting out an action plan that is more ambitious and comprehensive than the measures envisaged under the EMAS framework, with a view to proving to the general public that it strives for attaining the targets which it asks others to attain;

97.

Is of the opinion that the actions for a Kyoto-plus Plan should comprise the following:

—

guaranteeing that the extension to the KAD building in Luxembourg will set an example by using best environmental practice (i.e. by installing a system for the recovery, storage and re-use of rain water, by the use of eco-technology to reduce energy consumption, the use of modern technology such as advanced thermal insulation, or air conditioning systems that facilitate heat recovery or free cooling, the use of solar panels for water heating purposes and the possibility of a unit for the co-generation of heat and electricity),

—

establishing an integrated energy efficiency plan on the basis of an audit not only of energy consumption, but also on the basis of a study on the main causes of energy losses; energy loss could be visualised through thermo-graphic pictures of the buildings,

—

considering a change of electricity provider or a renegotiation of the contract with the present one(s) with a view to buying energy from companies which have the least negative impact on the environment,

—

reducing further the use of paper (standing at 846 tons in 2004),

—

striving for a considerable reduction of water consumption (which seems not to be one of the targets of the current EMAS action plan),

—

reducing the emissions of its service cars to 130 gr/km CO2 by 2012,

—

considering using hybrid vehicles as its service cars when possible,

—

organising an information campaign in Parliament, during which — on the basis of transport needs and preferences of officials and other agents already established in surveys — a Parliament mobility plan is presented, which would highlight the advantages and encourage the use of sustainable means of transport (i.e. walking, using bicycles, public means of transport, car sharing, car pooling, etc.),

—

establishing contacts with local and regional public transport providers with a view to offering a more efficient public transport network, thereby attracting more clients from the personnel of Parliament and other institutions,

—

asking the Bureau to establish a permanent and visible information point on mobility management, which provides customers with information and help about sustainable mobility,

—

encouraging the use of IT equipment and video conferences in order to reduce travel,

—

endeavouring to reduce the distance food sold in Parliament's canteens and restaurants travels before it reaches the consumer;

Equal opportunities in the European Parliament

98.

Considers that offering equal opportunity has to be an integral part of Parliament's staff policy; welcomes therefore the comprehensive report presented by the Vice-President responsible for gender equality, which the Bureau adopted 29 November 2006; expects that the conclusions will be fully implemented;

99.

Points out that Parliament's equal opportunity policy should form an integral part of tender procedures and should be duly taken into account when concluding contracts with companies providing services to Parliament;

100.

Agrees with the targets set by the Bureau for the appointment of women at management level; notes with satisfaction that the targets for senior management have almost been reached;

101.

Draws attention to the persistent imbalance at middle management level; welcomes the survey and the measures taken by DG Personnel; calls however for an assessment of the pilot training programme for women who may be appointed heads of unit;

102.

Underlines that a better professional-life/private-life balance can promote equal opportunities; calls therefore for concrete measures to introduce more flexible working arrangements for staff, to complement the existing statutory provisions;

103.

Notes the efforts of DG Personnel to improve the administrative and budgetary procedures for the replacement of staff on maternity or parental/family leave and working part-time; asks its Bureau and the Committee on Budget to set aside the necessary budgetary means to ensure the systematic replacement of these staff members;

104.

Welcomes the efforts to improve the accessibility of Parliament for persons with disabilities, be it Members, assistants, staff or citizens; welcomes the pilot programme adopted by the Bureau on traineeships for persons with disabilities as a positive action measure, keeping in mind that the long-term objective is to fully mainstream the disability aspect into all human resources processes;

105.

Calls on the Secretary-General to take full account of its resolution on gender mainstreaming of 13 March 2003 (25) for Parliament's staff policy; recommends the introduction of gender budgeting in the 2008 budget;

Parliament and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)

106.

Welcomes that cooperation between Parliament and OLAF is generally considered satisfactory; is, however, worried about the long time span necessary to complete some investigations;

107.

Asks the Committee on Budgetary Control to invite the Director of OLAF for a discussion of issues of common interest before the end of July 2007;

108.

Is aware that Parliament and Council will discuss the revision of the Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) (26) in the near future;

‘Raising the Game’ — reforming Parliament's administration

109.

Points to the fact that the reorganisation of Parliament's secretariat with a view to creating even more professionalism, high quality and synergy has almost been completed; notes that the following changes have been introduced:

—

dividing the former Directorate-General for Committees and Delegations into two, creating a Directorate-General for Internal Policies and a Directorate-General for External Policies, thereby taking into account the increasing legislative burden and level of specialisation,

—

improving relations between the European Parliament and the national Parliaments,

—

disbanding the former Directorate-General for Research and re-establishing it in the form of policy departments working closely with parliamentary committees,

—

endowing parliamentary committees with an expertise budget for external studies and contributions from independent experts,

—

developing the use of its library,

—

setting up horizontal project teams on priority issues, and

—

improving the quality of parliamentary texts;

110.

Welcomes the progress achieved by implementing the reform;

111.

Underlines, at the same time, that with regard to external studies the specifications of studies should be clear, the financial envelope sufficient and the deadlines realistic for research institutes to deliver quality advice;

Follow-up to last year's discharge resolution

112.

Takes note that its Bureau appointed two Vice-Presidents and two Questors on 30 November 2005 with a view to preparing new rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members under the Members' Statute which will enter into force in July 2009; asks that the Committee on Budgetary Control be given a copy of the interim report, adopted on 13 December 2006, and other position papers the working party might draft; underlines that the audit on the Members' parliamentary allowance will be of high value for the working party;

113.

Notes that its Bureau has currently no intention to modify the travel reimbursement rules for Members with a view to reimbursing Members, who so desire, only for travel costs incurred; 27 Members reimbursed Parliament for parts of their travel allowance (EUR 148 963,57) in 2005;

114.

Notes that the authorising officers by delegation have systematically reviewed Parliament's longstanding contracts and that this exercise did not reveal any situation prejudicial to Parliament's financial interests; welcomes that this exercise will in future be conducted annually and that its results will be included in the annual activity reports;

115.

Notes that in the context of the 2004 enlargement 984 posts for officials have been created: 489 in 2003, 355 in 2004 and 150 in 2005; by the end of November 2006 518 officials and 336 temporary agents had been recruited; in addition, 65 Bulgarian and 79 Romanian contractual agents had also been recruited by the end of November 2006;

116.

Takes note of the legal and organisational problems linked to the introduction of a system of electronic signatures: from a legal viewpoint clarification would be required as to how to reconcile the project with the provisions of the Rules of Procedure governing the tabling of amendments in plenary; from an organisational viewpoint arrangements for tabling amendments and parliamentary questions would have to be redefined;

117.

Asks how the Secretary-General intends to implement the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Lawmaking;

118.

Recalls that the Disciplinary Board has completed its work on allocating responsibility in connection with the discrepancy of BEF 4 136 125 between the cash situation and the corresponding amounts in 1982; asks the Secretary-General to inform the Committee on Budgetary Control about the outcome of the disciplinary proceedings and also whether the amount, including interests, was recovered.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  DV/614096EN.doc.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(5)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(6)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(7)  PE 349.540/Bur/ann/def.

(8)  OJ L 177, 6.7.2007, p. 3.

(9)  OJ L 262, 7.10.2005, p. 1.

(10)  PE 377.686/BUR.

(11)  See paragraph 7 of the abovementioned resolution of 26 September 2006.

(12)  OJ L 196, 27.7.2005, p. 28.

(13)  OJ L 330, 4.11.2004, p. 160.

(14)  OJ L 148, 16.6.2003, p. 62.

(15)  Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002 of 23 December 2002 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 1).

(16)  Paragraph 90 of its 2001 discharge resolution (OJ L 148, 16.6.2003, p. 62).

(17)  Letter to the chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Control of 11 January 2007 (300319).

(18)  Bureau decision of 30 June 2003.

(19)  As per implementing provisions for budget Item 3701.

(20)  PPE: European People's Party; PSE: Party of European Socialists; ELDR: European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party; EFPG: European Federation of Green Parties; AEN: Union for Europe of the Nations; PDE: European Democratic Party; GE: Party of the European Left; EFA: European Free Alliance

(21)  OJ L 297, 15.11.2003, p. 1.

(22)  OJ C 292 E, 1.12.2006, p. 127.

(23)  See paragraph 88 of the abovementioned resolution of 26 September 2006.

(24)  See paragraphs 73 to 79 of the abovementioned resolution of 26 September 2006.

(25)  OJ C 61 E, 10.3.2004, p. 384.

(26)  OJ L 136, 31.5.1999, p. 1.

P6_TA(2007)0134

Discharge 2005: Section II, Council

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section II — Council (C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0466/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Council's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2005,

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0108/2007),

1.

Grants the Council's Secretary-General discharge for implementation of the Council budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and to the national and regional audit institutions of the Member States, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section II — Council (C6-0466/2006 — 2006/2072(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0466/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Council's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2005,

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0108/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the Council had available commitment appropriations amounting to a total of EUR 588 182 640,52 with a utilisation rate of 96,69 %;

2.

Notes that following the introduction of accrual accounting with effect from 1 January 2005 the Council's financial statements disclose a positive economic out-turn of EUR 19 386 891,40 and identical amounts (EUR 398 520 004,03) of assets and liabilities;

3.

Regrets that unlike other institutions the Council does not submit an annual activity report to the European Parliament, citing the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1970 (Resolution recorded in the minutes of the Council meeting of 22 April 1970) and the absence of any corresponding requirement in the Financial Regulation; calls on the Council to reconsider the decision not to publish an activity report in order to be more accountable to the general public and taxpayers;

4.

Points to the European Court of Auditors' (ECA) finding (paragraph 10.11) that, while the Council's reformed system for reimbursing the travel expenses of delegates of Council Members has greatly reduced the administrative burden, there were insufficient checks on the validity of Member States' statements before payment of the July 2005 instalment;

5.

Notes from the annual report of the internal auditor that, regarding Council delegates' mission expenses, the internal auditor stresses the need for more transparency as to the eligibility of meetings and refundable expenses and recommends the setting-up of a working group to look at such matters;

6.

Takes note of the Council's reply to the ECA that on the basis of a report of the Council's Internal Audit Service on the functioning of the new system of travel expenses of delegates of Council Members one year after its introduction in 2004, the Council Secretariat is currently reviewing the system; notes that each delegation now receives from the Council Secretariat a limited budget with a ceiling;

7.

Recalls that the Council Secretariat was unwilling to reply officially to a questionnaire to all the institutions (including the European Parliament) concerning the use of official cars having regard to the terms of the abovementioned Gentlemen's Agreement;

8.

Points out that the abovementioned Gentlemen's Agreement provides, as regards the section of the budget concerning the European Parliament, that

‘[t]he Council undertakes to make no amendments to the estimate of expenditure of the European Parliament. This undertaking shall only be binding in so far as this estimate of expenditure does not conflict with Community provisions, in particular with regard to the Staff Regulations of Officials and Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, and to the seat of the institutions;’

9.

Considers that in view of its age and the substantial shortfall between words used and the meaning or interpretation which is attributed to them, the Gentlemen's Agreement may be in need of revision;

10.

Believes that the current compromise consisting in an informal dialogue between the Council and the competent committee's chairman and rapporteur should be widened so as to include a Member from each political group; instructs its competent committee to begin negotiations with the Council with a view to putting revised arrangements for informal dialogue in place in time for the next discharge procedure;

11.

Observes that in its special report No 9/2006 the ECA found that in 2005 the cost per page of translation at the Council was EUR 276 (as against EUR 194 at the Commission and EUR 119 at the European Parliament); notes that this difference is partly explained by the Council Secretariat's success in reducing the number and length of documents sent for translation and establishing a list of core documents and that in due course the Council plans to reduce the number of translation staff substantially;

12.

Calls for maximum transparency in the area of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP); requests the Council to make sure that, in accordance with point 42 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (6), no operating CFSP expenditure appears in the Council's budget; reserves the right to take the necessary steps, where appropriate, if the agreement is infringed.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(6)  OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

P6_TA(2007)0135

Discharge 2005: Section VII, Committee of the Regions

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VII — Committee of the Regions (C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Communities for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0470/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0106/2007),

1.

Grants the Committee of the Regions' Secretary-General discharge for the implementation of the Committee of the Regions budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005, Section VII — Committee of the Regions (C6-0470/2006 — 2006/2076(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the European Union general budget for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European for the financial year 2005 — Volume I (C6-0470/2006) (2),

—

having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 and the Court of Auditors' special reports, together with the audited institutions' replies (3),

—

having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of the EC Treaty (4),

—

having regard to Articles 272(10), 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (5), and in particular Articles 50, 86, 145, 146 and 147 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0106/2007),

1.

Notes that in 2005 the Committee of the Regions (CoR) had available commitment appropriations amounting to total of EUR 69 570 456,32 with a utilisation rate of 96,65 %;

2.

Notes that following the introduction of accrual accounting with effect from 1 January 2005 the CoR's financial statements disclose a positive economic out-turn for the year (EUR 4 050 062,65) and identical amounts of assets and liabilities (EUR 118 221 197,95);

3.

Notes the remark by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in paragraph 10.18 of its 2005 Annual Report that following the ECA's 2004 DAS audit and two internal audits, the CoR's administration requested certain beneficiaries of weighted salary transfers to present additional evidence, and several transfers which had not been regularly carried out before May 2004 and/or for which the beneficiaries did not present sufficient evidence were discontinued; in 2005, according to the ECA's Report, the administration did not recover any overpayments, although, under Article 85 of the Staff Regulations, ‘any sum overpaid shall be recovered if the recipient was aware that there was no due reason for the payment or if the fact of the overpayment was patently such that he could not have been unaware of it’; notes the CoR's reply included in the ECA's Report that the internal audit on salaries transfer requested by the Secretary-General was completed in February 2006, and that the administration is now proceeding with the recovery of overpayments which concern a limited number of officials;

4.

Notes that the CoR's Internal Auditor in her report to the discharge authority of 18 May 2006 on audits carried out in 2005 (pursuant to Article 86(4) of the Financial Regulation) made the following points:

—

the salary transfers in question were executed on the basis of rules which could be interpreted differently according to the language version and depending on the law applicable in the relevant Member State,

—

weaknesses were detected concerning the separation of initiation and verification functions as well as potential conflicts of interest linked to the size of the Institution,

—

the standards governing the control environment were judged as being not sufficiently well developed to guarantee the regularity of these operations;

5.

Notes that the weaknesses detected in relation to weighted salary transfers were not such that the Authorising Officer by Delegation found it necessary to append a reservation or an observation to his declaration of assurance attached to the CoR's activity report;

6.

Notes that as soon as he heard of this problem the CoR's Secretary-General immediately asked the then Internal Auditor to continue his work on weighted salary transfers;

7.

Notes that the CoR's Secretary-General, on being informed of this matter, adopted a restrictive interpretation of the relevant rules of the recently amended Staff Regulations and ordered the recovery of any amounts considered to have been unduly paid; notes that some of the officials that have been obliged to repay dispute the CoR Secretary-General's reading of the relevant rules and have referred the matter to the Court of Justice;

8.

Supports the Secretary-General in his intention to set up an administrative inquiry and expects him to start disciplinary proceedings on the basis of the OLAF report regarding staff concerned; demands a strict prosecution of all cases where fraudulent behaviour can be proved;

9.

Notes with concern that it has not been possible to fill all vacant posts from the reserve lists drawn up after EPSO competitions; asks the CoR to analyse the reasons for the shortage of qualified candidates and to inform the competent committee;

10.

Notes in connection with paragraph 8 of its discharge resolution of 27 April 2006 on the renovation of the Belliard I and II buildings (6) that, during 2006, two firms of external consultants each gave a positive certificate of conformity to the effect that the building work had been carried out in accordance with the specification; points out that the ECA will shortly publish a special report on the EU institutions' expenditure on buildings generally;

11.

Notes that the administrative cooperation between the CoR and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) should be beneficial to both and financially advantageous for EU taxpayers; insists that any new structures put in place for administrative cooperation between the two committees should result in financial and organisational benefits; demands that both committees find a suitable way to continue the administrative cooperation;

12.

Recalls that the CoR and the EESC, through their joint services, manage certain activities in common (translation, printing, buildings, security, library, procurement, catering, ushers, medical service, cars and drivers, IT, etc.) and that their cooperation agreement has recently been renewed for 6 months (with an option to extend it for a further 6 months) pending a decision on whether such cooperation should continue in future;

13.

Invites the CoR and the EESC, having regard to the substantial divergences between the findings of the reports of the joint services and the CoR's two external experts, to conduct a joint analysis based on appropriate bench marks — if necessary with the help of the ECA — of the precise costs, benefits and savings generated by cooperation and to submit the results of their examination to the competent committee by 31 October 2007.

(1)  OJ L 60, 8.3.2005.

(2)  OJ C 264, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 44.

P6_TA(2007)0136

Discharge 2005: European Agency for Reconstruction

 

1.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2667/2000 of 5 December 2000 on the European Agency for Reconstruction (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0116/2007),

1.

Grants the director of the European Agency for Reconstruction discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to the director of the European Agency for Reconstruction, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 7.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 18.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 306, 7.12.2000, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1756/2006 (OJ L 332, 30.11.2006, p. 18).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.

European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2667/2000 of 5 December 2000 on the European Agency for Reconstruction (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0116/2007),

1.

Notes that the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial years 2004 and 2005 are as follows:

(in 1000 EUR)

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2005

 

2005

2004

Revenue

EC subsidy

261 009

231 909

Recovery of expenses (re-use Title III)

546

1 229

Revenues from administrative operations (re-use Titles I and II)

210

181

Other operating revenue

1 076

6 113

Total operating revenue

262 841

239 432

Expenditure

Administrative expenses

— Staff expenses

15 727

17 575

— Other administrative expenses

7 212

6 290

Operational expenses

— Centralised direct management

243 442

268 965

Total administrative and operational expenditure

266 381

292 830

Surplus/(Deficit) from operating activities

-3 540

-53 398

Extraordinary gains

0

738

Extraordinary losses

0

-1 269

Economic result of the year

-3 540

-53 929

Source: The Agency's data — This table summarises the data provided by the Agency in its annual accounts.

2.

Approves closing the accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005;

3.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the director of the European Agency for Reconstruction, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 7.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 18.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 306, 7.12.2000, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1756/2006 (OJ L 332, 30.11.2006, p. 18).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

3.

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (C6-0388/2006 — 2006/2155(DEC))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005 (1),

—

having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Reconstruction for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

—

having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

—

having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (3), and in particular Article 185 thereof,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2667/2000 of 5 December 2000 on the European Agency for Reconstruction (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

—

having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A6-0116/2007),

A.

whereas the Court of Auditors stated that it obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005 were reliable, and the underlying transactions, subject to the reservation, were legal and regular,

B.

whereas on 27 April 2006 Parliament gave discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the 2004 financial year (6) and in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision Parliament, inter alia,

—

urged the Agency to seek guidance to improve its Treasury Management Policy in order to make best use of the often considerable sums maintained in current bank accounts;

—

noted that the transactions relating to counterpart funds, credit line schemes and special funds had been completely recorded in the absence of effective internal control procedures for long-term receivables; insisted that all transactions be capable of verification by the Court of Auditors;

—

in order to address the serious problems of unreliability (and accusations of corrupt practices) then surrounding the conditions under which public procurement contracts and concessions were awarded for highly sensitive projects (e.g. mobile telephony operators), urged the Commission and the Agency, in close cooperation with UNMIK (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) and the FIU (Financial Investigation Unit), to lay down clear and transparent procurement rules, to establish internal and supreme audit institutions, and to keep Parliament informed as to progress made;

General points concerning the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge

1.

Considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens, and notes that in general terms the Agencies do not always have a good image or a good press;

2.

Invites the Commission therefore to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations;

3.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on the cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision;

4.

Invites the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency; invites all relevant institutions in the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it;

5.

Considers it regrettable, given the growing number of regulatory agencies, that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the relevant departments of the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion;

6.

Notes that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up;

7.

Invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies;

8.

Recalls the principle according to which all Community Agencies, whether subsidised or not, are subject to discharge by the Parliament, even where a discharge authority exists by virtue of their constitutive texts;

9.

Calls on the Court of Auditors to perform performance audits for all Agencies and to report back to the relevant committees of Parliament, including the Committee on Budgetary Control;

10.

Notes that the number of Agencies is constantly increasing and that, in accordance with the Commission's political responsibility for the operation of the Agencies, which goes far beyond mere logistical support, there is an even higher need for the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies to develop a common approach to the Agencies; considers that a structure similar to the one created by the Agencies for coordination among the DGs concerned would be a pragmatic way forward towards a common approach by the Commission on all matters relating to the Agencies;

11.

Invites the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, taking into account the growing complexity of the Community's administrative rules and technical problems;

12.

Notes the lack of a disciplinary body in any of the Community Agencies, and calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that such a mechanism is rapidly put in place;

13.

Welcomes the considerable improvements in the coordination among the Agencies, which allows them to tackle recurring problems and makes cooperation with the Commission and Parliament more efficient;

14.

Takes the view that the establishment by a number of Agencies of a shared support service aimed at making their computerised financial management systems consistent with those of the Commission is a measure that should be taken further and extended;

15.

Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their image and raise the profile of their activities;

16.

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency;

17.

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which they could be measured;

18.

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic planning and implementation of goals;

19.

Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial) management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and overbudgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework;

20.

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Standards;

Specific points

21.

Underlines its high appraisal of the results achieved by the Agency and the considerable improvements the Agencies could put in place in order to respond positively to the recommendations of the Court of Auditors and the Parliament;

22.

Congratulates the Director and its staff for the work done in a very difficult environment improving considerably the image of the EU and its visibility;

23.

Insists that the Commission prolong the Agency's activity, which is scheduled to end in 2008; is of the opinion that the Agency should be transformed into an Agency for implementation of certain EU external actions, which transformation should be based on a prior cost-benefit analysis, in particular with a view to managing post-conflict situations, while being careful to avoid any overlap with the activities of other European or international organisations, in order to prevent acquired expertise being lost;

24.

Calls on the Commission to inform Parliament which reasons, other than its intention to close the Agency in 2008, led to the fact that the Agency was not given the task of implementing the Union's special programme for the northern part of Cyprus and aid to the Palestinian population;

25.

Considers that the Agency has not only the systems (logistics, IT systems, and others) to implement swiftly large amounts of support in post-conflict areas, but that it has especially also proven high levels of expertise and know how in post-war reconstruction;

26.

Is convinced that at a point where the Commission wants to take over the management of the new Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance in view of the acquis-related tasks related to the Balkans, the Agency should take over the tasks required by a ‘RELEX external actions Agency’;

27.

Considers that a new mandate of this successful agency would be the most efficient way to implement the new tasks in external actions, which cannot be implemented by Commission services in Brussels or by delegations of the Commission;

28.

Considers that the Agency could play a most efficient role in areas where traditional development assistance cannot be implemented; considers also that this would significantly increase the EU's visibility;

29.

Welcomes the measures taken by the Agency to improve contract award procedures following the Court of Auditors' observations raised in its 2003 and 2004 annual reports, which resulted in increased transparency in various areas: for instance, important decisions made during the evaluation process which affect the contract award are better documented and furthermore the overall discipline of the evaluation and contract award procedures is improved;

30.

Invites the Agency to further develop selection criteria in order to make them more realistic as they sometimes are ill-suited to the circumstances in which the Agency is operating;

31.

Welcomes the progress made in the area of tendering and encourages the Agency to further intensify its efforts in order to ensure that contracts awarded fully comply with all regulatory provisions;

32.

Notes that in its 2004 report the Court of Auditors stated in a review of operations entrusted to UNMIK an absence of adequate financial control when making payments and serious difficulties in closing operations, mainly due to an absence of adequate accounts for the projects and of sufficient justification for the expenditure; welcomes the significant efforts made by the Agency in 2005 to resolve this situation, but notes however that some problems for closing operations remained.

(1)  OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 7.

(2)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 18.

(3)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 306, 7.12.2000, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1756/2006 (OJ L 332, 30.11.2006, p. 18).

(5)  OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

(6)  OJ L 340, 6.12.2006, p. 74.

P6_TA(2007)0137

Combating HIV/Aids within the EU and in the neighbouring countries 2006-2009

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2007 on combating HIV/AIDS within the European Union and in the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009 (2006/2232(INI))

The European Parliament,

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having regard to its resolution of 6 July 2006 on ‘HIV/AIDS: Time to deliver’ (1),

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having regard to its resolution of 30 November 2006 on AIDS (2),

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having regard to the Council Conclusions of 6 June 2005 on Combating HIV/AIDS,

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having regard to the note from the General Secretariat of the Council of 24 November 2005 on ‘World AIDS Day — EU Statement on HIV Prevention for an AIDS Free Generation’,

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having regard to the EU Drugs Strategy (2005-2012) adopted by the European Council on 17 December 2004,

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having regard to the Commission Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on ‘Combating HIV/AIDS within the European Union and in the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009’ (COM(2005)0654),

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having regard to the Commission Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on a ‘Coherent European Policy Framework for External Action to Confront HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis’ (COM(2004)0726),

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having regard to the Communication from the Commission on the European Neighbourhood Policy Strategy Paper (COM(2004)0373),

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having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy (COM(2006)0726),

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having regard to the ‘Dublin Declaration’ on Partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia, adopted at the Ministerial Conference ‘Breaking the Barriers — Partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia’ held within the framework of the Irish EU Presidency on 23-24 February 2004,

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having regard to the ‘Vilnius Declaration’ on Measures to strengthen the response to HIV/AIDS in the European Union and in the Neighbouring Countries, adopted by Ministers and representatives of Governments from the European Union and neighbouring countries at the conference ‘Europe and HIV/AIDS — New Challenges, New Opportunities’, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 16-17 September 2004,

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having regard to the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 55th Session on 8 September 2000 as well as to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and in particular the goal of reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015,

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having regard to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted by the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS on 27 June 2001,

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having regard to the Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the ‘Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS’ on 2 August 2001,

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having regard to the UN General Assembly's follow-up on the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, ‘Towards universal access: Assessment by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS on scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support’ of 24 March 2006,

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having regard to the Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations regarding the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: five years later, of 24 March 2006,

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having regard to the ‘Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS’ adopted by the UN General Assembly on 2 June 2006,

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having regard to the WHO HIV/AIDS Programme ‘Towards Universal Access by 2010’ of 2006,

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having regard to the UNAIDS 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic,

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having regard to the UNAIDS Epidemic Update of December 2006,

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having regard to the EuroHIV Mid-year Report 2005 of August 2006,

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having regard to the Eurobarometer on AIDS Prevention of February 2006,

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having regard to the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1399 (2004) as well as its Recommendation 1675 (2004) on a European Strategy for the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights,

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having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the opinion of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (A6-0091/2007),

A.

whereas according to the UNAIDS Epidemic Update for 2006 more than 39.5 million people worldwide are living with HIV and 4.3 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2006; whereas 95 % of the people affected by HIV/AIDS live in developing countries,

B.

whereas EuroHIV's Mid-year Report 2005 shows that 215,510 people were newly infected with HIV in 1998-2005 within the European Union and 646,142 people were newly infected with HIV in the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO),

C.

whereas according to EuroHIV almost one quarter of all new HIV infections affect young people under the age of 25,

D.

whereas people living with HIV/AIDS face stigma and discrimination,

E.

whereas recent progress in HIV/AIDS treatment, together with a decline in prevention funding, has contributed to an increase in unsafe behaviour and consequently to growing numbers of new HIV infections,

F.

whereas the Reports from EuroHIV and UNAIDS confirm that the number of new HIV infections is still rising at an alarming rate within the European Union as well as in the neighbouring countries, and that in some countries the estimated number of people infected with HIV is almost three times higher than the official number,

G.

whereas despite the increased number of HIV infections, the steady decrease in the number of AIDS cases diagnosed in recent years has continued in 2005, with less than half the number of cases diagnosed in 2005 in comparison to 1998,

H.

whereas a large proportion of HIV infections remain undiagnosed; whereas many people do not know their sero-status and are likely to discover it only once afflicted by HIV/AIDS-related illnesses (3),

I.

whereas the infectivity of HIV increases significantly in the presence of other sexually transmitted diseases (such as gonorrhoea, chlamydia, herpes and syphilis),

J.

whereas the groups exposed to the highest risk of contracting HIV include Injecting Drug Users (IDUs), men having sex with men, sex workers and their clients, migrants, prisoners and young people under the age of 25,

K.

whereas the epidemic among IDUs is one of the reasons for the rapid spread of HIV infection in many Eastern European countries,

L.

whereas the UNAIDS Epidemic Update 2006 found that about three quarters of heterosexually acquired HIV infections in Western and Central Europe are among immigrants and migrants,

M.

whereas in most countries of Central and Western Europe, the prevalence of HIV in blood donations remains low; whereas recent figures for some Eastern European countries, however, show a trend in the opposite direction,

N.

whereas the Dublin Declaration recognises that ‘the promotion of equality between women and men, and girls and boys, and respecting the right to reproductive and sexual health, and access to sexuality education, information and health services as well as openness about sexuality, are fundamental factors in the fight against the pandemic’,

O.

whereas prevention programmes, including education, increased access to information and condoms, and access to treatment and drug rehabilitation and to harm-reduction services, constitute the most effective tools for combating HIV/AIDS,

P.

whereas the female condom is still underutilised, even though it is the single women-controlled device protecting women against unwanted pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections which is already available,

Q.

whereas EuroHIV has no national data from Spain or Italy although both are considered sites of major epidemics by EuroHIV,

R.

whereas recent data confirm that the scope of new HIV infections as well as the number of people living with AIDS are different for each Member State and the neighbouring countries, as are the groups which are considered most vulnerable,

S.

whereas women now represent 50 % of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, but their special needs with regard to reproductive health in terms of family planning, safe births and breastfeeding of babies are often overlooked; whereas, according to UNAIDS, over the past two years, the number of women and girls infected with HIV has increased in every region of the world, with rates rising particularly rapidly in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America; and whereas, according to WHO, women are probably more susceptible than men to infection from HIV in any heterosexual encounter, due to biological factors,

T.

whereas increasing numbers of women are being infected unwittingly with the HI-Virus in their private life through unsafe heterosexual contact and becoming carriers of the virus which it is then possible for them to transmit to their offspring; whereas effective responses to AIDS must address the factors that continue to put women at risk and increase their vulnerability, such as lack of self-determination, violence against and trafficking in women, poverty and gender discrimination,

U.

whereas the latest Eurobarometer on AIDS prevention of February 2006 showed that 54 % of the EU- 25 population believe or are convinced that it may be possible to become infected with HIV from ‘kissing on the mouth someone with AIDS or who is HIV positive’ and 42 % believe or are convinced that it is possible to become infected by HIV from ‘drinking from the same glass which has just been used by someone with AIDS or who is HIV positive’,

V.

whereas in the ‘Dublin Declaration’, government representatives from Europe and Central Asia promised to ‘promote strong and accountable leadership at the level of our Heads of State and Government to protect (our) people from this threat to their future, and promote human rights and tackle stigma and ensure access to education, information and services for all those in need’ and ‘make the fight against HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia a regular item on the agendas of our regional institutions and organisations’,

W.

whereas Ministers and Representatives of Governments from the European Union and neighbouring countries reaffirmed the commitments made in the ‘Dublin Declaration’ with the ‘Vilnius Declaration’; whereas both Declarations emphasise the need for strong and comprehensive follow-up measures for the actions outlined in them,

X.

whereas the ‘Vilnius Declaration’ expressly mentions the use of national financial instruments as well as Community funds, including the Structural Funds, for the implementation of policies to tackle HIV/ AIDS,

Y.

whereas NGOs are often dependent on public financing; whereas tender procedures for Communityfinanced programmes are usually complicated and EU membership often means a sudden end of financial support for NGOs from international sources other than those of the EU,

Z.

whereas not all Member States have equal access to treatment and drugs and in many of them — particularly the new Member States — inequalities exist as regards the availability of funding and resources,

AA.

whereas Member States need support in building up programmes that encourage testing, training of counsellors as well as life-long follow-up and support for the people living with HIV, in particular since the medication is life-long, often causes side-effects and since poor compliance with the use specification of HIV medication, once started, can result in resistance of the HIV strains,

AB.

whereas over the last years fierce generic competition regarding the first line Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) has contributed to a price reduction of almost 99 %, from USD 10 000 to approximately USD 130 per patient per year, but the prices for the second line drugs, which patients need, as resistance develops naturally, remain high, mostly due to increased patent barriers in the key countries producing generic medicines,

AC.

whereas there is no vaccine for HIV and research into microbicides and other developments for innovative new drugs are ongoing,

AD.

whereas five years after the Doha Declaration (pursuant to which each WTO member State ‘has the right to grant compulsory licences and the freedom to determine the grounds upon which such licences are granted’), WHO has pointed out that 74 % of AIDS drugs are still protected by a patent,

AE.

whereas WHO estimates that 10 % of all new HIV infections globally are related to injecting drug use, and that less than 5% of injecting drug users worldwide have access to effective HIV prevention, treatment and care services,

AF.

whereas tuberculosis (TB) accelerates the progression of HIV into AIDS, and 90 % of HIV positive people die of TB within months of developing active TB symptoms due to a lack of adequate treatment, which has resulted in an estimated one-third of AIDS deaths being caused by TB,

1.

Welcomes the Commission's Communication on combating HIV/AIDS within the European Union and the neighbouring countries, 2006-2009, and supports the actions and initiatives suggested therein;

2.

Reaffirms the right of every human being to health education, correct information, prevention of illnesses, health care, medical services and access to pharmaceutical products;

3.

Requests that the Commission analyse the latest available data on new HIV infections to identify the countries and population groups most affected by this epidemic and communicate its findings to the respective Member States;

4.

Calls on the Commission to specify, according to national data provided by the Member States, the most vulnerable groups in each society and to establish a comprehensive list of such groups so that the Commission and Member States can address and reach them efficiently, taking into account country specificities, and provide them with information on how to protect themselves and their partners;

5.

Alarmed at the rapidly growing number of cases of multi-drug-resistant strains of HIV/AIDS as well as multi-drug-resistant or totally resistant TB, calls on the Commission to maintain separate statistics on these and to identify and share best practice in preventing them;

6.

Urges the Commission to consider appropriate measures to reach migrant and immigrant populations within the European Union, especially when they come from countries with high prevalence rates, in order to slow down the alarming trend of new HIV infections among these groups;

7.

Insists that Member States fully implement Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 setting standards of quality and safety for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components (4), in particular as regards the systematic HIV screening of blood donations;

8.

Underlines the importance of reporting correct data; points out that data collection should be confidential and based on anonymous and voluntary testing; invites the Member States to improve the quality of their respective testing and reporting methods;

9.

Notes that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) will take full responsibility for surveillance, collecting and publishing data regarding HIV/AIDS in 2008; urges the Commission to take appropriate measures to prevent a possible gap in the reporting of new data; asks the ECDC to bear in mind the sensitivities relating to the topic when publishing reports;

10.

Calls on Spain and Italy to report their national data to the ECDC;

11.

Urges the Commission to use all available instruments, such as the Neighbourhood Policy and the Northern Dimension Instruments, to reach the vulnerable population groups in the neighbouring countries, with particular attention to the Kaliningrad area of Russia;

12.

Calls on the Commission to develop evidence-based programmes and to promote the implementation of prevention and harm-reduction measures, including the use of condoms, drug substitution treatment, access to voluntary testing, clean needle and syringe exchanges and counselling for members of groups considered vulnerable, affected by or infected with HIV, to stimulate and disseminate best practices in positive prevention and to provide an annual report on the implementation of such measures;

13.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote communication campaigns which will provide the population with clear information concerning HIV infection, on ways of preventing infection, on unsafe practices and on practices which help to prevent infection with HIV;

14.

Calls on the Member States and the Commission, in view of the fact that women infected with HIV have often been subjected to violence by a male partner and that women run a greater risk of HIV infection, to take the measures to combat violence which are set out in its resolution of 2 February 2006 on the current situation in combating violence against women and any future action (5);

15.

Welcomes the Commission's initiative to create a Civil Society Forum and encourages the Commission to continue and intensify its cooperation with civil society within the framework of this Forum;

16.

Encourages Member States to examine the possibilities of establishing Civil Society Forums at national level in order to improve cooperation between national governments, public authorities, health care services and local NGOs working in the field of HIV/AIDS;

17.

Emphasises the importance of both the ‘Dublin Declaration’ and the ‘Vilnius Declaration’ and urges the Commission to follow them up;

18.

Stresses the need for the Commission to streamline its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS within the different responsible Directorates-General and to improve the various administrative processes and mechanisms in order to provide the most effective and coordinated measures possible, to avoid dual standards and to achieve the best possible synergies;

19.

Encourages the Commission to offer political support and technical assistance to neighbouring countries which wish to take advantage of the flexibilities contained in the TRIPS Agreement when faced with a public-health problem , and to offer support in building up infrastructure for HIV counselling and testing as well as distribution and follow-up of medication;

20.

Deplores the fact that the current rules on direct financing of NGOs by the Community as well as rules on their participation in projects financed by Community programmes have not been harmonised; asks the Commission to assess current procedures with a view to improving the access of NGOs to various forms of Community financing;

21.

Reiterates that EU membership often means a sudden end of financial support for NGOs from international sources other than those of the EU; therefore calls on the Commission to monitor the situation in Bulgaria and Romania as a matter of urgency and propose measures to bridge the financial gap;

22.

Calls on the Commission to define clearly the rules for using the Structural Funds and the Social Funds for HIV/AIDS related projects and/or programmes;

23.

Encourages the Commission to use all the possibilities available within the Seventh Framework Programme on Research and Development to continue to fund and identify further promising projects concerning HIV/AIDS research and the development of new innovative ARV drugs, vaccines and microbicides; calls on the Commission to ensure that HIV/AIDS research is gender balanced and includes various physiological and biological aspects as regards the nature of transmitting viruses;

24.

Welcomes the Commission's aim to develop research and evaluation of behavioural preventive methods and encourages the Commission to work towards evidence-based behavioural preventive programmes;

25.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate greater public funding to pharmaceutical research by requiring the beneficiaries of public funds to devote a certain amount of their research to such diseases;

26.

Urges the Commission to allocate resources to prevention measures within the framework of the Public Health Action Programme to combat HIV/AIDS;

27.

Urges the Commission to explore the possibilities and practical means and to use the results of clinical research to combat HIV/AIDS in the partner countries, the Western Balkans and Central Asia, following the procedures for external aid and respecting the directives for action as agreed in the strategy documents with the relevant countries and the indicative programmes;

28.

Believes that palliative care has an important part to play in the care of people with HIV/AIDS and urges its development and expansion throughout the European Union;

29.

Asks the Commission to pay particular attention to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health programmes for women, in order to counter the increasing spread of the epidemic among the female population;

30.

Strongly encourages the Commission and the Member States to subsidise and provide money for research and development of microbicides and female condoms which give women the power to protect themselves and a male partner from HIV/AIDS with or without the partner's agreement, since condoms continue to be the most well known and widely available protection against HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), but require a male partner's agreement (6),

31.

Calls on the Member States to develop national strategies to increase the capacity of women and young girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection;

32.

Emphasises the need to strengthen the synergies between HIV/AIDS prevention and programmes to promote sexual rights and health;

33.

Calls on the Member States to respect the sexual and reproductive rights of people living with HIV/ AIDS;

34.

Calls on the Member States to promote the gender-balanced involvement of both women and men in AIDS response; urges them to review national AIDS coordinating bodies;

35.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to enable all persons affected, and in particular pregnant women, to have access to anti-HIV drugs in order to reduce the incidence of transmission of the disease to unborn children;

36.

Requests that the Commission continue the financial assistance and overall support of the valuable efforts of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; invites the Member States to do the same;

37.

Points out that HIV/TB co-infection is the cause of death for one third of HIV-positive people; therefore strongly recommends that the Commission and the Member States acknowledge this fact by establishing and promoting programmes to fight both infections at the same time; notes the alarming spread of multi- or total-drug-resistant strains of TB; further notes the frequent dual diagnosis of HIV and hepatitis and depression, and urges action to treat and care for such patients;

38.

Stresses the importance of the accountability of national, regional and local governments, health service providers, the pharmaceutical industry, NGOs and civil society in order to ensure that the targets regarding universal coverage of prevention, treatment and care are being met;

39.

Is concerned about the high costs of new and second-line drugs to treat AIDS; calls for a fundamental debate on patent law; considers that small adjustments to a product or to an active ingredient should be allowed to result only in a proportional extension to the period of patent protection;

40.

Asks Member States to consider giving a mandate, in accordance with Articles 300 and 308 of the EC Treaty, and limited in scope and time, to the Commission on behalf of the EU to negotiate with the pharmaceuticals industry an agreement aiming at lower prices for ARV drugs in the European Union;

41.

Calls on the Member States to promote greater use of the media and the most appropriate distribution channels to step up information for the population, especially adolescents and young people, on HIV infection, the ways it is transmitted, HIV testing and the kind of behaviour that fosters prevention;

42.

Calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of including in the European Youth Portal a section devoted to the fight against AIDS, including data on the information, guidance and care resources concerning HIV/AIDS available in the Member States;

43.

Calls on the Commission, the Member States, civil society and the private sector to initiate or support programmes and develop information and awareness campaigns that combat homophobia, the stigma that attaches to all people living with HIV/AIDS and discrimination against vulnerable groups and those infected with HIV, with a view to breaking down the barriers that slow down the effective tackling of HIV/AIDS; urges Member States to prohibit discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, in particular in the services sector (for example with regard to insurance, bank services and health care);

44.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish policies and programmes for the social integration and entry into the labour market of people living with HIV/AIDS;

45.

Encourages the Commission and the Member States to show leadership in promoting and funding at European, national and local level access to HIV/AIDS education, including counselling for responsible sexual behaviour and prevention and treatment of STDs, and to information, testing and related services, with due regard for the principles of confidentiality and informed consent;

46.

Calls on the Member States to promote health education at schools in order to raise awareness and promote safe sexual behaviour;

47.

Strongly encourages the Member States to guarantee that all citizens receive sexual education and information, which includes respect and responsibility for one's partner and equal rights for homosexual, bisexual and transgender people, and underlines the importance of giving sexual education in schools;

48.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to gauge how competent and knowledgeable primary health workers are on the subject of HIV/AIDS and to provide training courses for health workers in order to enable them to provide suitable public guidance and to raise public awareness appropriately;

49.

Calls on the Member States to give full support to women and men who are responsible for the daily care of people living with AIDS, and/or care for their children and orphans; points out that they should be provided with home-based care training and awareness-raising on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and on the benefits of good treatment and care for the people living with AIDS;

50.

Urges the Commission to assess the possibilities for establishing Public Private Partnerships within the neighbouring countries in order to promote additional ways of combating HIV/AIDS;

51.

Welcomes the initiative of the German Presidency in organising the Conference ‘Responsibility and Partnership — Together against HIV/AIDS’ in Bremen (12 to 13 March 2007), as well as the fact that Madrid will host the XIth European Conference on AIDS from 24 to 27 October 2007;

52.

Underlines the pivotal role of communities, community-based organisations, NGOs and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the fight against HIV/AIDS;

53.

Suggests the establishment of a ‘clearinghouse’ at EU level with the objective of collecting and analysing best practices from all institutions and organisations active in the fight against HIV/AIDS; believes that such a mechanism would help to identify shortcomings in the existing actions and to formulate new strategies;

54.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, WHO (Europe) and the governments of the Member States.

(1)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0321.

(2)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0526.

(3)  HIV/AIDS in Europe, Council of Europe, Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee, rapporteur: Mrs Christine McCafferty, doc. 11033, 27 September 2006.

(4)  OJ L 33, 8.2.2003, p. 30.

(5)  OJ C 288 E, 25.11.2006, p. 66.

(6)  ‘Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis’ A joint Report by UNAIDS/UNFPA/UNIFEM 2004:45.

Wednesday 25 April 2007

20.3.2008   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 74/357

MINUTES

(2008/C 74 E/03)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA

Vice-President

1.   Opening of sitting

The sitting opened at 09.00.

2.   Transatlantic relations (debate)

Council and Commission statements: Transatlantic relations

Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Francis Wurtz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Godfrey Bloom, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Frank Vanhecke, on behalf of the ITS Group, Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group, Roger Helmer, Non-attached Member, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Sarah Ludford, Konrad Szymański, Johannes Voggenhuber, Miguel Portas, Bastiaan Belder, Andreas Mölzer, Jana Bobošíková and Charles Tannock.

IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT

Vice-President

The following spoke: Erika Mann, Sophia in 't Veld, Mario Borghezio, Georgios Karatzaferis, Jonathan Evans, Hannes Swoboda, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Miloslav Ransdorf, Paul Marie Coûteaux, Alexander Radwan, Martine Roure, Jerzy Buzek, Andrzej Jan Szejna, Bogdan Klich, Helmut Kuhne, Avril Doyle, Adrian Severin, Georgios Papastamkos, Richard Falbr, Antonio Tajani, Günter Gloser and Vladimír Špidla.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

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Cristiana Muscardini, Adam Bielan, Konrad Szymański, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Ryszard Czarnecki, Gintaras Didžiokas, Guntars Krasts, Inese Vaidere and Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, on behalf of the UEN Group, on transatlantic relations (B6-0149/2007);

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Pierre Jonckheer, Cem Özdemir, Angelika Beer, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg and Claude Turmes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on transatlantic relations (B6-0150/2007);

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Jan Marinus Wiersma, Hannes Swoboda, Erika Mann and Benoît Hamon, on behalf of the PSE Group, on transatlantic relations (B6-0151/2007);

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André Brie and Tobias Pflüger, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on transatlantic relations (B6-0152/2007);

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Bruno Gollnisch, on behalf of the ITS Group, on transatlantic relations (B6-0153/2007);

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Alexander Lambsdorff, Sophia in 't Veld, Lapo Pistelli, Margarita Starkevičiūtė and Anneli Jäätteenmäki, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on EU-US relations (B6-0154/2007);

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Joseph Daul, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Charles Tannock, Bogdan Klich, Georgios Papastamkos, Robert Sturdy, Alexander Radwan, John Bowis, Georg Jarzembowski and Malcolm Harbour, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the forthcoming EU-US Summit in Washington DC on 30 April 2007 (B6-0156/2007).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.13.

3.   Croatia's 2006 progress report (debate)

Report on Croatia's 2006 progress report [2006/2288(INI)] — Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rapporteur: Hannes Swoboda (A6-0092/2007)

Hannes Swoboda introduced the report.

The following spoke: Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, István Szent-Iványi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Milan Horáček, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Pál Schmitt, Borut Pahor, Jelko Kacin, Alojz Peterle, Pier Antonio Panzeri and Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 25.04.2007, Item 11.14.

IN THE CHAIR: Pierre MOSCOVICI

Vice-President

4.   Mandate of a Member

Graham Watson took the floor on behalf of the ALDE Group to point out that the Polish Government had stripped Bronisław Geremek of his mandate as a Member of the European Parliament with effect from 19.04.2007, as he had refused to sign a declaration relating to collaboration with the Communist-era secret services as required by a Polish ‘lustration’ (monitoring) law, which had entered into force on 15.03.2007. Graham Watson called on Hans-Gert Pöttering, the President of Parliament, to inform the House as to whether the matter had been raised at his latest meeting with the Polish Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. He also called on the relevant bodies within Parliament to look into the rules applying to the end of a Member's term of office and called on Parliament to take action as soon as possible to protect Mr Geremek's right to exercise his mandate.

The following Members spoke in support of Mr Watson's comments: Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Francis Wurtz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Giuseppe Gargani (Chairman of the JURI Committee) and Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group.

The President pointed out that Parliament had not yet received any formal notification from the Polish authorities concerning the end of Bronisław Geremek's mandate. He added that the Conference of Presidents and the JURI Committee would be looking into the matter with a view to upholding Parliament's independence.

5.   Voting time

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

5.1.   Transmission of national accounts data ***I (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 with respect to the transmission of national accounts data [COM(2005)0653 — C6-0438/2005 — 2005/0253(COD)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (A6-0122/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL, AMENDMENTS and DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0138)

5.2.   Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) [COM(2006)0113 — C6-0218/2006 — 2006/0036(CNS)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Eva Lichtenberger (A6-0060/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0139)

6.   Mandate of a Member (continuation)

The President decided to interrupt voting time for a few moments in order to give the floor to the group chairmen who had not yet had the opportunity to do so to speak on the matter of Bronisław Geremek's mandate.

The following spoke: Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group, and Bruno Gollnisch, on behalf of the ITS Group.

7.   Voting time (continuation)

7.1.   Adaption of Title IV of the EC Treaty — Court of Justice * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the draft Council decision adapting the provisions concerning the Court of Justice in fields covered by Title IV of Part Three of the Treaty establishing the European Community [COM(2006)0346 — C6-0304/2006 — 2006/0808(CNS)] — Committee on Legal Affairs.

Rapporteur: József Szájer (A6-0082/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

József Szájer (rapporteur) spoke under Rule 131(4).

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0140)

7.2.   Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community of a Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation and of the Protocol on Claims, Legal Proceedings and Indemnification to the Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation [COM(2006)0665 — C6-0475/2006 — 2006/0227(CNS)] — Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Rapporteur: Vladimír Remek (A6-0126/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0141)

7.3.   Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***II (vote)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 [14039/1/2006 — C6-0041/2007 — 2005/0191(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0134/2007)

(Qualified majority)

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

COMMON POSITION OF THE COUNCIL

Declared approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0142)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Robert Goebbels, before the vote, who requested that the document containing the Commission's position on the amendments tabled be distributed to Members (the President undertook to do so).

8.   Welcome

On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed members of the Knesset's delegation for relations with the European Parliament, led by its chairwoman Ms Amira Dotan, who had taken their seats in the distinguished visitors' gallery.

9.   Voting time (continuation)

9.1.   Assessment and management of flood risks ***II (vote)

Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks [12131/6/2006 — C6-0038/2007 — 2006/0005(COD)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Richard Seeber (A6-0064/2007)

(Qualified majority)

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

COMMON POSITION OF THE COUNCIL

Declared approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0143)

IN THE CHAIR: Hans-Gert PÖTTERING

President

10.   Formal sitting — India

From 12.00 to 12.45, a formal sitting of Parliament was held on the occasion of the visit by Abdul Kalam, President of the Republic of India.

IN THE CHAIR: Pierre MOSCOVICI

Vice-President

11.   Voting time (continuation)

11.1.   Advanced therapy medicinal products ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products and amending Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 [COM(2005)0567 — C6-0401/2005 — 2005/0227(COD)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Miroslav Mikolášik (A6-0031/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0144)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0144)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Miroslav Mikolášik (rapporteur) and Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the compromise amendments;

—

Hartmut Nassauer, on amendment 66;

—

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, on the conduct of the vote;

—

Miroslav Mikolášik, on the order of voting on the amendments.

11.2.   Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***I (vote)

Report on the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights [COM(2006)0168 — C6-0233/2005 — 2005/0127(COD)] — Committee on Legal Affairs.

Rapporteur: Nicola Zingaretti (A6-0073/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0145)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0145)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Ignasi Guardans Cambó, who moved an oral amendment to amendment 46; as more than 40 Members objected, it was not incorporated.

11.3.   Community vessel traffic monitoring ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system [COM(2005)0589 — C6-0004/2006 — 2005/0239(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Dirk Sterckx (A6-0086/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0146)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0146)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Luis de Grandes Pascual, who moved an oral amendment to amendment 46, which was incorporated.

11.4.   Investigation of accidents ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC [COM(2005)0590 — C6-0056/2006 — 2005/0240(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Jaromír Kohlíček (A6-0079/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0147)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0147)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Jaromír Kohlíček (rapporteur), who proposed switching the voting order on amendments 1 and 26. Parliament agreed to the proposal.

11.5.   Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea and inland waterways in the event of accidents [COM(2005)0592 — C6-0057/2006 — 2005/0241(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Paolo Costa (A6-0063/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0148)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0148)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Paolo Costa (rapporteur), who called on Members to reject the amendments not tabled by the committee responsible;

—

Georg Jarzembowski, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on Mr Costa's remarks.

11.6.   Port State control ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast version) [COM(2005)0588 — C6-0028/2006 — 2005/0238(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Dominique Vlasto (A6-0081/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0149)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0149)

11.7.   Ship inspection and survey organisations ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (recast version) [COM(2005)0587 — C6-0038/2006 — 2005/0237(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism.

Rapporteur: Luis de Grandes Pascual (A6-0070/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0150)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0150)

11.8.   International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) (vote)

Motion for a resolution tabled by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs under Rule 81 on the draft Commission regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1725/2003 adopting certain international accounting standards in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards: International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 8 concerning disclosure of operating segments (B6-0157/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Pervenche Berès, Chairwoman of the ECON Committee, requested under Rule 170(4) that the vote be postponed until the September II part-session. Parliament agreed to the request.

11.9.   Temporary committee on climate change (vote)

Proposal for a decision tabled by the Conference of Presidents under Rule 175 setting up a temporary committee on climate change (B6-0158/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0151)

11.10.   Damages actions for breach of competition rules (vote)

Report on the Green Paper on Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules [2006/2207(INI)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Antolín Sánchez Presedo (A6-0133/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0152)

11.11.   Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (vote)

Motion for a resolution B6-0148/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0153)

11.12.   Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources (vote)

Report on a Thematic Strategy for the sustainable use of natural resources [2006/2210(INI)] — Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Rapporteur: Kartika Tamara Liotard (A6-0054/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0154)

11.13.   Transatlantic relations (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0149/2007, B6-0150/2007, B6-0151/2007, B6-0152/2007, B6-0153/2007, B6-0154/2007 and B6-0156/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0149/2007

(replacing B6-0149/2007, B6-0151/2007, B6-0154/2007 and B6-0156/2007):

tabled by the following Members:

—

Joseph Daul, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Charles Tannock, Stefano Zappalà, Bogdan Klich, Antonio Tajani, Jas Gawronski, Georgios Papastamkos, Robert Sturdy, Alexander Radwan, John Bowis, Georg Jarzembowski and Malcolm Harbour, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—

Jan Marinus Wiersma, Hannes Swoboda and Erika Mann on behalf of the PSE Group,

—

Alexander Lambsdorff, Sophia in 't Veld, Lapo Pistelli, Margarita Starkevičiūtė and Anneli Jäätteenmäki, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—

Adam Bielan, Konrad Szymański and Michał Tomasz Kamiński, on behalf of the UEN Group

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0155)

(Motions for resolutions B6-0150/2007, B6-0152/2007 and B6-0153/2007 fell.)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Sophia in 't Veld and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, who both moved oral amendments to paragraph 13 (both oral amendments were incorporated).

11.14.   Progress report on Croatia (vote)

Report on Croatia's 2006 progress report [2006/2288(INI)] — Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rapporteur: Hannes Swoboda (A6-0092/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0156)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Hannes Swoboda (rapporteur), who moved an oral amendment to amendment 18 and another oral amendment to amendment 24. Both were incorporated.

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO

Vice-President

The following spoke: Reinhard Rack, who thought it might be a good idea to hold formal sittings on Tuesdays, rather than Wednesdays, as voting time on Tuesday was usually shorter (the President undertook to pass on the suggestion to the relevant departments).

12.   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: Paolo Costa — A6-0134/2007: Daniel Hannan

—

Report: Miroslav Mikolášik — A6-0031/2007: Miroslav Mikolášik and Zuzana Roithová

—

Report: Nicola Zingaretti — A6-0073/2007: Andreas Mölzer and Zuzana Roithová

—

Report: Hannes Swoboda — A6-0092/2007: Andreas Mölzer and Czesław Adam Siekierski

13.   Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Corrections to votes and voting intentions 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 and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.

(The sitting was suspended at 14.00 and resumed at 15.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU

Vice-President

14.   Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

15.   Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter — Moratorium on the death penalty (debate)

Report on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter [2007/2020(INI)] — Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rapporteur: Simon Coveney (A6-0128/2007)

Council and Commission statements: Moratorium on the death penalty

Simon Coveney introduced the report.

Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Joe Borg (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Roberta Alma Anastase, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Józef Pinior, on behalf of the PSE Group, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Inese Vaidere, on behalf of the UEN Group, Hélène Flautre, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Miguel Portas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Jim Allister, Non-attached Member, Maria da Assunção Esteves, Raimon Obiols i Germà, Marco Pannella, Liam Aylward, Alessandro Battilocchio, Kinga Gál and Csaba Sándor Tabajdi.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Ángel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ

Vice-President

The following spoke: Hubert Pirker, Richard Howitt, Patrick Gaubert, Bogusław Sonik, David Casa, Günter Gloser and Joe Borg.

Motion for a resolution tabled to wind up the debate pursuant to Rule 103(2):

—

Joseph Daul, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Simon Coveney and Antonio Tajani, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Pasqualina Napoletano, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marco Cappato and Marco Pannella, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Roberta Angelilli and Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group, Hélène Flautre, Monica Frassoni, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Milan Horáček and Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Luisa Morgantini, Miguel Portas and Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the initiative for a universal moratorium on the death penalty (B6-0164/2007).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 27.04.2007, Item 8.9.

16.   Ukraine (debate)

Council and Commission statements: Ukraine

Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, István Szent-Iványi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Guntars Krasts, on behalf of the UEN Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Helmuth Markov, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Charles Tannock, Adrian Severin, Grażyna Staniszewska, Jerzy Buzek and Günter Gloser.

IN THE CHAIR: Mechtild ROTHE

Vice-President

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla.

The debate closed.

17.   Homophobia in Europe (debate)

Council and Commission statements: Homophobia in Europe

Konrad Szymański spoke on behalf of the UEN Group to move the inadmissibility of the matter pursuant to Rule 167 (Minutes of 24.04.2007, Item 13).

The following spoke on the motion: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.

Parliament rejected the motion by roll-call vote (Verts/ALE) (103 in favour, 210 against, 2 abstentions).

Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martine Roure, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the UEN Group, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hélène Goudin, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Philip Claeys, on behalf of the ITS Group, Michael Cashman, Jan Jerzy Kułakowski, Bogdan Pęk, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Witold Tomczak, Józef Pinior, Alexander Stubb, Günter Gloser and Vladimír Špidla.

Motion for a resolution tabled to wind up the debate pursuant to Rule 103(2):

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Sophia in 't Veld, Alexander Alvaro, Sarah Ludford and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on homophobia in Europe (B6-0167/2007)

—

Martine Roure and Michael Cashman, on behalf of the PSE Group, on homophobia in Europe (B6-0168/2007)

—

Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the UEN Group, on homophobia in Europe (B6-0170/2007)

—

Monica Frassoni, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Giusto Catania, Mary Lou McDonald, Eva-Britt Svensson, Miguel Portas, Gabriele Zimmer, Vittorio Agnoletto and André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on homophobia in Europe (B6-0171/2007)

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 8.11.

(The sitting was suspended at 17.50 pending Question Time and resumed at 18.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS

Vice-President

18.   Question Time (Council)

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0017/2007).

Question 1 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Bolstering the Frontex Agency.

Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega and Alexander Stubb.

Question 2 had been withdrawn.

Question 3 (Sarah Ludford): The investigation and prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Günter Gloser answered the question and a supplementary by Sarah Ludford.

Question 4 (Glenis Willmott): Type 1 diabetes.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Glenis Willmott and Sarah Ludford.

Question 5 (Philip Bushill-Matthews): Provision of child care.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Philip Bushill-Matthews, Justas Vincas Paleckis and Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou.

Question 6 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Updating the Directive on ‘Television Without Frontiers’ and combating violence and discrimination.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Andreas Mölzer and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 7 (Bernd Posselt): Bringing Macedonia closer to the EU.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Andreas Mölzer and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Question 8 (Sajjad Karim): Darfur.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Fiona Hall (deputising for the author), Danutė Budreikaitė and Esko Seppänen.

Question 9 (Tobias Pflüger): Extrajudicial executions in the Philippines.

Günter Gloser answered the question and a supplementary by Tobias Pflüger.

Question 10 (Sahra Wagenknecht): Attacks on anti-war activists in Sri Lanka.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Sahra Wagenknecht and Tobias Pflüger.

Question 11 (Danutė Budreikaitė): Ecological consequences of the northern oil pipeline.

Günter Gloser answered the question and supplementaries by Danutė Budreikaitė and Nils Lundgren.

Question 12 (Georgios Papastamkos): EU territorial agenda.

Günter Gloser answered the question and a supplementary by Georgios Papastamkos.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Council Question Time closed.

(The sitting was suspended at 19.00 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA

Vice-President

19.   Rapid Border Intervention Teams (debate)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism [COM(2006)0401 — C6-0253/2006 — 2006/0140(COD)] — Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A6-0135/2007)

The following spoke: Joe Borg (Member of the Commission) spoke.

Gérard Deprez introduced the report.

The following spoke: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Javier Moreno Sánchez, on behalf of the PSE Group, Bernat Joan i Marí, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Johannes Blokland, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Giuseppe Castiglione, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Athanasios Pafilis, Carlos Coelho, Ryszard Czarnecki, Hubert Pirker, Simon Busuttil, Francesco Musotto, Barbara Kudrycka and Joe Borg.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 8.6.

20.   Public Finances in the EMU 2006 (debate)

Report on Public Finances in EMU 2006 [2007/2004(INI)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Kurt Joachim Lauk (A6-0076/2007)

Andreas Schwab (deputising for the rapporteur) introduced the report.

The following spoke: Joe Borg (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Dariusz Rosati, on behalf of the PSE Group, Wojciech Roszkowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Sahra Wagenknecht, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, John Whittaker, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Zsolt László Becsey, Pervenche Berès, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Othmar Karas, Donata Gottardi, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk and Joe Borg.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 8.12.

21.   Strengthen European legislation in the field of information and consultation of workers (debate)

Commission statement: Strengthen European legislation in the field of information and consultation of workers

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Gabriele Stauner, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Stephen Hughes, on behalf of the PSE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Ieke van den Burg, Harald Ettl, Kader Arif, Inés Ayala Sender, Matthias Groote, Alejandro Cercas, Karin Jöns and Vladimír Špidla.

As the motions for resolutions tabled were not yet available, they would be announced in plenary at a later time.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 10.05.2007, Item 7.14.

22.   Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 89/391/EEC, its individual Directives and Council Directives 83/477/EEC, 91/383/EEC, 92/29/EEC and 94/33/EC with a view to simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation [COM(2006)0390 — C6-0242/2006 — 2006/0127(COD)] — Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Rapporteur: Ilda Figueiredo (A6-0059/2007)

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) spoke.

Ilda Figueiredo introduced the report.

The following spoke: Mihael Brejc, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Harald Ettl, on behalf of the PSE Group, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, on behalf of the UEN Group, Andreas Mölzer, on behalf of the ITS Group, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou and Vladimír Špidla.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 8.1.

23.   Agenda for next sitting

The agenda for the next sitting had been established (‘Agenda’ PE 387.009/OJJE).

24.   Closure of sitting

The sitting closed at 23.25.

Harald Rømer

Secretary-General

Diana Wallis

Vice-President

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

The following signed:

Adamou, Agnoletto, Aita, Albertini, Allister, Alvaro, Anastase, Andersson, Andrejevs, Andria, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Ashworth, Assis, Athanasiu, Atkins, Attard-Montalto, Attwooll, Aubert, Audy, Ayala Sender, Aylward, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Baco, Badia i Cutchet, Bărbuleţiu, Barón Crespo, Barsi-Pataky, Batten, Battilocchio, Batzeli, Bauer, Beaupuy, Beazley, Becsey, Beer, Beglitis, Belder, Belet, Belohorská, Bennahmias, Beňová, Berend, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Bielan, Birutis, Bliznashki, Blokland, Bloom, Bobošíková, Böge, Bösch, Bonde, Bono, Bonsignore, Booth, Borghezio, Borrell Fontelles, Bourlanges, Bourzai, Bowis, Bowles, Bozkurt, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Breyer, Březina, Brie, Brunetta, Budreikaitė, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Buruiană-Aprodu, Bushill-Matthews, Busk, Busquin, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Camre, Capoulas Santos, Cappato, Carlotti, Carlshamre, Carnero González, Casa, Casaca, Cashman, Casini, Caspary, Castex, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Catania, Cederschiöld, Cercas, Chatzimarkakis, Chervenyakov, Chichester, Chiesa, Chmielewski, Christensen, Chruszcz, Ciornei, Claeys, Clark, Cocilovo, Coelho, Cohn-Bendit, Corbett, Corbey, Cornillet, Correia, Coşea, Paolo Costa, Cottigny, Coûteaux, Coveney, Cramer, Corina Creţu, Gabriela Creţu, Crowley, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Daul, Davies, De Blasio, de Brún, Degutis, De Keyser, Demetriou, Deprez, De Rossa, Descamps, Désir, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, De Vits, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dičkutė, Didžiokas, Díez González, Dillen, Dimitrakopoulos, Konstantin Dimitrov, Martin Dimitrov, Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Douay, Dover, Doyle, Drčar Murko, Duchoň, Dührkop Dührkop, Duff, Duka-Zólyomi, Dumitrescu, Ebner, Ehler, Ek, El Khadraoui, Elles, Esteves, Estrela, Ettl, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Färm, Fajmon, Falbr, Farage, Fatuzzo, Fava, Fazakas, Ferber, Fernandes, Fernández Martín, Anne Ferreira, Elisa Ferreira, Figueiredo, Fjellner, Flasarová, Florenz, Foltyn-Kubicka, Fontaine, Ford, Fourtou, Fraga Estévez, Frassoni, Freitas, Friedrich, Fruteau, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, García Pérez, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gebhardt, Gentvilas, Geremek, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gewalt, Gibault, Gierek, Giertych, Gill, Gklavakis, Glante, Glattfelder, Gobbo, Goebbels, Goepel, Golik, Gollnisch, Gomes, Gomolka, Gottardi, Goudin, Grabowska, Grabowski, Graça Moura, Graefe zu Baringdorf, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grech, Griesbeck, Gröner, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Groote, Grosch, Grossetête, Guardans Cambó, Guellec, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Gurmai, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Guy-Quint, Gyürk, Hänsch, Hall, Hammerstein, Hamon, Handzlik, Hannan, Harangozó, Harbour, Harkin, Harms, Hasse Ferreira, Hassi, Hatzidakis, Haug, Hazan, Heaton-Harris, Hedh, Hegyi, Hellvig, Helmer, Henin, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hennis-Plasschaert, Herczog, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Holm, Honeyball, Hoppenstedt, Horáček, Howitt, Hudacký, Hudghton, Hughes, Hutchinson, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Isler Béguin, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jäätteenmäki, Jałowiecki, Janowski, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jensen, Joan i Marí, Jöns, Jørgensen, Jonckheer, Jordan Cizelj, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kaczmarek, Kallenbach, Kamall, Kamiński, Karas, Karatzaferis, Karim, Kasoulides, Kaufmann, Kauppi, Tunne Kelam, Kelemen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Knapman, Koch, Koch-Mehrin, Kohlíček, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Kozlík, Krasts, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kristovskis, Krupa, Kuc, Kudrycka, Kuhne, Kułakowski, Kušķis, Kusstatscher, Kuźmiuk, Lagendijk, Laignel, Lamassoure, Lambert, Lambrinidis, Lambsdorff, Lang, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, La Russa, Lauk, Lavarra, Lax, Lechner, Le Foll, Lehne, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, Le Rachinel, Lévai, Lewandowski, Liberadzki, Libicki, Lichtenberger, Lienemann, Liese, Lipietz, Locatelli, López-Istúriz White, Louis, Lucas, Ludford, Lulling, Lundgren, Lynne, Maaten, McAvan, McCarthy, McDonald, McGuinness, McMillan-Scott, Madeira, Maldeikis, Manders, Maňka, Erika Mann, Thomas Mann, Manolakou, Mantovani, Marinescu, Markov, Marques, Martens, David Martin, Hans-Peter Martin, Martinez, Martínez Martínez, Masiel, Maštálka, Mastenbroek, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsakis, Matsis, Matsouka, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Medina Ortega, Meijer, Méndez de Vigo, Menéndez del Valle, Meyer Pleite, Miguélez Ramos, Mihăescu, Mihalache, Mikko, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Mölzer, Mohácsi, Moisuc, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Morgantini, Morillon, Morţun, Moscovici, Mote, Mulder, Musacchio, Muscat, Musotto, Mussolini, Musumeci, Myller, Napoletano, Nassauer, Nattrass, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Özdemir, Olajos, Olbrycht, Ó Neachtain, Onesta, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Őry, Ouzký, Oviir, Paasilinna, Pack, Pafilis, Pahor, Paleckis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Pannella, Panzeri, Papadimoulis, Paparizov, Papastamkos, Parish, Parvanova, Paşcu, Patriciello, Patrie, Peillon, Pęk, Alojz Peterle, Petre, Pflüger, Piecyk, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pinior, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Pirker, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Pleštinská, Podestà, Podgorean, Podkański, Pöttering, Pohjamo, Poignant, Polfer, Pomés Ruiz, Popeangă, Portas, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Prets, Vittorio Prodi, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ransdorf, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Remek, Resetarits, Reul, Reynaud, Ribeiro e Castro, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Rivera, Rizzo, Rogalski, Roithová, Romagnoli, Romeva i Rueda, Rosati, Roszkowski, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Rühle, Rutowicz, Ryan, Sacconi, Saïfi, Sakalas, Saks, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Salinas García, Samuelsen, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Savary, Savi, Sbarbati, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schenardi, Schierhuber, Schlyter, Olle Schmidt, Frithjof Schmidt, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Jürgen Schröder, Schroedter, Schulz, Schuth, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Segelström, Seppänen, Şerbu, Severin, Shouleva, Siekierski, Sifunakis, Silva Peneda, Simpson, Sinnott, Siwiec, Skinner, Škottová, Sofianski, Sommer, Søndergaard, Sonik, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Spautz, Speroni, Staes, Stănescu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Šťastný, Stauner, Sterckx, Stevenson, Stihler, Stockmann, Stoyanov, Strejček, Strož, Stubb, Sudre, Sumberg, Surján, Susta, Svensson, Szabó, Szájer, Szejna, Szent-Iványi, Szymański, Tabajdi, Tajani, Takkula, Tannock, Tarabella, Tarand, Tatarella, Thyssen, Ţicău, Ţîrle, Titley, Toia, Tomczak, Toubon, Trakatellis, Trautmann, Triantaphyllides, Trüpel, Turmes, Tzampazi, Uca, Ulmer, Vaidere, Vakalis, Vălean, Vanhecke, Van Hecke, Van Lancker, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vaugrenard, Ventre, Veraldi, Verges, Vergnaud, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vigenin, de Villiers, Virrankoski, Vlasák, Vlasto, Voggenhuber, Wagenknecht, Wallis, Walter, Henri Weber, Manfred Weber, Weiler, Weisgerber, Westlund, Whittaker, Wieland, Wiersma, Wijkman, Willmott, Wise, von Wogau, Wohlin, Bernard Wojciechowski, Wortmann-Kool, Wurtz, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zani, Zapałowski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Ždanoka, Železný, Zieleniec, Zīle, Zimmer, Zingaretti, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

ANNEX I

RESULTS OF VOTES

Abbreviations and symbols

+

adopted

-

rejected

↓

lapsed

W

withdrawn

RCV (..., ..., ...)

roll-call vote (in favour, against, abstentions)

EV (..., ..., ...)

electronic vote (in favour, against, abstentions)

split

split vote

sep

separate vote

am

amendment

CA

compromise amendment

CP

corresponding part

D

deleting amendment

=

identical amendments

§

paragraph

art

article

rec

recital

MOT

motion for a resolution

JT MOT

joint motion for a resolution

SEC

secret ballot

1.   Transmission of national accounts data ***I

Report: José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL (A6-0122/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

2.   Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area *

Report: Eva LICHTENBERGER (A6-0060/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

3.   Adaptation of Title IV of the EC Treaty — Court of Justice *

Report: József SZÁJER (A6-0082/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

4.   Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation *

Report: Vladimír REMEK (A6-0126/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

5.   Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***II

Recommendation for second reading: Paolo COSTA (A6-0134/2007) (qualified majority)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1-7

9-32

34-59

61-76

80

82-91

93-97

committee

 

+

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

8

committee

sep

+

 

33

committee

sep

+

 

60

committee

sep

+

 

77

committee

sep/EV

+

417, 177, 10

78

committee

sep

+

 

79

committee

sep/EV

+

403, 171, 14

81

committee

sep

+

 

annex, section 10, § 3

98

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

289, 371, 6

92

committee

 

+

 

Requests for roll-call votes

GUE/NGL: am 98

Requests for separate votes

PPE-DE: ams 8, 33, 60

PSE: ams 77, 78, 79 and 81

6.   Assessment and management of flood risks ***II

Recommendation for second reading: Richard SEEBER (A6-0064/2007) (qualified majority)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

block 1 compromise

43-69

PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL, UEN, BLOKLAND

 

+

 

block 2 amendments by the committee responsible

1-42

committee

 

↓

 

7.   Advanced therapy medicinal products ***I

Report: Miroslav MIKOLÁŠIK (A6-0031/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

block 1 — compromise PSE, ALDE, GUE/NGL

82-145

147-156

PSE, ALDE,

GUE/NGL

EV

+

403, 246, 11

block 2 amendments by the committee responsible

1-2

4

7-16

18-70

committee

 

↓

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

3

committee

RCV

-

260, 360, 17

17

committee

RCV

-

259, 357, 26

24

committee

sep

↓

 

35

committee

sep

↓

 

44

committee

sep

↓

 

45

committee

sep

↓

 

61

committee

sep

↓

 

62

committee

 

↓

 

66

committee

 

↓

 

block 3

71

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

296, 360, 17

72

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

282, 355, 16

73

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

270, 372, 22

74

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

280, 372, 24

76

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

276, 362, 22

77

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

279, 376, 22

78

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

312, 341, 21

79

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

298, 363, 20

80

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

299, 360, 21

81

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

292, 365, 21

art 28, § 2

157

PPE-DE

RCV

-

314, 350, 12

rec 14

75

GARGANI et al

RCV

-

289, 375, 13

6=

146=

committee

PSE, ALDE,

GUE/NGL

 

+

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Amendments 71-81 had been revised.

Amendment 5 did not concern all language versions and was therefore not put to the vote (Rule 151(1)(d)).

Requests for separate votes

ALDE: ams 3 and 17

PSE: ams 3 and 17

Verts/ALE: ams 3, 17

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: ams 3, 17, 72, 78, 79, 80, 81, 157

Verts/ALE: ams 78, 79, 80

PPE-DE: ams 3, 17, 157, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81

8.   Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***I

Report: Nicola ZINGARETTI (A6-0073/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

proposal to reject the proposal for a directive

43=44

GUE/NGL, Verts/ALE

RCV

-

197, 452, 11

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1-2

4-7

10-12

15

23

25

committee

 

+

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

11

original text

 

-

 

29

committee

sep

+

 

art 1

45=

63=

Verts/ALE

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

8-9

committee

 

+

 

art 2

46

Verts/ALE

split/RCV

 

oral amendment

1

-

242, 408, 20

2

-

217, 372, 19

3

-

159, 465, 15

4

-

223, 406, 23

5

-

217, 419, 23

39=

59=

PSE, PPE-DE

GUE/NGL

split/RCV

 

 

1

+

391, 261, 24

2

+

494, 51, 20

3

+

480, 180, 22

4

+

449, 208, 20

5

+

549, 93, 40

13

committee

 

↓

 

30

ALDE

 

↓

 

after art 2

38

PSE, PPE-DE

RCV

+

549, 101, 20

art 3

50=

64=

Verts/ALE

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

234, 391, 30

31

ALDE

 

-

 

14

committee

 

+

 

art 3 — after existing text

51

Verts/ALE

EV

-

251, 413, 19

16

committee

RCV

+

637, 26, 14

52

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

53

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

art 4

54=

60=

Verts/ALE

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

180, 476, 28

41

PSE, PPE-DE

EV

+

416, 210, 41

17-19

committee

 

+

 

art 5

55=

65=

Verts/ALE

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

20-22

committee

 

+

 

after § 6

61

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

123, 541, 15

24

committee

 

+

 

56

Verts/ALE

 

↓

 

art 7

57=

62=

Verts/ALE

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

139, 513, 19

32

ALDE

 

-

 

26

committee

sep

-

 

27-28

committee

 

+

 

art 8

58

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

after rec 5

34

ALDE

 

-

 

after rec 7

33

ALDE

 

+

 

rec 8

35

ALDE

 

-

 

37

PSE, PPE-DE

 

+

 

3

committee

 

↓

 

vote: amended proposal

RCV

+

379, 270, 24

vote: legislative resolution

RCV

+

374, 278, 17

Amendments 40 and 42 did not concern all language versions and were therefore not put to the vote (Rule 151(1)(d)).

Amendments 36 and 66 had been cancelled. Amendments 47, 48 and 49 had been withdrawn.

Requests for roll-call votes

GUE/NGL: ams 43, 44, 64, 16, 60, 61, 62

Verts/ALE: am 57

ALDE: ams 39/59, 46, 38, amended proposal and final vote

PSE: am 39/59

Requests for separate votes

PSE: am 11

GUE/NGL: ams 29, 26

Requests for split votes

PSE, Verts/ALE, ALDE

am 39/59

1st part: point (a) without indents 1, 2 and 5

2nd part: indents 1, 2 and 5 of point (a)

3rd part: point b)

4th part: point (c)

5th part: point (d)

Verts/ALE, ALDE

am 46

1st part: point (a)

2nd part: point (b) without the words ‘committed in pursuit of a direct pecuniary gain’

3rd part: the words ‘committed in pursuit of a direct pecuniary gain’

4th part: point (c)

5th part: point (d)

Miscellaneous

Ignasi Guardans Cambó moved an oral amendment to amendment 46, replacing the words ‘intellectual property’ with ‘copyright and related rights’.

9.   Monitoring, control and information system for maritime traffic ***I

Report: Dirk STERCKX (A6-0086/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

2-7

9-18

20

22-23

25-28

30-38

40-45

47

49-50

committee

 

+

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

1

committee

sep

+

 

8

committee

sep

+

 

21

committee

sep

+

 

39

committee

sep

+

 

46

committee

sep

+

oral amendment

51

committee

sep

+

 

52

committee

sep

+

 

53

committee

sep

+

 

54

committee

sep

+

 

art 1, before point 1

57

ALDE

 

+

 

art 1, after point 1

62

ALDE

 

+

 

art 1, point 2, point (b)

58

ALDE

 

+

 

19

committee

 

↓

 

art 1, after point 3

59

ALDE

 

+

 

24

committee

 

↓

 

art 1, after point 4

64

ALDE

 

+

 

29

committee

 

↓

 

art 1, point 8

55

Verts/ALE

RCV

+

364, 274, 10

art 1, point 11

65

ALDE

 

+

 

art 1, after point 13

66

ALDE

 

+

 

48

committee

 

↓

 

60

ALDE

 

+

 

art 1, point 14

61

ALDE

 

+

 

art 1, after point 14

63

ALDE

 

+

 

after rec 14

56

Verts/ALE

EV

+

395, 268, 7

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Requests for separate votes

ALDE: ams 21, 51, 52, 53 and 54

PPE-DE: ams 8, 1, 39, 46, 48

Requests for roll-call votes

Verts/ALE: am 55

Miscellaneous

Luis de Grandes Pascual moved an oral amendment to amendment 46, which then read as follows:

The findings of that study shall be made available at the latest twelve months before the entry into force of the obligation referred to in Article 6a, and in any case not later than 1 July 2008.

10.   Investigation of accidents ***I

Report: Jaromír KOHLÍČEK (A6-0079/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

2-7

9-11

13

15-20

22-24

committee

 

+

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

8

committee

sep

+

 

12

committee

sep

+

 

14

committee

RCV

+

431, 235, 3

art 2, § 2

25

ALDE

 

-

 

rec 11

26

PSE, GUE/NGL

EV

+

381, 280, 8

1

committee

 

↓

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Amendment 21 did not concern all language versions and was therefore not put to the vote (Rule 151(1)(d)).

Requests for roll-call votes

PSE: am 14

Requests for separate votes

PSE: ams 8, 12

11.   Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***I

Report: Paolo COSTA (A6-0063/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1-7

9-13

15

committee

 

+

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

8

committee

sep

+

 

14

committee

sep/EV

+

352, 307, 17

Title

16=

22=

PPE-DE

IND/DEM:

RCV

+

338, 323, 9

art 1, § 1

19=

25=

PPE-DE

IND/DEM:

RCV

+

337, 324, 12

art 1, § 2

20=

26=

PPE-DE

IND/DEM:

RCV

+

336, 323, 6

art 2, introductory part

21=

27=

PPE-DE

IND/DEM:

RCV

+

333, 316, 9

rec 1

17=

23=

PPE-DE

IND/DEM:

RCV

+

338, 326, 7

rec 3

18=

24=

PPE-DE

IND/DEM:

RCV

+

336, 320, 9

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: am 22

ALDE: ams 16/22

PPE-DE: ams 19, 20, 21

PSE: ams 16/22, 17/23, 18/24, 19/25, 20/26, 21/27

Requests for separate votes

IND/DEM: am 8

PPE-DE: am 14

12.   Port State control ***I

Report: Dominique VLASTO (A6-0081/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1-9

11-12

14-17

19-20

22

24-25

27-36

38-44

47-65

67

69-78

80-92

94-103

105-106

committee

 

+

 

amendments by the committee responsible — separate vote

10

committee

sep

+

 

21

committee

sep

+

 

56

committee

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/EV

-

267, 298, 24

68

committee

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

art 1, after point (b)

13

committee

 

+

 

113

UEN

 

↓

 

art 2, after § 8

108/rev

PSE

 

W

 

art 2, § 9

109/rev

PSE

 

-

 

18

committee

 

+

 

art 3, § 1

114

UEN

 

-

 

26

committee

 

+

 

after art 5

115

UEN

 

-

 

37

committee

 

+

 

art 7

45

committee

 

+

 

110/rev

PSE

 

↓

 

after art 7

46

committee

EV

+

303, 289, 10

107

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

annex II, part II, section 3

111/rev

PSE

EV

+

334, 273, 10

93

committee

 

↓

 

after rec 11

116

UEN

 

-

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Amendments 111 and 112 had been merged (see amendment 111/rev).

Amendments 23, 66, 79 and 104 did not concern all language versions and were therefore not put to the vote (Rule 151(1)(d)).

Requests for split votes

PSE

§ 56

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘if the complaint is admissible’

2nd part: those words

am 68

1st part: text as a whole without ‘may’

2nd part: that word

Requests for separate votes

PSE: ams 10, 21, 93

Miscellaneous

The PSE Group had withdrawn its amendment 108/rev.

13.   Ship inspection and survey organisations ***I

Report: Luis DE GRANDES PASCUAL (A6-0070/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1

3-9

11-21

23

25-28

30-31

33-57

59-64

66-69

71

committee

 

+

 

art 8, § 2, point (b), point (i)

29

committee

 

+

 

75

ALDE

EV

-

304, 306, 11

art 21, § 1, introductory part

74

PPE-DE

 

+

 

58

committee

 

↓

 

art 21, § 2, subpara 1

65

committee

 

+

 

73

PSE

 

↓

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

Amendments 2, 10, 22, 24, 32, 70 and 72 did not concern all language versions and were therefore not put to the vote (Rule 151(1)(d)).

14.   International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

Motion for a resolution: (B6-0157/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

motion for a resolution B6-0157/2007

(ECON Committee)

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

 

 

Vote postponed until the September II part-session (Rule 170(4)).

15.   Temporary committee on climate change

Motion for a resolution: (B6-0158/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

motion for a resolution B6-0158/2007

(Conference of Presidents)

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

16.   Damages actions for breach of competition rules

Report: Antolín SÁNCHEZ PRESEDO (A6-0133/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

§ 2

15

ALDE

 

+

 

§ 7

1

PPE-DE

 

-

 

§ 9

2

PPE-DE

 

-

 

§ 10

3D

PPE-DE

RCV

-

274, 338, 5

after § 10

13

PSE, ALDE, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL

 

+

 

9

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

14

PSE, ALDE, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL

 

+

 

4

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

§ 12

10

PPE-DE

RCV

-

280, 344, 7

§ 15

5D

PPE-DE

 

-

 

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

-

 

§ 18

6

PPE-DE

 

-

 

§ 19

16

ALDE

RCV

+

357, 254, 19

§ 20

7D

PPE-DE

RCV

-

261, 357, 12

8

PPE-DE

RCV

-

239, 369, 11

§ 27

17

ALDE

RCV

+

313, 286, 8

rec E

11

PPE-DE

 

-

 

§

original text

split

 

 

1

-

 

2

+

 

rec I

12

PSE, ALDE, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL

 

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

EV

+

337, 275, 5

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: ams 7, 8, and 17

Verts/ALE: ams 3, 7, 10 and 16

Requests for split votes

ALDE

rec E

1st part:‘whereas art 85 ... and 308; and’

2nd part:‘whereas as the Court of Justice ... effectiveness’

§ 15

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘that it should be possible ... discretionary basis’

2nd part: those words

17.   Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area

Motion for a resolution: (B6-0148/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

motion for a resolution B6-0148/2007

(TRAN Committee)

after § 1

1

Verts/ALE, PSE

 

+

 

§ 5

2

Verts/ALE, PSE

 

+

 

§ 9

3

Verts/ALE, PSE

 

-

 

§ 10

4

PSE, Verts/ALE

 

-

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

18.   Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources

Report: Kartika Tamara LIOTARD (A6-0054/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

§ 20

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 25

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

-

 

§ 27

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 29

7

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

after § 29

2

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

3

GUE/NGL

RCV

-

154, 443, 7

§ 32

§

original text

sep/EV

+

361, 238, 9

§ 38

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 39

4

GUE/NGL

 

+

 

after § 39

5

GUE/NGL

EV

+

324, 284, 11

8

Verts/ALE

RCV

+

355, 244, 12

§ 45

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 47

§

original text

sep

-

 

§ 48

§

original text

sep

-

 

§ 49

6

GUE/NGL

split

 

 

1

-

 

2

-

 

§

original text

sep

-

 

§ 51

§

original text

sep/EV

+

359, 237, 12

§ 55

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 59

9

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

§

original text

 

↓

 

§ 63

10

Verts/ALE

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

-

 

after rec A

1

GUE/NGL

 

+

 

rec J

§

original text

sep/EV

+

380, 221, 9

rec M

§

original text

sep

+

 

rec O

§

original text

sep/EV

+

360, 222, 10

rec Z

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

-

 

rec AB

§

original text

sep

+

 

rec AG

§

original text

sep

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

Requests for separate votes

PPE-DE: recs J, M, O, Z, AB and AG and §§ 25, 27, 32, 38, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 55

Requests for roll-call votes

Verts/ALE: ams 3, 8

Requests for split votes

ALDE

rec Z

1st part:‘whereas a transformation ... urgently needed;’

2nd part:‘whereas the main objective is ... designs as possible;’

§ 25

1st part:‘considers it important ... resources from third countries’

2nd part:‘would consider it unacceptable ... by way of compensation;’

am 10

1st part:‘draws attention to ... product groups by 2010;’

2nd part:‘and to explore the possibility of ... reparability of products;’

PPE-DE

§ 20

1st part:‘Does not agree ... environmental footprint’

2nd part:‘the challenge would ... on natural resources’

am 6

1st part:‘Considers that long-distance ... CO2 emissions involved’

2nd part:‘and asks for ... in all legislation’

19.   Transatlantic relations

Motions for resolutions: (B6-0149/2007, B6-0150/2007, B6-0151/2007, B6-0152/2007, B6-0153/2007, B6-0154/2007, B6-0156/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

joint motion for a resolution: RC-B6-0149/2007

(PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN)

after § 5

3

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

192, 282, 132

4

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

102, 307, 186

after § 10

2

ROITHOVA et al

 

-

 

§ 13

 

original text

 

+

oral amendment

§ 14

§

original text

split/RCV

 

 

1

+

547, 69, 6

2

+

330, 270, 6

3

-

288, 325, 8

§ 17

5

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

83, 509, 21

1

PSE

EV

-

268, 344, 9

after § 17

6

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

96, 472, 27

§ 18

§

original text

RCV

+

333, 251, 31

after § 22

7

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

133, 337, 137

8

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

120, 443, 29

§ 29

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

after § 29

9

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

105, 454, 39

§ 35

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

-

 

rec C

§

original text

RCV

+

332, 259, 15

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

motions for resolutions by political groups

B6-0149/2007

 

UEN

 

↓

 

B6-0150/2007

 

Verts/ALE

 

↓

 

B6-0151/2007

 

PSE

 

↓

 

B6-0152/2007

 

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

B6-0153/2007

 

ITS

 

↓

 

B6-0154/2007

 

ALDE

 

 

 

motion for a resolution B6-0156/2007

(PPE-DE)

after § 11

1

ROITHOVA ea

 

↓

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

↓

 

Requests for separate votes

PPE-DE: § 18

Requests for roll-call votes

UEN: rec C, §§ 14, 18

Verts/ALE: ams 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Requests for split votes

PPE-DE, PSE

§ 14

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘alleged’ and ‘is concerned that ... is being pursued’

2nd part:‘is concerned that ... is being pursued’

3rd part: the word ‘alleged’

PPE-DE

§ 35

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘and national parliaments’

2nd part: those words

§ 29

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘urges the US ... the Kyoto Protocol’

2nd part: those words

Miscellaneous

Sophia in 't Veld and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra moved an oral amendment to § 13, which then read as follows:

13. Notes the newly created High-Level Working Group composed of representatives of the Commission, the Council and US governmental representatives of the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, which constitutes the framework for EU-US dialogue on security matters; so as to give greater democratic legitimacy, to this dialogue, calls for the European Parliament to be involved;

20.   Progress report on Croatia

Report: Hannes SWOBODA (A6-0092/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

after § 5

19

Verts/ALE

 

+

 

12

UEN

 

-

 

13

UEN

 

-

 

§ 8, point (a)

3

PPE-DE

EV

-

261, 263, 8

§ 8, point (b)

4

PPE-DE

 

+

 

§ 8, point (c)

20

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

5

PPE-DE

 

-

 

§ 8, point (f)

18

PSE

 

+

oral amendment

§ 8, point (g)

14

UEN

 

-

 

§ 8, point (j)

15

UEN

split/RCV

 

 

1

+

513, 21, 8

2

+

445, 55, 7

3

+

453, 54, 5

§ 9

6

PPE-DE

 

+

 

§ 10

7

PPE-DE

 

W

 

after § 10

8

UEN

 

-

 

23

PPE-DE

EV

-

163, 337, 15

after § 10

24

PSE, PPE-DE, Verts/ALE

 

+

oral amendment

after § 11

16

UEN

 

-

 

21

Verts/ALE

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

-

 

after citation 5

1

PPE-DE

 

+

 

rec C

22

ALDE

 

-

 

after rec C

9

UEN

 

-

 

10

UEN

 

-

 

11

UEN

 

-

 

rec G

2

PPE-DE

EV

-

213, 286, 11

17

PSE

 

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

Requests for roll-call votes

IND/DEM: rec G

GUE/NGL: § 8, point (j)

Requests for split votes

Verts/ALE

am 21

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘is concerned ... non-governmental organisations’

2nd part: those words

GUE/NGL

§ 8, point J

1st part:‘reminds the Croatian ... for EU membership’

2nd part:‘urges them therefore ... and steel sectors,’

3rd part:‘believes that more ... Agreement with Croatia’

Miscellaneous

The aim of amendment 24 was to insert a new paragraph after § 10 (not after § 9)

In rec J, the text should read ‘six different chapters of the acquis have been opened’.

Hannes Swoboda moved oral amendments as follows:

Amendment 18 — ‘the government and the local’ to be replaced by ‘Croatian’

Amendment 24 — add ‘with the neighbouring countries’ after ‘solutions’

ANNEX II

RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES

1.   Recommendation: Costa A6-0134/2007

Amendment 98

For: 289

ALDE: Manders

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Louis, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Gutiérrez-Cortines, Jałowiecki, Kaczmarek, Méndez de Vigo, Zaleski, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Assis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Hudghton, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 371

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bloom, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Lundgren, Sinnott, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Atkins, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Dîncu

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Gobbo, Krasts, Kristovskis, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pirilli, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Abstention: 6

IND/DEM: Krupa

NI: Baco, Kozlík

UEN: Camre, Kamiński

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

2.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 3

For: 260

ALDE: Dičkutė, Gentvilas, Geremek, Harkin, Hennis-Plasschaert, Kacin, Kułakowski, Maaten, Morillon, Piskorski, Prodi, Susta, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Seppänen

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Anastase, Antoniozzi, Atkins, Audy, Ayuso, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, De Blasio, Demetriou, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dombrovskis, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gomolka, Graça Moura, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Langen, Langendries, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Sommer, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Athanasiu, Creţu Gabriela, Herczog, Maňka, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Schaldemose, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Beer, Breyer, van Buitenen, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber

Against: 360

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pohjamo, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, de Brún, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Le Rachinel, Mihăescu

NI: Baco, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Coveney, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Harbour, Higgins, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Jeggle, Kamall, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Lulling, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Papastamkos, Purvis, Saïfi, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Spautz, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Honeyball, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Frassoni, Hassi, Isler Béguin, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Lambert, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 17

ALDE: Cocilovo, Lynne, Pistelli, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

ITS: Gollnisch, Mote

NI: Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Nassauer, Ulmer

UEN: Didžiokas, Krasts, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: Joan i Marí

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Tobias Pflüger, Maria Martens, Jean Lambert

Against: Jules Maaten, Sahra Wagenknecht, Christel Schaldemose, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Åsa Westlund, Riitta Myller, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Daniel Hannan, Gitte Seeberg

3.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 17

For: 259

ALDE: Beaupuy, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Prodi, Sbarbati, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gewalt, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Škottová, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Corbey, Grech, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Beer, Breyer, van Buitenen, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Kusstatscher, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Voggenhuber

Against: 357

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pohjamo, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

NI: Baco, Belohorská, Helmer, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Atkins, Audy, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Demetriou, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Harbour, Herranz García, Higgins, Hökmark, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Lamassoure, Langendries, López-Istúriz White, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Papastamkos, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Honeyball, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Kristovskis

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Frassoni, Hassi, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Lambert, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Abstention: 26

ALDE: Cocilovo, Lynne, Pistelli, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Knapman, Whittaker

ITS: Claeys, Gollnisch, Martinez, Mote

NI: Battilocchio, Rivera

PPE-DE: Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

UEN: Didžiokas, Krasts, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: Cramer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Jean Lambert

Against: Christopher Heaton-Harris, Daniel Hannan, Anna Ibrisagic

4.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 71

For: 296

ALDE: Beaupuy, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Ortuondo Larrea, Piskorski, Prodi, Sbarbati, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Dîncu, Grech, Obiols i Germà, Pinior, Schaldemose

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 360

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pohjamo, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Wise, Železný

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Audy, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Fajmon, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Graça Moura, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Hannan, Harbour, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Lamassoure, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Papastamkos, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

Abstention: 17

ALDE: Cocilovo, Lynne, Pistelli, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

ITS: Mote

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

UEN: Kamiński, Rogalski

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Christel Schaldemose, Louis Grech

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

5.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 72

For: 282

ALDE: Beaupuy, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Ortuondo Larrea, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Lundgren, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 355

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Železný

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Audy, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Deva, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Hannan, Harbour, Higgins, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Korhola, Langendries, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Cramer

Abstention: 16

ALDE: Cocilovo, Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Wise

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Heaton-Harris, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Paul Rübig, Simon Busuttil, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Othmar Karas, Louis Grech

Against: Hiltrud Breyer

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

6.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 73

For: 270

ALDE: Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Pannella, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 372

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Piskorski, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Demetriou, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Herranz García, Higgins, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Buitenweg, Frassoni, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 22

ALDE: Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, Nassauer, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Othmar Karas, Kathy Sinnott

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

7.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 74

For: 280

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Costa, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 372

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Lamassoure, Langendries, López-Istúriz White, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis

Verts/ALE: Buitenweg, Frassoni, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 24

ALDE: Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, McMillan-Scott, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

8.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 76

For: 276

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Costa, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Ventre, Vernola, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 362

ALDE: Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Nattrass, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, López-Istúriz White, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Frassoni, Jonckheer, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 22

ALDE: Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Mote, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, McMillan-Scott, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

9.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 77

For: 279

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Costa, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 376

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Demetriou, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Didžiokas, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: Buitenweg, Frassoni, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 22

ALDE: Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Claeys, Mote, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

10.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 78

For: 312

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Degutis, Harkin, Kułakowski, Ortuondo Larrea, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Arif, Attard-Montalto, Bono, Bourzai, Castex, Cottigny, Douay, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, Guy-Quint, Hutchinson, Laignel, Lienemann, Muscat, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Trautmann, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 341

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Deva, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Van Lancker, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Kristovskis

Abstention: 21

ALDE: Lynne, Pistelli, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Mote

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Pervenche Berès

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

11.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 79

For: 298

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Degutis, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Arif, Bono, Bourzai, Castex, Cottigny, Douay, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, Guy-Quint, Hazan, Hutchinson, Laignel, Lienemann, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Trautmann, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Breyer, van Buitenen, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 363

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Demetriou, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Van Lancker, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Kristovskis

Verts/ALE: Bennahmias, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Frassoni, Isler Béguin, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Mote

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Pervenche Berès, Tobias Pflüger

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

12.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 80

For: 299

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Cocilovo, Costa, Degutis, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Arif, Attard-Montalto, Berès, Bono, Bourzai, Castex, Cottigny, Douay, Ferreira Anne, Fruteau, Grech, Guy-Quint, Hazan, Hutchinson, Laignel, Lienemann, Muscat, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Trautmann, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Breyer, van Buitenen, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lucas, Özdemir, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber

Against: 360

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Davies, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Van Lancker, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Didžiokas, Kristovskis

Verts/ALE: Bennahmias, Buitenweg, Frassoni, Jonckheer, Lagendijk, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Staes

Abstention: 21

ALDE: Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

13.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 81

For: 292

ALDE: Andrejevs, Cocilovo, Degutis, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Ortuondo Larrea, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Lienemann, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 365

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Staes

Abstention: 21

ALDE: Lynne, Pistelli, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Kaufmann, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková, Nassauer, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Ulmer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges

14.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 157

For: 314

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Degutis, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Ortuondo Larrea, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 350

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Higgins, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasto

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre

Abstention: 12

ALDE: Cocilovo, Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, Kaufmann

ITS: Mote

PPE-DE: Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hybášková

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Muscat

15.   Mikolášik report A6-0031/2007

Amendment 75

For: 289

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Degutis, Deprez, Harkin, Kułakowski, Morillon, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Sbarbati, Susta, Takkula, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Pflüger, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Grech, Muscat

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes

Against: 375

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Ashworth, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Fontaine, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gklavakis, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Higgins, Hökmark, Hybášková, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, Langendries, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Méndez de Vigo, Nicholson, Papastamkos, Parish, Purvis, Saïfi, Sartori, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Didžiokas, Maldeikis

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Harms, Hassi, Lambert, Lichtenberger

Abstention: 13

ALDE: Cocilovo, Lynne, Starkevičiūtė

GUE/NGL: Brie, Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

PPE-DE: Hennicot-Schoepges

16.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendments 43 + 44

For: 197

ALDE: Bowles, Polfer, Resetarits, Schmidt Olle

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Coveney, Deva, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, De Lange, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Seeberg, Siekierski, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Corbey, Färm, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Jørgensen, Mastenbroek, Muscat, Savary, Schaldemose, Segelström, Weiler, Westlund

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 452

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Watson

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Železný

NI: Battilocchio, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, La Russa, Musumeci, Pirilli, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Cohn-Bendit

Abstention: 11

ALDE: Samuelsen, Wallis

NI: Baco, Belohorská, Kozlík

PPE-DE: McMillan-Scott, Szabó, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Wiersma

UEN: Krasts

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

Against: Barbara Weiler

17.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendment 46/1

For: 242

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Duff, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Harkin, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Coveney, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, García-Margallo y Marfil, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Itälä, Jackson, Jeggle, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bozkurt, van den Burg, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Creţu Gabriela, Dîncu, Färm, Gierek, Goebbels, Golik, Hedh, Koterec, Lambrinidis, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Muscat, Schaldemose, Segelström, Sifunakis, Westlund

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Roszkowski, Speroni

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 408

ALDE: Beaupuy, Busk, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Hennis-Plasschaert, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Karim, Kułakowski, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Pannella, Riis-Jørgensen, Susta, Van Hecke, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Železný

ITS: Mölzer

NI: Battilocchio, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Ek, Hall, Ilchev, Schmidt Olle, Takkula

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Belohorská, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Fjellner, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman

PSE: Creţu Corina, Ţicău, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

Against: Edite Estrela, Jean-Louis Bourlanges

Abstention: Joseph Muscat

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Amendment 46/2

For: 217

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Duff, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, in 't Veld, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Knapman, Louis, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Fajmon, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Siekierski, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, van den Berg, Berman, van den Burg, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Färm, Gierek, Goebbels, Golik, Hedh, Koterec, Lambrinidis, Liberadzki, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Rasmussen, Segelström, Sifunakis, Westlund

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Speroni

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes

Against: 372

ALDE: Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Busk, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Hennis-Plasschaert, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kułakowski, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Riis-Jørgensen, Starkevičiūtė, Takkula, Van Hecke, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Nattrass, Tomczak, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jałowiecki, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Geringer de Oedenberg, Glante, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Krehl, Kuhne, Laignel, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Simpson, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, La Russa, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 19

ALDE: Ek, Ilchev, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Belohorská, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman

PSE: Creţu Corina, Ţicău, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Christel Schaldemose

Against: Edite Estrela

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Amendment 46/3

For: 159

ALDE: Lax, Ortuondo Larrea, Pannella, Piskorski, Resetarits, Takkula, Toia

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Dombrovskis, Duchoň, Fajmon, Kauppi, Roithová, Siekierski, Škottová, Strejček, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, van den Berg, Berman, van den Burg, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Creţu Gabriela, Dîncu, Färm, Gierek, Goebbels, Golik, Hedh, Jørgensen, Lambrinidis, Liberadzki, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Segelström, Sifunakis, Westlund

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Speroni, Szymański

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 465

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Whittaker

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 15

ALDE: Ek, Ilchev, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Ţicău, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Philip Bushill-Matthews, Edite Estrela

20.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendment 46/4

For: 223

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Matsakis, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, Harbour, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Siekierski, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, van den Berg, Berman, van den Burg, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Creţu Gabriela, Dîncu, Färm, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Lambrinidis, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Segelström, Sifunakis, Westlund

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Speroni

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber

Against: 406

ALDE: Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Busk, Cornillet, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Hennis-Plasschaert, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kułakowski, Lynne, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Riis-Jørgensen, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Van Hecke, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Nattrass, Whittaker, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 23

ALDE: Harkin, Ilchev, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Dimitrov Konstantin, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Szabó, Wijkman

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Jørgensen, Ţicău, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Dan Jørgensen

Against: Edite Estrela

21.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendment 46/5

For: 217

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Hall, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Lynne, Matsakis, Morillon, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Helmer

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Siekierski, Škottová, Stevenson, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, van den Berg, Berman, van den Burg, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Creţu Gabriela, Dîncu, Färm, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Lambrinidis, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Segelström, Sifunakis, Westlund

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Speroni

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, van Buitenen, Cramer, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 419

ALDE: Busk, Cornillet, Fourtou, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kułakowski, Manders, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Riis-Jørgensen, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Van Hecke

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Coşea

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 23

ALDE: Ek, Harkin, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Gollnisch, Mote, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Szabó, Wijkman

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Jørgensen, Ţicău, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Jules Maaten, Dan Jørgensen

Against: Edite Estrela

22.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendments 39 + 59/1

For: 391

ALDE: Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Busk, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Pistelli, Riis-Jørgensen, Susta, Toia, Van Hecke, Veraldi

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Coşea, Dillen, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Gobbo, La Russa, Musumeci, Pirilli, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Frassoni, Jonckheer, Turmes

Against: 261

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Clark, Knapman, Krupa, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Audy, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Dover, Elles, Ferber, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Grossetête, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mayor Oreja, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Saïfi, Siekierski, Stevenson, Sudre, Tannock, Toubon, Van Orden, Vlasto

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, van den Berg, Berman, Carlotti, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Fazakas, Gebhardt, Gierek, Golik, Gomes, Hedh, Jørgensen, Lambrinidis, Madeira, Matsouka, Paasilinna, Pinior, Rasmussen, Rothe, Schaldemose, Sifunakis, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Walter, Weber Henri

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Ždanoka

Abstention: 24

ALDE: Hennis-Plasschaert, Kułakowski, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, van den Burg, Färm, Geringer de Oedenberg, Kuhne, Segelström, Westlund, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Jamila Madeira, Mechtild Rothe, Catherine Stihler

Against: Claude Turmes

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Amendments 39 + 59/2

For: 494

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Matsakis, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pistelli, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Sbarbati, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Veraldi, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Belet, Berend, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Goepel, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Wieland, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Evans Robert, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Gurmai, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hedh, Honeyball, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McCarthy, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Krasts, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pirilli, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Graefe zu Baringdorf, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kusstatscher, Lambert, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Ždanoka

Against: 51

ALDE: Griesbeck, Mulder, Van Hecke, Virrankoski

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Sinnott, Whittaker

ITS: Stănescu

PPE-DE: Audy, Daul, Descamps, De Veyrac, Ferber, Gaubert, Gauzès, Grossetête, Kauppi, Lamassoure, Lulling, Mathieu, Saïfi, Sudre, Toubon, Vlasto

PSE: Berman, Corbey, Golik, Liberadzki

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Horáček, Voggenhuber

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Harkin, Ilchev, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

PPE-DE: Fjellner, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman

PSE: van den Burg, Geringer de Oedenberg, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Claude Turmes

Against: Margrietus van den Berg

Abstention: Jules Maaten

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Amendments 39 + 59/3

For: 480

ALDE: Bărbuleţiu, Busk, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Mohácsi, Ortuondo Larrea, Pistelli, Resetarits, Riis-Jørgensen, Schuth, Susta, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Weber Henri, Weiler, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Borghezio, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pirilli, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 180

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Flasarová, Morgantini

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Krupa, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

NI: Allister, Helmer

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, De Veyrac, Dover, Elles, Ferber, Gaubert, Gauzès, Grossetête, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Saïfi, Siekierski, Stevenson, Sudre, Tannock, Toubon, Van Orden, Vlasto

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Cashman, Christensen, Corbey, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Ford, Gebhardt, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jørgensen, Kinnock, Krehl, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Segelström, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Walter, Westlund, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Zapałowski

Abstention: 22

ALDE: Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman

PSE: van den Burg, Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Alexander Radwan

Against: Richard Corbett

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Amendments 39 + 59/4

For: 449

ALDE: Busk, Costa, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Morţun, Pistelli, Riis-Jørgensen, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Toia, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Deß, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Borghezio, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pirilli, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Frassoni, Kallenbach, Rühle

Against: 208

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Krupa, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

NI: Allister, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Daul, Descamps, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dover, Elles, Ferber, Gaubert, Gauzès, Grossetête, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Lamassoure, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Saïfi, Siekierski, Stevenson, Sudre, Tannock, Toubon, Van Orden, Vlasto

PSE: van den Berg, Berman, Casaca, Cashman, Christensen, Corbey, Evans Robert, Ford, Gebhardt, Gierek, Golik, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jørgensen, Kinnock, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Harkin, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman

PSE: van den Burg, Geringer de Oedenberg, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Richard Corbett, Heide Rühle

26.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendments 39 + 59/5

For: 549

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mihăescu, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Masiel, Musumeci, Pirilli, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Cohn-Bendit

Against: 93

ALDE: Juknevičienė, Manders, Mulder, Ortuondo Larrea, Resetarits, Takkula, Van Hecke

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Stănescu

NI: Allister, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Audy, Daul, Descamps, De Veyrac, Ferber, Gaubert, Gauzès, Grossetête, Hennicot-Schoepges, Kauppi, Lamassoure, Mathieu, Saïfi, Sudre, Toubon, Vlasto

PSE: van den Berg, Berman, Mastenbroek, Mihalache

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Abstention: 40

ALDE: Harkin, Hennis-Plasschaert, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Vanhecke

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: van den Burg, Geringer de Oedenberg, Kuhne, Wiersma

UEN: Borghezio, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Speroni

27.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendment 38

For: 549

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Duff, Fourtou, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Karim, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Takkula, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Lang, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Cohn-Bendit

Against: 101

ALDE: Birutis, Ciornei, Gentvilas, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Ortuondo Larrea, Pistelli, Resetarits, Sbarbati, Shouleva, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean

GUE/NGL: Henin, Maštálka, Portas, Ransdorf

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Tomczak, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Moisuc, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: De Veyrac, Kauppi, Siekierski

PSE: Berman, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Creţu Gabriela, Gierek, Golik, Liberadzki, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Pahor, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Skinner

UEN: Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Gobbo, Kamiński, Libicki, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Szymański, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Abstention: 20

ALDE: Ek, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Louis, Lundgren, de Villiers

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Seeberg, Szabó, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Hedh

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Paul Rübig, Anne E. Jensen, Dan Jørgensen

28.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendments 50 + 64

For: 234

ALDE: Manders, Morţun, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Resetarits, Sbarbati

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Goudin, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Becsey, Böge, Bonsignore, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Caspary, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dombrovskis, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fajmon, Galeote, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Herranz García, Iacob-Ridzi, Jeggle, Karas, Kauppi, Klaß, Korhola, Kušķis, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mantovani, Marques, Martens, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pirker, Roithová, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schröder, Schwab, Siekierski, Škottová, Sommer, Strejček, Stubb, Szájer, Thyssen, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bono, Bourzai, van den Burg, Busquin, Casaca, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, De Vits, Estrela, Färm, Gierek, Golik, Gomes, Grabowska, Gurmai, Harangozó, Hedh, Herczog, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Lambrinidis, Leinen, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Mihalache, Napoletano, Öger, Panzeri, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Rasmussen, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Segelström, Sifunakis, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Westlund

UEN: Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Masiel, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Jonckheer, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 391

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Morillon, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Železný

ITS: Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Belet, Berend, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Elles, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klich, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langendries, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nicholson, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Saïfi, Schierhuber, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Spautz, Stauner, Stevenson, Sudre, Surján, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Berès, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Guy-Quint, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Honeyball, Howitt, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Buitenweg, Hammerstein Mintz, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin

Abstention: 30

ALDE: Ek, Schmidt Olle

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Hegyi, Wiersma

UEN: Borghezio, Gobbo, Krasts, Kristovskis, Maldeikis, Speroni, Vaidere

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Satu Hassi

Against: Edite Estrela, Andreas Schwab, Othmar Karas, Christa Klaß

29.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendment 16

For: 637

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Krasts, Kristovskis, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pirilli, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 26

ALDE: Manders, Mulder, Van Hecke

ITS: Mote

PSE: Moraes

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Zapałowski

Abstention: 16

ALDE: Ek, Hennis-Plasschaert, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Liberadzki

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Amendments 54 + 60

For: 180

ALDE: Ortuondo Larrea, Resetarits

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hybášková, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Konrad, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Oomen-Ruijten, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Siekierski, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Tannock, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Casaca, Corbey, Färm, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Krehl, Liberadzki, Mann Erika, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Paasilinna, Sârbu, Segelström, Westlund

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Speroni

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 476

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 28

ALDE: Beaupuy, Ek, Harkin, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Szabó, Wijkman

PSE: Christensen, Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Jørgensen, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou

Against: Jean Marie Beaupuy, Erika Mann

31.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Amendment 61

For: 123

ALDE: Ortuondo Larrea, Resetarits, Susta

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Mölzer, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Cabrnoch, Dombrovskis, Kauppi, Pleštinská, Roithová, Siekierski, Szabó

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berman, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Gierek, Jørgensen, Lambrinidis, Matsouka, Rasmussen, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sousa Pinto, Szejna, Tabajdi

UEN: Camre

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 541

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Watson

IND/DEM: Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 15

ALDE: Schmidt Olle

NI: Baco, Belohorská, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Seeberg, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Rogalski

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Thijs Berman, Christel Schaldemose

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Amendments 57 + 62

For: 139

ALDE: Ortuondo Larrea, Polfer, Resetarits, Ries

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Berend, Deva, Gklavakis, Grosch, Kauppi, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Roithová, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, van den Burg, Casaca, Christensen, Corbey, Färm, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Jørgensen, Mastenbroek, Mihalache, Rasmussen, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Segelström, Westlund

UEN: Borghezio, Camre, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Kristovskis, Maldeikis, Speroni

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 513

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Riis-Jørgensen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Knapman, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 19

ALDE: Ek, Samuelsen, Schmidt Olle

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Klich, Seeberg, Siekierski, Szabó, Wijkman

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Wiersma

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou

Against: Thijs Berman

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Amended Commission proposal

For: 379

ALDE: Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kułakowski, Piskorski, Pistelli, Polfer, Prodi, Riis-Jørgensen, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Veraldi

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, Estrela, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Pirilli, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Graefe zu Baringdorf

Against: 270

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Pannella, Parvanova, Pohjamo, Resetarits, Ries, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Fajmon, Fjellner, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Purvis, Roithová, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Casaca, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Dîncu, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Ford, Hedh, Honeyball, Howitt, Kinnock, Krehl, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Segelström, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Vigenin, Westlund, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 24

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Coveney, Szabó, Wijkman

PSE: Christensen, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Golik, Haug, Jørgensen, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Sousa Pinto, Wiersma

UEN: Borghezio, Gobbo, Maldeikis, Speroni

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Anders Wijkman, Janelly Fourtou, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Gérard Deprez, Jean-Louis Bourlanges

34.   Zingaretti report A6-0073/2007

Resolution

For: 374

ALDE: Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Busk, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Kułakowski, Morillon, Oviir, Piskorski, Pistelli, Polfer, Prodi, Riis-Jørgensen, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Veraldi

GUE/NGL: Aita, Triantaphyllides

ITS: Coşea

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Glante, Goebbels, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hasse Ferreira, Hazan, Hegyi, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Savary, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Pirilli

Against: 278

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Pannella, Parvanova, Pohjamo, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Kauppi, Kirkhope, Korhola, McMillan-Scott, Nicholson, Parish, Pomés Ruiz, Purvis, Seeberg, Škottová, Stevenson, Strejček, Szabó, Tannock, Van Orden, Vlasák, Wieland, Wijkman, Wohlin, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Berman, Casaca, Cashman, Corbey, Dîncu, Evans Robert, Färm, Ford, Gierek, Golik, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Hughes, Kinnock, Krehl, McAvan, McCarthy, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Segelström, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Westlund, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 17

ALDE: Toia

GUE/NGL: Kaufmann

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

PPE-DE: Coveney

PSE: Christensen, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Haug, Jørgensen, Lienemann, Schaldemose, Sousa Pinto, Ţicău, Wiersma

UEN: Borghezio, Gobbo, Speroni

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Amalia Sartori

Against: Janelly Fourtou, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Gérard Deprez, Jean-Louis Bourlanges

35.   Sterckx report A6-0086/2007

Amendment 55

For: 364

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Fatuzzo, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, de Grandes Pascual, Herrero-Tejedor, Hudacký, López-Istúriz White, Mato Adrover, Millán Mon, Rudi Ubeda, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Spautz, Trakatellis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Ventre, Vidal-Quadras

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Libicki, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 274

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Booth, Clark, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Gollnisch, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Belohorská, Bobošíková, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Freitas, Friedrich, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Iacob-Ridzi, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rübig, Saïfi, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Ford

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Zapałowski

Abstention: 10

ITS: Martinez, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Glyn Ford, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Esther Herranz García, Pilar Ayuso, Gerardo Galeote, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Jaime Mayor Oreja, José Javier Pomés Ruiz

Abstention: Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

36.   Kohlíček report A6-0079/2007

Amendment 14

For: 431

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Baco, Belohorská, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Dumitrescu, Öger

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski, Zīle

Against: 235

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis

IND/DEM: Batten, Booth, Clark, Goudin, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Belet

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez- Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Ó Neachtain, Ryan

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Beer, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 3

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

UEN: Kamiński

37.   Costa report A6-0063/2007

Amendments 16 + 22

For: 338

ALDE: Alvaro, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Chatzimarkakis, Hennis-Plasschaert, Maaten, Manders, Mulder, Resetarits, Ries, Schuth

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: van den Berg, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Dumitrescu, Evans Robert, Ford, Harangozó, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Jørgensen, Kinnock, Kirilov, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 323

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Fjellner, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Mavrommatis, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl- Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Yáñez- Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Ó Neachtain, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 9

ALDE: Sterckx

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Galeote, Kauppi, McMillan-Scott, Papastamkos, Sonik

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg, Linda McAvan

Against: Jean Marie Beaupuy, Dan Jørgensen

38.   Costa report A6-0063/2007

Amendments 19 + 25

For: 337

ALDE: Alvaro, Bowles, Chatzimarkakis, Hennis-Plasschaert, Maaten, Manders, Mulder

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill- Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García- Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: van den Berg, Bozkurt, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Evans Robert, Ford, Gill, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kinnock, McAvan, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Pahor, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Titley, Wiersma, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 324

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Stubb, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Yáñez- Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 12

ALDE: Degutis, Deprez, Sterckx

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Galeote, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Kauppi, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou

PSE: Beňová

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg, Seán Ó Neachtain, Jules Maaten

39.   Costa report A6-0063/2007

Amendments 20 + 26

For: 336

ALDE: Alvaro, Bowles, Chatzimarkakis, Hennis-Plasschaert, Maaten, Manders, Mulder

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Cabrnoch, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot- Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: van den Berg, Bozkurt, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Evans Robert, Ford, Gill, Guy-Quint, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kinnock, McAvan, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Titley, Wiersma, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 323

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 6

ALDE: Sterckx

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík

PPE-DE: Galeote, Gklavakis, Kauppi

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg

40.   Costa report A6-0063/2007

Amendments 21 + 27

For: 333

ALDE: Alvaro, Bowles, Chatzimarkakis, Degutis, Deprez, Hennis-Plasschaert, Maaten, Manders, Mulder

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: van den Berg, Bozkurt, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Evans Robert, Ford, Gill, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kinnock, McAvan, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Szejna, Titley, Wiersma, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 316

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Trakatellis, Vakalis

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 9

ALDE: in 't Veld, Sterckx

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Galeote, Kauppi, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou

UEN: Kamiński

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg

41.   Costa report A6-0063/2007

Amendments 17 + 23

For: 338

ALDE: Alvaro, Bowles, Chatzimarkakis, Degutis, Deprez, Hennis-Plasschaert, Maaten, Manders, Mulder

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Papastamkos, Parish, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: van den Berg, Bozkurt, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Evans Robert, Ford, Gill, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kinnock, McAvan, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Wiersma, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 326

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 7

ALDE: in 't Veld, Sterckx

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Galeote, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg

42.   Costa report A6-0063/2007

Amendments 18 + 24

For: 336

ALDE: Alvaro, Bowles, Chatzimarkakis, Degutis, Deprez, Hennis-Plasschaert, Maaten, Manders, Mulder

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Booth, Clark, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Bobošíková, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Toubon, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: van den Berg, Bozkurt, Cashman, Corbett, Corbey, Evans Robert, Ford, Gill, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kinnock, McAvan, McCarthy, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Moraes, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Wiersma, Willmott

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Against: 320

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Triantaphyllides, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz, Zimmer

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Barón Crespo, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Douay, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Camre, Krasts, Kristovskis, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 9

ALDE: in 't Veld, Sterckx

ITS: Mote

NI: Kozlík, Rivera

PPE-DE: Galeote, Kauppi, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Ţîrle

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Ieke van den Burg

43.   Sánchez Presedo report A6-0133/2007

Amendment 3

For: 274

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zvěřina

PSE: Goebbels

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Maldeikis, Pęk, Pirilli, Ryan, Speroni, Vaidere

Against: 338

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Lundgren

PPE-DE: Schöpflin, Szabó, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Libicki, Masiel, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 5

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Ventre

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Amendment 10

For: 280

ALDE: Savi

GUE/NGL: de Brún, Holm, Liotard, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina

PSE: Borrell Fontelles

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Camre, Crowley, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Pirilli, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere

Against: 344

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, ohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Strož, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Nattrass, Tomczak, Wise

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rutowicz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 7

ITS: Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kozlík, Rivera

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Rogalski

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Jules Maaten

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Amendment 16

For: 357

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea

NI: Allister, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Seeberg, Wohlin, Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Guy-Quint, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Gobbo, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 254

ALDE: Deprez, Piskorski

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Nattrass, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Moisuc, Stănescu

NI: Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina

PSE: Gurmai, Hänsch

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Didžiokas, Krasts, Kristovskis, Maldeikis, Ryan, Vaidere

Abstention: 19

ALDE: Morţun

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Lundgren, Sinnott

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Mölzer, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Rivera

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Jules Maaten

46.   Sánchez Presedo report A6-0133/2007

Amendment 7

For: 261

ALDE: Ilchev

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Claeys

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina

PSE: Borrell Fontelles, Creţu Corina, Dîncu

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Jonckheer

Against: 357

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Lundgren

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Fjellner, Vakalis, Wohlin, Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Masiel, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 12

GUE/NGL: de Brún, Holm, Liotard, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

ITS: Moisuc, Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kozlík, Rivera

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Christofer Fjellner

47.   Sánchez Presedo report A6-0133/2007

Amendment 8

For: 239

GUE/NGL: Catania

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langendries, Lehne, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Schierhuber, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Didžiokas, Gobbo, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pirilli, Roszkowski, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Against: 369

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bonde, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Lundgren, Nattrass, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Braghetto, Buzek, Dombrovskis, Karas, Langen, Lauk, Lewandowski, Lulling, Marques, Martens, Rübig, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Spautz, Ţîrle, Varvitsiotis, Zaleski, Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Reynaud, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 11

GUE/NGL: de Brún, Holm, Liotard, Søndergaard, Svensson

ITS: Claeys, Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kozlík, Rivera

48.   Sánchez Presedo report A6-0133/2007

Amendment 17

For: 313

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Riis-Jørgensen, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Kohlíček, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Grosch, Stubb, Vatanen

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Fava, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 286

ALDE: Ludford

GUE/NGL: Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ehler, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Toubon, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Haug, Hazan, Hegyi, Lienemann

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Didžiokas, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pirilli, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere

Abstention: 8

ALDE: Lynne

GUE/NGL: de Brún

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Kozlík

PPE-DE: Pirker, Ventre

UEN: Camre

49.   Liotard report A6-0054/2007

Amendment 3

For: 154

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Sinnott, Tomczak

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Martinez, Romagnoli

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Casini, Wijkman, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool

UEN: Krasts

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 443

IND/DEM: Batten, Bonde, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Lundgren, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Janowski, Kamiński, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 7

ALDE: Hennis-Plasschaert

IND/DEM: Krupa

ITS: Coşea, Moisuc, Popeangă, Schenardi, Stănescu

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Gérard Onesta

Against: Hélène Goudin

50.   Liotard report A6-0054/2007

Amendment 8

For: 355

ALDE: Ek

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Krupa, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Mihăescu, Stănescu

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Capoulas Santos, Chiesa, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Vits, Dîncu, Dumitrescu, Ferreira Anne, Gierek, Golik, Gomes, Gröner, Guy-Quint, Haug, Hughes, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Leichtfried, Liberadzki, Mann Erika, Martin David, Miguélez Ramos, Moreno Sánchez, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Roure, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Siwiec, Stihler, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vigenin, Weber Henri, Zani

UEN: Aylward, Camre, Crowley, Didžiokas, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, La Russa, Maldeikis, Pirilli, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 244

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Susta, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, de Villiers, Wise

NI: Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Audy, Cederschiöld, Fjellner, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Wohlin

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, Dobolyi, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Glante, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Mihalache, Moraes, Muscat, Myller, Pahor, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Masiel, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Zapałowski

Abstention: 12

ITS: Lang, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: McMillan-Scott

PSE: El Khadraoui

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Dorette Corbey, Jean-Pierre Audy

Against: Catherine Trautmann, Christel Schaldemose

51.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 3

For: 192

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Davies, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, in 't Veld, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Mulder, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Resetarits, Savi, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Brie, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Louis, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mihăescu, Moisuc, Popeangă

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Březina, Dimitrakopoulos, Duchoň, Fajmon, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Škottová, Strejček, Surján, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Arif, Attard-Montalto, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Berlinguer, Berman, Bono, Bourzai, Bulfon, Busquin, Carlotti, Castex, Chiesa, Cottigny, De Keyser, Dobolyi, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Ferreira Anne, Glante, Gomes, Grech, Gröner, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hazan, Hegyi, Herczog, Jöns, Jørgensen, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Leichtfried, Lévai, Lienemann, Madeira, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Mihalache, Muscat, Paleckis, Patrie, Poignant, Roure, Scheele, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Szejna, Tabajdi, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Weber Henri

UEN: Masiel

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 282

ALDE: Andrejevs, Busk, Carlshamre, Cocilovo, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kułakowski, Lax, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Newton Dunn, Onyszkiewicz, Prodi, Ries, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Starkevičiūtė, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Lundgren, Tomczak, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Hänsch, Liberadzki, Rosati

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 132

ALDE: Cappato, Ek, Hellvig, Maaten, Samuelsen

IND/DEM: Krupa

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Lang, Martinez, Mölzer, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov

NI: Battilocchio, Rivera

PPE-DE: McMillan-Scott, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beňová, van den Berg, Bliznashki, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Casaca, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Vits, Dîncu, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Evans Robert, Färm, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Groote, Haug, Hedh, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lavarra, Lehtinen, McAvan, McCarthy, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Vigenin, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Stavros Arnaoutakis, Kathy Sinnott

Against: Jean Marie Beaupuy, Jean-Louis Bourlanges

Abstention: Edit Herczog, Dan Jørgensen

52.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 4

For: 102

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Guardans Cambó, Hall, in 't Veld, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Resetarits, Vălean, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Henin, Meijer, Musacchio, Portas

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mihăescu, Popeangă, Stănescu

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Březina, Dimitrakopoulos, Duchoň, Fajmon, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Papastamkos, Škottová, Strejček, Surján, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Berlinguer, Berman, Bulfon, Busquin, Carlotti, Ettl, Fava, Hegyi, Herczog, Leichtfried, Lévai, Roure, Scheele, Szejna

UEN: Masiel

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 307

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Griesbeck, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Maaten, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Onyszkiewicz, Pannella, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Catania, Guidoni, Meyer Pleite, Rizzo

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Tomczak, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Gurmai, Hänsch, Mihalache

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Abstention: 186

ALDE: Geremek, Samuelsen, Toia

GUE/NGL: Brie, de Brún, Flasarová, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Papadimoulis, Remek, Seppänen, Svensson, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis, Louis, Sinnott, de Villiers

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Mölzer, Moisuc, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Rivera

PPE-DE: Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Guy-Quint, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

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ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Goudin, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers

NI: Battilocchio, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Camre, Crowley, Ryan

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 69

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Tomczak, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych

PPE-DE: Březina, Buzek, Duchoň, Fajmon, Grosch, López-Istúriz White, Roithová, Škottová, Strejček, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 6

ALDE: Gentvilas

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Stănescu

NI: Allister

PPE-DE: Heaton-Harris

PSE: Creţu Corina

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For: 330

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Flasarová, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers

NI: Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter, Rivera

PPE-DE: Callanan, Coelho, Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Ryan

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 270

ALDE: Takkula

GUE/NGL: Figueiredo, Guerreiro, Manolakou, Pafilis, Pflüger, Rizzo, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Krupa, Tomczak, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

UEN: Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 6

ALDE: Piskorski

GUE/NGL: Guidoni

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Stănescu

PPE-DE: Rübig

PSE: Creţu Corina

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Frieda Brepoels, Ivo Belet, Marianne Thyssen

Against: Alexander Radwan

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For: 288

ALDE: Geremek, Lynne, Piskorski, Samuelsen, Schmidt Olle, Takkula

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Flasarová, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal

PSE: Borrell Fontelles, Capoulas Santos, Fernandes, Golik, Haug, Maňka, Rosati

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella

Against: 325

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Figueiredo, Guerreiro, Manolakou, Pafilis, Pflüger, Rizzo, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Sinnott, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Březina, Duchoň, Fajmon, López-Istúriz White, McMillan-Scott, Roithová, Škottová, Strejček, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hazan, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Kuc, Podkański, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 8

ALDE: Matsakis

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis

NI: Allister

PPE-DE: Hannan, Heaton-Harris

PSE: Grech, Hegyi

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Frieda Brepoels, Ivo Belet, Marianne Thyssen

56.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 5

For: 83

ALDE: Lynne, Resetarits

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Sinnott

ITS: Mihăescu, Popeangă

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Kasoulides

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Bulfon, Ettl, Fazakas, Lambrinidis, Leichtfried, Martínez Martínez, Muscat, Rothe, Scheele, Sifunakis

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 509

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Lundgren, Tomczak, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Abstention: 21

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis

IND/DEM: Coûteaux, Karatzaferis, Louis, de Villiers

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Wijkman

PSE: Creţu Corina, Golik, Hegyi

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Stavros Lambrinidis, Nikolaos Sifunakis

57.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 6

For: 96

ALDE: Lynne, Matsakis, Resetarits, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Flasarová, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Sinnott

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Siekierski, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Attard-Montalto, Batzeli, Beglitis, Chiesa, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Dumitrescu, Grech, Lambrinidis, Matsouka, Muscat, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 472

ALDE: Andrejevs, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Cornillet, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Maaten, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Onyszkiewicz, Pannella, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 27

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Bowles, Ciornei, Davies, Ek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Ludford, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Oviir, Parvanova, Şerbu, Starkevičiūtė, Vălean

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis

IND/DEM: Coûteaux

ITS: Lang, Martinez

NI: Rivera

PSE: Bullmann, Carlotti, Gomes, Hegyi, Roure

58.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Paragraph 18

For: 333

ALDE: Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Carlshamre, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Březina, Coelho, Dimitrakopoulos, Doorn, Duchoň, Fajmon, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, De Lange, Matsis, Mavrommatis, van Nistelrooij, Oomen-Ruijten, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Pieper, Post, Škottová, Strejček, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Wijkman, Wortmann-Kool, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Borrell Fontelles, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 251

ALDE: Piskorski, Takkula

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Moisuc, Mote

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Gill, Groote, Rothe, Stockmann

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 31

ALDE: Alvaro, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Geremek, Manders, Ries

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Karatzaferis

ITS: Coşea, Lang

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Heaton-Harris, Wohlin

PSE: Creţu Corina, Golik, Honeyball, Howitt, Kinnock, McCarthy, Martin David, Moraes, Prets, Simpson, Skinner, Stihler, Titley, Willmott

UEN: Krasts

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Maria Martens, Frieda Brepoels, Matthias Groote, Ivo Belet, Marianne Thyssen

59.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 7

For: 133

ALDE: Ortuondo Larrea, Resetarits

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Sinnott, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mihăescu, Moisuc

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, Berlinguer, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bulfon, Busquin, Carlotti, Castex, Chiesa, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, Ettl, Fava, Ferreira Anne, Gomes, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hazan, Hegyi, Jørgensen, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Leichtfried, Lienemann, Matsouka, Patrie, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Savary, Scheele, Sifunakis, Tarabella, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 337

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Mihalache, Siwiec

UEN: Aylward, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 137

ALDE: Ciornei, Davies, Ek, Toia

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Battilocchio, Rivera

PPE-DE: Saïfi

PSE: Andersson, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, van den Berg, Berman, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Harangozó, Haug, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Piecyk, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rosati, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Paul Rübig

Abstention: Dan Jørgensen

60.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 8

For: 120

ALDE: Degutis, Ek, Kacin, Matsakis, Ortuondo Larrea, Resetarits, Ries

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Sinnott

ITS: Mihăescu

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Trakatellis, Varvitsiotis, Wijkman

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Attard-Montalto, Batzeli, Beglitis, Berès, Bono, Bourzai, Carlotti, Castex, Chiesa, Ferreira Anne, Gomes, Guy-Quint, Hazan, Jørgensen, Laignel, Lehtinen, Lienemann, Matsouka, Muscat, Patrie, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Weber Henri, Weiler

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 443

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pohjamo, Polfer, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Goudin, Knapman, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mote

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beňová, van den Berg, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Casaca, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Myller, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Paparizov, Paşcu, Piecyk, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Siwiec, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Vigenin, Walter, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Abstention: 29

ALDE: Ciornei, Davies, Harkin, Samuelsen, Toia

GUE/NGL: Manolakou, Pafilis

IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Moisuc, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Rivera

PPE-DE: Coelho

PSE: Berman, Creţu Corina, Fazakas, Golik, Paasilinna

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Stavros Lambrinidis, Nikolaos Sifunakis

Against: Paul Rübig, Louis Grech, Dan Jørgensen

61.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Amendment 9

For: 105

ALDE: Degutis, Ek, Harkin, Matsakis, Ortuondo Larrea, Resetarits, Şerbu

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Markov, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Sinnott

ITS: Mihăescu

PPE-DE: Berend, Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Wijkman

PSE: Attard-Montalto, Berlinguer, Bösch, Borrell Fontelles, Casaca, Chiesa, Dîncu, Muscat, Poignant, Savary, Szejna

UEN: Kuc, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 454

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Coûteaux, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, De Vits, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Golik, Gottardi, Grabowska, Gröner, Gurmai, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rasmussen, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Vigenin, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Aylward, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere

Abstention: 39

ALDE: Davies, Hall, Ries, Samuelsen

GUE/NGL: Pafilis

ITS: Martinez, Mölzer

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Březina, Coelho, Duchoň, Fajmon, Škottová, Strejček, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Arif, Berès, Bono, Bourzai, Bullmann, Carlotti, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, Ferreira Anne, Gomes, Guy-Quint, Laignel, Lienemann, Reynaud, Roure, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Weber Henri

UEN: Kamiński

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Abstention: Bernard Poignant

62.   RC-B6-0149/2007 — Transatlantic relations

Recital C

For: 332

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Polfer, Prodi, Resetarits, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guidoni, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Manolakou, Markov, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Bonde, Coûteaux, Goudin, Louis, Lundgren, Sinnott, de Villiers

NI: Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Coelho, Dimitrakopoulos, Gklavakis, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Queiró, Stubb, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Evans Robert, Färm, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Liberadzki, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Savary, Schaldemose, Scheele, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Ryan

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein Mintz, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 259

ALDE: Takkula

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Krupa, Tomczak, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu, Stoyanov, Vanhecke

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Esteves, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Purvis, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Golik, Siwiec

UEN: Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Musumeci, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 15

ALDE: Gentvilas, Ries, Şerbu

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis, Železný

NI: Rivera

PPE-DE: Březina, Duchoň, Fajmon, Škottová, Strejček, Vlasák, Zahradil, Zvěřina

PSE: Creţu Corina

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Frieda Brepoels, Ivo Belet, Nikolaos Sifunakis

63.   Swoboda report A6-0092/2007

Paragraph 8j/1

For: 513

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lax, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Shouleva, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Guerreiro, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Ransdorf, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Gomes, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel, Turmes

Against: 21

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guidoni, Kohlíček, Meijer, Pflüger, Remek, Rizzo, Strož, Wagenknecht

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Coûteaux, Louis, de Villiers, Wise

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Bonsignore, Klich, Wohlin

Abstention: 8

ALDE: Manders

GUE/NGL: Uca

IND/DEM: Bonde

ITS: Coşea, Popeangă

PSE: Creţu Corina

UEN: Crowley, Rogalski

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Alexander Radwan

Against: Pedro Guerreiro

64.   Swoboda report A6-0092/2007

Paragraph 8j/2

For: 445

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Carlshamre, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Degutis, Deprez, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Koch-Mehrin, Kułakowski, Lax, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Pohjamo, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Coşea, Mihăescu, Popeangă

NI: Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Beazley, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Duchoň, Elles, Fajmon, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kasoulides, Kelam, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Petre, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Rack, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz- Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Szabó, Szájer, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zvěřina

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Christensen, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Camre, Crowley, Kuc, Pirilli, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Buitenweg, Cramer, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes

Against: 55

GUE/NGL: Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bonde, Clark, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Wise

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Romagnoli, Stoyanov

PPE-DE: Wohlin

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Vaidere, Zapałowski

Abstention: 7

ALDE: Manders

GUE/NGL: Musacchio, Uca

ITS: Martinez

NI: Battilocchio

PSE: Ford

Verts/ALE: Jonckheer

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Alexander Radwan

65.   Swoboda report A6-0092/2007

Paragraph 8j/3

For: 453

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Birutis, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Davies, Degutis, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Ek, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Harkin, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, Jäätteenmäki, Jensen, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lax, Maaten, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Pistelli, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Shouleva, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Takkula, Toia, Vălean, Van Hecke, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Coşea, Romagnoli

NI: Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Giertych, Helmer, Rivera

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Antoniozzi, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Brunetta, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coveney, De Blasio, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrov Konstantin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fajmon, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Friedrich, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa- Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, Lamassoure, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lauk, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Marinescu, Martens, Mathieu, Matsis, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Méndez de Vigo, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Musotto, Nassauer, Niebler, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Parish, Patriciello, Peterle, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Purvis, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Batzeli, Beglitis, Beňová, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bozkurt, Bulfon, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Chiesa, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Creţu Gabriela, De Keyser, De Rossa, De Vits, Dîncu, Dobolyi, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Färm, Fazakas, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Glante, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Harangozó, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lavarra, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Lévai, Lienemann, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Mastenbroek, Matsouka, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moraes, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Pinior, Pittella, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Segelström, Severin, Sifunakis, Simpson, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Stockmann, Swoboda, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Camre, Crowley, Kuc, La Russa, Pirilli, Ryan, Speroni, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Buitenweg, Cramer, Frassoni, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Trüpel

Against: 54

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, de Brún, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Guidoni, Holm, Kaufmann, Kohlíček, Liotard, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Rizzo, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Strož, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Zimmer

IND/DEM: Batten, Bonde, Clark, Goudin, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, de Villiers, Wise

PPE-DE: Wohlin

UEN: Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Vaidere

Abstention: 5

ALDE: Manders

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Stoyanov

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Alexander Radwan

66.   Inadmissibility motion (Rule 167) — Homophobia

For: 103

ALDE: Chatzimarkakis, Piskorski

IND/DEM: Goudin, Krupa, Louis, Sinnott, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Le Rachinel, Mihăescu, Romagnoli, Stănescu

NI: Chruszcz

PPE-DE: Albertini, Bauer, Beazley, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casini, Castiglione, Chmielewski, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Ferber, Fontaine, Gál, Gaľa, García-Margallo y Marfil, de Grandes Pascual, Handzlik, Heaton-Harris, Iturgaiz Angulo, Kirkhope, Klich, Korhola, Kudrycka, Langen, Mauro, Mikolášik, Nassauer, Pack, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posselt, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Rübig, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Siekierski, Tajani, Ulmer, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Vernola, Weber Manfred, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Golik, Grabowska, Liberadzki, Rosati, Siwiec, Szejna

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Marek Aleksander, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, La Russa, Libicki, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Zapałowski

Against: 210

ALDE: Alvaro, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Bowles, Cappato, Cocilovo, Davies, Dičkutė, Drčar Murko, Duff, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hennis-Plasschaert, in 't Veld, Jäätteenmäki, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Maaten, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pistelli, Prodi, Resetarits, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Adamou, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Guerreiro, Holm, Kaufmann, Markov, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wurtz

PPE-DE: Belet, Bowis, Brepoels, Fjellner, Karas, Kasoulides, Kauppi, Seeberg, Stubb, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Ayala Sender, Beglitis, Berès, Berman, Bösch, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Corbett, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Evans Robert, Falbr, Fava, Fernandes, Ferreira Anne, Ford, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gill, Goebbels, Gomes, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Herczog, Honeyball, Hughes, Hutchinson, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Leichtfried, Leinen, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paleckis, Panzeri, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Sánchez Presedo, Schaldemose, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stihler, Swoboda, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Weber Henri, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez- Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Buitenweg, Flautre, Frassoni, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Isler Béguin, Joan i Marí, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 2

ALDE: Onyszkiewicz, Staniszewska

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Hélène Goudin, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis

TEXTS ADOPTED

 

P6_TA(2007)0138

Transmission of national accounts data ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 with respect to the transmission of national accounts data (COM(2005)0653 — C6-0438/2005 — 2005/0253(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0653) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 285(1) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0438/2005),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

hving regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A6-0122/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Calls on the Council and Commission to commit themselves while implementing this amended regulation to initiating without delay the further improvement of the set of comparable and comprehensive national accounts data in the fields of health, education and social policies as an important statistical basis for structural and macroeconomic policy assessments in the framework of the Lisbon strategy;

4.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0253

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 with respect to the transmission of national accounts data

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EC) No .../2007.)

P6_TA(2007)0139

Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) (COM(2006)0113 — C6-0218/2006 — 2006/0036(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (COM(2006)0113) (1),

—

having regard to Article 80(2), in conjunction with Article 300(2), first subparagraph, first sentence, and Article 300(4) of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0218/2006),

—

having regard to Rules 51 and 83(7) of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0060/2007);

1.

Approves the conclusion of the Agreement;

2.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, and the governments and parliaments of the Member States and of the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Montenegro, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Serbia and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TA(2007)0140

Adaption of Title IV of the EC Treaty — Court of Justice *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the draft Council decision adapting the provisions concerning the Court of Justice in fields covered by Title IV of Part Three of the Treaty establishing the European Community (COM(2006)0346 — C6-0304/2006 — 2006/0808(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the draft Council decision annexed to the Commission communication (COM(2006)0346 — C6-0304/2006),

—

having regard to Article 67(2), second indent, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament,

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0082/2007);

1.

Approves the draft Council decision;

2.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

3.

Calls for initiation of the conciliation procedure under the Joint Declaration of 4 March 1975 if the Council intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

4.

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the draft decision substantially;

5.

Calls on the Council to speed up the activation of the ‘passerelle’ clauses in order to remove the restrictions on the powers of the Court of Justice in connection with Title IV of the Treaty, while pointing out that it has already called on the Council to remove those restrictions;

6.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission.

P6_TA(2007)0141

Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community of a Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation and of the Protocol on Claims, Legal Proceedings and Indemnification to the Framework Agreement on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation (COM(2006)0665 — C6-0475/2006 — 2006/0227(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (COM(2006)0665) (1),

—

having regard to Articles 181a and 300(2) first subparagraph of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0475/2006),

—

having regard to Rules 51 and 83(7) of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (A6-0126/2007);

1.

Approves the conclusion of the Framework Agreement and the Protocol thereto;

2.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, and the governments and parliaments of the Member States and of Norway and Russia.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TA(2007)0142

Common rules in the field of civil aviation security ***II

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 (14039/1/2006 — C6-0041/2007 — 2005/0191(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Council common position (14039/1/2006 — C6-0041/2007),

—

having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0429) (2),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Rule 62 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0134/2007);

1.

Approves the common position as amended;

2.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Texts Adopted, 15.6.2006, P6_TA(2006)0267.

(2)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC2-COD(2005)0191

Position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002

(Text with EEA relevance)

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having consulted the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (2) ,

Whereas:

(1)

In order to protect persons and goods within the European Union, acts of unlawful interference with civil aircraft which jeopardise the security of civil aviation should be prevented by establishing common rules for safeguarding civil aviation. This objective should be achieved by setting common rules and common basic standards on aviation security as well as mechanisms for monitoring compliance.

(2)

It is desirable, in the interests of civil aviation security generally, to provide the basis for a common interpretation of Annex 17 to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation of 7 December 1944.

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 establishing common rules in the field of civil aviation security (3) was adopted as a result of the events of 11 September 2001 in the United States.

(4)

The content of Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 should be revised in the light of the experience gained, and the Regulation itself should be repealed and replaced by this Regulation seeking the simplification, harmonisation and clarification of the existing rules and the improvement of the levels of security.

(5)

Given the need for more flexibility in adopting security measures and procedures in order to meet evolving risk assessments and to allow new technologies to be introduced, this Regulation should lay down the basic principles of what has to be done in order to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference without going into technical and procedural details on how they are to be implemented.

(6)

This Regulation should apply to airports serving civil aviation located in the territory of a Member State, to operators providing services at such airports and to entities providing goods and/or services to or through such airports.

(7)

Without prejudice to the Convention on offences and certain other acts committed on board aircraft, Tokyo, 1963, the Convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft, The Hague, 1970 and the Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation, Montreal, 1971, this Regulation should also cover security measures that apply on board an aircraft, or during a flight, of Community air carriers.

(8)

Each Member State may decide for itself whether to deploy in-flight security officers on aircraft registered in that Member State and on aircraft of air carriers licensed by that Member State.

(9)

The various types of civil aviation do not necessarily present the same level of threat. In setting common basic standards on aviation security, the size of the aircraft, the nature of the operation and/or the frequency of operations at airports should be taken into account with a view to permitting the grant of derogations.

(10)

Member States should also be allowed, on the basis of a risk assessment, to apply more stringent measures than those laid down in this Regulation. A distinction should be drawn, however, between common basic standards and more stringent measures and a similar distinction should be drawn as regards their funding.

(11)

Third countries may require the application of measures that differ from those laid down in this Regulation in respect of flights from an airport in a Member State to, or over, that third country. However, without prejudice to any bilateral agreements to which the Community is a party, it should be possible for the Commission to examine the measures required by the third country and to decide whether a Member State, operator or other entity concerned may continue to apply the measures required .

(12)

Even though, within a single Member State, there may be two or more bodies or entities involved in aviation security, each Member State should designate a single authority responsible for the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of security standards .

(13)

In order to define responsibilities for the implementation of the common basic standards and to describe what measures are required by operators and other entities for this purpose, each Member State should draw up a national civil aviation security programme. Furthermore, each airport operator, air carrier and entity applying aviation security standards should draw up, apply and maintain a security programme in order to comply both with this Regulation and with whichever national civil aviation security programme is applicable.

(14)

In order to monitor compliance with this Regulation and with the national civil aviation security programme, each Member State should draw up and ensure the implementation of a national programme to check the level of civil aviation security.

(15)

In order to monitor the application by Member States of this Regulation, and also to make recommendations to improve aviation security, the Commission should conduct inspections, including unannounced inspections.

(16)

In the context of the forthcoming extension of its competences, the European Aviation Safety Agency should gradually become involved in the monitoring of compliance with common provisions on civil aviation security.

(17)

Implementing acts setting out common measures and procedures for the implementation of the common basic standards and containing sensitive security information, together with Commission inspection reports and answers of appropriate authorities, should be regarded as ‘EU classified information’ within the meaning of Commission Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom of 29 November 2001 amending its internal rules of procedure (4). Those items should not be published; they should only be made available to those operators and entities with a legitimate interest.

(18)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (5).

(19)

In particular, power should be conferred on the Commission to establish the conditions under which the measures referred to in Articles 4(5) and 13(2) are to be adopted. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, or to supplement it by the addition of new non-essential elements, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

(20)

For the purpose of allowing transfer passengers and transfer baggage to be exempted from screening when arriving on a flight from a third country, which is known as the concept of ‘one-stop security’, as well as for allowing passengers arriving on such a flight to mix with screened departing passengers, it is appropriate to encourage the conclusion of agreements between the Community and third countries, recognising that the security standards applied in the third country are equivalent to Community standards.

(21)

The goal of ‘one-stop security’ for all flights within the European Union should be advanced.

(22)

This Regulation is without prejudice to the application of rules on aviation safety, including those relating to the transport of dangerous goods.

(23)

Penalties should be provided for infringements of the provisions of this Regulation. Those penalties should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

(24)

The Ministerial Statement on Gibraltar Airport, agreed in Cordoba on 18 September 2006 during the first Ministerial meeting of the Forum of Dialogue on Gibraltar, will replace the Joint Declaration on Gibraltar Airport made in London on 2 December 1987, and full compliance with it will be deemed to constitute compliance with the 1987 Declaration.

(25)

Consideration should be given to the setting up of a solidarity mechanism that could offer assistance following terrorist acts that have a major impact in the transport field.

(26)

Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference and to provide a basis for a common interpretation of Annex 17 to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale and effects of this Regulation, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Objectives

1.   This Regulation establishes common rules to protect civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference that jeopardise its security .

It also provides the basis for a common interpretation of Annex 17 to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.

2.

(a)

the setting of common rules and common basic standards on aviation security;

(b)

mechanisms for monitoring compliance.

Article 2

Scope

1.

(a)

all airports or parts of airports serving civil aviation located in the territory of a Member State;

(b)

all operators, including air carriers, providing services at airports referred to in point (a);

(c)

all entities applying aviation security standards that operate from premises located inside or outside airport premises and provide goods and/or services to or through airports referred to in point (a).

2.   The application of this Regulation to the airport of Gibraltar is understood to be without prejudice to the respective legal positions of the Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom with regard to the dispute over sovereignty over the territory in which the airport is situated.

Article 3

Definitions

(1)

‘civil aviation’ means any air transport operation , both commercial and non-commercial, as well as both scheduled and non-scheduled operations, but excluding operations carried out by state aircraft referred to in Article 3 of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation;

(2)

‘aviation security’ means the combination of measures and human and material resources intended to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference that jeopardise the security of civil aviation ;

(3)

‘airport’ means any area of land [or water] specially adapted for the landing, taking-off and manoeuvres of aircraft, including ancillary installations which these operations may involve for the requirements of aircraft traffic and services including the installations needed to assist commercial air services;

(4)

‘operator’ means a person, organisation or enterprise engaged, or offering to engage, in an air transport operation;

(5)

‘air carrier’ means an air transport undertaking holding a valid operating licence or equivalent;

(6)

‘Community air carrier’ means an air carrier holding a valid operating licence granted by a Member State in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 2407/92 of 23 July 1992 on licensing of air carriers (6);

(7)

‘entity’ means a person, organisation or enterprise, other than an operator;

(8)

‘prohibited articles’ means weapons, explosives or other dangerous devices, articles or substances that may be used to commit an act of unlawful interference that jeopardises security ;

(9)

‘screening’ means the application of technical or other means which are intended to identify and/or detect prohibited articles;

(10)

‘security control’ means the application of means by which the introduction of prohibited articles may be prevented;

(11)

‘access control’ means the application of means by which the entry of unauthorised persons or unauthorised vehicles, or both, may be prevented;

(12)

‘airside’ means the movement area of an airport, adjacent terrain and buildings or portions thereof, access to which is restricted;

(13)

‘landside’ means those parts of an airport, adjacent terrain and buildings or portions thereof that are not airside;

(14)

‘security restricted area’ means that area of airside where, in addition to access being restricted, access control is applied;

(15)

‘demarcated area’ means an area that is not accessible to the general public and that is separated from security restricted areas, or, if the demarcated area itself is a security restricted area, from other security restricted areas of an airport;

(16)

‘background check’ means a verifiable check of a person's identity, including any criminal history and intelligence data ;

(17)

‘transfer passengers, baggage, cargo or mail’ means passengers, baggage, cargo or mail departing on an aircraft other than that on which they arrived;

(18)

‘transit passengers, baggage , cargo or mail’ means passengers, baggage, cargo or mail departing on the same aircraft as that on which they arrived on a flight with the same flight number ;

(19)

‘potentially disruptive passenger’ means a passenger who is either a deportee, a person deemed to be inadmissible for immigration reasons or a person in lawful custody;

(20)

‘cabin baggage’ means baggage intended for carriage in the cabin of an aircraft;

(21)

‘hold baggage’ means baggage intended for carriage in the hold of an aircraft;

(22)

‘accompanied hold baggage’ means baggage, carried in the hold of an aircraft, which has been checked in for a flight by a passenger travelling on that same flight;

(23)

‘air carrier mail’ means mail whose origin and destination are both an air carrier;

(24)

‘air carrier materials’ means materials either whose origin and destination are both an air carrier or that are used by an air carrier;

(25)

‘mail’ means letters, packages, dispatches of correspondence and other articles intended for delivery to postal service companies responsible for handling them in accordance with the provisions of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) ;

(26)

’cargo’ means any property intended for carriage on an aircraft, other than baggage, mail, air carrier mail, air carrier materials and in-flight supplies;

(27)

‘regulated agent’ means an air carrier, agent, freight forwarder or any other entity that ensures security controls in accordance with this Regulation in respect of cargo or mail;

(28)

‘known consignor’ means a consignor who originates cargo or mail and whose procedures meet common security rules and standards sufficient to allow carriage of cargo or mail on any aircraft;

(29)

‘account consignor’ means a consignor who originates cargo or mail and whose procedures meet common security rules and standards sufficient to allow carriage of that cargo on all-cargo aircraft and aircraft carrying mail only ;

(30)

‘aircraft security check’ means an inspection of those parts of the interior of the aircraft to which passengers may have had access, together with an inspection of the hold of the aircraft in order to detect prohibited articles and unlawful interferences that jeopardise the security of the aircraft;

(31)

‘aircraft security search’ means an inspection of the interior and accessible exterior of the aircraft in order to detect prohibited articles and unlawful interferences that jeopardise the security of the aircraft;

(32)

‘in-flight security officer’ means a person who is employed by a Member State to travel on an aircraft of an air carrier licensed by it with the purpose of protecting that aircraft and its occupants against acts of unlawful interference that jeopardise the security of the flight .

Article 4

Common basic standards

1.   The common basic standards for safeguarding civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference that jeopardise its security shall be as laid down in the Annex.

2.     Member States and users shall share the costs of the application of the common basic standards for tackling acts of unlawful interference. In order to avoid any distortion of competition between Member States and between airports, air carriers and other entities concerned within the Community as well as between Member States and third countries, the Commission shall, as soon as possible, submit a proposal to introduce uniform arrangements for financing these security measures.

3.   Detailed measures for the implementation of the common basic standards referred to in paragraph 1 shall be laid down in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 19(2).

(a)

methods of screening, access control and other security controls;

(b)

methods of performing aircraft security checks and aircraft security searches;

(c)

prohibited articles;

(d)

performance criteria and acceptance tests for equipment;

(e)

staff recruitment and training requirements;

(f)

the definition of critical parts of security restricted areas;

(g)

the obligations of, and the validation procedures for, regulated agents, known consignors and account consignors;

(h)

categories of persons, goods and aircraft that for objective reasons shall be subject to special security procedures or shall be exempted from screening, access control or other security controls ;

(i)

background checks.

4.     The detailed measures for the implementation of the common basic standards shall expire six months after their entry into force. The detailed measures may be maintained in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 19(2), but only after a thorough re-evaluation of the security risks and a thorough evaluation of the costs and operational impact associated with those measures.

5.   The Commission shall set , in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 19(3), criteria for allowing Member States to derogate from the common basic standards referred to in paragraph 1 and to adopt security measures that provide an adequate level of protection at airports, or demarcated areas thereof, on the basis of a local risk assessment. Such alternative measures shall be justified by reasons relating to the size of the aircraft, the nature of the operation and/or the frequency of operations at the airports concerned .

6.    Member States shall ensure the application of the common basic standards referred to in paragraph 1 .

7.     Each of the detailed measures and procedures for the implementation of the common basic standards referred to in paragraph 1 shall be laid down on the basis of a risk and impact assessment. The assessment shall include estimated costs.

8.     Member States shall inform the Commission of those measures laid down under paragraph 3 the financial and other costs of which, upon implementation of the measure, are disproportionate to the added security, if any, which the measure establishes. In such instances the Commission shall allow Member States to derogate from the common basic standards in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 19(3).

Article 5

Transparency in charging

Where airport or on-board security costs are included in the price of an air ticket, those costs shall be shown separately on the ticket or otherwise indicated to the passenger.

Article 6

Hypothecation of security taxes and charges

Security taxes and charges, whether levied by Member States or by air carriers or entities shall be transparent, shall be used exclusively to meet airport or on-board aircraft security costs and shall not exceed the costs of applying the common basic standards referred to in Article 4.

Article 7

Action to be taken in the event of a security breach

Where they have reason to believe that the level of security has been compromised through a security breach, Member States shall ensure that appropriate and prompt action is taken to rectify that breach and ensure the continuing security of civil aviation.

Article 8

More stringent measures applied by Member States

1.   Member States may apply more stringent measures than the common basic standards referred to in Article 4. In doing so, they shall act on the basis of a risk assessment and in compliance with Community law. More stringent measures shall be relevant, objective, non-discriminatory and proportional to the risk that is being addressed.

2.    The Commission may examine the application of paragraph 1 and, after consulting the Committee referred to in Article 19, decide whether the Member State is allowed to continue to apply the measures.

The Commission shall communicate its decision to the Council and the Member States.

Within one month of the decision being communicated by the Commission, a Member State may refer the decision to the Council. The Council, acting by qualified majority, may, within a period of three months, take a different decision.

3.    Paragraph 2 shall not apply if the more stringent measures are limited to a given flight on a specific date.

4.     Member States shall meet the costs of applying more stringent measures, as referred to in paragraph 1.

Article 9

Security measures required by third countries

1.   Without prejudice to any bilateral agreements to which the Community is a party, a Member State shall notify the Commission of measures required by a third country if they differ from the common basic standards referred to in Article 4 in respect of flights from an airport in a Member State to, or over, that third country.

2.     The Commission shall cooperate with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in fields falling within the scope of this Regulation. To facilitate such cooperation, the Commission is authorised to conclude agreements with the ICAO for the purpose of exchanging information and mutual support in connection with audits and inspections. The Commission shall negotiate those agreements with the assistance of the Committee referred to in Article 19.

3.   At the request of the Member State concerned or on its own initiative, the Commission shall examine the application of paragraph 1 and may, in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 19(2), and after consulting the third country, draw up an appropriate response to the third country .

The Commission shall communicate its decision to the Council and the Member States.

4.

(a)

the Member State concerned applies the measures concerned in accordance with Article 8; or

(b)

the requirement of the third country is limited to a given flight on a specific date.

Article 10

National authority

Where, within a single Member State, two or more bodies are involved in civil aviation security, that Member State shall designate a single authority (hereinafter referred to as ‘the appropriate authority’) to be responsible for the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the common basic standards referred to in Article 4.

Article 11

Programmes

Member States, airport operators, air carriers and other entities applying aviation security standards shall be responsible for drawing up, applying and maintaining their respective security programmes in the manner set out in Articles 12 to 16.

Member States shall additionally perform the broad quality-control function defined in Article 17.

Article 12

National civil aviation security programme

1.   Every Member State shall draw up, apply and maintain a national civil aviation security programme.

That programme shall define responsibilities for the implementation of the common basic standards referred to in Article 4 and shall describe the measures required by operators and entities for this purpose.

2.   The appropriate authority shall make available in writing on a ‘need to know’ basis the appropriate parts of its national civil aviation security programme to operators and entities with a legitimate interest.

Article 13

National quality control programme

1.   Every Member State shall draw up, apply and maintain a national quality control programme.

That programme shall enable the Member State to check the quality of civil aviation security in order to monitor compliance both with this Regulation and with its national civil aviation security programme.

2.   The specifications for the national quality control programme shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 19(3).

The programme shall allow for the swift detection and correction of deficiencies. It shall also provide that all airports, operators and entities responsible for the implementation of aviation security standards that are located in the territory of the Member State concerned shall be regularly monitored directly by, or under the supervision of, the appropriate authority.

Article 14

Airport security programme

1.   Every airport operator shall draw up, apply and maintain an airport security programme.

That programme shall describe the methods and procedures which are to be followed by the airport operator in order to comply both with this Regulation and with the national civil aviation security programme of the Member State in which the airport is located.

The programme shall also describe how compliance with these methods and procedures is monitored by the airport operator.

2.   The airport security programme shall be submitted to the appropriate authority.

Article 15

Air carrier security programme

1.   Every Member State shall ensure that air carriers providing services from their territory implement and maintain an air carrier security programme appropriate to meeting the requirements of national civil aviation security programmes .

That programme shall describe the methods and procedures which are to be followed by the air carrier in order to comply both with this Regulation and with the national civil aviation security programme of the Member State from which it provides services.

The programme shall also describe how compliance with these methods and procedures is monitored by the air carrier.

2.   Upon request, the air carrier security programme shall be submitted to the appropriate authority.

3.   Where a Community air carrier security programme has been validated by the appropriate authority of the Member State granting the operating licence, it shall be recognised by all other Member States. Such validation and recognition shall not apply to those parts of the programme that relate to any more stringent measures that are to be applied in a Member State other than the Member State granting the operating licence.

Article 16

Security programme of a regulated agent applying aviation security standards

1.   Every regulated agent required under the national civil aviation security programme referred to in Article 12 to apply aviation security standards shall draw up, apply and maintain a security programme.

That programme shall describe the methods and procedures which are to be followed by the regulated agent in order to comply primarily with the national civil aviation security programme of the relevant Member State in respect of its operations in that Member State and with this Regulation .

The programme shall also describe how compliance with these methods and procedures is to be monitored by the regulated agent itself .

2.   Upon request, the security programme of the regulated agent applying aviation security standards shall be submitted to the appropriate authority .

Article 17

Commission inspections

1.   The Commission shall instruct the European Aviation Safety Agency , acting in cooperation with the appropriate authority of the Member State concerned, to conduct inspections, including inspections of airports, operators and entities applying aviation security standards — in order to monitor the application by Member States of this Regulation , to identify weak points in aviation security and, as appropriate, to make recommendations to improve aviation security. For this purpose, the appropriate authority shall inform the Commission in writing of all airports in its territory serving civil aviation other than those covered by Article 4(5).

The procedures for conducting Commission inspections shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 19(2).

2.   Commission inspections of airports, operators and entities applying aviation security standards shall be unannounced.

3.   Each Commission inspection report shall be communicated to the appropriate authority of the Member State concerned, which shall, in its answer, set out the measures taken to remedy any identified deficiencies.

The report, together with the answer of the appropriate authority, shall subsequently be communicated to the appropriate authority of the other Member States.

4.     The Commission shall ensure that every European airport that falls within the scope of this Regulation is inspected at least once before ... (7).

Article 18

Dissemination of information

(a)

measures and procedures as referred to in Articles 4(3) and 4(5) , if containing sensitive security information;

(b)

Commission inspection reports and answers of the appropriate authorities, as referred to in Article 17(3).

Article 19

Committee procedure

1.   The Commission shall be assisted by a Committee.

2.   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.

3.   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4), and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

Article 20

Report

Every year the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament, the Council, the Member States and the national parliaments, informing them of the application of this Regulation and its impact on improving air security, as well as of any weaknesses or shortcomings brought to light by the Commission's checks and inspections.

Article 21

Stakeholders' Advisory Group

Without prejudice to the role of the Committee referred to in Article 19, the Commission shall establish a Stakeholders' Advisory Group on Aviation Security, composed of European representative organisations engaged in, or directly affected by, aviation security. The role of this group shall be solely to advise the Commission. The Committee referred to in Article 19 shall keep the Stakeholders' Advisory Group informed during the entire regulatory process.

Article 22

Publication of information

Every year the Commission shall draw conclusions from the inspection reports and publish, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (8) a report on the implementation of this Regulation and on the situation in the Community as far as aviation security is concerned.

Article 23

Third countries

Agreements recognising that the security standards applied in a third country are equivalent to Community standards should be included in global aviation agreements between the Community and a third country in accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty, in order to advance the goal of ‘one-stop security’ for all flights between the European Union and third countries.

Article 24

Penalties

Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the provisions of this Regulation and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

Article 25

Repeal

Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 is hereby repealed.

Article 26

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from ... (9), with the exception of Articles 4(3), 4(5), 13(2), 17(1) and 19, which shall apply from ... (10).

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)  OJ C 185, 8.8.2006, p. 17.

(2)  Position of the European Parliament of 15 June 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal), Council Common Position of 11 December 2006 (OJ C 70 E, 27.3.2007, p. 21) and Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(3)  OJ L 355, 30.12.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 849/2004 (OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

(4)  OJ L 317, 3.12.2001, p. 1.

(5)  OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(6)  OJ L 240, 24.8.1992, p. 1.

(7)  Four years after the entry into force of this Regulation.

(8)  OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.

(9)   One year from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

(10)   The date of entry into force of this Regulation .

ANNEX

COMMON BASIC STANDARDS FOR SAFEGUARDING CIVIL AVIATION AGAINST ACTS OF UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE (ARTICLE 4)

1.   AIRPORT SECURITY

1.1.   Airport planning requirements

1.

When designing and constructing new airport facilities or altering existing airport facilities, requirements for the implementation of the common basic standards set out in this Annex and its implementing acts shall be fully taken into account.

2.

At airports the following areas shall be established:

(a)

landside;

(b)

airside;

(c)

security restricted areas; and

(d)

critical parts of security restricted areas.

1.2.   Access control

1.

Access to airside shall be restricted in order to prevent unauthorised persons and vehicles from entering these areas.

2.

Access to security restricted areas shall be controlled in order to ensure that no unauthorised persons and vehicles enter these areas.

3.

Persons and vehicles may be granted access to airside and security restricted areas only if they fulfil the required security conditions.

4.

All staff , including flight crew members, shall have successfully completed a background check before an airport or crew identification card is issued to them authorising unescorted access to security restricted areas. Identification cards may be recognised by an appropriate authority other than that which issued the identification card concerned.

1.3.   Screening of persons other than passengers and items carried

1.

Persons other than passengers, together with items carried, shall be screened on a continuous random basis upon entering security restricted areas in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced into these areas.

2.

All persons other than passengers, together with items carried, shall be screened upon entering critical parts of security restricted areas in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced into these parts.

1.4.   Examination of vehicles

Vehicles entering a security restricted area shall be examined in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced into these areas.

1.5.   Surveillance, patrols and other physical controls

There shall be surveillance, patrols and other physical controls in the security restricted areas and all adjacent areas with public access, in order to identify suspicious behaviour of persons, to identify vulnerabilities which could be exploited to carry out an act of unlawful interference and to deter persons from such acts.

2.   DEMARCATED AREAS OF AIRPORTS

Aircraft parked in demarcated areas of airports to which alternative measures referred to in Article 4(5) apply, shall be separated from aircraft to which these common basic standards apply in full, in order to ensure that security standards applied to aircraft, passengers, baggage and cargo of the latter are not compromised.

3.   AIRCRAFT SECURITY

1.

If passengers disembark from an aircraft, the aircraft shall be subjected to an aircraft security check before departure in order to ensure that no prohibited articles are present on board. An aircraft may be exempted from the check if it arrives from a Member State, unless the Commission or that Member State has provided information suggesting that the passengers and their cabin baggage cannot be considered as having been screened in accordance with the common basic standards referred to in Article 4 .

2.

Passengers who are disembarked from an aircraft at a recognised airport due to technical issues and subsequently held in a secure zone at that airport should not be subject to re-screening.

3.

Every aircraft shall be protected from unauthorised interference. The presence of aircraft in the critical parts of the security restricted area shall be deemed to be sufficient protection.

4.

Every aircraft that has not been protected from unauthorised interference shall be subjected to an aircraft search.

4.   PASSENGERS AND CABIN BAGGAGE

4.1.   Screening of passengers and cabin baggage

1.

All originating, transfer and transit passengers and their cabin baggage shall be screened in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced into security restricted areas and on board an aircraft.

2.

Transfer passengers and their cabin baggage may be exempted from screening, if:

(a)

they arrive from a Member State, unless the Commission or that Member State has provided information that those passengers and their cabin baggage cannot be considered as having been screened to the common basic standards; or

(b)

they arrive from a third country with which the Community has an agreement that recognises that those passengers and their cabin baggage have been screened to security standards equivalent to Community standards .

3.

Transit passengers and their cabin baggage may be exempted from screening, if:

(a)

they remain on board the aircraft; or

(b)

they do not mix with screened departing passengers other than those who board the same aircraft; or

(c)

they arrive from a Member State, unless the Commission or that Member State has provided information that those passengers and their cabin baggage cannot be considered as having been screened to the common basic standards; or

(d)

they arrive from a third country with which the Community has an agreement that recognises that those passengers and their cabin baggage have been screened to security standards equivalent to Community standards .

4.2.   Protection of passengers and cabin baggage

1.

Passengers and their cabin baggage shall be protected from unauthorised interference from the point at which they are screened until departure of the aircraft on which they are carried.

2.

Screened departing passengers shall not mix with arriving passengers, unless:

(a)

the passengers arrive from a Member State, provided that the Commission or that Member State has not provided information that those arriving passengers and their cabin baggage cannot be considered as having been screened to the common basic standards; or

(b)

the passengers arrive from a third country with which the Community has an agreement that recognises that those passengers have been screened to security standards equivalent to Community standards .

4.3.   Potentially disruptive passengers

Before departure potentially disruptive passengers shall be subjected to appropriate security measures.

5.   HOLD BAGGAGE

5.1.   Screening of hold baggage

1.

All hold baggage shall be screened prior to being loaded onto an aircraft .

2.

Transfer hold baggage may be exempted from screening, if:

(a)

it arrives from a Member State, unless the Commission or that Member State has provided information that this hold baggage cannot be considered as having been screened to the common basic standards; or

(b)

it arrives from a third country with which the Community has an agreement that recognises that this hold baggage has been screened to security standards equivalent to Community standards .

3.

Transit hold baggage may be exempted from screening if it remains on board the aircraft.

5.2.   Protection of hold baggage

Hold baggage to be carried on an aircraft shall be protected from unauthorised interference from the point at which it is screened or accepted into the care of the air carrier, whichever is earlier, until the departure of the aircraft on which it is to be carried.

5.3.   Baggage reconciliation

1.

Each item of hold baggage shall be identified as accompanied or unaccompanied. The hold baggage of a passenger who has checked in for a flight but who is not on board the aircraft shall be identified as unaccompanied.

2.

Unaccompanied hold baggage shall not be transported, unless that baggage has been either separated due to factors beyond the passenger's control or subjected to adequate security controls.

6.   CARGO AND MAIL

6.1.   Security controls for cargo

1.

All cargo shall be subjected to security controls prior to being loaded onto an aircraft. An air carrier shall not accept cargo for carriage on an aircraft unless the application of security controls is confirmed and accounted for by a regulated agent, a known consignor or an account consignor.

2.

Transfer cargo shall be subjected to security controls as detailed in an implementing act. It may be exempted from security controls:

(a)

if it arrives from a Member State, unless the Commission or that Member State has provided information suggesting that the cargo cannot be considered as having been screened in accordance with the common basic standards referred to in Article 4, or

(b)

if it arrives from a third country with which the Community has an agreement that recognises that the cargo has been screened in accordance with security standards equivalent to Community standards, or

(c)

in cases detailed in an implementing act.

3.

Transit cargo and transit mail may be exempted from security controls if it remains on board the aircraft.

6.2.   Protection of cargo

1.

Cargo to be carried on an aircraft shall be protected from unauthorised interference from the point at which security controls are applied until the departure of the aircraft on which it is to be carried.

2.

Cargo that is not adequately protected from unauthorised interference after security controls have been applied shall be screened.

6.3.     Security controls for mail

1.

All mail shall be subjected to security controls prior to being loaded on to an aircraft. An air carrier shall not accept mail for carriage on an aircraft unless it is confirmed that appropriate security controls for mail, as detailed in an implementing act, have been applied.

2.

Transfer mail shall be subjected to security controls as detailed in an implementing act. It may be exempted from security controls on the basis of the exemption criteria laid down in Section 5.1, paragraph 2.

3.

Transit mail may be exempted from security controls if it remains on board the aircraft.

7.   AIR CARRIER MAIL AND AIR CARRIER MATERIALS

Air carrier mail and air carrier materials shall be subjected to security controls and thereafter protected until loaded onto the aircraft in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced on board an aircraft.

8.   IN-FLIGHT SUPPLIES

In-flight supplies, including catering, intended for carriage or use on board an aircraft shall be subjected to security controls and thereafter protected until loaded onto the aircraft in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced on board an aircraft.

9.   AIRPORT SUPPLIES

Supplies intended to be sold or used in security restricted areas of airports, including supplies for dutyfree shops and restaurants, shall be subjected to security controls in order to prevent prohibited articles from being introduced into these areas.

10.   IN-FLIGHT SECURITY MEASURES

1.

Without prejudice to the applicable aviation safety rules:

(a)

unauthorised persons shall be prevented from entering the flight crew compartment during a flight;

(b)

potentially disruptive passengers shall be subjected to appropriate security measures during a flight.

2.

If, during a flight, a passenger seeks to commit an act of unlawful interference, appropriate security measures shall be taken to prevent such an act .

3.

Weapons , with the exception of those carried as declared cargo, shall not be carried on board an aircraft, unless the required security conditions have been fulfilled, and

(a)

authorisation has been given by the State granting the operating licence to the air carrier concerned, and

(b)

prior approval has been given by the States of departure and arrival and, where applicable, by any State which is flown over or in which intermediate stops are made.

4.

In-flight security officers may only be deployed on board an aircraft if the required security conditions and training have been fulfilled. Member States retain the right not to authorise the use of in-flight security officers on flights of air carriers licensed by them.

5.

Paragraph 3 shall also apply to in-flight security officers if they carry weapons.

6.

Responsibility for taking appropriate action in the event of any act of unlawful interference committed on board a civil aircraft or during a flight shall be clearly defined, without prejudice to the principle of the authority of the captain of the aircraft.

11.   STAFF RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING

1.

Persons implementing, or responsible for implementing, screening, access control or other security controls shall be recruited, trained and, where appropriate, certified so as to ensure that they are suitable for employment and competent to undertake the duties to which they are assigned.

2.

Persons other than passengers and escorted persons with a short-term airport pass requiring access to security restricted areas shall , before either an airport identification card or crew identification card is issued, receive security training, unless they are continuously escorted by one or more persons who have an airport identification card or crew identification card .

3.

Training as mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be conducted on initial and recurrent basis.

4.

Instructors engaged in the training of the persons mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall have the necessary qualifications.

12.   SECURITY EQUIPMENT

Equipment used for screening, access control and other security controls shall comply with approved specification and be capable of performing the security controls concerned.

13.     BACKGROUND CHECKS

All pilots of and applicants for pilot licences for motorised aircraft shall be subject to uniform background checks which shall be repeated at regular intervals. Decisions of the appropriate authorities regarding background checks shall be taken on the basis of the same criteria.

P6_TA(2007)0143

Assessment and management of flood risks ***II

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Council common position with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks (12131/6/2006 — C6-0038/2007 — 2006/0005(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Council common position (12131/6/2006 — C6-0038/2007),

—

having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2006)0015) (2),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to Rule 62 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0064/2007);

1.

Approves the common position as amended;

2.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Texts Adopted, 13.6.2006, P6_TA(2006)0253.

(2)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC2-COD(2006)0005

Position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at second reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive 2007/60/EC.)

P6_TA(2007)0144

Advanced therapy medicinal products ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products and amending Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 (COM(2005)0567 — C6-0401/2005 — 2005/0227(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0567) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 95 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0401/2005),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the opinions of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0031/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend its proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0227

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products and amending Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EC) No .../2007.)

P6_TA(2007)0145

Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (COM(2006)0168 — C6-0233/2005 — 2005/0127(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the amended Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2006)0168) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 95 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0233/2005),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the opinions of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0073/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0127

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (1),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (2),

Whereas:

(1)

The Green Paper on the fight against counterfeiting and piracy in the Single Market presented by the Commission on 15 October 1998 noted that counterfeiting and piracy had grown into an international phenomenon with major repercussions at economic and social level and in terms of consumer protection, especially as regards public health and safety. An action plan was drawn up as part of the follow-up to the Green Paper and was included in a communication on the same subject from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee on 30 November 2000.

(2)

In its conclusions, the Brussels European Council of 20 and 21 March 2003 invited the Commission and the Member States to improve exploitation of intellectual property rights by taking forward measures against counterfeiting and piracy.

(3)

At international level, all Member States, as well as the Community itself, as regards matters within its competence, are bound by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (the ‘TRIPS Agreement’), concluded in the framework of the World Trade Organization and approved by Council Decision 94/800/EC (3). The TRIPS Agreement contains, in particular, provisions on criminal matters which are common standards applicable at international level, but the disparities between Member States are still too great, and they do not permit effective combating of intellectual property offences, particularly the most serious ones. This causes a loss of confidence in the Internal Market in business circles, with a consequent reduction in investment in innovation and creation.

(4)

The Commission also adopted, in November 2004, an Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Strategy towards third countries.

(5)

Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (4) lays down measures, procedures and civil and administrative remedies. A sufficiently dissuasive set of penalties applicable throughout the Community is needed to make the provisions laid down in that Directive complete. Certain criminal provisions need to be harmonised so that counterfeiting and piracy in the internal market can be combated effectively. The Community legislature has the power to take the criminal-law measures that are necessary to guarantee the full effectiveness of the rules it lays down on the protection of intellectual property , as defined by this Directive, other than patents .

(6)

Building on the Commission Communication on a customs response to counterfeiting and piracy adopted in October 2005, the Council adopted a Resolution on 13 March 2006, in which it underlined that the Lisbon Strategy objectives ‘can only be achieved through a well-functioning internal market with adequate measures to encourage investment in the knowledge-based economy’ and recognised‘the threat posed by the serious growth in counterfeiting and piracy to the Union's knowledge-based economy and in particular to health and safety (...)’.

(7)

In its resolution of 7 September 2006 on counterfeiting of medicinal products, the European Parliament took the view that the European Community should equip itself as a matter of urgency with the means to combat effectively illicit practices in the area of piracy and the counterfeiting of medicines.

(8)

The level of sentencing for natural and legal persons who have committed such offences must be harmonised. In particular, the rules on prison sentences, fines and confiscation must be harmonised.

(9)

In respect of persons accused of committing the offences laid down in this Directive, and in establishing their intention to infringe the intellectual property right in question, account should be taken of the extent to which the accused had, in advance of the infringement, substantial grounds to plead that the intellectual property right in question was invalid.

(10)

Provisions must be laid down to facilitate criminal investigations. The Member States must ensure the cooperation of the holders of intellectual property rights with the joint investigation teams in accordance with the arrangements provided for in Council Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA of 13 June 2002 on joint investigation teams (5). The involvement of the holders of intellectual property rights concerned should constitute a supporting role that will not interfere with the neutrality of the state investigations .

(11)

To facilitate investigations or criminal proceedings concerning intellectual property offences, these may not be dependent on a report or accusation made by a person subjected to the offence.

(12)

The rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union should be fully respected when criminal acts and penalties are defined, during investigations and in the course of judicial proceedings.

(13)

This Directive does not affect specific liability systems such as laid down for Internet service providers by Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce , in the Internal Market  (6) and by Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (7).

(14)

Since the objective of this Directive cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States acting alone and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.

(15)

This Directive respects fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In particular, this Directive seeks to ensure full respect for intellectual property, in accordance with Article 17(2) of the Charter.

(16)

It is necessary to ensure adequate protection of intellectual property rights in the audiovisual sector, as indicated by Directive 98/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 1998 on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access (8),

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Objective and scope

This Directive lays down the criminal measures necessary to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights , as defined below, in the context of counterfeiting and piracy .

Those measures shall apply to intellectual property rights , other than patents, provided for in Community legislation.

Industrial property rights under a patent shall be excluded from the provisions of this Directive.

In particular, this Directive does not apply to any infringement of an intellectual property right related to:

—

patent rights, utility models and plant variety rights, including rights derived from supplementary protection certificates;

—

parallel imports of original goods from a third country which have been allowed by the rightholder.

Article 2

Definitions

Directive:

(a)

‘intellectual property rights’ means one or more of the following rights:

—

copyright,

—

rights related to copyright,

—

the sui generis right of a database maker,

—

rights of the creator of the topographies of a semiconductor product,

—

trademark rights, in so far as extending to them the protection of criminal law is not inimical to free market rules and research activities,

—

design rights,

—

geographical indications,

—

trade names, in so far as these are protected as exclusive property rights in the national law concerned,

—

and in any event the rights, in so far as provision is made for them at Community level, in respect of goods within the meaning of Article 2(1)(a) and (b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights (9), and in any event with the exclusion of patents;

(b)

‘infringements on a commercial scale’ means any infringement of an intellectual property right committed to obtain a commercial advantage; this excludes acts carried out by private users for personal and not-for-profit purposes;

(c)

‘intentional infringements of an intellectual property right’ means any deliberate and conscious infringement of the right concerned for the purpose of obtaining an economic advantage on a commercial scale;

(d)

‘legal person’ means any legal entity having such status under the applicable national law, except for States or any other public bodies acting in the exercise of their prerogative of public power, as well as public international organisations.

Article 3

Offences

Member States shall ensure that all intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale, and aiding or abetting and inciting the actual infringement , are treated as criminal offences.

Criminal sanctions shall not be applied in cases of parallel imports of original goods from a third country which have been allowed by the rightholder .

Member States shall ensure that the fair use of a protected work, including such use by reproduction in copies or audio or by any other means, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship or research, does not constitute a criminal offence.

Article 4

Nature of penalties

1.

(a)

for natural persons: custodial sentences;

(b)

for natural and legal persons:

(i)

criminal fines for natural persons and criminal or non-criminal fines for legal persons ;

(ii)

confiscation of the object, instruments and products stemming from infringements or of goods whose value corresponds to those products.

2.

(a)

destruction of the goods , including materials or equipment used for infringing an intellectual property right;

(b)

total or partial closure, on a permanent or temporary basis, of the establishment used to commit the offence;

(c)

a permanent or temporary ban on engaging in commercial activities;

(d)

placing under judicial supervision;

(e)

judicial winding-up;

(f)

a ban on access to public assistance or subsidies;

(g)

publication of judicial decisions ;

(h)

an order requiring the infringer to pay the costs of keeping seized goods .

Article 5

Level of penalties

1.   Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, when committed by natural persons, the offences referred to in Article 3 are punishable by a maximum sentence of at least four years' imprisonment where they are serious crimes within the meaning of Article 3(5) of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing (10) or are committed under the aegis of a criminal organisation within the meaning of Framework Decision 2007/.../JHA on the fight against organised crime, or where they carry a health or safety risk.

2.

(a)

to a maximum of at least EUR 100 000 for cases other than those referred to in paragraph 1 ;

(b)

to a maximum of at least EUR 300 000 for cases referred to in paragraph 1.

3.     Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that repeated offences within the meaning of Article 3 committed by natural and legal persons in a Member State other than their country of origin or domicile are taken into account when determining the level of penalties in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.

Article 6

Extended powers of confiscation

Member States shall take the necessary measures to allow the total or partial confiscation of goods belonging to convicted natural or legal persons in accordance with Article 3 of Council Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA of 24 February 2005 on Confiscation of Crime-Related Proceeds, Instrumentalities and Property (11), where the offences are serious crimes within the meaning of Article 3(5) of Directive 2005/60/EC or are committed under the aegis of a criminal organisation within the meaning of Framework Decision 2007/.../JHA on the fight against organised crime, or where they carry a health or safety risk.

Article 7

Misuse of rights

Member States shall ensure that, through criminal, civil and procedural measures, the misuse of threats of criminal sanctions is prohibited and made subject to penalties.

Member States shall prohibit procedural misuse, especially where criminal measures are employed for the enforcement of the requirements of civil law.

Article 8

Rights of defendants

Member States shall ensure that the rights of defendants are duly protected and guaranteed.

Article 9

Joint investigation teams

1.    Member States must ensure that the holders of intellectual property rights concerned, or their representatives, and experts, are allowed to assist the investigations carried out by joint investigation teams into the offences referred to in Article 3.

2.     Member States shall put in place adequate safeguards to ensure that such assistance does not compromise the rights of the accused person, for example by affecting the accuracy, integrity or impartiality of evidence.

3.     Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which concerns the protection of personal data, and Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (12), shall be fully respected in the course of investigations and judicial proceedings.

Article 10

Right to receive information from law enforcement authorities

Member States shall provide that, where law enforcement authorities seize infringing items or obtain other evidence of infringement, the authorities make such evidence available for use in pending or contemplated civil proceedings against the alleged infringer brought by the right-holder before a court of competent jurisdiction within the European Union, and, where practicable, that those authorities inform the right-holder concerned or his representative that they are in possession of such items or evidence. Member States may require that any such provision of evidence to the right-holder be made subject to reasonable access, security or other requirements so as to ensure the integrity of the evidence and to avoid prejudice to any criminal proceedings that may ensue.

Article 11

Initiation of criminal proceedings

Member States shall ensure that the possibility of initiating investigations into, or prosecution of, offences covered by Article 3 are not dependent on a report or accusation made by a person subjected to the offence, at least if the acts were committed in the territory of the Member State.

Article 12

Transposition

1.   Member States shall bring into force the provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by ... (13) at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.

When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference at the time of their official publication. The procedure for such reference shall be adopted by Member States.

2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 13

Entry into force

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 14

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)  OJ C...

(2)  Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(3)  OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 1.

(4)  OJ L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 45 . Corrigendum published in OJ L 195, 2.6.2004, p. 16.

(5)  OJ L 162, 20.6.2002, p. 1.

(6)   OJ L 178, 17.7.2000, p. 1 .

(7)  OJ L 167, 22.6.2001, p. 10.

(8)  OJ L 320, 28.11.1998, p. 54.

(9)  OJ L 196, 2.8.2003, p. 7.

(10)  OJ L 309, 25.11.2005, p. 15.

(11)   OJ L 68, 15.3.2005, p. 49 .

(12)  OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31. Directive as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(13)  18 months after the date of adoption.

P6_TA(2007)0146

Community vessel traffic monitoring ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system (COM(2005)0589 — C6-0004/2006 — 2005/0239(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0589) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 80(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0004/2006),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the opinion of the Committee on Fisheries (A6-0086/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0239

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/59/EC establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

(1)

With the adoption of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system and repealing Council Directive 93/75/EEC (4), the European Union reinforced its capacity for preventing situations posing a threat to the safety of human life at sea and the protection of the marine environment.

(2)

Under this Directive Member States that are coastal States should be able to exchange information which they gather in the course of maritime traffic monitoring missions which they carry out in their areas of competence. The Community information exchange system SafeSeaNet, developed by the Commission in agreement with the Member States, comprises, on the one hand, a data exchange network and, on the other hand, a standardisation of the main information available on ships and their cargo (advance notice and reporting). It thus makes it possible to locate at source and communicate to any authority accurate and up-to-date information on ships in European waters, their movements and their dangerous or polluting cargoes, as well as marine incidents.

(3)

Accordingly, in order to guarantee operational use of the information gathered in this way, it is essential that the infrastructure necessary for the data collection and exchange referred to in this Directive and implemented by the national administrations be integrated into the Community information exchange system SafeSeaNet.

(4)

Of the information notified and exchanged pursuant to Directive 2002/59/EC, that concerning the precise characteristics of dangerous or polluting goods carried by sea is particularly important. Accordingly, and in the light of recent maritime accidents, the coastal authorities should be allowed easier access to the characteristics of the hydrocarbons being carried by sea, an essential factor in choosing the most suitable control techniques, and, in an emergency, provided with a direct link to those operators who have the best knowledge of the goods being carried.

(5)

The automatic ship identification systems (AIS — Automatic Identification System) referred to in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (hereinafter referred to as‘the SOLAS Convention’) make it possible not only to improve the possibilities of monitoring these ships but above all to make them safer in close navigation situations. They have accordingly been integrated into the enacting terms of Directive 2002/59/EC. Considering the large number of collisions involving fishing vessels that have clearly not been seen by merchant ships or which have not seen the merchant ships around them, extension of this measure to include fishing vessels with a length of more than 15 metres is very much to be desired. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has recognised that the publication for commercial purposes on the internet or elsewhere of AIS data transmitted by ships could be detrimental to the safety and security of ships and port facilities and has urged member governments, subject to the provisions of their national laws, to discourage those who make available AIS data to others for publication on the internet, or elsewhere, from doing so. In addition, the availability of AIS information on ships' routes and cargoes should not be detrimental to fair competition between actors in the shipping industry.

(6)

It would be useful to study what synergies might be possible between AIS and the positioning and communication systems used in the context of the common fisheries policy, such as the satellitebased vessel monitoring system (VMS). The timetable for fitting vessels with AIS should accordingly be determined in the light of the findings of such a study. Investigation of the possibilities of integrating these systems should take account of the needs and requirements of controlling fishing fleets, particularly as regards the security and confidentiality of the data transmitted.

(7)

This Directive provides that new ships must be fitted with AIS. To equip the existing fishing fleet, a special budget line should be created in addition to the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance, which would allow cofinancing of up to around 90% from Community funds, regardless of geographical area.

(8)

Article 16 of Directive 2002/59/EC provides that Member States are to adopt special measures in respect of ships posing a potential hazard due to their behaviour or condition. It therefore seems desirable to add to the list of these ships those which do not have satisfactory insurance cover or financial guarantees or which have been reported by pilots or port authorities as having deficiencies which may prejudice their safe navigation or create a risk for the environment.

(9)

In accordance with Article 18 of Directive 2002/59/EC concerning the risks posed by exceptionally bad weather, it seems necessary to take into account the potential danger to shipping from ice formation. Therefore, where a competent authority designated by a Member State considers, on the basis of an ice forecast provided by a qualified information service, that the sailing conditions are creating a serious threat to the safety of human life or of pollution, it should inform the masters of the ships present in its area of competence or intending to enter or leave the port or ports in the area concerned. The authority concerned should be able to take any appropriate steps to ensure the safety of human life at sea and to protect the environment. To avoid possible problems with the ice rules laid down by some classification societies, it would be helpful if states standardised their rules; in this regard there could be unified requirements from the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) or other leading associations in order to avoid such possible conflicts.

(10)

Article 20 of Directive 2002/59/EC provides in particular that the Member States must draw up plans to accommodate, if the situation so requires, ships in distress in their ports or in any other protected place in the best possible conditions, in order to limit the consequences of accidents at sea.

(11)

However, in the light of the guidelines on places of refuge adopted by the IMO after Directive 2002/59/EC was adopted and following the work carried out jointly by the Commission, the European Maritime Safety Agency and the Member States, it seems necessary to lay down precisely the basic provisions that the ‘place of refuge’ plans must contain in order to ensure a harmonised and effective implementation of this measure and clarify the scope of obligations incumbent on the Member States.

(12)

It is important, in the event of a situation of distress at sea, that is to say, a situation that could give rise to loss of a vessel or an environmental or navigational hazard, to be able to call on an independent authority having the powers and expertise to take any necessary decisions to assist the vessel in distress with a view to protecting human lives and the environment and minimising economic damage. It is desirable that the competent authority should be permanent in nature. In particular, this authority should be empowered to take an independent decision may have to be taken as regards the accommodation of a ship in distress in a place of refuge. To this end, it should make a preliminary evaluation of the situation on the basis of the information contained in the relevant ‘place of refuge’ plan.

(13)

Plans for accommodating ships in need of assistance should describe precisely the decision-making chain with regard to alerting and dealing with the situations in question. The authorities concerned and their remits should be clearly described, as should the means of communication between the parties involved. The applicable procedures should ensure that decisions can be taken quickly on the basis of specific maritime expertise in handling incidents where serious harmful consequences can be expected .

(14)

When drawing up the plans the Member States should also make an inventory of potential places of refuge on the coast so as to allow the competent authority, in the event of an accident or incident at sea, to identify clearly and quickly the most suitable areas for accommodating ships in distress. Such an inventory should contain all the relevant information in particular on the physical, environmental and economic characteristics of the sites under consideration and the equipment and installations available to make it easier to accommodate ships in distress or deal with the consequences of an accident or pollution.

(15)

It is important for the list of competent authorities responsible for deciding whether to accommodate a ship in a place of refuge, and the list of authorities responsible for receiving and handling alerts, to be published appropriately. The Member States should give the Commission an inventory of potential places of refuge. It may also prove useful for the parties involved in a maritime assistance operation and the authorities of neighbouring Member States likely to be affected by an emergency at sea to have access to appropriate information on the plans and places of refuge. It is important that the parties possessing such information guarantee its confidentiality.

(16)

The implementation of a network of marine protected areas should be accelerated, and in addition the Member States should, under the coordination of the Commission, set up seasonal marine environmental and human resources index maps.

(17)

The absence of financial guarantees or insurance should not exonerate a Member State from its obligation to assist a ship in distress and to accommodate it in a place of refuge if by so doing it can reduce the risks to the crew and the environment. Though the competent authorities may verify whether the ship is covered by insurance or some other financial guarantee permitting appropriate compensation for costs and damage associated with its accommodation in a place of refuge , the act of requesting this information should not delay the rescue operation .

(18)

Ports which accommodate a ship in distress must be able to rely on prompt compensation in respect of costs and any damage associated with the operation. To that end it is important that not only Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of ... [on the civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners] and regulations of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, but also the 1996 International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea (the HNS Convention) and the 2001 International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage (the Bunker Oil Convention) be applied. Member States should therefore ratify these conventions as soon as possible. It is also desirable that Member States should press, within the IMO, for the adoption of the Wreck Removal Convention. In exceptional cases, Member States should ensure the compensation of costs and economic loss suffered by a port as a result of accommodating a ship in distress, particularly if such costs and economic loss are not covered by the financial guarantees of the vessel owners and other existing compensation mechanisms.

(19)

In order to obtain the full cooperation and trust of ships' masters and crew, it needs to be ensured that those masters and crew can rely on good and fair treatment from the competent authorities of the Member State which is required to accommodate their ship in distress. To that end, it is desirable that Member States apply the IMO guidelines on fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident.

(20)

Surveillance of the Union's coasts and monitoring of ships entering its territorial waters are a cornerstone of European maritime safety. To deny impunity to ships and ensure that any place of refuge receives compensation in the event of an accident, it is essential to intensify coastal checks and ensure that no ship enters Union territorial waters if it does not have a financial guarantee within the meaning of Directive 2007/.../EC [on the civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners] .

(21)

The specific function of the vessel traffic monitoring and ship's routing measures is to allow Member States to obtain a true knowledge of the ships using the waters under their jurisdiction and thus enable them to take more effective action against potential risks if necessary. Sharing the information gathered helps to improve its quality and makes it easier to process.

(22)

In accordance with Directive 2002/59/EC the Member States and the Commission have made substantial progress towards harmonising electronic data exchange, in particular as regards the transport of dangerous or polluting goods. The Community information exchange system SafeSeaNet, in development since 2002, should now be established as the reference network at Community level. It is important to ensure that the SafeSeaNet system does not result in increased administrative or cost burdens for industry, that there is harmonisation with international rules and that confidentiality in relation to any possible commercial implications is taken into account.

(23)

The progress made in the new technologies and in particular in their space applications, such as satellite-based ship monitoring systems, imaging systems or Galileo, now makes it possible to extend traffic monitoring further offshore and thereby to ensure better coverage of European waters. Furthermore, the IMO has amended the SOLAS Convention to take account of developments in maritime safety and security and the maritime environment with a view to developing systems for global long-range identification and tracking of ships (LRIT). In accordance with the architecture approved by the IMO, which provides for the possibility of setting up regional LRIT Data centres, and taking into account the experience gained from the SafeSeaNet system, a LRIT European Data Centre should be set up for the collection and management of LRIT information. In order to retrieve LRIT data, Member States will need to be connected to the LRIT European Data Centre .

(24)

The IMO requirements for the fitting of ships with a LRIT system are applicable only to ships engaged in international voyages. However, since ships in domestic voyages between ports of a Member State may also pose a risk for maritime security, safety and the environment, such ships should also be fitted with LRIT, in accordance with a timetable to be proposed in due time by the Commission.

(25)

In order to guarantee the best possible use, harmonised at Community level, of the information gathered under this Directive or other instruments concerning maritime safety, the Commission should be able, if necessary, to process and use these data and disseminate them to the authorities designated by the Member States.

(26)

Information gathered pursuant to this Directive may only be disseminated and used to prevent situations which threaten the safety of human life at sea and the protection of the marine environment; it is therefore desirable that the Commission, in cooperation with the European Network and Information Security Agency, investigate how to tackle the network and information security problems resulting from the application of this Directive.

(27)

In this context, the development of the ‘Equasis’ system has shown how important it is to encourage a ‘safe seas’ culture, especially in maritime transport operators. The Commission should be able to contribute to the dissemination, particularly via this system, of any information of maritime interest gathered by the various public or private bodies involved in maritime safety.

(28)

Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 establishing a Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) (5) centralises the tasks of the committees set up under the relevant Community legislation on maritime safety, prevention of pollution from ships and protection of living and working conditions on board. The existing committee should therefore be replaced by COSS.

(29)

The amendments to the international instruments referred to should also be taken into account.

(30)

The European Maritime Safety Agency established by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002  (6) should provide the necessary support to ensure the convergent and effective implementation of this Directive.

(31)

Directive 2002/59/EC should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

hereby

(1)

Recital 19 shall be replaced by the following:

‘ (19)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (7). In particular, the Commission should be empowered to draw up an annex on SafeSeaNet and to amend Annexes I, III and IV in the light of experience gained. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of the Directive, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC. The Commission should also be empowered to lay down requirements for the fitting of LRIT equipment on board ships engaged in domestic voyages and to modify definitions, references or the annexes to bring them into line with EC or international law. These measures can be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure provided for in Article 5 of Decision 1999/468/EC.

(2)

In Article 1, paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:

‘ The purpose of this Directive is to establish in the Community a vessel traffic monitoring and information system with a view to enhancing the safety and efficiency of maritime traffic, enhancing port and maritime security, improving the response of authorities to incidents, accidents or potentially dangerous situations at sea, including search and rescue operations, and contributing to a better prevention and detection of pollution by ships. ’

(3)

Article 2(2) shall be amended as follows:

(a)

the introductory wording shall be replaced by the following:‘Unless otherwise provided, this Directive shall not apply to:’;

(b)

point (c) shall be replaced by the following:

‘ (c)

ships' stores and equipment for use on board ships. ’

(4)

Article 3 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

point (a) shall be amended as follows:

(i)

in the first sentence, the introductory wording shall be replaced by the following:‘the following instruments, in their up-to-date versions:’;

(ii)

the following indents shall be added:

‘—

“IMO Resolution A.949(23)” means International Maritime Organisation Resolution 949(23) entitled “Guidelines on places of refuge for ships in need of assistance”

—

“IMO Resolution A.950(23)” means International Maritime Organisation Resolution 950(23) entitled “Maritime assistance services (MAS)”;

—

“IMO Resolution A.917(22)” means International Maritime Organisation Resolution A.917(22) entitled “Guidelines for the onboard use of AIS”, as amended by IMO Resolution A.956(23);

—

“IMO Resolution A.987(24)” means International Maritime Organisation Resolution A.987(24) entitled “Guidelines on the fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident”; ’

(b)

the following points (s), (t), (u) and (v) shall be added:

‘(s)

“SafeSeaNet” means the Community maritime information exchange system developed by the Commission in cooperation with the Member States to ensure the implementation of Community legislation , as set out in a special annex which will be drawn up in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 28(3) ;

(t)

“regular service” means a series of ship crossings operated so as to serve traffic between the same two or more ports, either according to a published timetable or with crossings so regular or frequent that they constitute a recognizable systematic series;

(u)

“fishing vessel” means any vessel equipped or used commercially for catching fish or other living resources of the sea;

(v)

“LRIT” means a system that automatically transmits long-range identification and tracking information in accordance with Regulation 19 Chapter V of the SOLAS Convention. ’

(5)

The following Article 6a shall be inserted:

‘Article 6a

Use of automatic identification systems (AIS) by fishing vessels

Any fishing vessel with a length of more than 24 metres overall and sailing in waters under the jurisdiction of a Member State must, in accordance with the timetable set out in Annex II, Part I(3), be fitted with an AIS which meets the performance standards drawn up by the IMO.

Fishing vessels equipped with an AIS, shall maintain it in operation at all times, except where international agreements, rules or standards provide for the protection of navigational information.

In accordance with the IMO Guidelines for the onboard use of AIS, AIS may be switched off where the master considers this necessary in the interests of the safety or security of his vessel. ’

(6)

The following Article 6b shall be inserted:

‘ Article 6b

Use of long-range identification and tracking of ships (LRIT)

1.     Ships engaged in international voyages, except when fitted with AIS and operating exclusively within a sea area A1 covered by an AIS network, shall be fitted with an LRIT system in accordance with Regulation 19 Chapter V of the SOLAS Convention and the performance standards and functional requirements adopted by the IMO.

The Commission shall lay down, in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 28(2), requirements for the fitting of LRIT equipment on board ships engaged in domestic voyages between ports of a Member State of the European Union.

2.     Member States and the Commission shall cooperate to establish, by 31 December 2008, an LRIT European Data Centre in charge of processing the long-range identification and tracking information.

The LRIT European Data Centre shall be a component of the European maritime information and exchange system, SafeSeaNet. Costs related to modifications of national elements of SafeSeaNet so as to include LRIT information shall be borne by Member States.

Member States shall establish, by 31 December 2008 at the latest, and maintain a connection to the LRIT European Data Centre.

3.     The Commission shall determine the policy and principles for access to information held in the LRIT European Data Centre in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 28(2). ’

(7)

Article 12 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 12

Obligations on the shipper

Shippers offering dangerous or polluting goods for carriage in a port of a Member State shall deliver to the master or operator of the ship, irrespective of its size, before the goods are taken on board, a declaration containing the following information:

(a)

the information listed in Annex I(2);

(b)

for the substances referred to in Annex I to the Marpol Convention, the safety data sheet detailing the physico-chemical characteristics of the products, including their viscosity expressed in cSt at 50 °C and their density at 15 °C and the other data contained in the safety data sheet in accordance with IMO resolution MSC.150(77) ;

(c)

the emergency numbers of the shipper or any other person or body in possession of information on the physico-chemical characteristics of the products and on the action to be taken in an emergency.
Vessels coming from a port outside the Community and heading for a port of a Member State or an anchorage in the territorial waters of a Member State which have dangerous or polluting substances on board must be in possession of a declaration by the shipper containing the following information:

(a)

the information listed in Annex I(3);

(b)

the information required under points (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 of this Article.

3.    It shall be the duty and responsibility of the shipper to deliver to ensure that the shipment offered for carriage is indeed the one declared in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 .’

(8)

In the second paragraph of Article 14, point (c) shall be replaced by the following:

‘ (c)

each Member State must be able, upon request, to send using SafeSeaNet information on the ship and on the dangerous or polluting goods on board without delay to the national and local competent authorities of another Member State. This must not lead to Member States routinely requesting information on ships and their cargoes for purposes other than maritime safety or security or the protection of the maritime environment. ’

(9)

In Article 16(1), the following points (d) and (e) shall be added:

‘(d)

ships which have failed to notify or do not have insurance certificates or financial guarantees pursuant to Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and the Council of ... [on the civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners] (8);

(e)

ships which have been reported by pilots or port authorities as having deficiencies which may prejudice their safe navigation or create a risk for the environment.

(10)

The following Article 18a shall be inserted:

‘Article 18a

Measures in the event of risks posed by the presence of ice

Where the competent authorities designated by Member States consider, in view of the ice conditions, that there is a serious threat to the safety of human life at sea or to the protection of their shipping areas or coastal zones, or of the shipping areas or coastal zones of other States:

1.

(a)

they shall supply the master of a ship which is in their area of competence, or intends to enter or leave one of their ports, with appropriate information on the ice conditions, the recommended routes and the icebreaking services in their area of competence;

(b)

they may request that a ship which is in the area concerned, and intends to enter or leave a port or terminal or to leave an anchorage area, prove by way of documentary evidence that it satisfies the strength and power requirements commensurate with the ice situation in the area concerned.

2.   The measures taken pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be based, as regards the data concerning the ice conditions, upon ice and weather forecasts provided by a qualified meteorological information service recognised by the Member State.’

(11)

In Article 19(2) the following subparagraph shall be added:

‘To this end they shall communicate to the competent national authorities, on request, the information referred to in Article 12.’

(12)

Article 20 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 20

Accommodation of ships in distress in places of refuge

Member States shall designate a competent authority which has the required expertise and is independent in that it has the power, at the time of the rescue operation, to take decisions on its own initiative concerning the accommodation of ships in distress with a view to:

—

the protection of human lives;

—

coastal protection;

—

the protection of the marine environment;

—

safety at sea; and

—

minimising economic loss.

The authority referred to in paragraph 1 may, inter alia:

(a)

restrict the movement of the ship or direct it to follow a specific course. This requirement does not affect the master's responsibility for the safe handling of his ship;

(b)

give official notice to the master of the ship to put an end to the threat to the environment or maritime safety;

(c)

come aboard or send an evaluation team aboard the ship to assess the damage to the ship and the degree of risk, help the master to remedy the situation and keep the competent coastal station informed;

(d)

call on and deploy rescue workers itself where necessary;

(e)

cause the ship to be piloted or towed.

3.     The Member States shall, under the coordination of the Commission, draw up seasonal (transborder) marine environmental and human resources index maps.

4.     The authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall assume responsibility for the execution of the plans referred to in Article 20a.

5.     On the basis of a preliminary assessment of the circumstances, the authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall decide on the accommodation of a ship in distress in a place of refuge.

The authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall ensure that, based on an assessment of the circumstances in accordance with the plans referred to in Article 20a, ships in distress are admitted to a place of refuge in all cases where the accommodation of the ship in distress in a place of refuge permits the risks associated with those circumstances to be reduced.

6.     Member States shall respect the IMO Guidelines on the fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident in relation to the crew of a ship in distress in the waters under their jurisdiction.

7.   The authorities referred to in paragraph 4 shall meet regularly to exchange their expertise and improve the measures taken pursuant to this Article. They may meet at any time, on account of specific circumstances, at the initiative of one of them or of the Commission.’

(13)

The following Article 20a shall be inserted:

‘Article 20a

Plans for the accommodation of ships in distress

1.   Member States shall draw up plans for responding to threats presented by ships in distress in the waters under their jurisdiction and for securing the accommodation of ships and the protection of human lives .

The plans referred to in paragraph 1 shall be prepared after consultation of the parties concerned, taking into account the relevant IMO guidelines referred to in Article 3(a), and shall contain at least the following:

2.

(a)

the identity of the authority or authorities responsible for receiving and handling alerts;

(b)

the identity of the authority responsible for assessing the situation, selecting a suitable place of refuge and taking a decision on accommodating a ship in distress in the place of refuge selected;

(c)

the inventory of potential places of refuge, recapitulating those elements which are conducive to speedy assessment and decision-making, including descriptions of the environmental and social factors and the natural conditions of the potential places considered;

(d)

the assessment procedures for selecting the place of refuge on the basis of the potential places listed on the inventory;

(e)

the resources and installations suitable for assistance, rescue and combating pollution;

(f)

any international coordination and decision-making mechanisms that may be applicable;

(g)

the financial guarantee and liability procedures in place for ships accommodated in a place of refuge.

3.   Member States shall publish the name of the competent authority referred to in Article 20(4) and the list of appropriate contact points for receiving and handling alerts. They shall communicate to the Commission the inventory of potential places of refuge. They shall also communicate the relevant information concerning the plans and places of refuge to the neighbouring Member States.

In implementing the procedures provided for in the plans for accommodating ships in distress, they shall ensure that all relevant information concerning the plans and places of refuge is made available to the parties involved in the operations, including assistance and towing companies.

Persons receiving relevant information pursuant to this paragraph concerning emergency plans and places of refuge must guarantee the confidentiality of such information. ’

(14)

The following Article 20b shall be inserted:

‘Article 20b

Financial guarantees and compensation

1.    The absence of an insurance certificate or financial guarantee shall not exonerate the Member States from the preliminary assessment and decision referred to in Article 20 and is not of itself sufficient reason for a Member State to refuse to accommodate a ship in distress in a place of refuge .

2.    Without prejudice to paragraph 1, when accommodating a ship in distress in a place of refuge, the Member State may request the ship's operator, agent or master to present an insurance certificate or a financial guarantee, within the meaning of Article 7 of Directive 2007/.../EC [on the civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners], covering his liability for damage caused by the ship. The requesting of this certificate shall not lead to a delay in accommodating a ship in distress .

3.     Member States shall ensure the compensation of costs and potential economic loss suffered by a port as a result of a decision taken pursuant to Article 20(5) if such costs or economic loss are not compensated within a reasonable time by the owner or operator of the ship pursuant to Directive 2007/.../EC [on the civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners] and the existing international compensation mechanisms. ’

(15)

The following Article 22a shall be inserted:

‘Article 22a

European maritime information exchange system SafeSeaNet

1.   Member States shall establish maritime information management systems, at national or local level, to process the information referred to in this Directive.

2.   Communication systems set up pursuant to paragraph 1 must allow the information gathered to be used operationally and must satisfy, in particular, the conditions laid down in Article 14 of this Directive.

3.   To guarantee an effective exchange of the information referred to in this Directive, Member States shall ensure that the national or local systems set up to gather, process and preserve that information can be interconnected with the Community maritime information exchange system Safe-SeaNet. The Commission shall ensure that the Community maritime information exchange system SafeSeaNet is operational on a 24 hours-a-day basis.

4.     When cooperating within regional agreements or in the framework of cross-border, interregional or transnational projects, Member States shall ensure that information systems or networks developed comply with the requirements of this Directive and are compatible with and connected to the SafeSeaNet system.

5.     To ensure that there is a sufficient period to test the functioning of the SafeSeaNet system, that system shall become fully operational on 1 January 2009. ’

(16)

Article 23 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph (c) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(c)

extending the cover of the Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system, and/or updating it, with a view to enhanced identification and monitoring of ships, taking into account developments in information and communication technologies. To this end, the Member States and the Commission shall work together to put in place, where necessary, mandatory reporting systems, mandatory maritime traffic services and appropriate ship's routing systems, with a view to submitting them to the IMO for approval. They shall also collaborate, within the regional or international bodies concerned, on developing long-range maritime traffic monitoring systems;’

(b)

the following points (e) , (f) and (g) shall be added:

‘(e)

ensuring the interconnection and interoperability of the national systems used for managing the information referred to in the Annex, integrating conventional with satellite-based systems used for the same purpose, and developing and updating the SafeSeaNet system;

(f)

studying the feasibility and determining the detailed rules for integrating automatic identification systems (AIS) with the positioning and communication systems used in the context of the common fisheries policy. The findings of that study shall be made available at the latest 12 months before the entry into force of the obligation referred to in Article 6a, and in any case not later than 1 July 2008;

(g)

studying and implementing procedures that will more effectively guarantee the confidentiality of information gathered. ’

(17)

The following Article 23a shall be inserted:

‘Article 23a

Processing and management of maritime safety information

1.   The Commission shall ensure, where necessary, the processing, use and dissemination to the authorities designated by the Member States, of the information gathered under this Directive or gathered by any public or private bodies in the pursuance of their respective missions.

2.   Where appropriate, the Commission shall contribute to the development and operation of systems for collecting and disseminating data relating to maritime safety, in particular through the ‘Equasis’ system or any other equivalent public system.’

(18)

Article 24 shall be replaced by the following:

‘ Article 24

Confidentiality of information

1.     Member States shall, in accordance with their national legislation, take the necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality of information sent to them pursuant to this Directive.

2.     Member States shall, in accordance with their national legislation, verify that AIS and LRIT data transmitted by ships is not being made publicly available or used for purposes other than safety, security and the protection of the environment, or which would affect competition between ship operators. In particular, they shall not authorise the public dissemination of information concerning the details of the cargo or of the persons on board, unless the master or the operator of the vessel has agreed to such use.

3.     In cooperation with the European Network and Information Security Agency, the Commission shall investigate how to tackle the network and information security problems which may be associated with the measures provided for under this Directive, and in particular Articles 6, 6a, 14 and 22a thereof. No later than one year after the entry into force of this Directive, the Commission shall take the necessary measures to combat the unauthorised use or commercial abuse of data exchanged pursuant to this Directive. ’

(19)

In Article 27, paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:

‘ 2.     Furthermore, Annexes I, III and IV may be amended in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 28(3), in the light of experience gained with this Directive, in so far as such amendments do not broaden the scope of this Directive. ’

(20)

Article 28 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 28

Committee

1.   The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) established by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (9).

2.   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.

3.     Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4), and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

(21)

In Annex I, indent X of point 4 shall be replaced by the following:

‘—

X. various information:

—

characteristics and estimated quantity of bunker fuel for all ships carrying bunker fuel,

—

navigational status. ’

(22)

In part I of Annex II, the following point 3 shall be added:

‘3.

Fishing vessels

Any fishing vessel of overall length 24 metres and upwards is subject to the carrying requirement laid down in Article 6a according to the following timetable:

—

new fishing vessel of overall length 24 metres and upwards: on ... (10);

—

fishing vessel of overall length 24 metres and upwards but less than 45 metres: not later than ... (11)

Article 2

1.   Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by ... (12) at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those measures and a correlation table between them and this Directive.

When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)  OJ C 318, 23.12.2006, p. 195 .

(2)  OJ C 229, 22.9.2006, p. 38 .

(3)  Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(4)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 10.

(5)  OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 93/2007 (OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 12 ).

(6)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1 ).

(7)  OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).’

(8)  OJ L ...’

(9)  OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 93/2007 (OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 12).’

(10)  The date of entry into force of this Directive

(11)   Two years after the date of entry into force of this Directive. .’

(12)  12 months after the date of entry into force of this Directive.

P6_TA(2007)0147

Investigation of accidents ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC (COM(2005)0590 — C6-0056/2006 — 2005/0240(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0590) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 80(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0056/2006),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0079/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0240

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Directives 1999/35/EC and 2002/59/EC

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

(1)

A high general level of safety should be maintained in maritime transport in Europe and every effort should be made to reduce the number of marine casualties and incidents.

(2)

The expeditious holding of technical investigations into marine casualties improves maritime safety as it helps to prevent the recurrence of such casualties resulting in loss of life, loss of ships and pollution of the marine environment.

(3)

The European Parliament, in its resolution (4) on improving safety at sea, has urged the Commission to present a proposal for a directive on investigating shipping accidents.

(4)

Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (Unclos) (5) establishes the right of coastal States to investigate the cause of any marine casualty occurring within their territorial seas which might pose a risk to life or to the environment, involve the coastal State's search and rescue authorities, or otherwise affect the coastal State.

(5)

Article 94 of Unclos establishes that flag States shall cause an inquiry to be held, by or before a suitably qualified person or persons, into certain casualties or incidents of navigation on the high seas.

(6)

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS regulation I/21), the International Convention of Load Lines, 1966 and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 lay down the responsibilities of flag States to conduct casualty investigations and to supply the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) with relevant findings.

(7)

The [draft] Code for the implementation of Mandatory IMO Instruments (6) recalls the obligation of flag States to ensure that marine safety investigations are conducted by suitably qualified investigators, competent in matters relating to marine casualties and incidents. The Code further requires flag States to be prepared to provide qualified investigators for that purpose, irrespective of the location of the casualty or incident.

(8)

Account should be taken of the Code for the Investigation of Marine Casualties and Incidents adopted in November 1997 by IMO Assembly Resolution A.849, which provides for implementation of a common approach to the safety investigation of marine casualties and incidents and for cooperation between States in identifying the contributing factors leading to marine casualties and incidents. Account should also be taken of Circular 953 of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), which provides updated definitions of terms used in the Code, and IMO Resolutions A.861(20) and MSC.163(78), which provide a definition of ‘voyage data recorders’.

(9)

Council Directive 1999/35/EC of 29 April 1999 on a system of mandatory surveys for the safe operation of regular ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft services (7) requires Member States to define, in the framework of their respective internal legal systems, a legal status that will enable them and any other substantially interested Member State to participate, to cooperate in, or where provided for under the Code for the investigation of marine casualties, to conduct any marine casualty or incident investigation involving a ro-ro ferry or high-speed passenger craft.

(10)

Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system  (8) requires Member States to comply with the IMO Code for the Investigation of Marine Casualties and Incidents and ensure that the findings of the accident investigations are published as soon as possible after its conclusion.

(11)

Investigation of casualties and incidents involving seagoing vessels, or other vessels in port or other restricted maritime areas, should be carried out by, or under the control of, an independent body or entity endowed with permanent decision-making powers, in order to avoid any conflict of interest.

(12)

Member States should ensure that their internal legal systems enable them and any other substantially interested Member States to participate or cooperate in, or conduct, accident investigations on the basis of the provisions of the IMO Code for the investigation of marine casualties.

(13)

Under SOLAS regulation V/20, passenger ships and ships other than passenger ships of 3 000 gross tonnage and upwards constructed on or after 1 July 2002 must carry voyage data recorders (VDRs) to assist in accident investigations. Given its importance in the formulation of a policy to prevent shipping accidents, such equipment should be systematically required on board ships making national or international voyages which call at Community ports.

(14)

The data provided by a VDR system, as well as by other electronic devices, can be used both retrospectively after a marine casualty or incident to investigate its causes and preventively to gain experience of the circumstances capable of leading to such events. Member States should ensure that such data, when available, is properly used for both purposes.

(15)

Distress alerts from a ship or information from any source that a ship is, or persons on or from a ship are imperilled or that, as a result of an event in connection with the operation of a ship, there is a serious potential risk of damage to the persons, to the ship's structure or the environment should be investigated or otherwise examined.

(16)

Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002  (9) requires the European Maritime Safety Agency (hereinafter: ‘the Agency’) to work with the Member States to develop technical solutions and provide technical assistance related to the implementation of Community legislation. In the field of accident investigation, the Agency has the specific task of facilitating cooperation between the Member States and the Commission in the development, with due regard to the different legal systems in the Member States, of a common methodology for investigating maritime accidents according to agreed international principles.

(17)

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002, the Agency must facilitate cooperation in the provision of support given by the Member States in investigations into serious maritime accidents, and in analysing existing accident investigation reports. The Agency must also, in the light of the conclusions drawn from the analyses, incorporate into the joint methodology any elements arising therefrom which may be of use in the prevention of fresh disasters and the improvement of maritime safety in the EU.

(18)

The IMO guidelines on the fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident reduce the risk of captains and crews attracting criminal sanctions. They could give them more confidence in investigation methods, and should therefore be used by the Member States.

(19)

The safety recommendations resulting from a casualty or incident safety investigation should be duly taken into account by the Member States and the Community .

(20)

Since the aim of the technical investigation is the prevention of marine casualties and incidents in the future, the conclusions and the safety recommendations should not be used to determine liability or apportion blame.

(21)

Since the objective of this Directive, namely to improve marine safety in the Community and thereby reduce the risk of future marine casualties, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or the effects of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve this objective.

(22)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (10),

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Subject-matter

(a)

facilitating the expeditious holding of safety investigations into, and proper analyses of, marine casualties and incidents and

(b)

ensuring the timely and accurate reporting of safety investigations and proposals for remedial action.

Investigations under this Directive shall not be concerned with determining liability nor apportioning blame.

Article 2

Scope

In accordance with the obligations of Member States under the Unclos, this

(a)

involve ships flying the flag of one of the Member States; or

(b)

occur within areas over which Member States are entitled to exercise jurisdiction; or

(c)

involve other substantial interests of the Member States.

2.

(a)

ships of war and troop ships and other ships owned or operated by a Member State and used only on government non-commercial service;

(b)

ships not propelled by mechanical means, wooden ships of primitive build, pleasure yachts and pleasure craft, unless they are or will be crewed and carrying more than 12 passengers for commercial purposes;

(c)

inland waterway vessels operating in inland waterways;

(d)

fishing vessels with a length of less than 24 metres;

(e)

fixed offshore drilling units.

Article 3

Definitions

1.

‘SOLAS’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS 74), as amended by its 1978 and 1988 Protocols.

‘IMO Code’ means the Code for the Investigation of Marine Casualties and Incidents adopted by the International Maritime Organisation through Assembly Resolution A.849 of 27 November 1997 as amended.

2.

The following terms shall be understood in accordance with the definitions contained in the IMO Code:

(a)

‘marine casualty’;

(b)

‘very serious casualty’;

(c)

‘marine incident’;

(d)

‘marine casualty or incident safety investigation’;

(e)

‘substantially interested State’.

3.

The terms ‘serious casualty’ and ‘less serious casualty’ shall be understood in accordance with the updated definitions contained in Circular 953 of the IMO MSC.

4.

The terms ‘ro-ro ferry’ and ‘high-speed passenger craft’ shall be understood in accordance with the definitions contained in Article 2 of Directive 1999/35/EC.

5.

‘Lead investigating Member State’ means a Member State that is required to conduct or, where there is more than one substantially interested State, to lead, a safety investigation in accordance with this Directive.

6.

‘Voyage data recorder’ (VDR) shall be understood in accordance with the definition contained in IMO Resolutions A.861(20) and MSC.163(78).

7.

‘Distress alert’ means a signal given from a ship, or information from any source, indicating that a ship is, or that persons on or from a ship are, in distress at sea.

8.

‘Safety recommendation’ means any proposal made , including for the purposes of registration and control, by either of the following:

(a)

the investigative body of the State conducting, or leading, the marine casualty or incident safety investigation on the basis of information derived from that investigation; or, where appropriate;

(b)

the Commission, acting with the assistance of the Agency and on the basis of an abstract data analysis and the results of the investigations carried out .

Article 4

Status of safety investigations

1.

(a)

are independent of criminal or other investigations held to determine liability or apportion blame, allowing only the conclusions or recommendations resulting from investigations initiated under this Directive to contribute to other parallel investigations; and

(b)

are not precluded, suspended or delayed by reason of such investigations.

Furthermore, Member States shall ensure that, in the course of such investigations, witness statements and other information provided by witnesses is not obtained by third country authorities, thus preventing such statements and information from being used in criminal investigations in such countries.

2.

(a)

cooperation and mutual assistance in marine casualty or incident safety investigations led by other Member States, or the delegation to another Member State of the task of leading such an investigation in accordance with the provisions of this Directive;

(b)

coordination, in close cooperation with the Commission, of the activities of their respective investigative bodies to the extent necessary to attain the objectives of this Directive; and

(c)

rapid alert measures in the event of a casualty or incident.

Article 5

Obligation to investigate

1.

(a)

involving a ship flying its flag, irrespective of the location of the casualty; or

(b)

occurring within the areas over which it is entitled to exercise jurisdiction, irrespective of the flag of the ship or ships involved in the casualty; or

(c)

involving a substantial interest of the Member State, irrespective of the location of the casualty and of the flag of the ship or ships involved.

2.   In addition to investigating serious and very serious casualties, the investigative body referred to in Article 8 shall, having established the initial facts of the case, decide whether or not a safety investigation of a less serious casualty, marine incident or a distress alert shall be undertaken.

In its decision, it shall take into account the seriousness of the casualty or incident, the type of vessel and/or cargo involved in the distress alert, and/or any request from the search and rescue authorities.

3.   The scope and the practical arrangements for the conduct of safety investigations shall be determined by the investigative body of the lead investigating Member State in cooperation with the equivalent bodies of the other substantially interested States, in such manner as appears to it most conducive to achieving the objective of this Directive, and with a view to preventing future casualties and incidents.

4.   Safety investigations shall follow the common methodology for investigating marine casualties and incidents developed pursuant to Article 2(e) of Regulation (EC) No. 1406/2002. The adoption , updating or modification of such methodology for the purposes of this Directive shall be decided in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19(3).

5.   A safety investigation shall be started as promptly as is practicable after the marine casualty or incident occurs and, in any event, no later than two months after its occurrence .

Article 6

Obligation to report

A Member State shall require, in the framework of its national legal system, that its investigative body be notified without delay, by the responsible authorities and/or by the parties involved, of the occurrence of all casualties, incidents and distress alerts falling within the scope of this Directive.

Article 7

Joint safety investigations

1.   In cases of serious and very serious casualties involving a substantial interest for two or more Member States, the Member States concerned shall rapidly agree which of them is to be the lead investigating Member State. Should the Member States concerned not determine which Member State is to lead the investigation, they shall immediately implement a Commission recommendation on the matter, based on an opinion of the Agency.

Member States shall refrain from conducting parallel safety investigations into the same marine casualty or incident. They shall abstain from any measure which could jeopardise the conduct of a safety investigation falling within the scope of this Directive.

2.   By common consent, a Member State may delegate to another Member State the task of leading a marine casualty or incident safety investigation. It may invite another Member State to participate in such an investigation.

3.   When a ro-ro ferry or high-speed passenger craft is involved in a marine casualty, incident or distress alert, the investigation procedure shall be launched by the Member State in whose waters the accident or incident occurs or, if occurring in extra-territorial waters, by the last Member State visited by the ferry or craft.

That State shall remain responsible for the investigation and coordination with other substantially interested Member States until such time as it is mutually agreed which of them is to be the lead investigating State.

Article 8

Investigative bodies

1.   Member States shall ensure that marine casualty or incident safety investigations are conducted under the responsibility of an investigative body or entity (hereinafter referred to as ‘investigative body’), endowed with the necessary permanent powers and composed of investigators who are suitably qualified in matters relating to marine casualties and incidents.

That investigative body shall be functionally independent of, in particular, the national authorities responsible for seaworthiness, certification, inspection, manning, safe navigation, maintenance, sea traffic control, port state control and operation of seaports , of bodies carrying out investigations for the purposes of establishing liability or law enforcement and, in general, of any other party whose interests could conflict with the task entrusted to it.

2.   The investigative body shall ensure that individual investigators have a working knowledge and practical experience in those subject areas pertaining to their normal investigative duties. Additionally, the investigative body shall ensure ready access to appropriate expertise, as necessary.

3.   The activities entrusted to the investigative body may be extended to the gathering and analysis of data relating to marine safety, in particular for prevention purposes, in so far as these activities do not affect its independence or entail responsibility in regulatory, administrative or standardisation matters.

4.

(a)

to have free access to any relevant area or casualty site as well as to any ship, wreck or structure including cargo, equipment or debris;

(b)

to ensure immediate listing of evidence and controlled search for and removal of wreckage, debris or other components or substances for examination or analysis;

(c)

to require examination or analysis of the items referred to in point (b), and have free access to the results of such examinations or analysis;

(d)

to have free access to, copy and have use of any relevant information and recorded data, including voyage data recorder (VDR) data, pertaining to a ship, voyage, cargo, crew or any other person, object, condition or circumstance;

(e)

to have free access to the results of examinations of the bodies of victims or of tests made on samples taken from the bodies of victims;

(f)

to require and have free access to the results of examinations of, or tests made on samples taken from, people involved in the operation of a ship or any other relevant person;

(g)

to examine witnesses in the absence of any person whose interests the investigators consider to hamper the safety investigation;

(h)

to obtain survey records and relevant information held by the flag State, the owners, classification societies or any other relevant party, whenever those parties or their representatives are established in the Member State;

(i)

to call for the assistance of the relevant authorities in the respective States, including flag-State and port-State surveyors, coastguard officers, vessel traffic service operators, search and rescue teams, pilots or other port or maritime personnel.

5.   The investigative body shall be enabled to respond immediately on being notified at any time of a casualty, and to obtain sufficient resources to carry out its functions independently. Its investigators shall be afforded status giving them the necessary guarantees of independence.

6.   The investigating body may combine its tasks under this Directive with the work of investigating occurrences other than marine casualties on condition that such investigations do not endanger its independence.

Article 9

Non-disclosure of records

investigation:

(a)

all witness evidence and other statements, accounts and notes taken or received by the investigative body in the course of the safety investigation;

(b)

records revealing the identity of persons who have given evidence in the context of the safety investigation;

(c)

medical or private information regarding persons involved in the casualty or incident.

Article 10

Permanent cooperation framework

1.   Member States shall, in close cooperation with the Commission, establish a permanent cooperation framework enabling their respective marine casualty or incident safety investigative bodies to cooperate among themselves and with the Commission to the extent necessary to attain the objective of this Directive.

2.   The rules of procedure of the permanent cooperation framework and the organisation arrangements required thereof shall be decided in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 19(2).

3.

(a)

share installations, facilities and equipment for the technical investigation of wreckage and ship's equipment and other objects relevant to the safety investigation, including the extraction and evaluation of information from voyage data recorders and other electronic devices;

(b)

provide each other with the technical cooperation or expertise needed to undertake specific tasks;

(c)

acquire and share information relevant for analysing casualty data and making appropriate safety recommendations at Community level;

(d)

draw up common principles for the follow-up of safety recommendations and for the adaptation of investigative methods to the development of technical and scientific progress;

(e)

establish confidentiality rules for the sharing of witness evidence and the processing of data;

(f)

organise, where appropriate, relevant training activities for individual investigators;

(g)

promote cooperation with the investigative bodies or entities of third countries and with the international maritime accidents investigation organisations in the fields covered by this Directive.

4.   Any Member State, the facilities or services of which have been, or would normally have been, used by a ship prior to a casualty or an incident, and which has information pertinent to the investigation, shall provide such information to the investigative body conducting the investigation.

Article 11

Costs

Member States shall make every effort to avoid making a charge for the provision of any assistance required by other Member States for the purposes of conducting safety investigations under this Directive.

Article 12

Cooperation with substantially interested third countries

1.   Member States shall cooperate, to the furthest extent possible, with other substantially interested third countries in the investigation of marine casualties.

2.   Substantially interested third countries shall, by mutual consent, be allowed to join a safety investigation led by a Member State under the terms of this Directive at any stage of the investigation.

3.   The cooperation of a Member State in an investigation conducted by a substantially interested third country shall be without prejudice to the conduct and reporting requirements of marine casualty or incident safety investigations under this Directive.

Article 13

Preservation of evidence

(a)

to save all information from charts, log books, electronic and magnetic recording and video tapes, including information from voyage data recorders and other electronic devices relating to the period preceding, during and after an accident;

(b)

to prevent the overwriting or other alteration of such information;

(c)

to prevent interference with any other equipment which might reasonably be considered pertinent to the investigation of the accident;

(d)

to collect and preserve all evidence expeditiously for the purposes of the marine casualty or incident safety investigations.

Article 14

Accident reports

1.   Marine casualty or incident safety investigations carried out under the terms of this Directive shall result in a published report presented in accordance with the guidelines set out in Annex I.

2.   Investigative bodies shall make every effort to make a report available to the public , and especially to the entire maritime sector, the latter of which shall receive specific conclusions and recommendations, when required, within 12 months of the day of the casualty. If it is not possible to produce the final report within that time, an interim report shall be published within 12 months from the date of the casualty.

3.   The investigative body of the lead investigating Member State shall send a copy of the final or interim report to the Commission. It shall take into account the possible observations of the Commission for improving the quality of the report in the way most conducive to achieving the objectives of this Directive.

4.     Every three years, the Commission shall send a report providing information to the European Parliament setting out the degree of implementation of, and compliance with, the provisions of this Directive, as well as any further steps considered necessary in the light of the recommendations set out in the report.

Article 15

Safety recommendations

1.   Member States shall ensure that safety recommendations made by the investigative bodies are duly taken into account by the addressees and, where appropriate, acted upon in accordance with Community and international law. The Commission shall, acting with the assistance of the Agency, incorporate into the joint methodology the conclusions of the accident reports and the safety recommendations contained therein.

2.   Where appropriate, an investigative body or the Commission shall, acting with the assistance of the Agency, make safety recommendations on the basis of an abstract data analysis and of the results of any investigations carried out .

3.   A safety recommendation or an interim recommendation shall in no circumstances apportion blame or liability for a casualty.

Article 16

Early warning system

If the investigative body of a Member State takes the view, at any stage of a marine casualty investigation or of an incident investigation, that urgent action is needed at Community level to prevent the risk of new casualties, it shall speedily inform the Commission of the need to give an early alert.

The Commission shall immediately examine the matter and, if necessary, issue a note of warning for the attention of the responsible authorities in all the other Member States, the shipping industry, and any other relevant party.

Article 17

European database for marine casualties

1.   Data on marine casualties and incidents shall be stored and analysed by means of a European electronic database to be set up by the Commission, which shall be known as the European Marine Casualty Information Platform (EMCIP).

2.   Member States shall notify to the Commission the entitled authorities that will have access to the database.

3.   The investigative bodies of the Member States shall notify the Commission on marine casualties and incidents in accordance with the format in Annex II. They shall also provide the Commission with data resulting from marine casualty or incident safety investigations in accordance with the EMCIP database schema.

4.   The Commission shall inform the investigative bodies of the Member States of the requirements and timescale of the notification and reporting procedures.

Article 18

Fair treatment of seafarers

The Member States shall comply with the IMO guidelines on the fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident .

Article 19

Committee

1.   The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) instituted by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of the European Parliament and the Council of 5 November 2002  (11).

2.   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at two months.

3.     Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4), and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

Article 20

Amending powers

The Commission may update definitions in this Directive, and the references made to Community acts and to IMO instruments, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 19(2) in order to bring them into line with Community or IMO measures which have entered into force, subject to observance of the limits of this Directive.

Acting in accordance with the same procedure, the Commission may also amend the Annexes.

Article 21

Additional measures

Nothing contained in this Directive shall prevent a Member State from taking additional measures on maritime safety which are not covered by this Directive, provided that such measures do not infringe this Directive or in any way adversely affect its attainment , nor jeopardise the realisation of the objectives of the Union .

Article 22

Penalties

Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

Article 23

Amendments to existing acts

1.   Article 12 of Directive 1999/35/EC is deleted.

2.   Article 11 of Directive 2002/59/EC is deleted.

Article 24

Transposition

1.   Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by ... at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 25

Entry into force

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 26

Addressees

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)  OJ C 318, 23.12.2006, p. 195 .

(2)  OJ C 229, 22.9.2006, p. 38 .

(3)  Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(4)   OJ C 104 E, 30.4.2004, p. 730 .

(5)  Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea 1973-1982, Class Nr. 341,45 L 412 1997.

(6)  Version IMO FSI 13/WP.3 of 9 March 2005.

(7)  OJ L 138, 1.6.1999, p. 1. Directive as amended by Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

(8)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 10.

(9)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(10)  OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(11)  OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 93/2007 (OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 12).

ANNEX I

SAFETY INVESTIGATION REPORT FORMAT AND CONTENT

Foreword

This identifies the sole objective of the safety investigation, that a safety recommendation shall in no case create a presumption of liability or blame, and that the report has not been written, in terms of content and style, with the intention of it being used in legal proceedings.

(The report should make no reference to witness evidence nor link anyone who is referred to in the report to a person who has given evidence during the course of the investigation.)

1.   Summary

This part outlines the basic facts of the marine casualty or incident: what, when, where and how it happened; and states whether any deaths, injuries, damage to the ship, cargo, third parties or environment occurred as a result.

2.   Factual information

This part includes a number of discrete sections, providing sufficient information that the investigating body interprets to be factual, from which to fully populate the relevant fields of the European database for marine casualties, substantiate the analysis and ease understanding.

These sections include, at least, the following information:

2.1.

Ship particulars

—

Ship flag/register,

—

Ship identification,

—

Ship main characteristics,

—

Ownership and management,

—

Construction details,

—

Minimum safe manning,

—

Authorised cargo.

2.2.

Voyage particulars

—

Ports of call,

—

Type of voyage,

—

Cargo information,

—

Manning.

2.3.

Marine casualty or incident information

—

Type of marine casualty or incident,

—

Date and time,

—

Position and location of the marine casualty or incident,

—

External and internal environment,

—

Ship operation and voyage segment,

—

Place on board,

—

Human factors data,

—

Consequences (to people, ship, cargo, environment, other).

2.4.

Shore authority involvement and emergency response

—

Who was involved,

—

Means used,

—

Speed of response,

—

Actions taken,

—

Results achieved.

In addition to providing necessary particulars and other background information, this part of the report includes the results of any relevant examinations or tests and any safety action that might already have been taken to prevent future marine casualties.

3.   Narrative

This part reconstructs the marine casualty or incident through a sequence of events, in a chronological order leading up to, during and following the marine casualty or incident and the involvement of each actor (i.e. person, material, environment, equipment or external agent). The period covered by the narrative depends on the timing of those particular accidental events that directly contributed to the marine casualty or incident.

4.   Analysis

This part includes a number of discrete sections, providing an analysis of each accidental event, with comments relating to the results of any relevant examinations or tests conducted during the course of the investigation and to any safety action that might already have been taken to prevent future marine casualties.

These sections should cover issues such as:

—

accidental event context and environment,

—

human erroneous actions and omissions, events involving hazardous material, environmental effects, equipment failures, and external influences,

—

contributing factors involving person related functions, shipboard operations, shore management or regulatory influence.

The analysis and comment enable the report to reach logical conclusions, establishing all of the contributing factors, including those with risks for which existing defences aimed at preventing an accidental event, and/ or those aimed at eliminating or reducing its consequences, are assessed to be either inadequate or missing.

5.   Conclusions

This part consolidates the established contributing factors and missing or inadequate defences (material, functional, symbolic or procedural) for which safety actions should be developed to prevent future marine casualties.

6.   Safety recommendations

When appropriate, this part of the report contains safety recommendations derived from the analysis and conclusions and related to particular subject areas, such as legislation, design, procedures, inspection, management, health and safety at work, training, repair work, maintenance, shore assistance and emergency response.

The safety recommendations are addressed to those that are best-placed to implement them, such as ship owners, managers, recognised organisations, maritime authorities, vessel traffic services, emergency bodies, international maritime organisations and European institutions, with the aim of preventing future marine casualties.

This part also includes any interim safety recommendations that may have been made during the course of the safety investigation.

7.   Appendices

When appropriate, the following non-exhaustive list of information is attached to the report in paper and/or electronic form:

—

photographs, moving images, audio recordings, charts, drawings,

—

applicable standards,

—

technical terms and abbreviations used,

—

special safety studies,

—

miscellaneous information.

ANNEX II

MARINE CASUALTY OR INCIDENT NOTIFICATION DATA

(Part of the European Marine Casualty Information Platform)

01. Member State responsible/contact person

02. Member State investigator

03. Member State role

04. Coastal state affected

05. Number of substantially interested states

06. Substantially interested states

07. Notification entity

08. Time of the notification

09. Date of the notification

10. Name of the ship

11. IMO number/distinctive letters

12. Ship flag

13. Type of marine casualty or incident

14. Type of ship

15. Date of the marine casualty or incident

16. Time of the marine casualty or incident

17. Position — Latitude

18. Position — Longitude

19. Location of the marine casualty or incident

20. Port of departure

21. Port of destination

22. Traffic separation scheme

23. Voyage segment

24. Ship operation

25. Place on board

26. Lives lost:

—

Crew

—

Passengers

—

Other

27. Serious injuries:

—

Crew

—

Passengers

—

Other

28. Pollution

29. Ship damage

30. Cargo damage

31. Other damage

32. Brief description of the marine casualty or incident

Note: Underlined numbers mean that data should be provided for each ship if more than one is involved in the marine casualty or incident.

P6_TA(2007)0148

Liability of carriers of passengers by boat in the event of accidents ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea and inland waterways in the event of accidents (COM(2005)0592 — C6-0057/2006 — 2005/0241(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0592) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 80(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0057/2006),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0063/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0241

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 71(1) and 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

(1)

Within the framework of the common transport policy, further measures must be adopted to enhance safety in maritime and inland waterway transport. Those measures should include liability rules for damage caused to passengers, since it is important to ensure a proper level of compensation for passengers involved in maritime accidents .

(2)

The Protocol of 2002 to the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974 was adopted on 1 November 2002 under the auspices of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). [The Community has acceded to this Protocol (4).]

(3)

The Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974, as amended by its protocol of 2002 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Athens Convention 2002’) is applicable to international transport only. In the internal market for maritime transport services, the distinction between national and international transport has been eliminated and it is therefore appropriate to have the same level and nature of liability in both international and national transport within the Community .

(4)

The insurance arrangements required under the Athens Convention 2002 must be appropriate to the financial means of shipowners and insurance companies. Shipowners must be in a position to manage their insurance arrangements in an economically acceptable way and, particularly in the case of small shipping companies operating national transport services, account must be taken of the seasonal nature of their operations. The transitional period which is provided for for the application of this Regulation must be sufficiently long to enable the compulsory insurance provided for by the Athens Convention 2002 to be arranged without affecting existing insurance schemes.

(5)

It is appropriate to oblige the carrier to make advance payment in the event of the death of or personal injury to a passenger , whereby advance payment does not constitute recognition of liability .

(6)

Appropriate , full and comprehensible information on new rights being conferred on passengers should be provided to those passengers prior to their journey.

(7)

Any amendment to the Athens Convention 2002 will be incorporated into Community legislation, unless such amendment is excluded following the procedure under Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 establishing a Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) and amending the Regulations on maritime safety and the prevention of pollution from ships (5).

(8)

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), established by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (6), should assist the Commission in preparing and drafting a report on the functioning of the new rules and in proposing amendments to the Athens Convention 2002.

(9)

Owing to the need for greater consultation among the Member States on matters of maritime safety, it is vital to reassess EMSA's competences and possibly consider extending its powers.

(10)

The national authorities, particularly the port authorities, play a fundamental and vital role in identifying and managing the various risks in relation to maritime safety.

(11)

Since the objective of this Regulation, namely the creation of a single set of rules governing the rights of carriers and their passengers in the event of an accident, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the need to ensure identical limits of liability in all Member States, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Subject-matter

This Regulation lays down a Community regime of uniform liability for the carriage of passengers by sea .

To that end, this Regulation incorporates the relevant provisions of the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974, as amended by its protocol of 2002 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Athens Convention 2002’) and extends the application of those provisions to carriage by sea within a single Member State .

Article 2

Scope

sea, if

(a)

the ship is flying the flag of a Member State;

(b)

the contract of carriage has been made in a Member State; or

(c)

the place of departure or destination, according to the contract of carriage, is in a Member State.

Article 3

Liability of the carrier

The liability of a carrier and of a performing carrier in respect of passengers and their luggage shall be governed by all provisions of the Athens Convention 2002 relevant to such liability , including the IMO reservation and guidelines for implementation of the Athens Convention 2002 adopted by the Legal Committee of the IMO on 19 October 2006 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the IMO reservation 2006’). The Athens Convention 2002 and the IMO reservation 2006 are annexed to this Regulation .

The terms ‘carrier’ and ‘performing carrier’ shall be understood in accordance with the definitions set out in Article 1(1)(a) and (b) of the Athens Convention 2002.

Article 4

Limits of liability

Article 7(2) of the Athens Convention 2002 is not applicable to the carriage of passengers falling within the scope of this Regulation unless the European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty, amend this Regulation to this effect .

Article 19 of the Athens Convention 2002 is not applicable to the carriage of passengers falling within the scope of this Regulation.

In the event of loss of or damage to mobility equipment or medical equipment belonging to a passenger with reduced mobility, the compensation may be equal to, but shall not exceed, the replacement value of the equipment.

Article 5

Advance payment

In the event of the death of or personal injury to a passenger resulting from a shipping incident or accident the carrier or the performing carrier the carrier shall make an advance payment sufficient to cover immediate economic needs, within 15 days from the date of the identification of the person entitled to damages. In the event of death or the absolute and permanent invalidity of a passenger, or injuries to 75% or more of the passenger's body considered clinically very serious, this payment shall not be less than EUR 21 000.

An advance payment shall not constitute recognition of liability, may be offset against any later sums paid pursuant to this Regulation and is not refundable except where the person who received the advance payment was not the person entitled to compensation or the carrier is deemed not at fault.

Payment or receipt, as appropriate, of an advance payment shall entitle the carrier, the performing carrier or the passenger to initiate judicial proceedings to establish liability and fault.

Article 6

Information to passengers

The carrier, the performing carrier and/or the tour operator shall provide passengers, prior to their departure, with appropriate, full and comprehensible information regarding their rights under this Regulation, and in particular with information on the limits of compensation for death, personal injury or loss of and damage to luggage, on their right of direct action against the insurer or the person providing financial security and on their entitlement to an advance payment.

This information shall be provided in an appropriate , full and comprehensible format and, in the case of information provided by tour operators, in accordance with Article 4 of Council Directive 90/314/EEC of 13 June 1990 on package travel, package holidays and package tours (7).

Article 7

Report and amendments to the Athens Convention 2002

No later than three years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall draw up a report on its application, which shall, inter alia, take into account economic developments and developments in international fora.

That report may be accompanied by a proposal for amendment to this Regulation, or by a proposal for a submission to be made by the European Community before the relevant international fora.

In so doing, the Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS), established by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002.

Amendments to the Athens Convention 2002 may be excluded from the scope of this Regulation, pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002.

Article 8

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the [...] day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from ... (8).

In relation to domestic carriage by regular ferry lines, it shall apply from two years after ...  (8).

In relation to carriage by inland waterways, it shall apply from four years after ...  (8) .

In relation to domestic carriage by regular ferry lines in the regions covered by Article 299(2) of the Treaty, it shall apply from four years after ...  (8) .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)  OJ C318, 23.12.2006, p. 195 .

(2)  OJ C229, 22.9.2006, p. 38 .

(3)  Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(4)  Insert publication reference to the adopting Council decision.

(5)  OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 93/2007 (OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 12).

(6)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1 ).

(7)  OJ L 158, 23.6.1990, p. 59.

(8)  The date of its entry into force or the date of the entry into force of the Athens Convention 2002 for the Community, whichever is the later.

ANNEX I

ATHENS CONVENTION RELATING TO THE CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERSN AND THEIR LUGGAGE BY SEA, 2002

(Consolidated text of the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974 and the Protocol of 2002 to the Convention)

ARTICLE 1

Definitions

In this Convention the following expressions have the meaning hereby assigned to them:

1.

(a)

‘carrier’ means a person by or on behalf of whom a contract of carriage has been concluded, whether the carriage is actually performed by that person or by a performing carrier;

(b)

‘performing carrier’ means a person other than the carrier, being the owner, charterer or operator of a ship, who actually performs the whole or a part of the carriage;

(c)

‘carrier who actually performs the whole or a part of the carriage’ means the performing carrier, or, in so far as the carrier actually performs the carriage, the carrier;

2.

‘contract of carriage’ means a contract made by or on behalf of a carrier for the carriage by sea of a passenger or of a passenger and his luggage, as the case may be;

3.

‘ship’ means only a seagoing vessel, excluding an air-cushion vehicle;

4.

‘passenger’ means any person carried in a ship:

(a)

under a contract of carriage; or

(b)

who, with the consent of the carrier, is accompanying a vehicle or live animals which are covered by a contract for the carriage of goods not governed by this Convention;

5.

‘luggage’ means any article or vehicle carried by the carrier under a contract of carriage, excluding:

(a)

articles and vehicles carried under a charter party, bill of lading or other contract primarily concerned with the carriage of goods; and

(b)

live animals;

6.

‘cabin luggage’ means luggage which the passenger has in his cabin or is otherwise in his possession, custody or control. Except for the application of paragraph 8 of this Article and Article 8, cabin luggage includes luggage which the passenger has in or on his vehicle;

7.

‘loss of or damage to luggage’ includes pecuniary loss resulting from the luggage not having been redelivered to the passenger within a reasonable time after the arrival of the ship on which the luggage has been or should have been carried, but does not include delays resulting from labour disputes;

8.

‘carriage’ covers the following periods:

(a)

with regard to the passenger and his cabin luggage, the period during which the passenger and/or his cabin luggage are on board the ship or in the course of embarkation or disembarkation, and the period during which the passenger and his cabin luggage are transported by water from land to the ship or vice-versa, if the cost of such transport is included in the fare or if the vessel used for this purpose of auxiliary transport has been put at the disposal of the passenger by the carrier. However, with regard to the passenger, carriage does not include the period during which he is in a marine terminal or station or on a quay or in or on any other port installation;

(b)

with regard to cabin luggage, also the period during which the passenger is in a marine terminal or station or on a quay or in or on any other port installation if that luggage has been taken over by the carrier or his servant or agent and has not been re-delivered to the passenger;

(c)

with regard to other luggage which is not cabin luggage, the period from the time of its taking over by the carrier or his servant or agent on shore or on board until the time of its re-delivery by the carrier or his servant or agent;

9.

‘international carriage’ means any carriage in which, according to the contract of carriage, the place of departure and the place of destination are situated in two different States, or in a single State if, according to the contract of carriage or the scheduled itinerary, there is an intermediate port of call in another State;

10.

‘Organization’ means the International Maritime Organization;

11.

‘Secretary-General’ means the Secretary-General of the Organization.

ARTICLE 1bis

Annex

The Annex to this Convention shall constitute an integral part of the Convention.

ARTICLE 2

Application

1. This Convention shall apply to any international carriage if:

(a)

the ship is flying the flag of or is registered in a State Party to this Convention; or

(b)

the contract of carriage has been made in a State Party to this Convention; or

(c)

the place of departure or destination, according to the contract of carriage, is in a State Party to this Convention.

2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Article, this Convention shall not apply when the carriage is subject, under any other international convention concerning the carriage of passengers or luggage by another mode of transport, to a civil liability regime under the provisions of such convention, in so far as those provisions have mandatory application to carriage by sea.

ARTICLE 3

Liability of the carrier

1. For the loss suffered as a result of the death of or personal injury to a passenger caused by a shipping incident, the carrier shall be liable to the extent that such loss in respect of that passenger on each distinct occasion does not exceed 250 000 units of account, unless the carrier proves that the incident:

(a)

resulted from an act of war, hostilities, civil war, insurrection or a natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable and irresistible character; or

(b)

was wholly caused by an act or omission done with the intent to cause the incident by a third party.

If and to the extent that the loss exceeds the above limit, the carrier shall be further liable unless the carrier proves that the incident which caused the loss occurred without the fault or neglect of the carrier.

2. For the loss suffered as a result of the death of or personal injury to a passenger not caused by a shipping incident, the carrier shall be liable if the incident which caused the loss was due to the fault or neglect of the carrier. The burden of proving fault or neglect shall lie with the claimant.

3. For the loss suffered as a result of the loss of or damage to cabin luggage, the carrier shall be liable if the incident which caused the loss was due to the fault or neglect of the carrier. The fault or neglect of the carrier shall be presumed for loss caused by a shipping incident.

4. For the loss suffered as a result of the loss of or damage to luggage other than cabin luggage, the carrier shall be liable unless the carrier proves that the incident which caused the loss occurred without the fault or neglect of the carrier.

5. For the purposes of this article:

(a)

‘shipping incident’ means shipwreck, capsizing, collision or stranding of the ship, explosion or fire in the ship, or defect in the ship;

(b)

‘fault or neglect of the carrier’ includes the fault or neglect of the servants of the carrier, acting within the scope of their employment;

(c)

‘defect in the ship’ means any malfunction, failure or non-compliance with applicable safety regulations in respect of any part of the ship or its equipment when used for the escape, evacuation, embarkation and disembarkation of passengers, or when used for the propulsion, steering, safe navigation, mooring, anchoring, arriving at or leaving berth or anchorage, or damage control after flooding; or when used for the launching of life saving appliances; and

(d)

‘loss’ shall not include punitive or exemplary damages.

6. The liability of the carrier under this Article only relates to loss arising from incidents that occurred in the course of the carriage. The burden of proving that the incident which caused the loss occurred in the course of the carriage, and the extent of the loss, shall lie with the claimant.

7. Nothing in this Convention shall prejudice any right of recourse of the carrier against any third party, or the defence of contributory negligence under Article 6 of this Convention. Nothing in this Article shall prejudice any right of limitation under Articles 7 or 8 of this Convention.

8. Presumptions of fault or neglect of a party or the allocation of the burden of proof to a party shall not prevent evidence in favour of that party from being considered.

ARTICLE 4

Performing carrier

1. If the performance of the carriage or part thereof has been entrusted to a performing carrier, the carrier shall nevertheless remain liable for the entire carriage according to the provisions of this Convention. In addition, the performing carrier shall be subject and entitled to the provisions of this Convention for the part of the carriage performed by him.

2. The carrier shall, in relation to the carriage performed by the performing carrier, be liable for the acts and omissions of the performing carrier and of his servants and agents acting within the scope of their employment.

3. Any special agreement under which the carrier assumes obligations not imposed by this Convention or any waiver of rights conferred by this Convention shall affect the performing carrier only if agreed by him expressly and in writing.

4. Where and to the extent that both the carrier and the performing carrier are liable, their liability shall be joint and several.

5. Nothing in this Article shall prejudice any right of recourse as between the carrier and the performing carrier.

ARTICLE 4bis

Compulsory insurance

1. When passengers are carried on board a ship registered in a State Party that is licensed to carry more than 12 passengers, and this Convention applies, any carrier who actually performs the whole or a part of the carriage shall maintain insurance or other financial security, such as the guarantee of a bank or similar financial institution, to cover liability under this Convention in respect of the death of and personal injury to passengers. The limit of the compulsory insurance or other financial security shall not be less than 250 000 units of account per passenger on each distinct occasion.

2. A certificate attesting that insurance or other financial security is in force in accordance with the provisions of this Convention shall be issued to each ship after the appropriate authority of a State Party has determined that the requirements of paragraph 1 have been complied with. With respect to a ship registered in a State Party, such certificate shall be issued or certified by the appropriate authority of the State of the ship's registry; with respect to a ship not registered in a State Party it may be issued or certified by the appropriate authority of any State Party. This certificate shall be in the form of the model set out in the annex to this Convention and shall contain the following particulars:

(a)

name of ship, distinctive number or letters and port of registry;

(b)

name and principal place of business of the carrier who actually performs the whole or a part of the carriage;

(c)

IMO ship identification number;

(d)

type and duration of security;

(e)

name and principal place of business of insurer or other person providing financial security and, where appropriate, place of business where the insurance or other financial security is established; and

(f)

period of validity of the certificate, which shall not be longer than the period of validity of the insurance or other financial security.

(a)

A State Party may authorise an institution or an organisation recognised by it to issue the certificate. Such institution or organization shall inform that State of the issue of each certificate. In all cases, the State Party shall fully guarantee the completeness and accuracy of the certificate so issued, and shall undertake to ensure the necessary arrangements to satisfy this obligation.

(b)

A State Party shall notify the Secretary-General of:

(i)

the specific responsibilities and conditions of the authority delegated to an institution or organization recognised by it;

(ii)

the withdrawal of such authority; and

(iii)

the date from which such authority or withdrawal of such authority takes effect.

An authority delegated shall not take effect prior to three months from the date from which notification to that effect was given to the Secretary-General.

(c)

The institution or organization authorized to issue certificates in accordance with this paragraph shall, as a minimum, be authorized to withdraw these certificates if the conditions under which they have been issued are not complied with. In all cases the institution or organization shall report such withdrawal to the State on whose behalf the certificate was issued.

4. The certificate shall be in the official language or languages of the issuing State. If the language used is not English, French or Spanish, the text shall include a translation into one of these languages, and, where the State so decides, the official language of the State may be omitted.

5. The certificate shall be carried on board the ship, and a copy shall be deposited with the authorities who keep the record of the ship's registry or, if the ship is not registered in a State Party, with the authority of the State issuing or certifying the certificate.

6. An insurance or other financial security shall not satisfy the requirements of this Article if it can cease, for reasons other than the expiry of the period of validity of the insurance or security specified in the certificate, before three months have elapsed from the date on which notice of its termination is given to the authorities referred to in paragraph 5, unless the certificate has been surrendered to these authorities or a new certificate has been issued within the said period. The foregoing provisions shall similarly apply to any modification which results in the insurance or other financial security no longer satisfying the requirements of this Article.

7. The State of the ship's registry shall, subject to the provisions of this Article, determine the conditions of issue and validity of the certificate.

8. Nothing in this Convention shall be construed as preventing a State Party from relying on information obtained from other States or the Organization or other international organizations relating to the financial standing of providers of insurance or other financial security for the purposes of this Convention. In such cases, the State Party relying on such information is not relieved of its responsibility as a State issuing the certificate.

9. Certificates issued or certified under the authority of a State Party shall be accepted by other States Parties for the purposes of this Convention and shall be regarded by other States Parties as having the same force as certificates issued or certified by them, even if issued or certified in respect of a ship not registered in a State Party. A State Party may at any time request consultation with the issuing or certifying State should it believe that the insurer or guarantor named in the insurance certificate is not financially capable of meeting the obligations imposed by this Convention.

10. Any claim for compensation covered by insurance or other financial security pursuant to this Article may be brought directly against the insurer or other person providing financial security. In such case, the amount set out in paragraph 1 applies as the limit of liability of the insurer or other person providing financial security, even if the carrier or the performing carrier is not entitled to limitation of liability. The defendant may further invoke the defences (other than the bankruptcy or winding up) which the carrier referred to in paragraph 1 would have been entitled to invoke in accordance with this Convention. Furthermore, the defendant may invoke the defence that the damage resulted from the wilful misconduct of the assured, but the defendant shall not invoke any other defence which the defendant might have been entitled to invoke in proceedings brought by the assured against the defendant. The defendant shall in any event have the right to require the carrier and the performing carrier to be joined in the proceedings.

11. Any sums provided by insurance or by other financial security maintained in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be available exclusively for the satisfaction of claims under this Convention, and any payments made of such sums shall discharge any liability arising under this Convention to the extent of the amounts paid.

12. A State Party shall not permit a ship under its flag to which this Article applies to operate at any time unless a certificate has been issued under paragraphs 2 or 15.

13. Subject to the provisions of this Article, each State Party shall ensure, under its national law, that insurance or other financial security, to the extent specified in paragraph 1, is in force in respect of any ship that is licensed to carry more than 12 passengers, wherever registered, entering or leaving a port in its territory in so far as this Convention applies.

14. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 5, a State Party may notify the Secretary-General that, for the purposes of paragraph 13, ships are not required to carry on board or to produce the certificate required by paragraph 2 when entering or leaving ports in its territory, provided that the State Party which issues the certificate has notified the Secretary-General that it maintains records in an electronic format, accessible to all States Parties, attesting the existence of the certificate and enabling States Parties to discharge their obligations under paragraph 13.

15. If insurance or other financial security is not maintained in respect of a ship owned by a State Party, the provisions of this Article relating thereto shall not be applicable to such ship, but the ship shall carry a certificate issued by the appropriate authorities of the State of the ship's registry, stating that the ship is owned by that State and that the liability is covered within the amount prescribed in accordance with paragraph 1. Such a certificate shall follow as closely as possible the model prescribed by paragraph 2.

ARTICLE 5

Valuables

The carrier shall not be liable for the loss of or damage to monies, negotiable securities, gold, silverware, jewellery, ornaments, works of art, or other valuables, except where such valuables have been deposited with the carrier for the agreed purpose of safe-keeping in which case the carrier shall be liable up to the limit provided for in paragraph 3 of Article 8 unless a higher limit is agreed upon in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 10.

ARTICLE 6

Contributory fault

If the carrier proves that the death of or personal injury to a passenger or the loss of or damage to his luggage was caused or contributed to by the fault or neglect of the passenger, the Court seized of the case may exonerate the carrier wholly or partly from his liability in accordance with the provisions of the law of that court.

ARTICLE 7

Limit of liability for death and personal injury

1. The liability of the carrier for the death of or personal injury to a passenger under Article 3 shall in no case exceed 400 000 units of account per passenger on each distinct occasion. Where, in accordance with the law of the court seized of the case, damages are awarded in the form of periodical income payments, the equivalent capital value of those payments shall not exceed the said limit.

2. A State Party may regulate by specific provisions of national law the limit of liability prescribed in paragraph 1, provided that the national limit of liability, if any, is not lower than that prescribed in paragraph 1. A State Party, which makes use of the option provided for in this paragraph, shall inform the Secretary-General of the limit of liability adopted or of the fact that there is none.

ARTICLE 8

Limit of liability for loss of or damage to luggage and vehicles

1. The liability of the carrier for the loss of or damage to cabin luggage shall in no case exceed 2 250 units of account per passenger, per carriage.

2. The liability of the carrier for the loss of or damage to vehicles including all luggage carried in or on the vehicle shall in no case exceed 12 700 units of account per vehicle, per carriage.

3. The liability of the carrier for the loss of or damage to luggage other than that mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall in no case exceed 3 375 units of account per passenger, per carriage.

4. The carrier and the passenger may agree that the liability of the carrier shall be subject to a deductible not exceeding 330 units of account in the case of damage to a vehicle and not exceeding 149 units of account per passenger in the case of loss of or damage to other luggage, such sum to be deducted from the loss or damage.

ARTICLE 9

Unit of Account and conversion

1. The Unit of Account mentioned in this Convention is the Special Drawing Right as defined by the International Monetary Fund. The amounts mentioned in Article 3, paragraph 1, Article 4bis, paragraph 1, Article 7, paragraph 1, and Article 8 shall be converted into the national currency of the State of the court seized of the case on the basis of the value of that currency by reference to the Special Drawing Right on the date of the judgment or the date agreed upon by the parties. The value of the national currency, in terms of the Special Drawing Right, of a State Party which is a member of the International Monetary Fund, shall be calculated in accordance with the method of valuation applied by the International Monetary Fund in effect on the date in question for its operations and transactions. The value of the national currency, in terms of the Special Drawing Right, of a State Party which is not a member of the International Monetary Fund, shall be calculated in a manner determined by that State Party.

2. Nevertheless, a State which is not a member of the International Monetary Fund and whose law does not permit the application of the provisions of paragraph 1 may, at the time of ratification, acceptance, approval of or accession to this Convention or at any time thereafter, declare that the Unit of Account referred to in paragraph 1 shall be equal to 15 gold francs. The gold franc referred to in this paragraph corresponds to sixty-five and a half milligrams of gold of millesimal fineness nine hundred. The conversion of the gold franc into the national currency shall be made according to the law of the State concerned.

3. The calculation mentioned in the last sentence of paragraph 1, and the conversion mentioned in paragraph 2 shall be made in such a manner as to express in the national currency of the States Parties, as far as possible, the same real value for the amounts in Article 3, paragraph 1, Article 4bis, paragraph 1, Article 7, paragraph 1, and Article 8 as would result from the application of the first three sentences of paragraph 1. States shall communicate to the Secretary-General the manner of calculation pursuant to paragraph 1, or the result of the conversion in paragraph 2, as the case may be, when depositing an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval of or accession to this Convention and whenever there is a change in either.

ARTICLE 10

Supplementary provisions on limits of liability

1. The carrier and the passenger may agree, expressly and in writing, to higher limits of liability than those prescribed in Articles 7 and 8.

2. Interest on damages and legal costs shall not be included in the limits of liability prescribed in Articles 7 and 8.

ARTICLE 11

Defences and limits for carriers' servants

If an action is brought against a servant or agent of the carrier or of the performing carrier arising out of damage covered by this Convention, such servant or agent, if he proves that he acted within the scope of his employment, shall be enled to avail himself of the defences and limits of liability which the carrier or the performing carrier is entitled to invoke under this Convention.

ARTICLE 12

Aggregation of claims

1. Where the limits of liability prescribed in Articles 7 and 8 take effect, they shall apply to the aggregate of the amounts recoverable in all claims arising out of the death of or personal injury to any one passenger or the loss of or damage to his luggage.

2. In relation to the carriage performed by a performing carrier, the aggregate of the amounts recoverable from the carrier and the performing carrier and from their servants and agents acting within the scope of their employment shall not exceed the highest amount which could be awarded against either the carrier or the performing carrier under this Convention, but none of the persons mentioned shall be liable for a sum in excess of the limit applicable to him.

3. In any case where a servant or agent of the carrier or of the performing carrier is entitled under Article 11 of this Convention to avail himself of the limits of liability prescribed in Articles 7 and 8, the aggregate of the amounts recoverable from the carrier, or the performing carrier as the case may be, and from that servant or agent, shall not exceed those limits.

ARTICLE 13

Loss of right to limit liability

1. The carrier shall not be entitled to the benefit of the limits of liability prescribed in Articles 7 and 8 and paragraph 1 of Article 10, if it is proved that the damage resulted from an act or omission of the carrier done with the intent to cause such damage, or recklessly and with knowledge that such damage would probably result.

2. The servant or agent of the carrier or of the performing carrier shall not be entitled to the benefit of those limits if it is proved that the damage resulted from an act or omission of that servant or agent done with the intent to cause such damage, or recklessly and with knowledge that such damage would probably result.

ARTICLE 14

Basis for claims

No action for damages for the death of or personal injury to a passenger, or for the loss of or damage to luggage, shall be brought against a carrier or performing carrier otherwise than in accordance with this Convention.

ARTICLE 15

Notice of loss or damage to luggage

1. The passenger shall give written notice to the carrier or his agent:

(a)

in the case of apparent damage to luggage:

(i)

for cabin luggage, before or at the time of disembarkation of the passenger;

(ii)

for all other luggage, before or at the time of its re-delivery;

(b)

in the case of damage to luggage which is not apparent, or loss of luggage, within fifteen days from the date of disembarkation or re-delivery or from the time when such re-delivery should have taken place.

2. If the passenger fails to comply with this Article, he shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to have received the luggage undamaged.

3. The notice in writing need not be given if the condition of the luggage has at the time of its receipt been the subject of joint survey or inspection.

ARTICLE 16

Time-bar for actions

1. Any action for damages arising out of the death of or personal injury to a passenger or for the loss of or damage to luggage shall be time-barred after a period of two years.

2. The limitation period shall be calculated as follows:

(a)

in the case of personal injury, from the date of disembarkation of the passenger;

(b)

in the case of death occurring during carriage, from the date when the passenger should have disembarked, and in the case of personal injury occurring during carriage and resulting in the death of the passenger after disembarkation, from the date of death, provided that this period shall not exceed three years from the date of disembarkation;

(c)

in the case of loss of or damage to luggage, from the date of disembarkation or from the date when disembarkation should have taken place, whichever is later.

3. The law of the Court seized of the case shall govern the grounds for suspension and interruption of limitation periods, but in no case shall an action under this Convention be brought after the expiration of any one of the following periods of time:

(a)

A period of five years beginning with the date of disembarkation of the passenger or from the date when disembarkation should have taken place, whichever is later; or, if earlier

(b)

a period of three years beginning with the date when the claimant knew or ought reasonably to have known of the injury, loss or damage caused by the incident.

4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article, the period of limitation may be extended by a declaration of the carrier or by agreement of the parties after the cause of action has arisen. The declaration or agreement shall be in writing.

ARTICLE 17

Competent jurisdiction

1. An action arising under Articles 3 and 4 of this Convention shall, at the option of the claimant, be brought before one of the courts listed below, provided that the court is located in a State Party to this Convention, and subject to the domestic law of each State Party governing proper venue within those States with multiple possible forums:

(a)

the Court of the State of permanent residence or principal place of business of the defendant; or

(b)

the Court of the State of departure or that of the destination according to the contract of carriage; or

(c)

the Court of the State of the domicile or permanent residence of the claimant, if the defendant has a place of business and is subject to jurisdiction in that State; or

(d)

the Court of the State where the contract of carriage was made, if the defendant has a place of business and is subject to jurisdiction in that State.

2. Actions under Article 4 bis of this Convention shall, at the option of the claimant, be brought before one of the courts where action could be brought against the carrier or performing carrier according to paragraph 1.

3. After the occurrence of the incident which has caused the damage, the parties may agree that the claim for damages shall be submitted to any jurisdiction or to arbitration.

ARTICLE 17bis

Recognition and enforcement

1. Any judgment given by a court with jurisdiction in accordance with Article 17 which is enforceable in the State of origin where it is no longer subject to ordinary forms of review, shall be recognised in any State Party, except:

(a)

where the judgment was obtained by fraud; or

(b)

where the defendant was not given reasonable notice and a fair opportunity to present his or her case.

2. A judgment recognised under paragraph 1 shall be enforceable in each State Party as soon as the formalities required in that State have been complied with. The formalities shall not permit the merits of the case to be re-opened.

3. A State Party to this Protocol may apply other rules for the recognition and enforcement of judgments, provided that their effect is to ensure that judgments are recognised and enforced at least to the same extent as under paragraphs 1 and 2.

ARTICLE 18

Invalidity of contractual provisions

Any contractual provision concluded before the occurrence of the incident which has caused the death of or personal injury to a passenger or the loss of or damage to the passenger's luggage, purporting to relieve any person liable under this Convention of liability towards the passenger or to prescribe a lower limit of liability than that fixed in this Convention except as provided in Article 8, paragraph 4, and any such provision purporting to shift the burden of proof which rests on the carrier or performing carrier, or having the effect of restricting the options specified in Article 17, paragraphs 1 or 2, shall be null and void, but the nullity of that provision shall not render void the contract of carriage which shall remain subject to the provisions of this Convention.

ARTICLE 19

Other conventions on limitation of liability

This Convention shall not modify the rights or duties of the carrier, the performing carrier, and their servants or agents provided for in international conventions relating to the limitation of liability of owners of seagoing ships.

ARTICLE 20

Nuclear damage

No liability shall arise under this Convention for damage caused by a nuclear incident:

(a)

if the operator of a nuclear installation is liable for such damage under either the Paris Convention of 29 July 1960 on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy as amended by its Additional Protocol of 28 January 1964, or the Vienna Convention of 21 May 1963 on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, or any amendment or Protocol thereto which is in force; or

(b)

if the operator of a nuclear installation is liable for such damage by virtue of a national law governing the liability for such damage, provided that such law is in all respects as favourable to persons who may suffer damage as either the Paris or the Vienna Conventions or any amendment or Protocol thereto which is in force.

ARTICLE 21

Commercial carriage by public authorities

This Convention shall apply to commercial carriage undertaken by States or Public Authorities under contract of carriage within the meaning of Article 1.

ARTICLE 22

Declaration of non-application

1. Any Party may at the time of signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to this Convention, declare in writing that it will not give effect to this Convention when the passenger and the carrier are subjects or nationals of that Party.

2. Any declaration made under paragraph 1 of this Article may be withdrawn at any time by a notification in writing to the Secretary-General.

ARTICLE 22bis

Final clauses of the Convention

The final clauses of this Convention shall be Articles 17 to 25 of the Protocol of 2002 to the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974. References in this Convention to States Parties shall be taken to mean references to States Parties to that Protocol.

FINAL CLAUSES

[Articles 17 to 25 of the Protocol of 2002 to the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974.]

ARTICLE 17

Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession

1. This Protocol shall be open for signature at the Headquarters of the Organization from 1 May 2003 until 30 April 2004 and shall thereafter remain open for accession.

2. States may express their consent to be bound by this Protocol by:

(a)

signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval; or

(b)

signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval followed by ratification, acceptance or approval; or

(c)

accession.

3. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General.

4. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the entry into force of an amendment to this Protocol with respect to all existing States Parties, or after the completion of all measures required for the entry into force of the amendment with respect to those States Parties shall be deemed to apply to this Protocol as modified by the amendment.

5. A State shall not express its consent to be bound by this Protocol unless, if Party thereto, it denounces:

(a)

the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, done at Athens on 13 December 1974;

(b)

the Protocol to the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, done at London on 19 November 1976; and

(c)

the Protocol of 1990 to amend the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, done at London on 29 March 1990,

with effect from the time that this Protocol will enter into force for that State in accordance with Article 20.

ARTICLE 18

States with more than one system of law

1. If a State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law are applicable in relation to matters dealt with in this Protocol, it may at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession declare that this Protocol shall extend to all its territorial units or only to one or more of them, and may modify this declaration by submitting another declaration at any time.

2. Any such declaration shall be notified to the Secretary-General and shall state expressly the territorial units to which this Protocol applies.

3. In relation to a State Party which has made such a declaration:

(a)

references to the State of a ship's registry and, in relation to a compulsory insurance certificate, to the issuing or certifying State, shall be construed as referring to the territorial unit respectively in which the ship is registered and which issues or certifies the certificate;

(b)

references to the requirements of national law, national limit of liability and national currency shall be construed respectively as references to the requirements of the law, the limit of liability and the currency of the relevant territorial unit; and

(c)

references to courts, and to judgments which must be recognised in States Parties, shall be construed as references respectively to courts of, and to judgments which must be recognised in, the relevant territorial unit.

ARTICLE 19

Regional Economic Integration Organizations

1. A Regional Economic Integration Organization, which is constituted by sovereign States that have transferred competence over certain matters governed by this Protocol to that Organization, may sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to this Protocol. A Regional Economic Integration Organization which is a Party to this Protocol shall have the rights and obligations of a State Party, to the extent that the Regional Economic Integration Organization has competence over matters governed by this Protocol.

2. Where a Regional Economic Integration Organization exercises its right of vote in matters over which it has competence, it shall have a number of votes equal to the number of its Member States which are Parties to this Protocol and which have transferred competence to it over the matter in question. A Regional Economic Integration Organization shall not exercise its right to vote if its Member States exercise theirs, and vice versa.

3. Where the number of States Parties is relevant in this Protocol, including but not limited to Articles 20 and 23 of this Protocol, the Regional Economic Integration Organization shall not count as a State Party in addition to its Member States which are States Parties.

4. At the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession the Regional Economic Integration Organization shall make a declaration to the Secretary-General specifying the matters governed by this Protocol in respect of which competence has been transferred to that Organization by its Member States which are signatories or Parties to this Protocol and any other relevant restrictions as to the scope of that competence. The Regional Economic Integration Organization shall promptly notify the Secretary-General of any changes to the distribution of competence, including new transfers of competence, specified in the declaration under this paragraph. Any such declarations shall be made available by the Secretary-General pursuant to Article 24 of this Protocol.

5. States Parties which are Member States of a Regional Economic Integration Organization which is a Party to this Protocol shall be presumed to have competence over all matters governed by this Protocol in respect of which transfers of competence to the Organization have not been specifically declared or notified under paragraph 4.

ARTICLE 20

Entry into force

1. This Protocol shall enter into force 12 months following the date on which 10 States have either signed it without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval or have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the Secretary-General.

2. For any State which ratifies, accepts, approves or accedes to this Protocol after the conditions in paragraph 1 for entry into force have been met, this Protocol shall enter into force three months after the date of deposit by such State of the appropriate instrument, but not before this Protocol has entered into force in agreement with paragraph 1.

ARTICLE 21

Denunciation

1. This Protocol may be denounced by any State Party at any time after the date on which this Protocol comes into force for that State.

2. Denunciation shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the Secretary-General.

3. A denunciation shall take effect 12 months, or such longer period as may be specified in the instrument of denunciation, after its deposit with the Secretary-General.

4. As between the States Parties to this Protocol, denunciation by any of them of the Convention in accordance with Article 25 thereof shall not be construed in any way as a denunciation of the Convention as revised by this Protocol.

ARTICLE 22

Revision and Amendment

1. A Conference for the purpose of revising or amending this Protocol may be convened by the Organization.

2. The Organization shall convene a Conference of States Parties to this Protocol for revising or amending this Protocol at the request of not less than one third of the States Parties.

ARTICLE 23

Amendment of limits

1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 22, the special procedure in this Article shall apply solely for the purposes of amending the limits set out in Article 3, paragraph 1, Article 4 bis, paragraph 1, Article 7, paragraph 1 and Article 8 of the Convention as revised by this Protocol.

2. Upon the request of at least one half, but in no case less than six, of the States Parties to this Protocol, any proposal to amend the limits, including the deductibles, specified in Article 3, paragraph 1, Article 4 bis, paragraph 1, Article 7, paragraph 1, and Article 8 of the Convention as revised by this Protocol shall be circulated by the Secretary-General to all Members of the Organization and to all States Parties.

3. Any amendment proposed and circulated as above shall be submitted to the Legal Committee of the Organization (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Legal Committee’) for consideration at a date at least six months after the date of its circulation.

4. All States Parties to the Convention as revised by this Protocol, whether or not Members of the Organization, shall be entitled to participate in the proceedings of the Legal Committee for the consideration and adoption of amendments.

5. Amendments shall be adopted by a two-thirds majority of the States Parties to the Convention as revised by this Protocol present and voting in the Legal Committee expanded as provided for in paragraph 4, on condition that at least one half of the States Parties to the Convention as revised by this Protocol shall be present at the time of voting.

6. When acting on a proposal to amend the limits, the Legal Committee shall take into account the experience of incidents and, in particular, the amount of damage resulting therefrom, changes in the monetary values and the effect of the proposed amendment on the cost of insurance.

(a)

No amendment of the limits under this Article may be considered less than five years from the date on which this Protocol was opened for signature nor less than five years from the date of entry into force of a previous amendment under this Article.

(b)

No limit may be increased so as to exceed an amount which corresponds to the limit laid down in the Convention as revised by this Protocol increased by six per cent per year calculated on a compound basis from the date on which this Protocol was opened for signature.

(c)

No limit may be increased so as to exceed an amount which corresponds to the limit laid down in the Convention as revised by this Protocol multiplied by three.

8. Any amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 5 shall be notified by the Organization to all States Parties. The amendment shall be deemed to have been accepted at the end of a period of 18 months after the date of notification, unless within that period not less than one fourth of the States that were States Parties at the time of the adoption of the amendment have communicated to the Secretary-General that they do not accept the amendment, in which case the amendment is rejected and shall have no effect.

9. An amendment deemed to have been accepted in accordance with paragraph 8 shall enter into force 18 months after its acceptance.

10. All States Parties shall be bound by the amendment, unless they denounce this Protocol in accordance with Article 21, paragraphs 1 and 2 at least six months before the amendment enters into force. Such denunciation shall take effect when the amendment enters into force.

11. When an amendment has been adopted but the 18-month period for its acceptance has not yet expired, a State which becomes a State Party during that period shall be bound by the amendment if it enters into force. A State which becomes a State Party after that period shall be bound by an amendment which has been accepted in accordance with paragraph 8. In the cases referred to in this paragraph, a State becomes bound by an amendment when that amendment enters into force, or when this Protocol enters into force for that State, if later.

ARTICLE 24

Depositary

1. This Protocol and any amendments adopted under Article 23 shall be deposited with the Secretary-General.

2. The Secretary-General shall:

(a)

inform all States which have signed or acceded to this Protocol of:

(i)

each new signature or deposit of an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession together with the date thereof;

(ii)

each declaration and communication under Article 9, paragraphs 2 and 3, Article 18, paragraph 1 and Article 19, paragraph 4 of the Convention as revised by this Protocol;

(iii)

the date of entry into force of this Protocol;

(iv)

any proposal to amend the limits which has been made in accordance with Article 23, paragraph 2 of this Protocol;

(v)

any amendment which has been adopted in accordance with Article 23, paragraph 5 of this Protocol;

(vi)

any amendment deemed to have been accepted under Article 23, paragraph 8 of this Protocol, together with the date on which that amendment shall enter into force in accordance with paragraphs 9 and 10 of that Article;

(vii)

the deposit of any instrument of denunciation of this Protocol together with the date of the deposit and the date on which it takes effect;

(viii)

any communication called for by any Article of this Protocol;

(b)

transmit certified true copies of this Protocol to all States which have signed or acceded to this Protocol.

3. As soon as this Protocol comes into force, the text shall be transmitted by the Secretary-General to the Secretariat of the United Nations for registration and publication in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

ARTICLE 25

Languages

This Protocol is established in a single original in the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic.

DONE AT LONDON this first day of November 2002.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorised by their respective Governments for that purpose, have signed this Protocol.

ANNEX TO ATHENS CONVENTION

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE OR OTHER FINANCIAL SECURITY IN RESPECT OF LIABILITY FOR THE DEATH OF AND PERSONAL INJURY TO PASSENGERS

Issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 4bis of the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 2002

Name of Ship

Distinctive number or letters

IMO Ship Identification Number

Port of Registry

Name and full address of the principal place of business of the carrier who actually performs the carriage

 

 

 

 

 

This is to certify that there is in force in respect of the above-named ship a policy of insurance or other financial security satisfying the requirements of Article 4bis of the Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their luggage by Sea, 2002.

Type of Security: ...

Duration of Security: ...

Name and address of the insurer(s) and/or guarantor(s)

Name: ...

Address: ...

This certificate is valid until ...

Issued or certified by the Government of ...

(Full designation of the State)

OR

The following text should be used when a State Party avails itself of Article 4bis, paragraph 3:

The present certificate is issued under the authority of the Government of ...

(full designation of the State) by . . .(name of institution or organization)

At ... On ...

(Place) (Date)

...

(Signature and Title of issuing/or certifying official)

Explanatory Notes:

1.

If desired, the designation of the State may include a reference to the competent public authority of the country where the Certificate is issued.

2.

If the total amount of security has been furnished by more than one source, the amount of each of them should be indicated.

3.

If security is furnished in several forms, these should be enumerated.

4.

The entry ‘Duration of Security’ must stipulate the date on which such security takes effect.

5.

The entry ‘Address’ of the insurer(s) and/or guarantor(s) must indicate the principal place of business of the insurer(s) and/or guarantor(s). If appropriate, the place of business where the insurance or other security is established shall be indicated.

ANNEX II

IMO RESERVATION 2006

 

P6_TA(2007)0149

Port State control ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast version) (COM(2005)0588 — C6-0028/2006 — 2005/0238(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0588) (1),

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having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 80(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0028/2006),

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having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0081/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0238

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on port State control (recast)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

(1)

Council Directive 95/21/EC of 19 June 1995 on port State control of shipping (4) has been substantially amended several times. Since further amendments are to be made, it should be recast in the interests of clarity.

(2)

The Community is seriously concerned about shipping casualties and pollution of the seas and coastlines of the Member States.

(3)

The Community is equally concerned about on-board living and working conditions.

(4)

Safety, pollution prevention and shipboard living and working conditions may be effectively enhanced through a drastic reduction of substandard ships from Community waters, by strictly applying international Conventions, codes and resolutions.

(5)

To this end, the Community hopes for the early ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), part 5.2.1 of which refers to port state obligations.

(6)

Monitoring the compliance of ships with the international standards for safety, pollution prevention and shipboard living and working conditions should rest primarily with the flag State. However, there has been a serious failure on the part of a number of flag States to implement and enforce international standards. Henceforth the monitoring of compliance with the international standards for safety, pollution prevention and shipboard living and working conditions should also be ensured by the port State , on the understanding that a port state inspection is not an expert appraisal, that inspection reports are not equivalent to a seaworthiness certificate, and that port state control cannot absolve flag states from their responsibilities .

(7)

A harmonised approach to the effective enforcement of these international standards by the Member States in respect of ships sailing in the waters under their jurisdiction and using their ports will avoid distortions of competition.

(8)

The shipping industry is vulnerable to acts of terrorism. Transport security measures should be implemented effectively and Member States should vigorously monitor compliance with the security rules by carrying out security checks.

(9)

Advantage should be taken of the experience gained during the operation of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, signed in Paris on 26 January 1982(Paris MOU).

(10)

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) established by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002  (5), should provide the necessary support to ensure the convergent and effective implementation of the port State control system. EMSA should in particular contribute to the development of a harmonised Community scheme for the qualification and training of port State control inspectors.

(11)

An efficient port State control regime should seek to ensure that all ships calling at a port within the European Union are regularly inspected. Inspection should concentrate on substandard ships, while quality ships, meaning those which have satisfactory inspection records or which fly the flag of a State complying with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Member State Audit Scheme, should be rewarded by undergoing less frequent inspections. Such new inspection arrangements should be incorporated into the Community's port State control regime as soon as its various aspects have been defined and on the basis of an inspection-sharing scheme whereby each Member State contributes fairly to the achievement of the Community objective of a comprehensive inspection scheme. Moreover, Member States should recruit and retain the requisite number of staff, including qualified inspectors, taking into account the volume and characteristics of shipping traffic at each port.

(12)

The inspection regime set up by this Directive should be coordinated with the work done by the Paris MOU. Since any developments arising from the Paris MOU should be agreed at Community level before being made applicable within the EU, close coordination should be established between the Community and the Paris MOU, with a view to achieving a single distinct inspection regime.

(13)

The rules and procedures for port-State inspections, including criteria for the detention of ships, should be harmonised to ensure consistent effectiveness in all ports, which would also drastically reduce the selective use of certain ports of destination to avoid the net of proper control.

(14)

Certain categories of ships present a major accident or pollution hazard when they reach a given age and should therefore be subject to an expanded inspection; the details of such expanded inspection need to be laid down.

(15)

Under the inspection regime set up by this Directive, the intervals between periodic inspections on ships depend on their risk profile that is determined by certain generic and historical parameters. For high risk ships this interval should not exceed six months.

(16)

Some ships pose a manifest risk to maritime safety and the marine environment because of their poor condition, flag and history. They should therefore be refused access to Community ports and anchorages , unless it can be demonstrated that they can be operated safely in Community waters. Guidelines should be established setting out the procedures applicable in the event of the imposition of such an access ban and of the lifting of the ban. In the interests of transparency, the list of ships refused access to Community ports and anchorages should be made public.

(17)

In order to reduce the burden placed on certain administrations and companies by repetitive inspections, a survey carried out on a ro-ro ferry or high-speed passenger craft under Council Directive 1999/35/EC of 29 April 1999 on a system of mandatory surveys for the safe operation of regular ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft services (6), to the satisfaction of the host State, should be regarded as an expanded inspection under the port State control system.

(18)

Non-compliance with the provisions of the relevant Conventions must be rectified. Ships which need to be the subject of corrective action must, where the observed deficiencies are clearly hazardous to safety, health or the environment, be detained until such time as the shortcomings have been rectified.

(19)

A right of appeal should be made available against decisions for detention taken by the competent authorities, in order to prevent unreasonable decisions which are liable to cause undue detention and delay.

(20)

Authorities and inspectors involved in port State control activities should have no conflict of interests, whether with the port of inspection or with the ships inspected and related interests. Inspectors should be adequately qualified and should receive appropriate training so as to maintain and improve their competence in the conduct of inspections. Member States should cooperate in developing and promoting a harmonised Community scheme for the qualification and training of inspectors.

(21)

Pilots and port authorities should be enabled to provide useful information on anomalies found on board ships.

(22)

Complaints from persons with a confirmed legitimate interest regarding living and working conditions on board should be investigated. Priority should be given to dealing with complaints on board. Any person lodging a complaint should be informed of the follow-up action given to that complaint.

(23)

Cooperation between the competent authorities of the Member States and other authorities or organisations is necessary to ensure an effective follow-up with regard to ships with deficiencies which have been permitted to proceed and for the exchange of information about ships in port.

(24)

Since the inspection database is an essential part of port State control, Member States should ensure that it is updated in the light of Community requirements.

(25)

Publication of information concerning ships and their operators or companies which do not comply with international standards on safety, health and protection of the marine environment, may be an effective deterrent discouraging shippers from using such ships, and an incentive to their owners to take corrective action.

(26)

All costs of inspecting ships which warrant detention, and those incurred in lifting a refusal of access, should be borne by the owner or the operator.

(27)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (7). Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of that Decision.

(28)

In particular, in order not to impose a disproportionate administrative burden on Member States without seaports, a de minimis rule should permit them to derogate from the provisions of this Directive. Measures implementing that rule should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

(29)

Since the objectives of the action to be taken, namely to reduce substandard shipping in Community waters through improvement of the Community's inspection system for seagoing ships and the development of the means of taking preventive action in the field of pollution of the seas cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and may, therefore, on account of their scale and their effects, be better achieved at Community level, the Community can take measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve those objectives.

(30)

The obligation to transpose this Directive into national law should be confined to those provisions which represent a substantive change as compared with the earlier Directive. The obligation to transpose the provisions which are unchanged arises under the earlier Directive.

(31)

This Directive should be without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Annex XV, Part B.

(32)

In accordance with point 34 of the Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making (8), Member States are encouraged to draw up, for themselves and in the interests of the Community, their own tables illustrating, as far as possible, the correlation between this Directive and the transposition measures, and to make them public,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Purpose

(a)

increasing compliance with international and relevant Community legislation on maritime safety, maritime security, protection of the marine environment and living and working conditions on board ships of all flags;

(b)

establishing common criteria for control of ships by the port State and harmonising procedures on inspection and detention ;

(c)

ensuring that all ships calling to ports or anchorages within the Community are inspected with a frequency depending on their risk profile, with ships posing a higher risk being subject to a more thorough inspection carried out at more frequent intervals;

(d)

introducing elements related to a Community port State control regime, aiming to establish common criteria for the control of ships by the port State and harmonise procedures on inspection and detention.

Article 2

Definitions

1.

‘Conventions’ means the following Conventions, together with the Protocols and amendments thereto and related codes of mandatory status, in their up-to-date version:

(a)

the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (LL 66);

(b)

the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS 74);

(c)

the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, and the 1978 Protocol relating thereto (Marpol 73/78);

(d)

the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978 (STCW 78);

(e)

the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (Colreg 72);

(f)

the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 (ITC 69);

(g)

the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 (ILO No 147);

(h)

the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992 (CLC 92).

2.

‘Paris MOU’ means the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, signed in Paris on 26 January 1982, in its up-to-date version.

3.

‘Framework and procedures for the Voluntary IMO Member State Audit Scheme’ means IMO Assembly Resolution A.974(24).

4.

‘Paris MOU region’ means the geographical area in which the states party to the Paris MOU conduct inspections in the context of the Paris MOU.

5.

‘Ship’ means any seagoing vessel to which one or more of the Conventions apply, flying a flag other than that of the port State.

6.

‘Off-shore installation’ means a fixed or floating platform operating on or over the continental shelf of a Member State.

7.

‘Port’ means an area of land and water made up of such works and equipment as to permit, principally, the reception of ships, their loading and unloading, the storage of goods, the receipt and delivery of those goods, and embarkation and disembarkation of passengers.

8.

‘Anchorage’ means a place in a port or another area within the jurisdiction of a port suitable for ships to anchor.

9.

‘Inspector’ means a public-sector employee or other person, duly authorised by the competent authority of a Member State to carry out port-State control inspections, and responsible to that competent authority.

10.

‘Competent authority’ means a maritime authority responsible for port State control in accordance with this Directive.

11.

‘Competent authority for maritime security’ means a competent authority for maritime security as defined in Article 2, point 7 of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on enhancing ship and port facility security  (9).

12.

‘ Initial inspection’ means a visit on board a ship by an inspector, in order to check compliance with the relevant Conventions and regulations and including at least the checks required by Article 12(2) .

13.

‘More detailed inspection’ means an inspection where the ship, its equipment and crew as a whole or, as appropriate, parts thereof are subjected, in the circumstances specified in Article 12(3) , to an in-depth examination covering the ship's construction, equipment, manning, living and working conditions and compliance with on-board operational procedures.

14.

‘Expanded inspection’ means an inspection whose scope includes as a minimum the items listed in Annex VIII. An expanded inspection may include a more detailed inspection whenever there are clear grounds in accordance with Article 13 .

15.

‘Complaint’ means any information or report , other than the report on apparent anomalies or defects drawn up by pilots or port authorities in accordance with Article 22, submitted by any physical or legal person with a legitimate interest in the safety of the ship, including an interest in safety or health hazards to its crew, shipboard living and working conditions and the prevention of pollution.

16.

‘Detention’ means the formal prohibition of a ship to proceed to sea due to established deficiencies which, individually or together, make the ship unseaworthy.

17.

‘Refusal of access order’ means a decision issued to the master of a ship , to the company responsible for the ship and to the flag State notifying them that the ship will be refused access to all ports and anchorages of the Community.

18.

‘Stoppage of an operation’ means a formal prohibition of a ship to continue an operation due to established deficiencies which, individually or together, would render the continued operation hazardous.

19.

‘Company’ means the owner of the ship or any other organisation or person such as the manager, or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation of the ship from the owner of the ship and who, on assuming such responsibility, has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed by the International Safety Management (‘ISM’) Code.

20.

‘Recognised Organisation’ means a classification society or other private body, carrying out statutory tasks on behalf of a flag State administration.

21.

‘Statutory certificate’ means a certificate issued by or on behalf of a flag State in accordance with international Conventions.

22.

‘ Classification certificate’ means a document issued by a recognised organisation , confirming compliance with SOLAS 74, Chapter II.1, Part A.1, Regulation 3.1 .

23.

‘Inspection database’ means the information system for implementing the port State control regime within the Community and taking into account inspections made in the Paris MOU region .

Article 3

Scope

1.   This Directive applies to any ship and its crew calling at a port or at an anchorage of a Member State.

France may decide that the ports covered by this paragraph do not include ports situated in the overseas departments referred to in Article 299(2) of the Treaty.

Where a Member State carries out an inspection on a ship in its territorial waters but outside a port, such a procedure shall be deemed to be an inspection for the purposes of this Directive.

Nothing in this Article shall affect the rights of intervention available to a Member State under the relevant international Conventions.

Member States without sea ports may derogate from the application of this Directive, under certain conditions. The Commission shall adopt, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2), the measures for the implementation of this derogation mechanism.

2.   In the case of ships of a gross tonnage below 500, Member States shall apply those requirements of a relevant Convention which are applicable and shall, to the extent that a Convention does not apply, take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the ships concerned are not clearly hazardous to safety, health or the environment. In their application of this paragraph, Member States shall be guided by Annex 1 to the Paris MOU.

3.   When inspecting a ship flying the flag of a State which is not a party to a Convention, Member States shall ensure that the treatment given to such ship and its crew is no more favourable than that given to a ship flying the flag of a State which is a party to that Convention.

4.   Fishing vessels, ships of war, naval auxiliaries, wooden ships of a primitive build, government ships used for non-commercial purposes and pleasure yachts not engaged in trade shall be excluded from the scope of this Directive.

Article 4

Inspection powers

1.   Member States shall take all necessary measures in order to be legally entitled to carry out on board foreign ships the inspections referred to in this Directive in accordance with international law.

2.   Member States shall maintain appropriate competent authorities for the inspection of ships and shall take whatever measures are appropriate to ensure that they perform their duties as laid down in this Directive. In particular, they shall recruit and retain the requisite number of staff, including qualified inspectors, taking into account the volume and characteristics of shipping traffic at each port.

Member States shall put in place appropriate arrangements to ensure that inspectors are available for carrying out initial and expanded inspections in accordance with Articles 12 and 13 and Annex I, Part II .

Article 5

Community inspection regime

1.    The Member States shall carry out inspections in accordance with the selection scheme described in Article 12 and the provisions of Annex I.

2.    Each Member State shall carry out annually a total number of inspections of individual ships corresponding to its share of the total number of inspections to be carried out annually in the Community and in the Paris MOU area. This share shall be based on the number of ships calling at the ports or anchorages of the Member State in question in relation to the sum of the number of ships calling at the ports and anchorages of each Member State of the Community and of the states party to the Paris MOU.

Article 6

Compliance with the Community inspection regime

In accordance with Article 5, each Member State shall:

(a)

inspect all Priority I ships, as referred to in Article 11(a), calling at its ports and anchorages and

(b)

annually carry out a total number of inspections on Priority I and Priority II ships, as referred to in Article 11(a) and (b), which correspond at least to its annual inspection commitment.

Article 7

Circumstances in which certain ships are not inspected

In the following circumstances, a Member State may decide to postpone the inspection of a Priority I ship:

(i)

if the inspection may be carried out at the next call of the ship in the same Member State, provided that the ship does not call at any other port or anchorage in the Community or the Paris MOU region in between and the postponement does not exceed 15 days; or

(ii)

if the inspection may be carried out in another port of call within the Community or the Paris MOU region within 15 days, provided that the State in which such port of call is located has agreed to perform the inspection.

If an inspection is postponed, but not performed in accordance with points (i) and (ii) and not recorded in the inspection database, it shall be counted as a missed inspection against the Member State which postponed the inspection.

2.     Under the following exceptional circumstances an inspection not performed on Priority I ships for operational reasons shall not be counted as a missed inspection, provided that the reason for missing the inspection is recorded in the inspection database, if in the judgement of the competent authority the conduct of the inspection would create a risk to the safety of inspectors, the ship, its crew or to the port, or to the marine environment.

If an inspection is not performed on a ship at anchor, it shall not be counted as a missed inspection provided that, if point (ii) applies, the reason for missing the inspection is recorded in the inspection database, if:

(i)

the ship is inspected in another port within the Community or the Paris MOU region in accordance with Annex I within 15 days, or

(ii)

in the judgement of the competent authority the conduct of the inspection would create a risk to the safety of inspectors, the ship, its crew or to the port, or to the marine environment.

4.     The Commission may adopt, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2), measures for the implementation of this Article.

Article 8

Notification of arrival of ships

1.    The operator, agent or master of a ship eligible for an expanded inspection in accordance with Article 13 bound for a port or anchorage of a Member State shall notify its arrival in accordance with the provisions of Annex III.

2.     On receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1 and in Article 4 of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system (10), the relevant port authority shall pass on this information to the competent authority.

3.     Electronic means shall be used for the purposes of any communication provided for in this article. Other means shall be used only when electronic means are not available.

4.     The procedures and formats developed by the Member States for the implementation of Annex III shall comply with Directive 2002/59/EC.

Article 9

Ship risk profile

1.     Every ship calling at a port or anchorage in a Member State shall be attributed a ship risk profile which determines the degree of priority of the inspection, the intervals between inspections and the scope of inspections. The ship risk profile of each ship shall be entered in the inspection database.

The risk profile of a ship shall be determined by a combination of generic and historic risk parameters, as follows:

(a)

Generic parameters

Generic parameters shall be based on the type, age, flag, recognised organisations involved and company performance in accordance with Annex I, Part I, point 1 and Annex II.

(b)

Historic parameters

Historic parameters shall be based on the number of anomalies and detentions during a given period, in accordance with Annex I, Part I, point 2 and Annex II.
The Commission shall adopt, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2), the rules for the implementation of this Article, specifying in particular:

—

the values attributed to each risk parameter,

—

the combination of risk parameters corresponding to each level of ship risk profile,

—

the conditions for implementing the flag state criteria referred to in Annex I, Part I, point 1(c)(iii) concerning the demonstration of compliance with the relevant instruments.

Article 10

Frequency of inspections

Ships calling at Community ports or anchorages shall be subject to periodic inspections or to additional inspections as follows:

(a)

Ships shall be subject to periodic inspections at predetermined intervals depending on their risk profile in accordance with Annex I, Part II, Section 1. The interval between periodic inspections of high risk ships shall not exceed six months. The interval between periodic inspections of ships of other risk profiles shall increase as the risk decreases, in accordance with Annex I, Part II, Section 1.

(b)

Ships shall be subject to additional inspections regardless of the period since their last periodic inspection as follows:

(i)

the competent authority shall ensure that ships to which overriding factors listed in Annex I, Part II, Section 2.1 apply are subject to an inspection,

(ii)

ships to which unexpected factors listed in Annex I, Part II, Section 2.2 apply may be subject to an inspection. The decision to undertake such an additional inspection shall be left to the professional judgement of the competent authority.

2.     Periodic and additional inspections shall include an examination of pre-identified areas for each ship which will vary according to the type of ship, the type of inspection and the findings of previous port State control inspections.

The inspection database shall indicate the elements to identify the risk areas to be checked at each inspection.

3.     The Commission shall adopt, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2), and taking account of the procedures applied in the context of the Paris MOU, measures for the implementation of this Article, specifying in particular the list of areas to be inspected according to the type of ship.

Article 11

Selection of ships for inspection

The competent authority shall ensure that ships are selected for inspection on the basis of their risk profile as described in Annex I, Part I and when overriding or unexpected factors arise in accordance with Annex I, Part II, Section 2.

With a view to the inspection of ships, the competent authority:

(a)

shall select ships which are due for a mandatory inspection, referred to as ‘Priority I’ ships, in accordance with the selection scheme described in Annex I, Part II, Section 3.1,

(b)

may select ships which are eligible for inspection, referred to as ‘Priority II’ ships, in accordance with Annex I, Part II, Section 3.2.

Article 12

Types of inspections

1.    Member States shall ensure that ships which are selected for inspection in accordance with Article 11 are subject to an initial inspection, a more detailed inspection or an expanded inspection as follows:

Initial inspection

(a)

On each initial inspection of a ship, the competent authority shall ensure that the inspector shall, as a minimum, check the certificates and documents listed in Annex IV required to be kept on board in accordance with the applicable Community maritime safety legislation and international Conventions ,

(b)

When a ship has been authorised to leave a port on condition that the deficiencies are rectified at the next port, the inspection at the next port shall be limited to verifying whether these deficiencies have been rectified.

However, the inspector may, in the exercise of his professional judgement, decide that the inspection must be extended to cover additional verifications.

3.    More detailed inspection

A more detailed inspection shall be carried out, including further checking of compliance with on-board operational requirements, whenever there are clear grounds for believing, after the inspection referred to in paragraph 2 point (b), that the condition of a ship or of its equipment or crew does not substantially meet the relevant requirements of a Convention.

‘ Clear grounds’ exist when the inspector finds evidence which in his professional judgement warrants a more detailed inspection of the ship, its equipment or its crew.

Examples of ‘clear grounds’ are set out in Annex V and VII, Section C.

Article 13

Expanded inspections

The following categories of ships shall be eligible for an expanded inspection in accordance with Annex I, Part II, Section 3.1, points (a) and (b):

—

ships with a high risk profile,

—

passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old,

—

ships with a high risk profile or passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old, in the event of overriding or unexpected factors,

—

ships subject to a re-inspection following a refusal of access order in accordance with Article 20.

2.     On reception of a pre-notification provided by a ship eligible for an expanded inspection, the competent authority shall inform the ship without delay whether an expanded inspection will be carried out.

Article 14

Guidelines and procedures under Community maritime safety and security legislation

1.    For the purposes of this Directive, the relevant procedures and guidelines for the control of ships specified in Annex VI shall be taken into account as appropriate.

Member States shall ensure that their competent authorities are duly informed of the relevant guidelines or procedures that need to be implemented in accordance with Community legislation and they shall verify their proper implementation.

2.    As far as safety checks are concerned, the Member States shall apply the procedures set out in Annex VII to all ships referred to in Article 3(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 calling at their ports, as long as they do not fly the flag of the port state of inspection.

They shall apply those procedures to the ships referred to in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 when the provisions of that regulation have been extended to the ships referred to in Article 3(3).

3.    The provisions of Article 13 concerning expanded inspections shall apply to ro-ro ferries and to high-speed passenger craft as referred to in Article 2(a) and (b) of Directive 1999/35/EC.

When a ship has been surveyed in accordance with Articles 6 and 8 of Directive 1999/35/EC, such specific survey shall be considered as a more detailed or an expanded inspection, as relevant, and recorded as such in the inspection database.

Without prejudice to a prevention of operation of a ro-ro ferry or a high-speed passenger craft decided in accordance with Article 10 of Directive 1999/35/EC, the provisions of this Directive concerning rectification of deficiencies, detentions, refusal of access, follow-up to inspections, detentions and refusal of access, as appropriate, shall apply.

Article 15

Access refusal measures concerning certain ships

specified in this paragraph Article 20(6) if the ship:

—

flies the flag of a State which appears on the black list or grey list as defined by the Paris MOU on the basis of information recorded in the inspection database and as published annually by the Commission, and

—

has been detained or issued with a prevention of operation order under Directive 1999/35/EC more than twice in the course of the preceding 36 months in a port of a Member State or of a MOU signatory State.

For the purposes of this paragraph, the list defined by the Paris MOU shall enter into force as of 1 July each year.

The refusal of access order shall be lifted only after a period of three months has passed from the date of issue of the order and when the conditions in paragraphs 4 to 10 of Annex IX are met.

If the ship is subject to a second refusal of access, the period shall be increased to 12 months. Any subsequent detention in a Community port shall result in the ship being permanently refused access to any port or anchorage within the Community.

2.   For the purposes of this Article , Member States shall comply with the procedures laid down in Annex IX, point B.

Article 16

Report of inspection to the master

On completion of an inspection, a more detailed inspection or an expanded inspection, the inspector shall draw up a report in accordance with Annex X. A copy of the inspection report shall be provided to the ship's master.

Article 17

Complaints

All complaints within the meaning of Article 2(15) made by persons with a demonstrated legitimate interest regarding conditions on board shall be subject to an initial investigation by the competent authority .

The initial investigation must make it possible to establish swiftly whether the complaint is admissible or whether it is manifestly unfounded or clearly abusive.

When the competent authority deems the complaint to be manifestly unfounded, it shall inform the complainant of its decision and of the reasons for it.

The identity of the person lodging the complaint shall not be revealed to the master or the shipowner of the ship concerned. The inspector shall ensure confidentiality during any interviews of crew members.

Member States shall inform the flag State administration, with a copy to the ILO if appropriate, of complaints not manifestly unfounded and of follow-up actions taken.

Article 18

Rectification and detention

1.   The competent authority shall be satisfied that any deficiencies confirmed or revealed by the inspection are or will be rectified in accordance with the Conventions.

2.   In the case of deficiencies which are clearly hazardous to safety, health or the environment, the competent authority of the port State where the ship is being inspected shall ensure that the ship is detained, or the operation in the course of which the deficiencies have been revealed is stopped. The detention order or stoppage of an operation shall not be lifted until the hazard is removed or until such authority establishes that the ship can, subject to any necessary conditions, proceed to sea or the operation be resumed without risk to the safety and health of passengers or crew, or risk to other ships, or without there being an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment.

3.

(a)

include a direction that the ship shall remain in a particular place, or shall move to a particular anchorage or berth; and

(b)

specify the circumstances in which the master of the ship may move the ship from a specified place for reasons of safety or prevention of pollution.

4.   When exercising his professional judgement as to whether or not a ship should be detained, the inspector shall apply the criteria set out in Annex XI.

In this respect, if the inspection reveals that the ship is not equipped with a functioning voyage data recorder, when its use is compulsory in accordance with Directive 2002/59/EC, the competent authority shall ensure that the ship is detained.

If the deficiencies justifying detention cannot be readily rectified in the port of detention, the competent authority may allow the ship to proceed to the nearest available repair yard to the port of detention where it may be readily rectified or it may require that the deficiencies be rectified within a maximum period of 30 days, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Paris MOU. For these purposes, the procedures laid down in Article 20 shall apply.

5.   In exceptional circumstances, where the overall condition of a ship is obviously substandard, the competent authority may suspend the inspection of that ship until the responsible parties have taken the steps necessary to ensure that it complies with the relevant requirements of the Conventions.

6.   In the event of detention, the competent authority shall immediately inform, in writing and including the report of inspection, the flag State administration or, when this is not possible, the Consul or, in his absence, the nearest diplomatic representative of that State, of all the circumstances in which intervention was deemed necessary. In addition, nominated surveyors or recognised organisations responsible for the issue of class certificates or statutory certificates in accordance with international Conventions shall also be notified .

7.   The provisions of this Directive shall be without prejudice to the additional requirements of the Conventions concerning notification and reporting procedures related to port State control.

8.   When exercising port State control under this Directive, all possible efforts shall be made to avoid a ship being unduly detained or delayed. If a ship is unduly detained or delayed, the owner or operator shall be entitled to compensation for any loss or damage suffered. In any instance of alleged undue detention or delay the burden of proof shall lie with the owner or operator of the ship.

9.     The competent authority shall inform the port authority at its earliest convenience when a detention order is issued.

10.   In order to alleviate port congestion, a competent authority may allow a detained ship to be moved to another part of the port if it is safe to do so. However, the risk of port congestion shall not be a consideration when deciding on a detention or on a release from detention.

Port authorities shall cooperate with the competent authority with a view to facilitating the accommodation of detained ships.

Article 19

Right of appeal

1.   The owner or the operator of a ship or his representative in the Member State shall have a right of appeal against a detention decision or refusal of access taken by the competent authority. An appeal shall not cause the detention or refusal of access to be suspended , but shall be mentioned in the inspection database .

2.   Member States shall establish and maintain appropriate procedures for this purpose in accordance with their national legislation and shall cooperate in order to achieve coherent norms and procedures for the implementation of this Article, particularly with a view to ensuring that appeals are dealt with within a reasonable time .

3.   The competent authority shall properly inform the master of a ship referred to in paragraph 1 of the right of appeal and the practical arrangements relating thereto .

4.

(a)

Member States shall ensure that the inspection database is amended accordingly without delay,

(b)

The Member State where the detention or refusal of access order has been issued shall, within 24 hours of such a decision, ensure that the information published in accordance with Article 25 is rectified.

Article 20

Follow-up to inspections and detentions

1.   Where deficiencies as referred to in Article 18(2) cannot be rectified in the port of inspection, the competent authority of that Member State may allow the ship concerned to proceed directly to the nearest available repair yard to the port of detention where follow-up action can be taken, as chosen by the master and the authorities concerned, provided that the conditions determined by the competent authority of the flag State and agreed by that Member State are complied with. Such conditions shall ensure that the ship can proceed without risk to the safety and health of passengers or crew, or risk to other ships, or without there being an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment.

2.   Where the decision to send a ship to a repair yard is due to a lack of compliance with IMO Resolution A.744(18), either with respect to a ship's documentation or with respect to a ship's structural failures and deficiencies, the competent authority may require that the necessary thickness measurements be carried out in the port of detention before the ship is allowed to sail.

3.   In the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1, the competent authority of the Member State in the port of inspection shall notify the competent authority of the State where the repair yard is situated, the parties mentioned in Article 18(6) and any other authority as appropriate of all the conditions for the voyage.

The competent authority of a Member State receiving such notification shall inform the notifying authority of the action taken.

or anchorage

(a)

without complying with the conditions determined by the competent authority of any Member State in the port of inspection; or

(b)

which refuse to comply with the applicable requirements of the Conventions by not calling into the indicated repair yard.

Such refusal shall be maintained until the owner or operator has provided evidence to the satisfaction of the competent authority of the Member State where the ship was found defective, demonstrating that the ship fully complies with all applicable requirements of the Conventions.

5.   In the circumstances referred to in paragraph 4(a), the competent authority of the Member State where the ship was found defective shall immediately alert the competent authorities of all the other Member States.

In the circumstances referred to in paragraph 4(b), the competent authority of the Member State in which the repair yard lies shall immediately alert the competent authorities of all the other Member States.

Before denying entry, the Member State may request consultations with the flag administration of the ship concerned.

6.   By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraph 4, access to a specific port or anchorage may be permitted by the relevant authority of that port State in the event of force majeure or overriding safety considerations, or to reduce or minimise the risk of pollution or to have deficiencies rectified, provided that adequate measures to the satisfaction of the competent authority of such Member State have been implemented by the owner, the operator or the master of the ship to ensure safe entry.

Article 21

Professional profile of inspectors

1.   The inspections shall be carried out only by inspectors who fulfil the qualification criteria specified in Annex XII and who are authorised to carry out port State control by the competent authority.

2.   When the required professional expertise cannot be provided by the competent authority of the port State, the inspector of that competent authority may be assisted by any person with the required expertise.

3.   The competent authority, the inspectors carrying out port State control and the persons assisting them shall have no commercial interest either in the port of inspection or in the ships inspected, nor shall the inspectors be employed by or undertake work on behalf of non-governmental organisations which issue statutory and classification certificates or which carry out the surveys necessary for the issue of those certificates to ships.

4.   Each inspector shall carry a personal document in the form of an identity card issued by his competent authority in accordance with Commission Directive 96/40/EC of 25 June 1996 establishing a common model for an identity card for inspectors carrying out port State control  (11).

5.   Member States shall ensure that the competence of inspectors is verified, and their knowledge as referred to in Annex XII is tested, before authorising them to carry out inspections and at intervals of five years thereafter.

6.   Member States shall ensure that inspectors receive appropriate training in relation to changes to the Community port State control regime as laid down in this Directive and amendments to the Conventions.

7.   In cooperation with Member States, the Commission shall develop and promote a harmonised Community scheme for the qualification and training of inspectors.

Article 22

Reports from pilots and port authorities

1.   Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that their pilots engaged on ships bound for a port or in transit within a Member State may immediately inform the competent authority of the port State or the coastal State, as appropriate, whenever they learn in the course of their normal duties that there are anomalies, findings or apparent defects which may prejudice the safe navigation of the ship, or which may pose a threat of harm to the marine environment.

2.   If port authorities, when exercising their normal duties, learn that a ship within their port has anomalies, findings or apparent defects which may prejudice the safety of the ship or poses an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment, such authority shall immediately inform the competent authority of the port State concerned.

ensure that report the following information

—

ship information (name, IMO number, call sign and flag);

—

sailing information (port of origin, port of destination);

—

description of anomalies, findings or apparent defects found on board .

4.     The Commission may adopt, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2), measures for the implementation of this Article, including a harmonised electronic format and procedures for the reporting of anomalies, findings or apparent defects by pilots and port authorities and of follow-up action taken by Member States.

Article 23

Cooperation

1.

—

information notified in accordance with Annex III;

—

information concerning ships which have failed to comply with notification requirements in accordance with this Directive and with European Parliament and Council Directives 2000/59/EC of 27 November 2000 on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues  (12) and 2002/59/EC, as well as, if appropriate, with Regulation (EC) No 725/2004;

—

information concerning ships which have proceeded to sea without having complied with Article 7 or 10 of Directive 2000/59/EC;

—

information concerning ships which have been denied entry or expelled from port on security grounds.

2.   Member States shall maintain provisions for the exchange of information and cooperation between their competent authority and the competent authorities of all other Member States and maintain the established operational link between their competent authority, the Commission and the inspection database.

Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the updating of the inspection database in the light of the requirements arising from this Directive.

For the purposes of carrying out inspections, inspectors shall consult the public and private databases relating to ship inspection accessible through the Equasis information system.

3.   Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the information related to inspections is transferred to the inspection database without delay.

The information referred to in this paragraph shall be that specified in Annexes X and XIII.

4.     Each Member State shall ensure that the competent port State control authority provides port authorities with relevant information in their possession.

Article 24

Inspection database

1.     A database shall be established, which shall be a common database for both the European Union and the Paris MOU. The Commission shall develop and maintain the inspection database, with the assistance of the EMSA, showing the risk profiles of ships, indicating all ships due for inspection and calculating the inspection commitment. The database shall be capable of receiving ship movement data.

2.     The database shall also be used to classify Member States' ships in the white, grey and black lists in accordance with the method of calculation established by the Commission in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2).

3.     The core of the system shall be the joint EU/Paris MOU requirements. However, in the case of specific EU requirements, the Community shall have full discretion to take decisions on the development and possible adaptation of the system to meet such requirements.

4.     The inspection database shall be capable of adapting to future developments and of interfacing with other Community maritime safety databases and, where appropriate, with relevant national information systems.

5.     The inspection database shall, as appropriate, incorporate specific requirements from the Paris MOU and be capable of receiving information concerning inspections recorded by third States which are parties to the Paris MOU for the purposes of this Directive.

6.     The inspection database shall be accessible in ‘read only’ mode to the administrations of Members of the IMO, to bodies under their responsibility and to the parties concerned. Such access shall be dependent on a confidentiality agreement similar to that required of inspectors of Member States.

Article 25

Publication of information

1.   The competent authority of each Member State shall take the necessary measures in order to ensure the publication of information related to inspections, detentions and refusals of access in accordance with Annex XIII.

2.   The provisions of this Article shall not affect national legislation on liability.

Article 26

Black-list on performance of ship operators and companies

The Commission shall establish and publish at least once a month, on a public website, information relating to companies whose performance, with a view to determining the ship risk profile as referred to in Annex I, Part I, point (e), has been considered as poor or very poor for a period of three months or more .

The Commission shall, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 30(2), adopt the rules required to implement this Article.

Article 27

Reimbursement of costs

1.   Should the inspections referred to in Articles 12 and 13 confirm or reveal deficiencies in relation to the requirements of a Convention warranting the detention of a ship, all costs relating to the inspections in any normal accounting period shall be covered by the shipowner or the operator or by his representative in the port State.

2.   All costs relating to inspections carried out by the competent authority of a Member State under the provisions of Article 20(4) and Article 15 shall be charged to the owner or operator of the ship.

3.   In the case of detention of a ship, all costs relating to the detention in port shall be borne by the owner or operator of the ship.

4.   The detention shall not be lifted until full payment has been made or a sufficient guarantee has been given for the reimbursement of the costs.

Article 28

Data to monitor implementation

Member States shall provide the Commission and the EMSA with the information listed in Annex XIV at the intervals stated in that Annex.

Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the Commission and the EMSA have full and unrestricted access to all data administered by the inspection database referred to in Article 23(2).

Article 29

Monitoring of compliance and performance of Member States

In order to ensure the effective implementation of this Directive and to monitor the overall functioning of the Community's port State control regime in accordance with Article 2(b)(i) of Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002, the Commission shall collect the necessary information and carry out visits to Member States.

Article 30

Committee

1.   The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) created by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002  (13).

2.   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4), and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.

Article 31

Amendment procedure

regulatory with scrutiny Article 30

(a)

adapt the Annexes on the basis of the experience gained from the implementation of this Directive and taking into account developments in the Paris MOU;

(b)

adapt the Annexes , except Annex I, in order to take into account amendments which have entered into force to the Community legislation on maritime safety and security, and to the Conventions, Protocols, codes and resolutions of relevant international organisations and to the Paris MOU;

(c)

amend the definitions in, and update the list of, international Conventions which are relevant for the purposes of this Directive.

The amendments to the international instruments referred to in Article 2 may be excluded from the scope of this Directive, pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 .

Article 32

Penalties

Member States shall lay down a system of penalties for the breach of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall take all the measures necessary to ensure that those penalties are applied. The penalties thus provided shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

The Commission shall ensure that the penalties thus defined allow for uniform application of the inspection regime throughout the Community and do not create distortions between Member States.

Article 33

Review

The Commission shall review the implementation of this Directive no later than 18 months after expiry of the time-limit for the transposition of this Directive. The review will examine, inter alia, the fulfilment of the overall Community inspection commitment laid down in Article 5, the number of port State control inspectors in each Member State , the number of inspections carried out and the functioning of the fair share mechanism for missed inspections laid down in Article 7 .

The Commission shall communicate the findings of the review to the European Parliament and the Council and shall determine on the basis of the review whether it is necessary to propose an amending Directive or further legislation in this area.

Article 34

Implementation and notification

1.   Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles [...] and points [...] of Annexes [...] [articles or subdivisions thereof, and points of Annexes which have been changed as to their substance by comparison with the earlier Directive] not later than 18 months after the date fixed in Article 36 .

2.   When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the directive[s] repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.

3.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law adopted in the field covered by this Directive.

4.   In addition, the Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council on a regular basis of progress in the implementation of the Directive within the Member States.

Article 35

Repeal

Directive 95/21/EC, as amended by the Directives listed in Annex XV, Part A, is repealed, with effect from ... (14), without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Annex XV, Part B.

References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XVI.

Article 36

Entry into force

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Articles [...] and points [...] of annexes [...] [articles or subdivisions thereof, and points of annexes which are unchanged by comparison with the earlier Directive] shall apply from ... (14).

Article 37

Addressees

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)   OJ C 318, 23.12.2006, p. 195.

(2)   OJ C 229, 22.9.2006, p. 38.

(3)  Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(4)  OJ L 157, 7.7.1995, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

(5)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(6)  OJ L 138, 1.6.1999, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

(7)  OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(8)  OJ C 321, 31.12.2003, p. 1.

(9)  OJ L 129, 29.4.2004, p. 6.

(10)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 10.

(11)  OJ L 196, 7.8.1996, p. 8.

(12)  OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 81. Directive as amended by Directive 2002/84/EC ( OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

(13)  OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 93/2007 (OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 12).

(14)  Date of entry into force of this Directive.

ANNEX I

ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY PORT STATE INSPECTION REGIME

(as referred to in Article 5 )

The following elements shall be included in the Community Port State Inspection Regime:

I.   SHIP RISK PROFILE

The risk profile of a ship is determined by a combination of the following parameters:

1.   Generic parameters

(a)

Type of ship

Passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers are considered as posing a higher risk.

(b)

Age of ship

Ships more than 12 years old are considered as posing a higher risk.

(c)

Flag State performance

(i)

Ships flying the flag of a State with a high detention rate within the EU and Paris MOU region are considered as posing a higher risk.

(ii)

Ships flying the flag of a State with a low detention rate within the EU and Paris MOU region are considered as posing a lower risk.

(iii)

Ships flying the flag of a State for which an independent audit has been carried out in accordance with the Framework and procedures for the Voluntary IMO Member State Audit Scheme and which has demonstrated compliance with the relevant instruments in accordance with the measures referred to in Article 9(3), third indent, or, until such measures have been adopted, provides evidence that a corrective action plan has been submitted, are considered as posing a lower risk.

(d)

Recognised organisations

(i)

Ships which have been delivered certificates from recognised organisations having a low or very low performance level in relation with their detention rates within the EU and the Paris MOU region are considered as posing a higher risk.

(ii)

Ships which have been delivered certificates from recognised organisations having a high performance level in relation with their detention rates within the EU and the Paris MOU region are considered as posing a lower risk.

(iii)

Ships with certificates issued by organisations recognised under the terms of Council Directive 94/57/EC of 22 November 1994 on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (1) are considered as posing a lower risk.

(e)

Company performance

(i)

Ships of a company with a low or very low performance as determined by its ships' deficiency and detention rates within the European Union and the Paris MOU region are considered as posing a higher risk.

(ii)

Ships of a company with a high performance as determined by its ships' deficiency and detention rates within the European Union and the Paris MOU region are considered as posing a lower risk.

2.   Historic parameters

(i)

Ships which have been detained more than once are considered as posing a higher risk.

(ii)

Ships which, during inspection(s) carried out within the past 36 months, have presented fewer than five deficiencies per inspection and have not been detained within the past 36 months are considered as posing a lower risk.

(iii)

Ships which have not been detained within the previous 36 months are considered as posing a lower risk.

The generic and historic risk parameters referred to in Sections 1 and 2 shall be combined to determine the following ship risk profiles:

—

high risk,

—

standard risk,

—

low risk.

In determining these risk profiles greater emphasis shall be given to the parameters for type of ship, flag State performance, recognised organisations and company performance.

II.   INSPECTION OF SHIPS

Ships calling at Community ports are subject to periodic inspections at regular intervals, and to additional inspections when unexpected factors arise.

1.   Periodic inspections

Periodic inspections shall be carried out at predetermined intervals. Their frequency shall be determined by the ship risk profile. The interval between periodic inspections of high risk ships shall not exceed six months. The interval between periodic inspections of ships of other risk profiles shall increase as the risk decreases.

Member States shall carry out a periodic inspection on:

—

Any ship with a high risk profile which has not been inspected in a port of the European Union or of the Paris MOU region during the last six months. High risk ships become eligible for inspection as from the fifth month.

—

Any ship with a standard risk profile which has not been inspected in a port of the European Union or of the Paris MOU region during the last 12 months. Standard risk ships become eligible for inspection as from the tenth month.

—

Any ship with a low risk profile which has not been inspected in a port of the EU or of the Paris MOU region during the last 30 months . Low risk ships become eligible for inspection as from the 24th month.

2.   Additional inspections

Ships to which the following overriding or unexpected factors apply are subject to an inspection regardless of the period since their last periodic inspection.

2.1.   Overriding factors

Ships to which the following overriding factors apply shall be inspected regardless of the period since their last periodic inspection:

—

Ships which have been suspended or withdrawn from their class for safety reasons since the last inspection in the European Union or in the Paris MOU region.

—

Ships which have been the subject of a report or notification by another Member State.

—

Ships which cannot be identified in the inspection database.

—

Ships which:

—

have been involved in a collision, grounding or stranding on their way to the port;

—

have been accused of an alleged violation of the provisions on discharge of harmful substances or effluents, or

—

have manoeuvred in an erratic or unsafe manner whereby routing measures, adopted by the IMO, or safe navigation practices and procedures have not been followed.

—

Ships which have failed to comply with the relevant notification requirements referred to in Article 8 of this Directive, in Directive 2000/59/EC, Directive 2002/59/EC and if appropriate in Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.

—

Ships which have been reported with outstanding deficiencies, except those for which deficiencies had to be rectified within 14 days after departure, or for deficiencies which had to be rectified before departure .

2.2.   Unexpected factors

Ships to which the following unexpected factors apply shall be subject to inspection regardless of the period since their last periodic inspection. However, the decision to undertake such an additional inspection is left to the professional judgement of the inspector.

—

Ships which have:

—

been operated in such a manner as to pose a danger to persons, property or the environment, or

—

not complied with recommendations on navigation through the entrances to the Baltic Sea as made in the Annexes to Resolution MSC.138(76) of the IMO.

—

Ships carrying certificates issued by a formerly recognised organisation whose recognition has been withdrawn since the last inspection in the European Union or in the Paris MOU region.

—

Ships which have been reported by pilots or port authorities as having anomalies/findings or apparent defects which may prejudice their safe navigation or pose a threat of harm to the environment in accordance with Article 22 of this Directive.

—

Ships which have been the subject of a report or complaint by the master, a crew member, or any person or organisation with a legitimate interest in the safe operation of the ship, shipboard living and working conditions or the prevention of pollution, unless the Member State concerned deems the report or complaint to be manifestly unfounded.

—

Ships which have been previously detained more than three months ago .

—

Ships which have been reported with problems concerning their cargo, in particular noxious and dangerous cargoes.

—

Ships which have been operated in such a manner as to pose a danger to persons, property or the environment.

—

Ships where information from a reliable source became known that their risk parameters differ from the recorded ones and the risk level is thereby increased.

3.   Selection system

3.1.   Priority I vessels shall be inspected as follows:

(a)

an expanded inspection shall be carried out:

—

on all ships with a high risk profile which have not been inspected within the last six months,

—

on all passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old with a standard risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 12 months,

—

on all passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old with a low risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 36 months;

(b)

an initial inspection or, where appropriate, a more detailed inspection shall be carried out:

—

on all ships, other than passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers, more than 12 years old with a standard risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 12 months,

—

on all ships, other than passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers, more than 12 years old with a low risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 36 months;

(c)

where an overriding factor has arisen:

—

a more detailed inspection or an expanded inspection, according to the inspector's professional judgement, shall be carried out on all ships with a high risk profile and on all passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old,

—

a more detailed inspection shall be carried out on all ships more than 12 years old, other than passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers.

3.2.   Priority II vessels shall be inspected as follows:

(a)

an expanded inspection shall be carried out:

—

on all ships with a high risk profile which have not been inspected within the last five months,

—

on all passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old with a standard risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 10 months,

—

on all passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old with a low risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 24 months;

(b)

an initial inspection or, where appropriate, a more detailed inspection shall be carried out:

—

on all ships, other than passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers, more than 12 years old with a standard risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 10 months,

—

on all ships, other than passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers, more than 12 years old with a low risk profile which have not been inspected within the last 24 months;

(c)

where an unexpected factor has arisen:

—

a more detailed inspection or an expanded inspection, according to the inspector's professional judgement, shall be carried out on all ships with a high risk profile and on all passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers more than 12 years old,

—

a more detailed inspection shall be carried out on all ships more than 12 years old, other than passenger ships, oil and chemical tankers, gas carriers and bulk carriers.

(1)  OJ L 319, 12.12.1994, p. 20. Directive as last amended by Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

ANNEX II

DESIGN OF SHIP RISK PROFILE

 

Profile

 

High Risk Ship (HRS)

Standard Risk Ship (SRS)

Low Risk Ship (LRS)

Generic Parameters

Criteria

Weighting points

Criteria

Criteria

1

Type of ship

Chemical tankship

Gas carrier

Oil tankship

Bulk carrier

Passenger ship

2

Neither a high risk nor a low risk ship

All types

2

Age of ship

all types > 12 y

1

All ages

3a

Flag

BGW-list

Black — VHR HR, M to HR

2

White

Black — MR

1

3b

IMO-Audit

-

-

Yes

4a

Recognised Organisation

Performance

H

-

-

High

M

-

-

-

L

Low

1

-

VL

Very Low

-

4b

EU recognised

-

-

Yes

5

Company

Performance

H

-

-

High

M

-

-

-

L

Low

2

-

VL

Very low

-

Historic parameters

 

 

 

6

Number of def. recorded in each insp. within previous 36 months

Deficiencies

Not eligible

-

≤ 5 (and at least one inspection carried out in previous 36 months)

7

Number of detentions within previous 36 months

Detentions

≥ 2 detentions

1

No detentions

HRS are ships which meet criteria to a total value of 5 or more weighting points.

LRS are ships which meet all the criteria of the Low Risk Parameters.

SRS are ships which are neither HRS nor LRS.

ANNEX III

NOTIFICATION

Information to be provided in accordance with Article 8(2)

The information listed below shall be submitted to the port authority or to the authority or body designated for that purpose at least three days before the expected time of arrival in the port or anchorage or before leaving the previous port or anchorage if the voyage is expected to take fewer than three days:

(a)

ship identification (name, call sign, IMO identification number or MMSI number);

(b)

planned duration of the call and list of Community ports successively visited on the same voyage ;

(c)

for tankers:

(i)

configuration: single hull, single hull with SBT, double hull;

(ii)

condition of the cargo and ballast tanks: full, empty, inerted;

(iii)

volume and nature of the cargo;

(d)

planned operations at the port or anchorage of destination (loading, unloading, other);

(e)

planned statutory survey inspections and substantial maintenance and repair work to be carried out whilst in the port or anchorage of destination;

(f)

date of last expanded inspection in the Paris MOU.

ANNEX IV

LIST OF CERTIFICATES AND DOCUMENTS

(as referred to in Article 12(2))

1.

International Tonnage Certificate (1969).

2.

—

Passenger Ship Safety Certificate;

—

Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate;

—

Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate;

—

Cargo Ship Safety Radiotelegraphy Certificate;

—

Cargo Ship Safety Radiotelephony Certificate;

—

Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate;

—

Exemption certificate, including, where appropriate, the list of cargoes;

—

Cargo Ship Safety Certificate.

3.

International Ship Security Certificate (ISSC).

4.

Continuous Synopsis Record.

5.

International Certificate of Fitness for Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk;

—

Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk.

6.

International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk;

—

Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk.

7.

International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate.

8.

International Pollution Prevention Certificate for the Carriage of Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk.

9.

International Load Line Certificate (1966);

—

International Load Line Exemption Certificate.

10.

Oil record book, Parts I and II.

11.

Cargo record book.

12.

Minimum Safe Manning Document.

13.

Certificates or any other documents issued in accordance with the STCW Convention.

14.

Medical certificates, (see ILO Convention No 73 concerning Medical Examination of Seafarers).

15.

Table of shipboard working arrangements (ILO Convention No 180 and STCW 95).

16.

Records of hours of work and rest of seafarers (ILO Convention No 180).

17.

Stability information.

18.

Copy of the Document of Compliance and the Safety Management Certificate issued, in accordance with the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention (SOLAS 74, Chapter IX).

19.

Certificates as to the ship's hull strength and machinery installations issued by the recognised organisation in question (only to be required if the ship maintains its class with a recognised organisation).

20.

Document of compliance with the special requirements for ships carrying dangerous goods.

21.

High speed craft safety certificate and permit to operate high speed craft.

22.

Dangerous goods special list or manifest, or detailed stowage plan.

23.

Ship's log book with respect to the records of tests and drills, including security drills, and the log for records of inspection and maintenance of lifesaving appliances and arrangements and of fire fighting appliances and arrangements.

24.

Special purpose ship safety certificate.

25.

Mobile offshore drilling unit safety certificate.

26.

For oil tankers, the record of oil discharge monitoring and control system for the last ballast voyage.

27.

The muster list, fire control plan, and for passenger ships, a damage control plan.

28.

Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan.

29.

Survey report files (in case of bulk carriers and oil tankers).

30.

Reports of previous port State control inspections.

31.

For ro-ro passenger ships, information on the A/A-maximum ratio.

32.

Document of authorisation for the carriage of grain.

33.

Cargo securing manual.

34.

Garbage management plan and garbage record book.

35.

Decision support system for masters of passenger ships.

36.

Search and rescue (SAR) cooperation plan for passenger ships trading on fixed routes.

37.

List of operational limitations for passenger ships.

38.

Bulk carrier booklet.

39.

Loading and unloading plan for bulk carriers.

40.

Certificate of insurance or any other financial security in respect of civil liability for oil pollution damage (International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992).

41.

Certificates required under Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of ... [on the civil liability and financial guarantees of shipowners].

42.

Certificate required under Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of ... [on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea and inland waterways in the event of accidents].

ANNEX V

EXAMPLES OF ‘CLEAR GROUNDS’ FOR A MORE DETAILED INSPECTION

(as referred to in Article 12(3) )

1.

Ships identified in Annex I Part II, Section 2 .

2.

The oil record book has not been properly kept.

3.

During examination of the certificates and other documentation, inaccuracies have been revealed.

4.

Indications that the crew members are unable to comply with the requirements related to on-board communication set out in Article 17 of Directive 2001/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the minimum level of training of seafarers  (1).

5.

A certificate has been fraudulently obtained or the holder of a certificate is not the person to whom that certificate was originally issued,

6.

The ship has a master, officer or rating holding a certificate issued by a country which has not ratified the STCW Convention.

7.

Evidence of cargo and other operations not being conducted safely, or in accordance with IMO guidelines, e.g. the content of oxygen in the inert-gas main supply to the cargo tanks is above the prescribed maximum level.

8.

Failure of the master on an oil tanker to produce the record of the oil discharge monitoring and control system for the last ballast voyage.

9.

Absence of an up-to-date muster list, or crew members not aware of their duties in the event of fire or an order to abandon the ship.

10.

The emission of false distress alerts not followed by proper cancellation procedures.

11.

The absence of principal equipment or arrangements required by the conventions.

12.

Excessively unsanitary conditions on board the ship.

13.

Evidence from the inspector's general impression and observations that serious hull or structural deterioration or deficiencies exist that may place at risk the structural, watertight or weathertight integrity of the ship.

14.

Information or evidence that the master or crew is not familiar with essential shipboard operations relating to the safety of ships or the prevention of pollution, or that such operations have not been carried out.

15.

The absence of a table of shipboard working arrangements or of records of hours of work or rest of seafarers.

(1)  OJ L 136, 18.5.2001, p. 17. Directive as last amended by Directive 2005/45/EC (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 160).

ANNEX VI

PROCEDURES FOR THE CONTROL OF SHIPS

1.

Principles of safe manning (IMO Resolution A.890(21) as amended).

2.

The provisions of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code.

3.

ILO publication ‘Inspection of Labour Conditions on Board Ship: Guidelines for procedures’.

4.

Annex I, ‘Port State Control Procedures’ to the Paris MOU and the relevant instructions or guidelines issued by the Paris MOU.

5.

IMO Resolution MSC.159(78) (adopted on 21 May 2004) ‘Interim guidance on control and compliance measures to enhance maritime security’.

ANNEX VII

PROCEDURES FOR THE CONTROL OF SHIPS ON SECURITY ASPECTS

A.   Prior to boarding.

1.

This guidance applies only to ships mentioned in Articles 3(1) and 3(2) and, where appropriate, 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, as long as they do not fly the flag of the port state of inspection.

2.

Inspectors should be aware of the security level of the port facility at which a ship is to be inspected.

3.

Reports or complaints relating to security received by inspectors prior to boarding the ship should be passed to the competent authority for maritime security (1) who will decide on priority for security inspection by an Officer Duly Authorised for Security.

4.

While the master of a ship has discretion for ship security, he is not entitled to deny access to a duly authorised inspector to carry out an inspection. There may be cases when it is mandatory to carry out a port State control inspection but the master attempts to limit the inspection on grounds of security. If the inspector considers this to be unreasonable he should consult the competent security authority.

5.

Inspectors should be aware that on a ship at security level 3 the protective measures set up may restrict the scope of the ‘safety’ port State control inspection.

For example a full emergency drill may not be allowed. There may also be circumstances where the competent security authority restricts port State control activity.

B.   Initial inspection

During the initial inspection the inspector should:

1.

while approaching and boarding the ship and moving around the ship take note of security aspects as defined in the relevant guidelines of the Paris MOU, taking into account the security level imposed by the port and ship. Inspectors are not required to test the security system and should only consider those aspects which arise during the course of their normal business on board;

2.

check that the International Ship Security Certificate (ISSC) or the Interim ISSC is on board, valid and has been issued by the ship's Administration, an organisation authorised by it or by another State at the request of the Administration;

3.

ask the master with which security level the ship is complying and confirm that this is at least the level imposed by the port;

4.

when checking other documentation ask for evidence that security drills have been carried out at appropriate intervals — at least every three months but also after certain crew changes — (ISPS Code Part A Section 13 and Part B paragraphs 13.6 and 13.7) and seek information on any exercise involving the ship;

5.

check the records of the last 10 calls at port facilities including any ship/port or ship/ship interfaces which should include for each interface:

—

security level at which ship operated — any special or additional security measures that were taken,

—

that appropriate ship security measures were maintained during any ship/ship activity.

6.

assess whether key members of the ship's personnel are able to communicate effectively with each other.

C.   Clear grounds

1.

The inspector may establish clear grounds for further control measures on security during the initial PSC inspection as follows:

1.1.

ISSC is not valid or it has expired

1.2.

The ship is at a lower security level than the port

1.3.

Drills related to the security of the ship have not been carried out

1.4.

Records for the last 10 ship/port or ship/ship interfaces are incomplete

1.5.

Evidence or observation that key members of ship's personnel cannot communicate with each other

1.6.

Evidence from observations that serious deficiencies exist in security arrangements

1.7.

Information from third parties such as a report or a complaint concerning security related information

1.8.

The ship holds a subsequent, consecutively issued Interim ISSC and in the professional judgement of the inspector one of the purposes of the ship or company in requesting such a certificate is to avoid full compliance with SOLAS 74 Chapter XI-2 and Part A of the ISPS Code, beyond the period of the initial Interim Certificate. ISPS Code Part A specifies the circumstances when an Interim Certificate may be issued.

2.

If clear grounds as described above are established the inspector will immediately inform the competent security authority (unless the inspector is also a Officer Duly Authorised for Security). The competent security authority will then decide on what further control measures are necessary taking into account the security level in accordance with Regulation 9 of SOLAS 74 Chapter XI.

3.

Clear grounds other than those above are a matter for the Officer Duly Authorised for Security.

D.   Further control measures

1.

If there is no valid ISSC or Interim ISSC onboard, the inspector will detain the ship and apply the detention procedure in Annex XI of this Directive.

2.

All other control measures will be decided by the competent security authority. These are listed in SOLAS 74 Chapter XI-2.

3.

Subject to applicable requirements in Community legislation, national legislation and arrangements the competent security authority may request the inspector to make further verifications before coming to a decision or until Officers Duly Authorised for Security can board the ship.

These verifications should be limited to:

(a)

verifying that a security plan is on board and that a ship security officer (SSO) is on board;

(b)

verifying that the master and ship's personnel, in particular the SSO, duty officer and person(s) controlling access, are familiar with essential shipboard security procedures;

(c)

verifying that communication has been established between the SSO and the Port Facility Security Officer;

(d)

verifying that records exist for maintaining the ship's security system including:

—

internal audits and reviews of security activities,

—

periodic review of the ship security assessment,

—

periodic review of the ship security plan,

—

implementation of any amendments to the ship security plan,

—

maintenance, calibration and testing of any security equipment provided on board including testing of the ship security alert system;

(e)

checking records of any:

—

security threats,

—

breaches of security,

—

changes in security levels,

—

communications relating to the direct security of the ship.

4.

Where the only means to verify or rectify the non compliance is to review the relevant requirements of the ship security plan, limited access to specific sections of the plan relating to the non compliance is exceptionally allowed, but only with the consent of the flag State, or the master, of the ship concerned. These specific sections are listed in Part A of the ISPS Code.

5.

Some provisions of the plan relating to certain confidential information cannot be subject to inspection unless agreed by the flag State concerned.

These specific sections are listed in Part A of the ISPS Code.

6.

If the competent security takes further control actions which limit the scope of or prevent the completion of the ‘safety’ port state control inspection the inspector should liaise with the competent security authority and endeavour to complete the safety inspection when the ship has been cleared. The principle of not unduly delaying a ship still applies. However the fact that security breaches have been found would normally justify the inspector completing the initial safety inspection or continuing where clear grounds for a more detailed inspection of non-security aspects have been found.

7.

If the competent security authority decides to expel the ship the inspector should ensure that the competent security authority is made fully aware of the possible safety and/or environmental consequences of the ship leaving the berth and/or putting to sea. This may include risks arising from the interruption of cargo operations. The competent security authority should decide on the necessary action taking account of all risks.

8.

If a ship is detained on non-security grounds but then expelled before the ship is finally released, the detention will count towards a refusal of access in accordance with Article 15.

(1)  The Authority designated by the State for the application of security measures.

ANNEX VIII

PROCEDURES FOR EXPANDED INSPECTIONS OF SHIPS

(as referred to in Article 13 )

PROCEDURES RELATING TO EXPANDED INSPECTION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF SHIPS

Subject to their practical feasibility or any constraints relating to the safety of persons, the ship or the port, the following items at least must be part of an expanded inspection. Inspectors must be aware that it may jeopardise the safe execution of certain on-board operations, e.g. cargo handling, if tests having a direct effect thereon are required to be carried out during such operations.

1.   SHIPS IN GENERAL

—

Simulated main power failure (black-out test),

—

inspection of emergency lighting,

—

operation of emergency fire-pump with two fire hoses connected to the fire main-line,

—

operation of bilge pumps,

—

closing of watertight doors,

—

lowering of one lifeboat to the water,

—

test of remote emergency stop for, e.g. boilers, ventilation and fuel pumps,

—

testing of steering gear including auxiliary steering gear,

—

inspection of emergency source of power to radio installations,

—

inspection and, as far as, test of engine room separator.

2.   GAS AND CHEMICAL TANKERS

In addition to the items listed under point 1, the following items are to be considered as part of the expanded inspection for gas and chemical tankers:

—

cargo tank monitoring and safety devices relating to temperature, pressure and ullage,

—

oxygen analysing and explosimeter devices, including their calibration. Availability of chemical detection equipment (bellows) with an appropriate number of suitable gas detection tubes for the specific cargo being carried,

—

cabin escape sets giving suitable respiratory and eye protection for every person on board (if required by the products listed on the International Certificate of Fitness or Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk or Liquefied Gases in Bulk, as applicable),

—

check that the product being carried is listed in the International Certificate of Fitness or Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk or Liquefied Gases in Bulk, as applicable,

—

the fixed fire-fighting installations on deck, whether they be foam or dry chemical or other as required by the product carried.

3.   BULK CARRIERS

In addition to the items listed under point 1, the following items are to be considered as part of the expanded inspection for bulk carriers:

—

possible corrosion of deck machinery mountings,

—

possible deformation and/or corrosion of hatch covers,

—

possible cracks or local corrosion in transverse bulkheads,

—

access to cargo holds,

—

verification that the following documents are on board, review them and confirm that the flag State or classification society has endorsed them:

(1)

reports of structural surveys,

(2)

condition evaluation reports,

(3)

thickness measurement reports,

(4)

descriptive document referred to by IMO resolution A.744(18).

4.   OIL TANKERS

In addition to the items listed under point 1, the following items are to be considered as part of an expanded inspection of oil tankers:

—

fixed deck foam system,

—

fire-fighting equipment in general,

—

inspection of fire dampers in engine room, pump room and accommodation,

—

control of pressure of inert gas and oxygen content thereof,

—

ballast tanks: at least one of the ballast tanks within the cargo area to be examined from tank manhole/deck access in first instance and entered if inspector establishes clear ground for further inspection,

—

verification that the following documents are on board, review them and confirm that the flag State or classification society has endorsed them:

1)

reports of structural surveys,

2)

condition evaluation reports,

3)

thickness measurement reports,

4)

descriptive document referred to by IMO resolution A.744(18).

5.   PASSENGER SHIPS NOT COVERED BY DIRECTIVE 1999/35/EC

In addition to the items listed under point 1, the following items may also be considered as part of the expanded inspection for passenger ships:

—

testing of fire detection and alarm system,

—

testing of proper closing of fire doors,

—

test of public address system,

—

fire drill where, as a minimum, all sets of firemen's outfits must be demonstrated and part of the catering crew take part,

—

demonstration that key crew members are acquainted with the damage control plan.

If deemed appropriate, the inspection may be continued while the ship is on passage to or from the port in the Member State, with the consent of the ship's master or the operator. Inspectors must not obstruct the operation of the ship, nor must they induce situations that, in the master's judgement, could endanger the safety of the passengers, the crew and the ship.

ANNEX IX

PROVISIONS CONCERNING REFUSAL OF ACCESS TO COMMUNITY PORTS

(as referred to in Article 15)

A.   CRITERIA FOR REFUSAL OF ACCESS (as referred to in Article 15(1))

1.

The refusal of access is applicable to any ship flying the flag of a State whose detention rate falls into the black list or grey list as defined by the Paris MOU which has been detained or issued with a prevention of operation order under Council Directive 99/35/EC more than twice in the course of the preceding 36 months in a port of a Member State or of a State signatory of the MOU.

2.

For the purposes of paragraph 1, the list defined by the Paris MOU shall enter into force as from 1 July each year.

B.   PROCEDURES RELATING TO REFUSAL OF ACCESS TO COMMUNITY PORTS (as referred to in Article 15(2))

1.

If the conditions described in Point A are met, the competent authority of the port or anchorage in which the ship is detained for the third time shall inform the master of the ship in writing that a refusal of access order will be issued which will become applicable immediately after the ship has left the port or anchorage. The refusal of access order shall become applicable immediately after the ship has left the port or anchorage after the deficiencies leading to the detention have been remedied.

2.

The competent authority shall send a copy of the order of refusal of access to the flag State administration, the recognised organisation concerned, the other Member States, and the other signatories to the MOU, the Commission and the Paris MOU Secretariat. The competent authority shall also update the inspection database with information on the refusal of access without delay.

3.

The refusal of access order shall be lifted only after a period of three months has passed from the date of issue of the order and when the conditions in paragraphs 4 to 10 are met.

If the ship is subject to a second refusal of access, the period shall be of 12 months. Any subsequent detention in a port of the Community shall result in the ship being permanently refused access in any port or anchorage within the Community.

4.

In order to have the access refusal order lifted, the owner or the operator must address a formal request to the competent authority of the Member State that imposed the access refusal order. This request must be accompanied by a document from the flag State administration issued following an on-board visit by a surveyor duly authorised by the flag State administration, showing that the ship fully conforms to the applicable provisions of the international Conventions. The flag State administration shall provide evidence to the competent authority that a visit on board has taken place.

5.

The request for the lifting of the access refusal order must also be accompanied, where appropriate, by a document from the classification society which has the ship in class following an on-board visit by a surveyor from the classification society, showing that the ship conforms to the class standards stipulated by that society. The classification society shall provide evidence to the competent authority that a visit on board has taken place.

6.

The access refusal order may be lifted only, after the period of three months referred to in paragraph 3 above has elapsed and following a re-inspection of the ship at an agreed port or anchorage.

If the agreed port or anchorage is located in a Member State, the competent authority of that State may, at the request of the competent authority which issued the access refusal order, authorise the ship to enter the agreed port in order to carry out the re-inspection. In such cases, no cargo operations shall take place at the port until the refusal of access order has been lifted.

7.

If the detention which led to the issue of a refusal of access order included deficiencies in the ship's structure, the competent authority which issued the refusal of access order may require that certain spaces, including cargo spaces and tanks, are made available for examination during the re-inspection.

8.

The re-inspection shall be carried out by the competent authority of the Member State that imposed the refusal of access order, or by the competent authority of the port of destination with the agreement of the competent authority of the Member State that imposed the refusal of access order. The competent authority may require up to 14 days notice for the re-inspection. Evidence shall be provided to the satisfaction of this Member State that the ship fully complies with the applicable requirements of the International Conventions.

9.

The re-inspection shall consist of an expanded inspection that must cover at least the relevant items of Annex VIII.

10.

All costs of this expanded inspection will be borne by the owner or the operator.

11.

If the results of the expanded inspection satisfy the Member State in accordance with Annex VIII, the access refusal order must be lifted and the company of the ship informed thereof in writing.

12.

The competent authority shall also notify its decision in writing to the flag State administration, the classification society concerned, the other Member States, the other signatories to the Paris MOU, the Commission and the Paris MOU Secretariat. The competent authority must also update the inspection database with information on the removal of the access without delay.

13.

Information relating to ships that have been refused access to Community ports must be made available in the inspection database and published in conformity with the provisions of Article 25 and of Annex XIII.

ANNEX X

INSPECTION REPORT

(as referred to in Article 16)

The inspection report must contain at least the following items.

I.   GENERAL

1.

Competent authority that wrote the report

2.

Date and place of inspection

3.

Name of the ship inspected

4.

Flag

5.

Type of ship (as indicated in the Safety Management Certificate)

6.

IMO number

7.

Call sign

8.

Tonnage (gt)

9.

Deadweight tonnage (where relevant)

10.

Year of construction as determined on the basis of the date indicated in the ship's safety certificates

11.

The recognised organisation or recognised organisations, where relevant, which has/have issued to this ship the class certificates, if any

12.

The recognised organisation or recognised organisations and/or any other party which has/have issued to this ship certificates in accordance with the applicable conventions on behalf of the flag State

13.

Name and address of the ship's company or the operator

14.

Name and address of the charterer responsible for the selection of the ship and type of charter in the case of ships carrying liquid or solid cargoes in bulk

15.

Final date of writing the inspection report

16.

Indication that detailed information on an inspection or a detention may be subject to publication

II.   INFORMATION RELATING TO INSPECTION

1.

Certificates issued in application of the relevant international conventions, authority or organisation that issued the certificate(s) in question, including the date of issue and expiry

2.

Parts or elements of the ship that were inspected (in the case of more detailed or expanded inspection)

3.

Port and date of the last intermediate or annual survey and the name of the organisation which carried out the survey

4.

Type of inspection (inspection, more detailed inspection, expanded inspection)

5.

Nature of the deficiencies

6.

Measures taken

III.   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THE EVENT OF DETENTION

1.

Date of detention order

2.

Date of lifting the detention order

3.

Nature of the deficiencies warranting the detention order (references to Conventions, if relevant)

4.

Indication, where relevant, of whether the classification society or any other private body that carried out the survey has a responsibility in relation to the deficiencies which, alone or in combination, led to detention

5.

Measures taken

ANNEX XI

CRITERIA FOR DETENTION OF A SHIP

(as referred to in Article 18(4))

Introduction

Before determining whether deficiencies found during an inspection warrant detention of the ship involved, the inspector must apply the criteria mentioned below in points 1 and 2.

Point 3 includes examples of deficiencies that may for themselves warrant detention of the ship involved (see Article 18(4)).

Where the ground for detention is the result of accidental damage suffered on the ship's voyage to a port, no detention order shall be issued, provided that:

(a)

due account has been given to the requirements contained in Regulation I/11(c) of SOLAS 74 regarding notification to the flag State administration, the nominated surveyor or the recognised organisation responsible for issuing the relevant certificate;

(b)

prior to entering a port, the master or shipowner has submitted to the port State control authority details on the circumstances of the accident and the damage suffered and information about the required notification of the flag State administration;

(c)

appropriate remedial action, to the satisfaction of the Authority, is being taken by the ship; and

(d)

the authority has ensured, having been notified of the completion of the remedial action, that deficiencies which were clearly hazardous to safety, health or the environment have been rectified.

1.

Main criteria

When exercising his professional judgement as to whether or not a ship should be detained the inspector must apply the following criteria:

Timing:

Ships which are unsafe to proceed to sea must be detained upon the first inspection irrespective of how much time the ship will stay in port.

Criterion:

The ship is detained if its deficiencies are sufficiently serious to merit an inspector returning to satisfy himself that they have been rectified before the ship sails.

The need for the inspector to return to the ship is a measure of the seriousness of the deficiencies. However, it does not impose such an obligation for every case. It implies that the authority must verify one way or another, preferably by a further visit, that the deficiencies have been rectified before departure.

2.

Application of main criteria

When deciding whether the deficiencies found in a ship are sufficiently serious to merit detention the inspector must assess whether:

1.

the ship has relevant, valid documentation;

2.

the ship has the crew required in the Minimum Safe Manning Document.

During inspection the inspector must further assess whether the ship and/or crew is able to:

3.

navigate safely throughout the forthcoming voyage;

4.

safely handle, carry and monitor the condition of the cargo throughout the forthcoming voyage;

5.

operate the engine room safely throughout the forthcoming voyage;

6.

maintain proper propulsion and steering throughout the forthcoming voyage;

7.

fight fires effectively in any part of the ship if necessary during the forthcoming voyage;

8.

abandon ship speedily and safely and effect rescue if necessary during the forthcoming voyage;

9.

prevent pollution of the environment throughout the forthcoming voyage;

10.

maintain adequate stability throughout the forthcoming voyage;

11.

maintain adequate watertight integrity throughout the forthcoming voyage;

12.

communicate in distress situations if necessary during the forthcoming voyage;

13.

provide safe and healthy conditions on board throughout the forthcoming voyage;

14.

provide the maximum of information in case of accident.

If the answer to any of these assessments is negative, taking into account all deficiencies found, the ship must be strongly considered for detention. A combination of deficiencies of a less serious nature may also warrant the detention of the ship.

3.

To assist the inspector in the use of these guidelines, there follows a list of deficiencies, grouped under relevant conventions and/or codes, which are considered of such a serious nature that they may warrant the detention of the ship involved. This list is not intended to be exhaustive.

3.1.

General

The lack of valid certificates and documents as required by the relevant instruments. However, ships flying the flag of States not party to a Convention (relevant instrument) or not having implemented another relevant instrument, are not entitled to carry the certificates provided for by the Convention or other relevant instrument. Therefore, absence of the required certificates should not by itself constitute reason to detain these ships; however, in applying the ‘no more favourable treatment’ clause, substantial compliance with the provisions is required before the ship sails.

3.2.

Areas under the SOLAS 74 Convention

1.

Failure of the proper operation of propulsion and other essential machinery, as well as electrical installations.

2.

Insufficient cleanliness of engine room, excessive amount of oily-water mixtures in bilges, insulation of piping including exhaust pipes in engine room contaminated by oil, improper operation of bilge pumping arrangements.

3.

Failure of the proper operation of emergency generator, lighting, batteries and switches.

4.

Failure of the proper operation of the main and auxiliary steering gear.

5.

Absence, insufficient capacity or serious deterioration of personal life-saving appliances, survival craft and launching arrangements.

6.

Absence, non-compliance or substantial deterioration of fire detection system, fire alarms, firefighting equipment, fixed fire-extinguishing installation, ventilation valves, fire dampers, quick-closing devices to the extent that they cannot comply with their intended use.

7.

Absence, substantial deterioration or failure of proper operation of the cargo deck area fire protection on tankers.

8.

Absence, non-compliance or serious deterioration of lights, shapes or sound signals.

9.

Absence or failure of the proper operation of the radio equipment for distress and safety communication.

10.

Absence or failure of the proper operation of navigation equipment, taking the provisions of SOLAS 74 Regulation V/16.2 into account.

11.

Absence of corrected navigational charts, and/or all other relevant nautical publications necessary for the intended voyage, taking into account that a type approved electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) operating on official data may be used as a substitute for the charts.

12.

Absence of non-sparking exhaust ventilation for cargo pump rooms.

13.

Serious deficiency in the operational requirements, as described in Section 5.5 of Annex 1 to the Paris MOU.

14.

Number, composition or certification of crew not corresponding with the safe manning document.

15.

Failure to carry out the enhanced survey programme in accordance with SOLAS 74, Chapter XI, Regulation 2.

3.3.

Areas under the IBC Code

1.

Transport of a substance not mentioned in the Certificate of Fitness or missing cargo information.

2.

Missing or damaged high-pressure safety devices.

3.

Electrical installations not intrinsically safe or not corresponding to code requirements.

4.

Sources of ignition in hazardous locations.

5.

Contraventions of special requirements.

6.

Exceeding of maximum allowable cargo quantity per tank.

7.

Insufficient heat protection for sensitive products.

3.4.

Areas under the IGC Code

1.

Transport of a substance not mentioned in the Certificate of Fitness or missing cargo information.

2.

Missing closing devices for accommodation or service spaces.

3.

Bulkhead not gastight.

4.

Defective air locks.

5.

Missing or defective quick-closing valves.

6.

Missing or defective safety valves.

7.

Electrical installations not intrinsically safe or not corresponding to code requirements.

8.

Ventilators in cargo area not operable.

9.

Pressure alarms for cargo tanks not operable.

10.

Gas detection plant and/or toxic gas detection plant defective.

11.

Transport of substances to be inhibited without valid inhibitor certificate.

3.5.

Areas under the Load Lines Convention

1.

Significant areas of damage or corrosion, or pitting of plating and associated stiffening in decks and hull affecting seaworthiness or strength to take local loads, unless proper temporary repairs for a voyage to a port for permanent repairs have been carried out.

2.

A recognised case of insufficient stability.

3.

The absence of sufficient and reliable information, in an approved form, which by rapid and simple means, enables the master to arrange for the loading and ballasting of his ship in such a way that a safe margin of stability is maintained at all stages and at varying conditions of the voyage, and that the creation of any unacceptable stresses in the ship's structure are avoided.

4.

Absence, substantial deterioration or defective closing devices, hatch closing arrangements and watertight doors.

5.

Overloading.

6.

Absence of draft mark or draft mark impossible to read.

3.6.

Areas under the Marpol Convention, Annex I

1.

Absence, serious deterioration or failure of proper operation of the oily-water filtering equipment, the oil discharge monitoring and control system or the 15 ppm alarm arrangements.

2.

Remaining capacity of slop and/or sludge tank insufficient for the intended voyage.

3.

Oil Record Book not available.

4.

Unauthorised discharge bypass fitted.

5.

Survey report file missing or not in conformity with Regulation 13G(3)(b) of the Marpol Convention.

3.7.

Areas under the Marpol Convention, Annex II

1.

Absence of the P&A Manual.

2.

Cargo is not categorised.

3.

No cargo record book available.

4.

Transport of oil-like substances without satisfying the requirements or without an appropriately amended certificate.

5.

Unauthorised discharge bypass fitted.

3.8.

Areas under the Marpol Convention, Annex V

1.

Absence of the garbage management plan.

2.

No garbage record book available.

3.

Ship's personnel not familiar with disposal/discharge requirements of garbage management plan.

3.9.

Areas under the STCW Convention and Directive 2001/25/EC

1.

Failure of seafarers to hold a certificate, to have an appropriate certificate, to have a valid dispensation or to provide documentary proof that an application for an endorsement has been submitted to the flag State administration.

2.

Evidence that a certificate has been fraudulently obtained or the holder of a certificate is not the person to whom that certificate was originally issued.

3.

Failure to comply with the applicable safe manning requirements of the flag state administration.

4.

Failure of navigational or engineering watch arrangements to conform to the requirements specified for the ship by the flag State administration.

5.

Absence in a watch of a person qualified to operate equipment essential to safe navigation, safety radio communications or the prevention of marine pollution.

6.

Failure to provide proof of professional proficiency for the duties assigned to seafarers for the safety of the ship and the prevention of pollution.

7.

Inability to provide for the first watch at the commencement of a voyage and for subsequent relieving watches persons who are sufficiently rested and otherwise fit for duty.

3.10.

Areas under the ILO Conventions

1.

Insufficient food for voyage to next port.

2.

Insufficient potable water for voyage to next port.

3.

Excessively unsanitary conditions on board.

4.

No heating in accommodation of a ship operating in areas where temperatures may be excessively low.

5.

Excessive garbage, blockage by equipment or cargo or otherwise unsafe conditions in passageways/accommodations.

6.

Clear evidence that watch keeping and other duty personnel for the first watch or subsequent relieving watches are impaired by fatigue.

3.11.

Areas which may not warrant a detention, but where e.g. cargo operations have to be suspended

Failure of the proper operation (or maintenance) of inert gas system, cargo-related gear or machinery are considered sufficient grounds for stopping cargo operation.

ANNEX XII

MINIMUM CRITERIA FOR INSPECTORS

(as referred to in Article 21(1) and (5))

1.

Inspectors must have appropriate theoretical knowledge and practical experience of ships and their operation. They must be competent in the enforcement of the requirements of international Conventions and of the relevant port State control procedures. This knowledge and competence in enforcing international and Community requirements must be acquired through documented training programmes including examination and revalidation at intervals specified in Article 21.

2.

Inspectors must, as a minimum, have either:

(a)

appropriate qualifications from a marine or nautical institution and relevant seagoing experience as a certificated ship officer holding or having held a valid STCW II/2 or III/2 certificate of competency; or

(b)

passed an examination recognised by the competent Authority as a naval architect, mechanical engineer or an engineer related to the maritime fields and worked in that capacity for at least five years; or

(c)

a relevant university degree or equivalent and have trained and qualified at a school for ship safety inspectors.

3.

The inspector must have completed a minimum of one year's service as a flag-State inspector dealing with surveys and certification in accordance with the Conventions.

4.

The inspectors mentioned under 2(a) must have served for a period of not less than five years at sea as officers in the deck- or engine-department respectively.

5.

The inspectors must have the ability to communicate orally and in writing with seafarers in the language most commonly spoken at sea.

6.

Inspectors not fulfilling the above criteria are also accepted if they are employed by the competent authority of a Member State for port State control at the date of adoption of this Directive.

7.

Where in a Member State inspections are performed by port State control inspectors; those inspectors shall have appropriate qualifications, which shall include sufficient theoretical and practical experience in maritime security. This shall normally include:

(a)

a good understanding of maritime security and how it is applied to the operations being examined;

(b)

a good working knowledge of security technologies and techniques;

(c)

a knowledge of inspection principles, procedures and techniques;

(d)

a working knowledge of the operations being examined.

ANNEX XIII

PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION RELATED TO INSPECTIONS, DETENTIONS AND REFUSALS OF ACCESS IN PORTS OF MEMBER STATES

(as referred to in Article 25(1))

1.

Members States shall publish the information listed in paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2 below in a public website within 72 hours after the inspection has been completed or the detention has been lifted or the refusal of access has been imposed.

2.

The Commission shall publish regularly in a website the information relating to ships that have been refused access to Community ports in application of Articles 15 and 20.

3.

Information published in accordance with Article 25(1) must include the following:

(a)

name of the ship,

(b)

IMO number,

(c)

type of ship,

(d)

tonnage (gt),

(e)

year of construction as determined on the basis of the date indicated in the ship's safety certificates,

(f)

name and address of the company of the ship,

(g)

in the case of ships carrying liquid or solid cargoes in bulk, the name and address of the charterer responsible for the selection of the ship and the type of charter,

(h)

flag State,

(i)

class and statutory certificates issued in accordance with the relevant international Conventions, and the authority or organisation that issued each one of the certificates in question, including the date of issue and expiry,

(j)

port and date of the last intermediate or annual survey for the certificates in point (i) above and the name of the authority or organisation which carried out the survey,

(k)

date, country port or anchorage of detention.

4.

For ships which have been detained, information published in accordance with Article 19 must also include:

(a)

number of detentions during the previous 36 months,

(b)

date when the detention was lifted,

(c)

duration of detention, in days,

(d)

the reasons for detention, in clear and explicit terms,

(e)

indication, where relevant, of whether the recognised organisation that carried out the survey has a responsibility in relation to the deficiencies which, alone or in combination, led to detention,

(f)

description of the measures taken in the case of a ship which has been allowed to proceed to the nearest appropriate repair yard,

(g)

if the ship has been refused access to any port within the Community, the reasons for the measure in clear and explicit terms.

ANNEX XIV

DATA PROVIDED IN THE CONTEXT OF MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION

(as referred to in Article 28)

1.

Every year Member States must provide the Commission with the following data for the preceding year by 1 July at the latest.

1.1.

Number of inspectors acting on their behalf in the framework of port State control

This information must be communicated to the Commission using the following model table. (1)  (2)

Port/area

Number of full-time inspectors (A)

Number of part-time inspectors (B)

Conversion of (B) to full-time (C)

Total (A+C)

Port X ...

 

 

 

 

Port Y ...

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

 

 

1.2.

Total number of individual ships that entered their ports at national level. The figure shall be the number of foreign ships covered by the Directive that entered their ports at national level counted only once.

2.

Member States must:

(a)

provide the Commission every three months with a list of movements of individual ships, other than regular passenger and freight ferry services, that entered their ports or which have notified to a port authority their arrival in an anchorage, containing for each movement of the ship its IMO number, its date of arrival and the port or anchorage. The list shall be provided in the form of a spreadsheet programme enabling an automatic retrieval and processing of the above mentioned information. The list shall be provided within 4 months from the end of the period to which data pertained,

and

(b)

provide the Commission with separate lists of regular passenger ferry services and regular freight ferry services referred to in point (a), not later than six months following the implementation of this Directive, and thereafter each time changes take place in such services. The list shall contain for each ship its IMO number, its name and the route covered by the ship. The list shall be provided in the form of a spreadsheet programme enabling an automatic retrieval and processing of the above mentioned information.

(1)  Where the inspections carried out in the context of port State control represent only part of the inspectors' work, the total number of inspectors must be converted to a number equivalent to full-time inspectors. Where the same inspector works in more than one port or geographical area the applicable part-time equivalent must be counted in each port.

(2)  This information must be provided at national level and for each port of the Member State concerned. For the purposes of this Annex, a port is taken to mean an individual port and the geographical area covered by an inspector or team of inspectors, comprising several individual ports where appropriate.

ANNEX XV

PART A

REPEALED DIRECTIVE WITH ITS SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS

(as referred to in Article 35)

Council Directive 95/21/EC (OJ L 157, 7.7.1995, p. 1)

 

Council Directive 98/25/EC (OJ L 133, 7.5.1998, p. 19)

 

Commission Directive 98/42/EC (OJ L 184, 27.6.1998, p. 40)

 

Commission Directive 1999/97/EC (OJ L 331, 23.12.1999, p. 67)

 

Directive 2001/106/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

(OJ L 19, 22.1.2002, p. 17)

 

Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

(OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53)

Only Article 4

PART B

LIST OF TIME-LIMITS FOR TRANSPOSITION INTO NATIONAL LAW

(as referred to in Article 35)

Directive

Time-limit for transposition

Directive 95/21/EC

30 June 1996

Directive 98/25/EC

30 June 1998

Directive 98/42/EC

30 September 1998

Directive 1999/97/EC

13 December 2000

Directive 2001/106/EC

22 July 2003 (1)

Directive 2002/84/EC

23 November 2003

(1)  Under Article 3 of Directive 2001/106/EC, the Commission shall review the implementation of this Directive no later than 22 July 2006. The review will examine, inter alia, the number of port State control inspectors in each Member State and the number of inspections carried out, including mandatory expanded inspections. The Commission shall communicate the findings of the review to the European Parliament and the Council and shall determine on the basis of the review whether it is necessary to propose an amending Directive or further legislation in this area.

ANNEX XVI

CORRELATION TABLE

Directive 95/21/EC

This Directive

Article 1, introductory words

Article 1, introductory words

Article 1, first indent

Article 1(a)

Article 1, second indent

Article 1(b)

Article 2, introductory words

Article 2, introductory words

Article 2(1), introductory words

Article 2(1), introductory words

Article 2(1), first indent

Article 2(1)(a)

Article 2(1), second indent

Article 2(1)(b)

Article 2(1), third indent

Article 2(1)(c)

Article 2(1), fourth indent

Article 2(1)(d)

Article 2(1), fifth indent

Article 2(1)(e)

Article 2(1), sixth indent

Article 2(1)(f)

Article 2(1), seventh indent

Article 2(1)(g)

Article 2(1), eighth indent

Article 2(1)(h)

Article 2(2)

Article 2(2)

-

Article 2(5)

Article 2(3)

Article 2(6)

Article 2(4)

Article 2(8)

-

Article 2(9)

Article 2(5)

Article 2(10)

-

Article 2(11)

-

-

Article 2(6)

Article 2(13)

Article 2(7)

Article 2(14)

Article 2(8)

-

-

Article 2(16)

Article 2(9)

Article 2(17)

-

Article 2(18)

Article 2(10)

-

-

Article 2(20)

-

Article 2(21)

-

Article 2(22)

Article 3(1)

Article 3(1)

-

Article 4(1)

Article 4

Article 4(2), first subparagraph

-

-

-

-

Article 5(1)

-

-

-

Article 5(2) to 5(5)

-

-

Article 8

Article 6

Article 12

Article 7(1) and (2)

-

Article 7(3)(a)

-

Article 7(3)(b)

-

Article 7(4), first subparagraph

-

Article 7(4), second subparagraph

-

Article 7(5)

-

Article 7(6)

-

Article 7a(1)

-

Article 7a(2)

-

-

-

Article 7a(3) to (5)

-

Article 7b(1) and (2)

-

Article 7b(3)

-

Article 8

Article 16

-

Article 17

Article 9(1) and (2)

Article 18(1) and (2)

-

Article 18(3)

Article 9(3) to (7)

Article 18(4) to (8)

-

Article 18(9)

Article 9a

-

Article 10(1) to (3)

-

-

Article 19(4)

Article 11(1)

Article 20(1)

-

Article 20(2)

Article 11(2)

Article 20(3), first subparagraph

Article 11(3) first subparagraph

-

Article 11(3) second subparagraph

Article 20(3), second subparagraph

Article 11(4) to (6)

Article 20(4) to (6)

Article 12(1) to (3)

Article 21(1) to (3)

Article 12(4) first subparagraph

Article 21(4), first subparagraph

Article 12(4) second subparagraph

-

-

Article 21(5) to (7)

Article 13(1)

Article 22(1)

Article 13(2)

Article 22(2)

-

Article 22(3)

Article 14(1)

Article 23(1)

Article 14(2) first subparagraph

Article 23(2), first subparagraph

-

Article 23(2), second subparagraph

Article 14(2) second subparagraph

Article 23(2), third subparagraph

Article 14(3)

Article 23(3)

Article 15(1)

Article 25(1)

Article 15(2) to (4)

-

Article 15(5)

Article 25(2)

-

Article 26

Article 16(1) and (2)

Article 27(1) and (2)

Article 16(2a)

Article 27(3)

Article 16(3)

Article 27(4)

Article 17

Article 28(1)

-

Article 28(2)

-

Article 29

Article 18

Article 30

Article 19

Article 31

Article 19a

Article 32

Article 3 Directive 2001/106/EC

Article 33

Article 20

Article 34

-

Article 35

Article 21

Article 36

Article 22

Article 37

Annex I

-

-

Annex I

-

Annex III

Annex II

Annex IV

Annex III

Annex V

Annex IV

Annex VI

-

Annex VII

Annex V

Annex VIII

Annex VI

Annex XI

Annex VII

Annex XII

Annex VIII

Annex XIII

Annex IX

Annex X

Annex X

Annex XIV

Annex XI

Annex IX

Annex XII

-

-

Annex XV

-

Annex XVI

P6_TA(2007)0150

Ship inspection and survey organisations ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (recast version) (COM(2005)0587 — C6-0038/2006 — 2005/0237(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0587) (1),

—

having regard to Articles 251(2) and 80(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0038/2006),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0070/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0237

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 25 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime authorities (recast version)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

(1)

Council Directive 94/57/EC of 22 November 1994 on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations (4) has been substantially amended several times. Since further amendments are to be made, it should be recast in the interests of clarity.

(2)

In its resolution of 8 June 1993 on a common policy on safe seas (5), the Council set the objective of removing all substandard vessels from Community waters and gave priority to Community action designed to secure the effective and uniform implementation of international rules by elaborating common standards for classification societies, defined as ship inspection and survey organisations (hereinafter ‘recognised organisations’) .

(3)

Safety and pollution prevention at sea may be effectively enhanced by strictly applying international conventions, codes and resolutions while furthering the objective of ensuring the freedom to provide services.

(4)

The control of compliance of ships with the uniform international standards for safety and prevention of pollution of the seas is the responsibility of flag and port States.

(5)

Member States are responsible for the issuing of international certificates for safety and the prevention of pollution provided for under conventions such as SOLAS 74, Load Lines 66 and Marpol 73/78, and for the implementation of the provisions of those conventions.

(6)

In compliance with such conventions, all Member States may authorise, to varying degrees, recognised organisations to carry out the certification of such compliance and may delegate the issue of the relevant certificates for safety and the prevention of pollution .

(7)

Worldwide, a large number of the existing recognised organisations do not ensure either adequate implementation of the rules or sufficient reliability when acting on behalf of national authorities as they do not have structures and experience adequate to be relied upon and to enable them to carry out their duties in a highly professional manner.

(8)

Furthermore, these recognised organisations produce and implement rules for the design, construction, maintenance and inspection of ships and are responsible for inspecting ships on behalf of flag States and certifying that those ships meet the requirements of the international conventions for the issue of the relevant certificates. To enable them to carry out those duties in a satisfactory manner they need to be strictly independent and to possess highly specialised technical competences and rigorous quality management.

(9)

Recognised organisations should be able to offer their services throughout the Community and compete with each other while providing equal levels of protection of safety and of the environment. The necessary professional standards for their activities should therefore be uniformly established and applied across the Community.

(10)

This objective should be pursued through measures that adequately tie in with the work of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and, where appropriate, build on and complement that work.

(11)

Minimum criteria for the recognition of organisations should be established.

(12)

In order to grant initial recognition to organisations wishing to be authorised to work on behalf of Member States, compliance with the minimum criteria could be assessed more effectively in a harmonised and centralised manner by the Commission together with the Member States requesting the recognition.

(13)

Recognition should be granted only on the basis of the quality and safety performance of the organisation in question. It should be ensured that the extent of that recognition is at all times in keeping with the actual capacity of the organisation concerned. Recognition should furthermore take into account differences in legal status and corporate structure of recognised organisations while continuing to ensure uniform application of the minimum criteria and the effectiveness of the Community controls.

(14)

The issue of the Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate may be entrusted to private bodies having sufficient expertise and sufficient qualified personnel.

(15)

A Member State may restrict the number of recognised organisations it authorises in accordance with its needs, based on objective and transparent grounds, subject to control exercised by the Commission in accordance with a committee procedure.

(16)

Since this Directive ensures freedom to provide services in the Community, the Commission should be entitled to negotiate, with those third countries where some of the recognised organisations are located, equal treatment for recognised organisations domiciled in the Community.

(17)

A close involvement of national authorities in ship surveys and in the issue of related certificates is necessary in order to ensure full compliance with international safety rules, even where Member States rely upon recognised organisations outside their control to carry out statutory duties. It is appropriate, therefore, to establish a close working relationship between those authorities and recognised organisations authorised by them , which may require that recognised organisations have a local representation on the territory of the Member State on behalf of which they perform their duties.

(18)

Divergence in financial liability regimes between recognised organisations working on behalf of Member States would impede the proper implementation of this Directive. In order to contribute to solving this problem it is appropriate to bring about a degree of harmonisation at Community level of the liability arising out of any marine casualty caused by a recognised organisation, as decided by a court of law, including the settlement of disputes through arbitration.

(19)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (6).

(20)

In particular, the Commission should be empowered to amend this Directive in order to apply subsequent amendments to the international conventions, protocols, codes and resolutions related thereto, to update the criteria set out in Annex I and to adopt criteria for the measurement of the safety and pollution prevention performance of recognised organisations. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, inter alia by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

(21)

The provisions of this Directive, and in particular the minimum criteria and the obligations to be fulfilled by recognised organisations, should be kept up-to-date, taking due account of progress in international fora, in accordance with the committee procedure.

(22)

It is of the utmost importance that failure by a recognised organisation to fulfil its obligations can be addressed in a prompt, effective and proportionate manner. The primary objective should be to correct any deficiencies with a view to removing any potential threat to safety or the environment at an early stage. The Commission should therefore be given the necessary powers to require that recognised organisations undertake the necessary preventive and remedial action and to impose fines and periodic penalty payments as coercive measures.

(23)

In accordance with the Community-wide approach, the decision to withdraw the recognition of an organisation which fails to comply with this Directive if the coercive measures prove ineffective or the recognised organisation otherwise presents an unacceptable threat to safety or the environment, has to be taken at Community level, and therefore by the Commission, on the basis of the committee procedure.

(24)

Member States should nevertheless be left the possibility of suspending authorisation to a recognised organisation for reasons of serious danger to safety or environment. The Commission should decide urgently in accordance with the committee procedure whether it is necessary to overrule a national measure taken to such effect.

(25)

Member States should periodically assess the performance of recognised organisations working on their behalf and provide the Commission and all the other Member States with precise information in relation thereto.

(26)

The continuous a posteriori monitoring of recognised organisations to assess their compliance with this Directive can be carried out more effectively in a harmonised and centralised manner. Therefore it is appropriate that the Commission, together with Member States that authorise recognised organisations to act on their behalf , be entrusted with this task on behalf of the Community.

(27)

As part of monitoring the operations of recognised organisations, Community inspectors should have access to ships and ship files regardless of the ship's flag in order to ascertain whether the recognised organisations in question are complying with the minimum criteria laid down in this Directive in respect of all ships in their respective classes.

(28)

Member States, in their capacity as port authorities, are required to enhance safety and prevention of pollution in Community waters through priority inspection of ships carrying certificates of recognised organisations which do not fulfil the common criteria, thereby ensuring that ships flying the flag of a third State do not receive more favourable treatment.

(29)

At present there are no uniform international standards to which all ships must conform at the building stage and during their lifetime as regards hull, machinery and electrical and control installations. Such standards may be fixed according to the rules of recognised organisations or to equivalent standards to be decided by the national authorities in accordance with the procedure laid down in Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (7).

(30)

The ability of recognised organisations rapidly to identify and correct weaknesses in their rules, processes and internal controls is critical for the safety of the ships they inspect and certify. That ability should be enhanced by means of an independent assessment committee which can propose action for the sustained improvement of all recognised organisations and ensure a fruitful interaction with the Commission.

(31)

The rules and regulations of recognised organisations are a key factor for safety and the prevention of accidents and pollution. The recognised organisations have initiated the process that should lead to harmonisation of their rules and regulations. That process should be encouraged and supported by Community legislation, as it should have a positive impact on maritime safety and the competitiveness of the European shipbuilding industry.

(32)

Recognised organisations should be obliged to update their technical standards and enforce them consistently in order to harmonise safety rules and ensure uniform implementation of international rules within the Community. Where the technical standards of recognised organisations are identical or very similar, mutual recognition of classification certificates should be considered where possible, taking the most demanding and rigorous certificates as the model .

(33)

Since transparency and the exchange of information between interested parties, as well as the public right of access to information, are fundamental means of preventing accidents at sea, recognised organisations should provide all the relevant statutory information concerning the conditions of the ships in their class to the port State control authorities and make that information publicly available.

(34)

In order to prevent ships from changing class to avoid carrying out repairs called for by a recognised organisation in its inspection, prior arrangements should be made for the exchange of all relevant information by recognised organisations among themselves concerning the conditions of ships for which a change of class is sought and for the involvement of the flag State when necessary in that process.

(35)

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) established by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (8) should provide the support necessary to ensure the correct implementation of this Directive.

(36)

Since the objective of this Directive, namely the adoption of common rules and standards for recognised organisations operating in the Community and for the relevant activities of maritime authorities, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.

(37)

The obligation to transpose this Directive into national law should be confined to those provisions which represent a substantive change as compared with Directive 94/57/EC. The obligation to transpose the provisions which are unchanged arises under that Directive.

(38)

This Directive should be without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Annex II, Part B,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

This Directive establishes measures to be followed by the Member States and recognised organisations they have entrusted with the inspection, survey and certification of ships for compliance with the international conventions on safety at sea and prevention of marine pollution, while furthering the objective of freedom to provide services. This process includes the development and implementation of safety requirements for hull, machinery and electrical , radio and control installations of ships falling under the scope of those international conventions.

Article 2

purposes

(a)

‘international conventions’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), with the exception of chapter XI-2 of the Annex thereto and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, the 1966 International Convention on Load Lines and the 1973/1978 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, together with the protocols and amendments to those conventions, and the related codes of mandatory status in all Member States, in their up-to-date versions;

(b)

‘ship’ means a ship falling within the scope of the international conventions;

(c)

‘ship flying the flag of a Member State’ means a ship registered in and flying the flag of a Member State in accordance with the legislation of that Member State. Ships not falling under the scope of this definition shall be considered to be ships flying the flag of a third country;

(d)

‘inspections and surveys’ means inspections and surveys that are mandatory under the international conventions and under this and other Community legislation concerning maritime safety ;

(e)

‘recognised organisation’ means a legal entity, its subsidiaries and any other entity under its control which jointly or separately carry out tasks falling under the scope of this Directive and which is recognised in accordance with this Directive;

(f)

‘control’ means, for the purpose of point (e), rights, contracts or any other means, in law or in fact, which, either separately or in combination, confer the possibility of exercising decisive influence over a legal entity or enable that entity to carry out tasks falling under the scope of this Directive;

(g)

‘authorisation’ means an act whereby a Member State grants an authorisation or delegates powers to a recognised organisation;

(h)

‘statutory certificate’ means a certificate issued by or on behalf of a flag State in accordance with the international conventions;

(i)

‘rules and regulations’ means the requirements laid down and made public by a recognised organisation relating to the design, construction, equipment, maintenance and survey of ships;

(j)

‘ classification certificate’ means a document issued by a recognised organisation certifying the fitness of a ship for a particular use or service in accordance with the rules and regulations of that recognised organisation;

(k)

‘Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate’means the certificate introduced by the amended SOLAS 1974/1978 Radio Regulations, adopted by the IMO;

(l)

‘ country of location’ refers to the state where the registered office, central administration or principal place of business of a recognised organisation is located .

Article 3

1.   In assuming their responsibilities and obligations under the international conventions, Member States shall ensure that their competent authorities can ensure the appropriate enforcement of the provisions of the international conventions, in particular with regard to the inspection and survey of ships and the issue of statutory certificates and exemption certificates as provided for by the international conventions. Member States shall act in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Annex and the Appendix to IMO Resolution A.847(20) on guidelines to assist flag States in the implementation of IMO instruments.

For purposes paragraph 1, Member States

(i)

to authorise recognised organisations to undertake fully or in part inspections and surveys related to statutory certificates, including those for the assessment of compliance with the rules referred to in Article 19(2), and, where appropriate, to issue or renew the related certificates; or

(ii)

to entrust recognised organisations with the task of undertaking fully or in part the inspections and surveys referred to in point (i).

The competent authority shall in all cases approve the first issue of an exemption certificate.

However, in relation to the Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate, these tasks may be entrusted to a private body recognised by a competent authority and with sufficient expertise and sufficient qualified personnel to carry out specified safety assessment work on radio-communication on behalf of that competent authority.

3.   This Article does not concern the certification of specific items of marine equipment.

Article 4

1.   Member States which wish to grant an authorisation to any organisation which is not yet recognised shall submit a request for recognition to the Commission, together with complete information on, and evidence of, compliance with the criteria set out in Annex I and on the requirement and undertaking that that organisation will comply with the requirements set out in Articles 20 and 21.

2.   The Commission, together with the Member States submitting a request, shall carry out assessments of the organisations for which that request was made in order to verify that those organisations meet and undertake to comply with the requirements referred to in paragraph 1.

Article 5

The Commission shall , in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2), refuse to recognise organisations which fail to comply with the criteria set out in Annex I or the requirements of Articles 20 and 21, as referred to in Article 4(1), or whose performance is considered to constitute an unacceptable threat to safety or the environment on the basis of the criteria laid down in accordance with Article 14.

Article 6

1.   Recognition shall be granted by the Commission in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2).

2.   Recognition shall be granted to the relevant parent entity in relation to all legal entities that make up the recognised organisation, that recognition being extended to all legal entities in a recognised organisation that contribute to ensuring that the parent entity provides cover for services provided by such legal entities globally.

3.   Recognition may at any time be limited or extended by the Commission, acting in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2), as regards certain types of ships, ships of a certain size, certain trades, or a combination thereof in accordance with the proven capacity of the recognised organisation concerned.

4.   The Commission shall draw up and regularly update a list of the organisations recognised in accordance with this Article. This list shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 7

1.   In applying Article 3(2), Member States shall not refuse to authorise a recognised organisation to undertake the functions referred to in that paragraph, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article and to Articles 8 and 16. However, Member States may restrict the number of recognised organisations they authorise to carry out those functions in accordance with their needs provided there are transparent and objective grounds for so doing.

At the request of a Member State, the Commission shall, in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2), adopt the appropriate measures.

2.   In order for a Member State to accept that a recognised organisation located in a third State is to carry out on its behalf the tasks referred to in Article 3, or part of them, it may require the third State in question to grant reciprocal treatment for those recognised organisations which are located in the Community.

In addition, the Community may request the third State where a recognised organisation is located to grant reciprocal treatment for those recognised organisations which are located in the Community.

Article 8

1.   Member States which make a decision pursuant to Article 3(2) shall set out a working relationship between their competent authority and the recognised organisations acting on their behalf.

arrangement recognised

(a)

the provisions set out in Appendix II of IMO Resolution A.739(18) on guidelines for the authorisation of organisations acting on behalf of the administration based on the Annex, Appendices and Attachment to IMO MSC/Circular 710 and MEPC/Circular 307 on a model agreement for the authorisation of recognised organisations acting on behalf of the administration.

Accordingly, when a recognised organisation, its inspectors or its technical staff issue the required certificates on behalf of the authority, they shall be subject to the same legal safeguards and the same jurisdictional protection, including the exercise of any rights of defence, as those to which the authority and its members may have had recourse were the authority to have issued the required certificates itself;

(b)

the following provisions concerning financial liability:

(i)

if liability arising out of any marine casualty is finally and definitely imposed on the authority by a court of law or as part of the settlement of a dispute through arbitration, together with a requirement to compensate the injured parties for loss of or damage to property or personal injury or death, which is proved in that court of law to have been caused by a wilful act or omission or the gross negligence of the recognised organisation, its bodies, employees, agents or others who act on its behalf, the authority shall be entitled to financial compensation from the recognised organisation to the extent that that loss, damage, injury or death was, as decided by that court, caused by that recognised organisation;

(ii)

if liability arising out of any marine casualty is finally and definitely imposed on the authority by a court of law or as part of the settlement of a dispute through arbitration, together with a requirement to compensate the injured parties for personal injury not resulting in death, which is proved in that court of law to have been caused by any negligent or reckless act or omission of the recognised organisation, its employees, agents or others who act on its behalf, the authority shall be entitled to demand financial compensation from that recognised organisation to the extent that that personal injury was, as decided by that court, caused by that recognised organisation; Member States may limit the maximum amount payable by the recognised organisation in such circumstances, which may not, however, be less than EUR 4 000 000, except where the amount determined in the judgment or settlement is lower, in which case the lower figure shall apply ;

(iii)

if liability arising out of any marine casualty is finally and definitely imposed on the authority by a court of law or as part of the settlement of a dispute through arbitration, together with a requirement to compensate the injured parties for loss of or damage to property, which is proved in that court of law to have been caused by any negligent or reckless act or omission of the recognised organisation, its employees, agents or others who act on its behalf, the authority shall be entitled to demand financial compensation from that recognised organisation to the extent that that loss or damage was, as decided by that court, caused by that recognised organisation; Member States may limit the maximum amount payable by the recognised organisation, which may not, however, be less than EUR 2 000 000, except where the amount determined in the judgment or settlement is lower, in which case the lower figure shall apply ;

(c)

provisions for a periodical audit by the authority or by an impartial external body appointed by the authority of the duties the recognised organisations are undertaking on its behalf, as referred to in Article 16(1);

(d)

the possibility for random and detailed inspections of ships;

(e)

provisions for the compulsory reporting of essential information about their classed fleet and about changes, suspensions and withdrawals of class, as referred to in Article 20(4).

3.   The agreement or equivalent legal arrangement referred to in paragraph 2 may require the recognised organisation to have a local representation on the territory of the Member State on behalf of which it performs the tasks referred to in Article 3. A local representation with legal personality under the law of the Member State and subject to the jurisdiction of its courts may satisfy such a requirement.

4.   Member States shall provide the Commission with precise information about the working relationship established in accordance with this Article. The Commission shall subsequently inform the other Member States thereof.

Article 9

1.   The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) created by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (9).

2.   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.

3.     Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4), and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

Article 10

regulatory with scrutiny Article 9(3)

(a)

apply, for the purposes of this Directive, subsequent amendments to the international conventions, protocols, codes and resolutions related thereto which are referred to in Article 2(d), Article 3(1) and Article 8(2) and which have entered into force,

(b)

update the criteria in Annex I, taking into account, in particular, the relevant decisions of the IMO,

(c)

alter the amounts specified in points (ii) and (iii) of Article 8(2)(b).

2.   Following the adoption of new instruments or protocols to the conventions referred to in Article 2(d), the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, shall decide, taking into account the Member States' parliamentary procedures as well as the relevant procedures within the IMO, on the detailed arrangements for ratifying those new instruments or protocols, while ensuring that they are applied uniformly and simultaneously in the Member States.

The amendments to the international instruments referred to in Article 2(d) and Article 8 may be excluded from the scope of this Directive pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002.

Article 11

Where the Commission considers that a recognised organisation has failed to fulfil the criteria set out in Annex I or failed to fulfil its obligations under this Directive, or that the safety and pollution prevention performance of a recognised organisation has significantly deteriorated, without constituting, however, an unacceptable threat to safety or the environment, it shall require that recognised organisation to undertake the necessary preventive and remedial action to ensure full compliance with the criteria set out in Annex I and the obligations contained in this Directive, and, in particular, to remove any potential threat to safety or the environment and otherwise address the causes of that deterioration in performance.

The preventive and remedial action may include interim protective measures when the potential threat to safety or the environment is immediate.

However, and without prejudice to their immediate implementation, the Commission must give advance notice of the measures that it intends to take to all Member States which have granted an authorisation to the recognised organisation concerned.

Article 12

1.

(a)

whose repeated or serious failure to fulfil either the criteria set out in Annex I or its obligations under this Directive or whose worsening performance reveals grave shortcomings in its structure, systems, procedures or internal controls; or

(b)

which has deliberately provided incorrect, incomplete or misleading information to the Commission in the course of its assessment under Article 16(3) or otherwise obstructed that assessment.

2.   Without prejudice to paragraph 1, where a recognised organisation fails to implement the preventive and remedial action required by the Commission, or incurs unjustified delays, the Commission may impose periodic penalty payments on that recognised organisation until the required action is fully implemented.

3.   The fines and periodic penalty payments referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be dissuasive and proportionate to both the gravity of the case and the economic capacity of the recognised organisation concerned, taking into account particularly the extent to which safety has been compromised.

These fines and periodic penalty payments shall be imposed only after the recognised organisation and the Member States concerned have been given the opportunity to submit their observations.

The aggregate amount of fines and periodic penalty payments imposed shall not exceed 5% of the total turnover of the recognised organisation in the preceding business year in respect of activities falling within the scope of this Directive.

Article 13

recognised

(a)

whose repeated and serious failure to fulfil either the criteria set out in Annex I or their obligations under this Directive is such that it constitutes an unacceptable threat to safety or the environment;

(b)

whose repeated and serious failure in their safety and pollution prevention performance is such that it constitutes an unacceptable threat to safety or the environment;

(c)

which prevent or repeatedly obstruct their assessment by the Commission; or

(d)

which fail to pay the fines or periodic penalty payments referred to in Article 12(1) and (2).
The take a decision for the purposes of paragraph 1(a) and (b)

(a)

the results of its own assessment of the recognised organisation concerned, carried out in accordance with Article 16(3);

(b)

reports submitted by Member States in accordance with Article 18;

(c)

analyses of casualties involving ships classed by the recognised organisation in question;

(d)

any recurrence of the shortcomings described in Article 12(1)(a);

(e)

the extent to which the fleet in the recognised organisation's class is affected; and

(f)

any ineffectiveness of the measures referred to in Article 12(2).

3.   Withdrawal of recognition shall be decided upon by the Commission, on its own initiative or at the request of a Member State, acting in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2) and after the recognised organisation concerned has been given the opportunity to submit its observations.

Article 14

regulatory with scrutiny Article 9(3) and make public

(a)

criteria to measure the effectiveness of the rules, regulations, and performance of the recognised organisations as regards the safety of, and the prevention of pollution from, their classed ships , having particular regard to the data produced by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control and by other similar regimes; and

(b)

criteria to determine when a given performance , omission or delay is to be considered an unacceptable threat to safety or the environment. Those criteria may take into account specific circumstances affecting smaller-sized or highly specialised recognised organisations.

The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for the implementation of Article 12 and, if appropriate, Article 13 in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2) .

Article 15

set out by way of

(a)

the Member State informs the Commission and the other Member States of its decision without delay and giving substantiated reasons therefor;

(b)

the Commission , having regard to safety and pollution prevention, assesses the reasons put forward by the Member State for suspending its authorisation of the recognised organisation ;

(c)

acting in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2), the Commission informs the Member State whether or not its decision to suspend the authorisation is sufficiently justified on grounds of a serious risk to safety or the environment . If the decision is not justified, the Commission requests the Member State to withdraw the suspension. If the decision is justified and the Member State, pursuant to Article 7(1), has restricted the number of recognised organisations acting on its behalf, the Commission requests that Member State to grant a new authorisation to another recognised organisation to replace the suspended recognised organisation.

Article 16

1.   Member States shall check that the recognised organisations acting on their behalf for the purposes of Article 3(2) effectively carry out the functions set out in that Article to the satisfaction of their competent authority.

2.   Member States shall , at least every two years, monitor all recognised organisations acting on their behalf and provide the other Member States and the Commission with a report on the results of these monitoring activities at the latest by 31 March of the year following the year in which those activities are carried out .

3.    Recognised organisations shall be assessed by the Commission, together with the Member State which submitted the relevant request for recognition, on a regular basis and at least every two years, in order to verify that those recognised organisations are meeting their obligations under this Directive and are fulfilling the criteria set out in Annex I. This assessment shall be confined to the activities of the recognised organisations that fall within the scope of this Directive.

In selecting recognised organisations for assessment, the Commission shall pay particular attention to safety and pollution prevention performance, to casualty records and to the reports made by Member States pursuant to Article 18.

The assessment may include a visit to regional branches of the recognised organisation, as well as random inspection of ships, both in service and under construction, for the purpose of auditing the organisation's performance. In such cases the Commission shall, where appropriate, inform the Member State in which the regional branch is located that such a visit will take place. The Commission shall provide the Member States with a report on the results of the assessment.

4.    Recognised organisations shall make available to the committee referred to in Article 9(1) on an annual basis the results of their quality system management review.

Article 17

1.   No clauses in a contract of a recognised organisation with a third party or in an authorisation agreement with a flag State may be invoked to restrict the access of the Commission to the information necessary for the purposes of the assessment referred to in Article 16(3).

2.   Recognised organisations shall ensure in their contracts with third parties for the issue of statutory certificates or classification certificates to a ship that such issue shall be made conditional on those parties not opposing the access of the Community inspectors on board that ship for the purposes of Article 16(3).

Article 18

In exercising their inspection rights and obligations as port States, Member States shall report to the Commission and to other Member States and inform the flag State concerned if they find that valid statutory certificates have been issued by recognised organisations acting on behalf of a flag State to a ship which does not fulfil the relevant requirements of the international conventions, or in the event of any failure of a ship carrying a valid classification certificate and relating to items covered by that certificate.

Only cases of ships representing a serious threat to safety and the environment or showing evidence of particularly negligent behaviour on the part of the recognised organisation shall be reported for the purposes of this Article.

The recognised organisation concerned shall be advised of the case at the time of the initial inspection so that it can take appropriate follow-up action immediately.

Article 19

1.   Each Member State shall ensure that ships flying its flag are designed, constructed, equipped and maintained in accordance with the rules and regulations relating to hull, machinery and electrical and control installation requirements of a recognised organisation.

2.   A Member State may decide to use rules it considers equivalent to the rules and regulations of a recognised organisation only on the condition that it immediately notifies them to the Commission in conformity with the procedure provided for by Directive 98/34/EC and to the other Member States and those rules are not objected to by another Member State or the Commission and determined through the procedure referred to in Article 9(2) of this Directive to be not equivalent.

3.   Member States shall cooperate with the recognised organisations they authorise in the development of the rules and/or regulations of those organisations. They shall confer with the recognised organisations with a view to achieving a consistent interpretation of international conventions in accordance with Article 20(1).

Article 20

1.   Recognised organisations shall consult with each other periodically with a view to maintaining equivalence and securing the harmonisation of their rules and regulations and the implementation thereof. They shall cooperate with each other with a view to achieving consistent interpretation of the international conventions, without prejudice to the powers of flag States. Recognised organisations shall , in appropriate cases, agree on the technical and procedural conditions under which they will mutually recognise their respective classification certificates based on equivalent standards, taking the most demanding and rigorous models as their reference and taking particularly into account marine equipment bearing the wheelmark in accordance with Council Directive 96/98/EC of 20 December 1996 on marine equipment  (10).

Recognised organisations shall provide the Commission with periodic reports on fundamental progress in standards and mutual recognition.

2.     The Commission shall, by ... (11), submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council based on an independent study on the level reached in the process of harmonising the rules and regulations and on mutual recognition. In the event of failure by the recognised organisations to fulfil the provisions of Article 20(1), the Commission shall propose to the European Parliament and the Council the appropriate measures.

3.   Recognised organisations shall demonstrate willingness to cooperate with port State control authorities where a ship of their class is concerned, in particular in order to facilitate the rectification of reported deficiencies or other discrepancies.

4.   Recognised organisations shall provide to all Member States' authorities which have granted any of the authorisations provided for in Article 3 and to the Commission all relevant information about their classed fleet, transfers, changes, suspensions and withdrawals of class, irrespective of the flag the ships fly.

Information on transfers, changes, suspensions, and withdrawals of class, including information on all overdue surveys, overdue recommendations, conditions of class, operating conditions or operating restrictions issued against their classed ships — irrespective of the flag the ships fly — shall also be communicated electronically to the common inspection database used by the Member States for the implementation of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and the Council of ... [on port state control]  (12) at the same time as it is recorded within the recognised organisation's own systems and in any case no later than 72 hours after the event that gave rise to the obligation to communicate the information. That information, with the exception of recommendations and conditions of class which are not overdue, shall be published on the website of these recognised organisations.

5.   The recognised organisations shall not issue statutory certificates to a ship, irrespective of its flag, which has been declassed or is changing class for safety reasons, before giving the opportunity to the competent authority of the flag State to give its opinion within a reasonable time as to whether a full inspection is necessary.

transferring provide receiving with the complete file of the ship and, in particular, inform it

(a)

any overdue surveys;

(b)

any overdue recommendations and conditions of class;

(c)

operating conditions issued against the ship; and

(d)

operating restrictions issued against the ship.

New certificates for the ship can be issued by the receiving organisation only after all overdue surveys have been satisfactorily completed and all overdue recommendations or conditions of class previously issued in respect of the ship have been completed as specified by the transferring organisation.

Before completing the new certificates, the receiving organisation must advise the transferring organisation of their date of issue and, for each overdue survey, overdue recommendation and overdue condition of class, confirm the action taken , specifying its starting place and date and the place where, and the date when, it was satisfactorily completed .

Recognised organisations shall establish and implement appropriate common requirements concerning cases of transfer of class where special precautions are necessary. Those cases shall as a minimum include the transfer of class of ships of fifteen years of age or over and the transfer from a non-recognised organisation to a recognised organisation.

Recognised organisations shall cooperate with each other in properly implementing this paragraph.

Article 21

The Member States, together with the recognised establish,  (13), an assessment committee in accordance with the EN 45012 quality standards. The relevant professional associations working in the shipping industry may participate in an advisory capacity. The assessment committee shall carry out

(a)

regulation and assessment of the systems for management of the quality of recognised organisations, in accordance with the ISO 9001 quality standard criteria ;

(b)

certification of the quality system of recognised organisations ;

(c)

issue of binding interpretations of internationally recognised quality management standards, in particular to take account of the specific features of the nature and obligations of recognised organisations, and

(d)

adoption of individual and collective recommendations for the improvement of recognised organisations' rules, processes and internal control mechanisms.

The assessment committee shall have the necessary competences to act independently of the recognised organisations and shall have the necessary means to carry out its duties effectively and to the highest professional standards. The assessment committee shall lay down its working methods and rules of procedure.

The assessment committee shall provide the interested parties, including the Commission , with full information on its annual work plan as well as on its findings and recommendations, particularly with regard to situations where safety might have been compromised.

2.   The assessment committee shall be periodically audited by the Commission, which may , acting in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 9(2), require that committee to adopt measures which the Commission deems necessary to ensure full compliance with paragraph 1.

The Commission shall report to the Member States on the results of and follow up to its assessment.

Article 22

1.   Recognised organisations which at the entry into force of this Directive had been granted recognition in accordance with Directive 94/57/EC shall retain their recognition, subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3.

2.   Recognised organisations shall comply with the new provisions laid down in this Directive from the date of its entry into force.

3.   Without prejudice to Articles 11 and 13, the Commission shall re-examine all limited recognitions granted under Directive 94/57/EC in light of Article 6(3) of this Directive by ... (14), with a view to deciding, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 9(2), whether the limitations should be replaced by others or removed. The limitations shall continue to apply until the Commission has acted.

Article 23

In the course of the assessment pursuant to Article 16(3), the Commission shall verify that the holder of the recognition is the relevant legal entity within the recognised organisation to which the provisions of this Directive apply . If that is not the case, the Commission shall amend the recognition accordingly by decision.

Where the Commission amends the recognition, the Member States shall adapt their agreements with the recognised organisation to take account of that amendment.

Article 24

The Commission shall, on a regular basis, inform the European Parliament and the Council of progress in the implementation of this Directive by the Member States.

Article 25

1.   Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles [...] and points [...] of Annex I [articles, or subdivisions thereof and points of Annex I which have been changed as to their substance by comparison with Directive 94/57/EC] not later than ... (15). They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those measures and a correlation table between those measures and this Directive.

2.   When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the directives repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.

3.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 26

Directive 94/57/EC, as amended by the Directives listed in Annex II, Part A, is repealed with effect from ... (16), without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Annex II, Part B.

References to the repealed Directives shall be construed as references to this Directive and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.

Article 27

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Articles [...] and points [...] of Annex I [Articles, or subdivisions thereof, and points of Annex I which are unchanged by comparison with Directive 94/57/EC] shall apply from ... (16).

Article 28

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at ..., on ...

For the European Parliament

The President

For the Council

The President

(1)  OJ C 318, 23.12.2006, p. 195 .

(2)  OJ C 229, 22.9.2006, p. 38 .

(3)  Position of the European Parliament of 25 April 2007.

(4)  OJ L 319, 12.12.1994, p. 20. Directive as last amended by Directive 2002/84/EC (OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

(5)  OJ C 271, 7.10.1993, p. 1.

(6)  OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(7)  OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37. Directive as last amended by the 2003 Act of Accession.

(8)  OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 (OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(9)  OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 93/2007 (OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 12).

(10)  OJ L 46, 17.2.1997, p. 25. Directive as last amended by Directive 2002/84/EC (OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53).

(11)  Three years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.

(12)  OJ L ...

(13)  18 months after the date of entry into force of this Directive.

(14)  12 months after the date of entry into force of this Directive.

(15)  18 months after the date of entry into force of this Directive.

(16)  The date of entry into force of this Directive.

ANNEX I

MINIMUM CRITERIA FOR RECOGNISED ORGANISATIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3

(hereinafter referred to as ‘organisations’)

A.   GENERAL MINIMUM CRITERIA

1.

To be eligible to obtain or to continue to enjoy Community recognition , an organisation must have legal personality in the State of its location. Its accounts shall be certified by independent auditors.

2.

The organisation must be able to document extensive experience in assessing the design and construction of merchant ships.

3.

The organisation must be equipped at all times with significant managerial, technical, support and research staff commensurate with the size of the fleet in its class, its composition and the organisation's involvement in the construction and conversion of ships. The organisation must be capable of assigning to every place of work, when and as needed, means and staff commensurate with the tasks to be carried out in accordance with general minimum criteria 6 and 7 and with the specific minimum criteria.

4.

The organisation must have and apply comprehensive rules and regulations for the design, construction and periodic survey of merchant ships, having the quality of internationally recognised standards. They must be published and continually upgraded and improved through research and development programmes.

5.

The organisation must have its register of ships published on an annual basis or maintained in an electronic base accessible to the public.

6.

The organisation must not be controlled by shipowners or shipbuilders, or by others engaged commercially in the manufacture, equipping, repair or operation of ships. The organisation must not be substantially dependent on a single commercial enterprise for its revenue. The recognised organisation must not carry out class or statutory work if it is identical with or has business, personal or family links to the shipowner or operator. This incompatibility shall also apply to surveyors employed by the recognised organisation.

7.

The organisation must operate in accordance with the provisions set out in the Annex to IMO Resolution A. 789(19) on specifications on the survey and certification functions of recognised organisations acting on behalf of the administration, in so far as they cover matters falling within the scope of the Directive.

B.   SPECIFIC MINIMUM CRITERIA

1.

The organisation must provide world-wide coverage through its exclusive technical staff or, in exceptional and duly justified cases, through the exclusive technical staff of other recognised organisations.

2.

The organisation must be governed by a code of ethics.

3.

The organisation must be managed and administered in such a way as to ensure the confidentiality of information required by the administration.

4.

The organisation must provide relevant information to the administration, to the Commission and to interested parties.

5.

The organisation, its inspectors and its technical staff will carry out their work without in any way harming the intellectual property rights, including patents, licences, know-how or any other kind of knowledge whose use is legally protected at Community or national level, of shipyards, equipment suppliers and shipowners. Under no circumstances, and without prejudice to Article 17 of the Directive, will either the organisation or the inspectors and technical staff whom it employs pass on or divulge commercially relevant data obtained in the course of their work of inspecting, checking and monitoring ships under construction or repair.

6.

The organisation's management must define and document its policy and objectives for, and commitment to, quality and must ensure that this policy is understood, implemented and maintained at all levels in the organisation. The organisation's policy must have regard to safety and pollution prevention performance targets and indicators.

7.

The organisation must ensure that:

(a)

its rules and regulations are established and maintained in a systematic manner;

(b)

its rules and regulations are complied with and an internal system to measure the quality of service in relation to those rules and regulations is put in place;

(c)

the requirements of the statutory work for which the organisation is authorised are satisfied and an internal system to measure the quality of service in relation to compliance with the international conventions is put in place;

(d)

the responsibilities, authorities and interrelation of personnel whose work affects the quality of the organisation's services are defined and documented;

(e)

all work is carried out under controlled conditions;

(f)

a supervisory system which monitors the actions and work carried out by surveyors and technical and administrative staff employed by the organisation is in place;

(g)

surveyors have an extensive knowledge of the particular type of ship on which they carry out their work as relevant to the particular survey to be carried out and of the relevant applicable requirements;

(h)

a system for qualification of surveyors and continuous updating of their knowledge is implemented;

(i)

records demonstrating achievement of the required standards in the items covered by the services performed, as well as the effective operation of the quality system, are maintained;

(j)

a comprehensive system of planned and documented internal audits of the quality related activities is maintained in all locations;

(k)

the statutory surveys and inspections required by the Harmonised System of Survey and Certification for which the organisation is authorised are carried out in accordance with the provision set out in the Annex and Appendix to IMO Resolution A. 948(23) on Survey Guidelines under the Harmonised System of Survey and Certification;

(l)

clear and direct lines of responsibility and control are established between the central and the regional offices of the organisation and between organisations and their surveyors.

8.

The organisation must have developed and implemented and must maintain an effective internal quality system which is based on appropriate parts of internationally recognised quality standards and which complies with EN ISO/IEC 17020:2004 (inspection bodies) and with EN ISO 9001:2000 as interpreted and certified by the Assessment Committee referred to in Article 21(1) of the Directive.

The Assessment Committee must act independently and must accordingly have access to all the resources needed to be able to operate properly and carry out thorough and consistent work. It must possess highly specialised and extensive technical skills and a code of conduct that safeguards the independence of the auditors' activities.

9.

The rules and regulations of the organisation must be implemented in such a way that the organisation remains in a position to derive from its own direct knowledge and judgement a reliable and objective declaration concerning the safety of the ships concerned by means of classification certificates on the basis of which statutory certificates can be issued.

10.

The organisation must have the necessary means of assessing - through the use of qualified professional staff and in accordance with the provisions set out in the Annex to IMO Resolution A.913 (22) on guidelines on implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code by administrations — the application and maintenance of the safety management system, of both shore-based and on board ships, intended to be covered in the certification.

11.

The organisation must allow participation in the development of its rules and/or regulations by representatives of the administration and other parties concerned.

ANNEX II

PART A

REPEALED DIRECTIVE WITH ITS SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS

(referred to in Article 26)

Council Directive 94/57/EC

OJ L 319, 12.12.1994, p. 20

Commission Directive 97/58/EC

OJ L 274, 7.10.1997, p. 8

Directive 2001/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

OJ L 19, 22.1.2002, p. 9

Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 53

PART B

LIST OF TIME-LIMITS FOR TRANSPOSITION INTO NATIONAL LAW

(referred to in Article 26)

Directive

Time-limit for transposition

94/57/EC

31 December 1995

97/58/EC

30 September 1998

2001/105/EC

22 July 2003

2002/84/EC

23 November 2003

ANNEX III

CORRELATION TABLE

Directive 94/57/EC

This Directive

Article 1

Article 1

Article 2, introductory words

Article 2, introductory words

Article 2, first indent

Article 2, point (a)

Article 2, second indent

Article 2, point (b)

Article 2, third indent

Article 2, point (c)

Article 2, fourth indent

Article 2, point (d)

Article 2, fifth indent

Article 2, point (e)

—

Article 2, point (f)

Article 2, sixth indent

Article 2, point (g)

Article 2, seventh indent

Article 2, point (h)

Article 2, eighth indent

Article 2, point (i)

—

Article 2 point (j)

Article 2, ninth indent

Article 2, point (k)

Article 2, 10th indent

Article 2, point (l)

Article 2, 11th indent

Article 2, point (m)

Article 3

Article 3

Article 4(1), first and second sentences

Article 4(1)

Article 4(1), last sentence

Article 6(1)

Article 4(2) and (3)

—

—

Articles 5 and 6(2) and (3)

Article 4(4)

Article 6(4)

Article 4(5)

—

Articles 5, 6, 7 and 8

Articles 7, 8, 9 and 10

Article 9

—

—

Articles 11 to 14

Article 10(1)

Article 15

Article 10(2), (3) and (4)

—

Article 11

Article 16

—

Article 17

Article 12

Article 18

Article 14

Article 19 (1) and (2)

—

Article 19(3)

Article 15

Article 20

—

Article 21 to 24

Article 16

Article 25

—

Article 26

—

Article 27

Article 17

Article 28

Annex

Annex I

—

Annex II

—

Annex III

P6_TA(2007)0151

Temporary committee on climate change

European Parliament decision of 25 April 2007 on setting up a temporary committee on climate change

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to Rule 175 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 19 April 2007 to propose that a temporary committee on climate change be set up and its powers and composition defined,

—

having regard to the urgent need to adopt concrete measures, at all levels, to confront climate change and the need for political leaders to activate that process,

—

having regard to its resolutions on climate change, particularly those adopted on 16 November 2005 (1), 26 October 2006 (2) and 14 February 2007, (3)

—

having regard to the need to collect and coordinate the opinions of the various committees concerned, so that the Parliament can play a key role in raising awareness and placing the challenge of climate change at the very top of the international agenda,

—

having regard to the need to organise the temporary committee's work and structures accordingly, by granting, in particular, the additional resources needed to deal with that subject appropriately;

1.

Decides to set up a temporary committee on climate change, vested with the following powers:

(a)

to formulate proposals on the EU's future integrated policy on climate change and to coordinate the Parliament's position in the negotiations regarding the international framework for climate policy after 2012;

(b)

to analyse and evaluate the state of climate change and propose appropriate measures, at all levels, accompanied by an assessment of both their financial impact and the cost of inaction;

(c)

to draw up as comprehensive an inventory as possible of recent progress made and future prospects in combating climate change, in order to provide Parliament with the detailed analysis of those developments, which it needs in order to assume its political responsibilities;

(d)

to study the environmental, legal, economic, social, geopolitical, regional and public-health impact of recent progress made and of future prospects;

(e)

to analyse and evaluate the application, to date, of relevant Community legislation;

(f)

to that end, to make the necessary contacts and hold hearings with the parliaments and governments of the Member States and third countries, the European Institutions and international organisations, as well as representatives of the scientific community, business and civil society, including the networks of local and regional authorities;

2.

Decides that, while the powers of the Parliament's standing committees responsible for the adoption, follow-up and implementation of Community legislation on the subject shall remain unchanged, the temporary committee may make recommendations as to measures or initiatives to be taken;

3.

Decides that the term of office of the temporary committee shall be 12 months, beginning on 10 May 2007, at the end of which it shall present a report to Parliament containing, as appropriate, recommendations as to actions or initiatives to be taken;

4.

Decides that the temporary committee shall have 60 members.

(1)  OJ C 280 E, 18.11.2006, p. 120.

(2)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0460.

(3)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0038.

P6_TA(2007)0152

Damages actions for breach of competition rules

European Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on the Green Paper on Damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules (2006/2207(INI))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission Green Paper on Damages actions for breach of EC antitrust rules (COM(2005)0672) (Green Paper on Damages),

—

having regard to the Commission Report on Competition Policy 2004 (SEC(2005)0805),

—

having regard to its resolution of 15 November 1961 in reply to the EEC Council of Ministers' request for Parliament to be consulted in respect of the proposal for an initial implementing regulation concerning Articles 85 and 86 of the EEC Treaty (1),

—

having regard to the Commission Notice on cooperation between national competition authorities and the Commission in handling cases falling within the scope of Articles 85 or 86 of the EC Treaty (2),

—

having regard to the Presidency conclusions of the Lisbon European Council of 23 and 24 March 2000, the Gothenburg European Council of 15 and 16 June 2001, the Laeken European Council of 14 and 15 December 2001, the Barcelona European Council of 15 and 16 March 2002, and the Brussels European Councils of 20 and 21 March 2003, 25 and 26 March 2004, 22 and 23 March 2005, and 23 and 24 March 2006,

—

having regard to the High Level Group report entitled ‘Facing the challenge — The Lisbon Strategy for growth and employment’, November 2004,

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty (3), Commission Regulation (EC) No 773/2004 of 7 April 2004 relating to the conduct of proceedings by the Commission pursuant to Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty (4), and Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (5),

—

having regard to the international instruments that recognise the right to effective judicial protection, in particular, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the protocols thereto,

—

having regard to Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the protocols to the Convention,

—

having regard to Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (6),

—

having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0133/2007),

A.

whereas competition policy has formed part of the European integration venture from its outset and is key to the process of the construction of the European Union,

B.

whereas free and undistorted competition is essential to achieving the objectives of the Lisbon-Göteborg Strategy, the vitality of the internal market, entrepreneurial excellence, consumer interests and the goals of the European Union, while anti-competitive behaviour is prejudicial to those objectives,

C.

whereas Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty are public policy provisions that have direct effects and that should automatically be applied by the competent authorities; whereas those provisions create rights between individuals, which national judicial authorities should safeguard effectively in line with the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, including the judgment in Case 26/62 van Gend & Loos  (7), which is notable, in particular, for being the precursor to subsequent cases,

D.

whereas in the Member States, competition law is chiefly enforced through public-law channels and considerable differences and obstacles exist at Member State level which may prevent potential claimants from pursuing actions for compensation,

E.

whereas as the Court of Justice considers that, in the absence of Community rules governing the right of victims to claim damages before the national judicial authorities, it is for the domestic legal system of each Member State to designate the courts or tribunals having jurisdiction and to lay down detailed procedural rules governing actions for safeguarding rights which individuals derive directly from Community law, provided that such rules are no less favourable than those governing similar domestic actions (in accordance with the principle of equivalence), and provided that they do not render practically impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of rights conferred by Community law (in accordance with the principle of effectiveness),

F.

whereas the rare and exceptional use of private actions before the jurisdictions of national judicial authorities, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 indicates that there is a need for measures to facilitate the bringing of actions for damages; whereas such measures should increase compliance with EC competition law, bearing in mind the different rules of procedure and evidence applicable across the Member States; whereas this should not lead to a situation in which undertakings engaging in lawful economic behaviour are placed at undue risk of having to pay unjustified claims, or to change their behaviour, in order to avoid costly litigation,

G.

whereas consumers and businesses that have suffered damage as a result of a breach of the competition rules should have a right to compensation,

H.

whereas developments in EU civil justice rules, in particular as regards access to justice, have not kept pace with recent developments in Community competition law in the internal market,

I.

whereas in Case C-453/99 (8), the Court of Justice ruled that, in order to ensure the full effectiveness of Article 81 of the Treaty, individuals and companies may claim compensation for damage caused to them by virtue of a contract or conduct that restricts or distorts competition,

J.

whereas the existing redress mechanisms for breaches of competition rules at European level do not guarantee the full effectiveness of Article 81 of the Treaty, in particular with regard to those suffering damage,

K.

whereas many Member States are examining ways better to protect consumers by allowing collective actions, and whereas differing courses of action may lead to the distortion of competition in the internal market,

L.

whereas any proposal by the Commission in areas for which the Commission does not have exclusive competence must, pursuant to the Treaty, comply with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;

1.

Points out that Community competition rules would lack dissuasive effect, and their effectiveness would be compromised, if anyone acting in a proscribed manner were able to enjoy advantages on the market or immunity in respect of breaches of the rules due to obstacles to full claims for damages; considers that the bringing of legal actions by the representatives of the public interest and victims should be facilitated;

2.

Considers that citizens or businesses suffering damage as a result of a breach of competition law should have the opportunity to claim compensation for their losses;

3.

Welcomes the fact that the Court of Justice has recognised the right of victims who have suffered losses as a result of anti-competitive behaviour to bring ‘stand alone’ or ‘follow on’ legal actions to obtain compensation; welcomes, therefore, the Green Paper on Damages as well as the preparatory works linked thereto;

4.

Calls, with a view to promoting competition rather than litigation, for the promotion of swift and amicable out-of-court settlements and the facilitation of plea agreements in claims for damages arising from anti-competitive behaviour and points out that in the event that the party that is alleged to have infringed competition rules claims and proves that the damage has been compensated before the conclusion of the proceedings, this could be regarded as mitigating factor in setting the amount of damages to be awarded; also welcomes the fact that competition authorities in the European Union can to some extent perform an institutional arbitration role by administering arbitration procedures including appointing arbitrators at the request of the parties;

5.

Considers, therefore, that the legal systems of the Member States should provide for effective civil law procedures whereby compensation can be claimed for damage resulting from breaches of competition law;

6.

Takes the view that instituting private actions should be complementary to and compatible with public enforcement, which, in turn, could become more strategic and selective in nature, focusing on the most important issues and significant cases; considers, however, that such change in focus should not constitute a justification for the under-resourcing of competition authorities;

7.

Calls for Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty to be implemented uniformly, regardless of the administrative or judicial nature of the authority adopting the decision; takes the view that decisions adopted by judicial authorities should be consistent and reflect common principles of security and effectiveness that avoid distortions and inconsistencies within the European Union; considers that the objective should be to arrive at procedures and a situation in which a prior final ruling by a national competition authority (NCA) or national judicial authority is binding on all Member States insofar as the parties to and circumstances of the case are the same;

8.

Emphasises that it is vital to provide judicial authorities with training in competition law in order to ensure the quality of their rulings, and to respect the essential importance of having proceedings handled by specialist or highly qualified bodies;

9.

Maintains that in order to protect competition and the rights of victims all judicial authorities implementing the Community competition rules should be able to adopt provisional measures, order measures of enquiry and make use of their powers of investigation where necessary;

10.

Stresses that, for the purposes of establishing the relevant facts in the application of Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty, the national judicial authorities should enjoy powers comparable with those granted to the NCAs, and that, to ensure consistency, there is a need to strengthen cooperation between the NCAs and the national judicial authorities and among the national judicial authorities;

11.

Emphasises that the competent authorities implementing the Community competition rules should have uniform criteria for establishing the burden of proof; notes that it may be necessary to take into account asymmetry of information available to the parties; suggests that in legal proceedings, the facts should be deemed established when the competent judicial authority is satisfied of the existence of a breach and damage with a causative link;

12.

Calls for the judicial authorities responsible for applying competition law to be empowered to order access to information relevant to the outcome of actions in damages, subject to a prior hearing of the other party except in urgent cases, by way of proportionate measures under their supervision; points out that in accessing information relevant to the outcome of proceedings the legitimacy of professional secrecy in relations between lawyers and their clients, business secrets of economic players and legislation on official secrets must be respected; calls on the Commission to draw up, as swiftly as possible, a communication on the processing of confidential information by the authorities applying Community competition law;

13.

Urges Member States to accept that the finding of an infringement arrived at by an NCA, once final and, where appropriate, confirmed on appeal, automatically constitutes prima facie proof of fault in civil proceedings involving the same issues, provided that the defendant was given an adequate opportunity to defend itself in the administrative proceedings;

14.

Further considers it unnecessary to discuss and prescribe at Community level the need for the appointment of experts;

15.

Considers that the proposed regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II) should provide a satisfactory solution save where the anti-competitive behaviour affects competition in more than one Member State, and that consideration should therefore be given to introducing a specific rule relating to such cases;

16.

Urges the national judicial authorities to cooperate in protecting confidential information and rendering leniency programmes effective; considers that in the event of a conflict arising over access to and the processing of such information available to the members of the European competition network (ECN), this should be settled in the light of the interpretation of Community law by the Court of Justice;

17.

Emphasises that payments awarded to complainants should be compensatory and should not exceed the actual damage (damnum emergens) and losses (‘lucrum cessans’) suffered, in order to avoid unjust enrichment, and that the ability of the victim to mitigate the damage and losses may be taken into account; however in the case of cartels, suggeststhat first applicants cooperating with the competition authorities in leniency programmes should not be held jointly and severally liable with the other infringers, and that interest should be calculated from the date of the infringement;

18.

Considers that any proposed measure must fully respect the public policy of the Member States, in particular with regard to punitive damages;

19.

Underlines that Member States should take into account that the possibility of defendants arguing that all or part of the gains they made as a result of the infringement have been transferred to third parties (the passing-on defence) would be detrimental to establishing the extent of the damage and the causal link;

20.

Concurs with case law of the Court of Justice that all victims should be able to bring legal actions; takes the view that Member States that make provision for actions for indirect losses should grant the defendant the possibility of asserting a passing-on defence in order to avoid the possibility of unjust enrichment; notes that it is therefore essential to have a mechanism for dealing with multiple small claims;

21.

Takes the view that, in the interests of justice and or reasons of economy, speed and consistency, victims should be able voluntarily to bring collective actions, either directly or via organisations whose statutes have this as their object;

22.

Notes that in many cases there will be an asymmetry of resources between the complainant and the defendant in legal proceedings for damages arising from anti-competitive behaviour and that, in such cases, complainants should not be deterred from bringing well-founded actions for damages for fear of having to pay excessive legal costs, including the costs of the defendant in the event that the claim is unsuccessful; suggests, therefore, that judicial authorities should be able to take into account the different economic situation of the parties and, where appropriate, should make an assessment at the outset of proceedings; considers that the level of costs should be based on reasonable and objective criteria taking into account the nature of the trial, and should include the costs engendered by the legal proceedings;

23.

Recommends that in the legal aid programmes that can legitimately be adopted to enable private actions to be brought more easily for damages arising from anti-competitive behaviour, clear-cut conditions be laid down as regards the supervision of the proceedings and the reimbursement of such aid, in particular in the event that the case is settled and the infringer is ordered to pay costs;

24.

Considers that national limitation periods for actions for infringements of the Community competition rules should allow actions to be brought within one year of a decision by the Commission or an NCA finding that those rules have been infringed (or, in the event of an appeal, one year from the conclusion of such appeal); considers that where there is no such decision it should be possible to bring actions for damages for infringements of Article 81 or 82 of the Treaty, the Community competition rules, at any time during the period within which the Commission is entitled to take a decision imposing a fine for those infringements; considers that time should stop running for the period of any formal discussions or mediation between the parties;

25.

Suggests that the limitation period applying to the right to claim compensation in the event of a breach of competition law be suspended from the time when the Commission or NCA in one or more Member States launches an investigation into such breach;

26.

Points out that instituting private actions for damages does not affect the powers or responsibilities that the Treaty confers on the Commission in the area of competition law;

27.

Urges the Commission to adopt, as swiftly as possible, guidelines for the provision of assistance to the parties in quantifying the damage they have suffered and establishing the causal link; calls also for priority to be given to drawing up a communication on bringing independent legal actions, which includes recommendations for the filing of claims and examples for the most frequent cases;

28.

Calls on the Commission to prepare a White Paper with detailed proposals to facilitate the bringing of ‘stand alone’ and ‘follow on’ private actions claiming damages for behaviour in breach of the Community competition rules, which addresses, in a comprehensive manner, the issues raised in this Resolution and gives consideration, where appropriate, to an adequate legal framework; also calls on the Commission to include therein proposals for strengthening the cooperation between all the authorities responsible for applying Community competition rules;

29.

Considers that any Commission initiative governing the right of victims to claim damages before the national judicial authorities must be accompanied by an impact assessment;

30.

Calls on the Commission to work closely with the competent national authorities of the Member States in order to mitigate any cross-border obstacles that prevent EU citizens and businesses from filing cross-border damages claims in cases of breaches of Community competition rules in Member States; considers that, if necessary, the Commission should take legal action to remove such obstacles;

31.

Urges those Member States in which citizens and businesses do not yet have such an effective right to claim compensation, to adapt their civil procedural law;

32.

Emphasises that Parliament should play a co-legislative role in the field of competition law and that it should be kept regularly informed on the bringing of private legal actions;

33.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the social partners.

(1)  OJ 61, 15.11.1961, p. 1409.

(2)  OJ C 313, 15.10.1997, p. 3.

(3)  OJ L 1, 4.1.2003, p. 1.

(4)  OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 18.

(5)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.

(6)  OJ C 364, 18.12.2000, p. 1.

(7)  Case 26/62 NV Algemene Transport-en Expeditie Onderneming van Gend & Loos v Netherlands Inland Revenue Administration [1963] ECR-1.

(8)  Case 453/99 Courage Ltd v Crehan [2001] ECR I-6297 and judgment of 13 July 2006 in Joined Cases C-295/04 to 298/04, Manfredi and Others v Lloyd Adriatico Assicurazioni SpA and Others ECR I-6619.

P6_TA(2007)0153

Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area

European Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Multilateral Agreement between the Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the European Community, the Republic of Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Norway, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0113) (1),

—

having regard to its resolution of 17 January 2006 on developing the agenda for the Community's external aviation policy (2),

—

having regard to Rule 103(2) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas, in view of its accession to the EU, Romania should be treated differently from the other States and whereas Bulgaria, despite its accession, is subject to a protective clause with regard to security interests and should therefore be treated like a third country,

B.

whereas the Council has adopted the provisional agreement as proposed by the Commission and whereas this provisional agreement awaits ratification by all parties,

C.

whereas the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) agreement is important as a framework agreement for dealing with aviation-related issues with the countries of the Western Balkans, Iceland and Norway, in particular, and whereas it provides a model for future agreements of this kind with other third countries,

Environment

1.

Notes that it is important that the ECAA agreement should cover current and future EU legislation on emissions and other measures that will reduce the environmental impact of aviation;

2.

Welcomes the fact that the parties to the agreement accept that at some point in the future aviation may be included in emissions trading schemes (ETS);

3.

Stresses the importance of the agreement in terms of creating the conditions for enlarging the Single European Sky (SES) beyond Member States;

Safety and Security

4.

Underlines the importance, therefore, of technical assistance and accession negotiations as means of obtaining the necessary consensus with non-EU and non-EEA partners in order to attain this objective;

5.

Insists that all EU safety and security legislation and Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air (3) must be included in the operational annex to the agreement;

6.

Notes that air traffic management is included in the agreement, a fact which is important from the point of view of applying the SES rules, such as those for developing transborder air space blocks;

7.

Welcomes the advantages of reciprocal and coherent application of the Safety Assessment contained in Directive 2004/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on the safety of third-country aircraft using Community airports (4) by all parties to the agreement;

8.

Recalls that achieving the SES objective also entails flexibility of airspace, which necessitates institutionalised cooperation between military and civil authorities in the field of air traffic control;

Social issues

9.

Welcomes the role of the European Aviation Safety Agency in training experts, preparing manuals and providing technical advice to partner countries, as well as in helping to establish implementation mechanisms;

10.

Stresses the fact that relevant EU social legislation must be complied with when implementing the agreement;

11.

Notes that the agreement provides for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 of 16 December 1991 on the harmonization of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation (5);

12.

Notes that there must be prompt implementation of the commitments in the agreement and that a progress report must be submitted to the European Parliament by 31 December 2008;

13.

Calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that the agreement reflects these key considerations and that arrangements for monitoring are established in connection with the implementation process;

*

* *

14.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

(2)  OJ C 287 E, 24.11.2006, p. 84.

(3)  OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 1.

(4)  OJ L 143, 30.4.2004, p. 76. Directive as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2111/2005 (OJ L 344, 27.12.2005, p. 15).

(5)  OJ L 373, 31.12.1991, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1900/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 377, 27.12.2006, p. 176).

P6_TA(2007)0154

Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources

European Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on a Thematic Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (2006/2210(INI))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the communication from the Commission ‘Towards a Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources’ (COM(2003)0572),

—

having regard to the communication from the Commission ‘Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources’ (COM(2005)0670),

—

having regard to the Review of the EU's Sustainable Development Strategy — Renewed Strategy (1),

—

having regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992,

—

having regard to Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment (2),

—

having regard to Articles 2 and 6 of the EC Treaty, which stipulate that environmental protection requirements are to be integrated into the various sectors of Community policy with a view to promoting environmentally sound development of economic activities,

—

having regard to Article 174 of the EC Treaty,

—

having regard to the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme (6th EAP) (3),

—

having regard to the communication from the Commission ‘Taking sustainable use of resources forward: A Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste’ (COM(2005)0666),

—

having regard to its resolution of 5 July 2005 on the communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Stimulating Technologies for Sustainable Development: An Environmental Technologies Action Plan for the European Union (4),

—

having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0054/2007),

A.

whereas, in the decades ahead, rapid demographic change in the world will bring ever greater pressure to bear on the climate, natural resources and biodiversity, and whereas this evolution is also related to the disparity in prosperity between the industrialised world and developing countries,

B.

whereas sustainable economic development, combined with fair and equitable sharing of the benefits derived from natural resources and access to resources and markets are necessary to alleviate poverty and increase human well-being,

C.

whereas, because of the rapid growth of the world population, by 2010 an additional 400 million people will be living on Earth; whereas in a world in which mutual dependence is constantly increasing we cannot continue to produce and consume in the present way and whereas, worldwide, 15 500 species of plants and animals are seriously endangered; whereas in recent decades nearly all types of ecosystem and all species have already suffered very badly and whereas fresh water is also a valuable resource, which is under pressure; whereas the worldwide water crisis is a threat to human life and sustainable development and ultimately also to peace and security,

D.

whereas, worldwide, the average ecological footprint (5) is now 2.2 hectares per capita, although it should not exceed 1.8 hectares in order to remain within the limits of the Earth's biocapacity; whereas, worldwide, human beings are using 25 % more than the Earth produces in a year, or in other words, the Earth needs a year and three months to produce what we have used in a single year (2003) (WWF Eco-report 2006),

E.

whereas, according to the UN 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, there has been a decline in two thirds of all ecosystems since the beginning of the 1960s and whereas demand for natural resources has risen by 70 % over the same period,

F.

whereas according to the European Environment Agency, Europe's ecological footprint exceeded its own biocapacity in 1960 and is to date twice as large as its biocapacity; whereas this is not compatible with equitable sustainable development,

G.

whereas the failure so far to assign a value to natural capital, in particular ecosystem services, is a serious impediment in the overall efforts to establish a framework for sustainable use of natural resources,

H.

whereas the interests of commerce and the environment need not be in conflict; whereas, however, sustained economic prosperity in the future will only be possible in a market-based system in which all forms of capital, including natural capital, are fully valued, and the costs of damage to human health and the environment are fully internalised into product prices,

I.

whereas rising economic growth in developing countries will increase pressure on the environment still further,

J.

whereas progress in the field of know-how and technology is crucial in order to attain a balance between economic growth on the one hand and social and ecological sustainability on the other,

K.

whereas pursuant to Article 6 of the Treaty, bolstered by the Cardiff Process, environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the formulation and implementation of EU policy,

L.

whereas there is little complementarity and insufficient coordination between the different international fora responsible for sustainable development (Convention on Biological Diversity, Kyoto Protocol, Convention to Combat Desertification, etc.); whereas, furthermore, there are no tools to enforce these agreements worldwide,

M.

whereas the EU Strategy for Growth and Jobs (6) endorsed by the Spring Summit of 2005 gives high priority to more sustainable use of natural resources and calls for the EU to take the lead in the move towards more sustainable consumption and production in the global economy,

N.

whereas the guiding principles for sustainable development adopted by the European Council of 15/16 June 2006 should form the basis for sustainable development, particularly those relating to the quality of life and solidarity between and within generations,

O.

whereas, in its communication on the review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy — a platform for action (COM(2005)0658), the Commission states that:

—

the EU and Member States must continue to invest in research and technology to find new costeffective and resource-efficient ways of production and consumption,

—

the EU must position itself as a world leader in eco-efficient and energy-saving technologies in order to reduce the high level of dependence on natural resources,

—

the EU must safeguard the earth's capacity to support life in all its diversity, respect the limits of the planet's natural resources and ensure a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment,

—

by 2012, 12 % of Member States' energy consumption must come from renewable sources,

—

by 2010, 21 % of Member States' electricity consumption must be met by renewable sources,

P.

whereas in June 2006, the European Council demanded inter alia the following in the Renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy:

—

the EU strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources should be complemented by a number of targets and measures at EU level,

—

to improve resource efficiency to reduce the overall use of non-renewable natural resources and the related environmental impacts of raw materials use, thereby using renewable natural resources at a rate that does not exceed their regeneration capacity,

Q.

whereas the 6th EAP:

—

lays down a programme whose objectives accord with the key priorities of the Community, namely climate change, nature and biodiversity, the environment, public health and the quality of life, natural resources and waste,

—

requires the promotion of changes to subsidy schemes which have a substantial adverse impact on the environment and are not compatible with sustainable development,

—

states that thematic strategies must include relevant qualitative and quantitative environmental objectives and timetables,

—

and inter alia explicitly asks for a review of the efficiency of policy measures and the impact of subsidies relating to natural resources and waste, as well as for the establishment of goals and targets for resource efficiency and the diminished use of resources, decoupling the link between economic growth and negative environmental impacts,

R.

whereas the Annex to the Thematic Strategy states that:

—

if an annual improvement in resource productivity of 3% is achieved, while the economy grows at 3% per year as well, resource use will be more or less stable,

—

everything else being equal, stabilising material use will not be enough to reduce economy-wide environmental impacts and achieve decoupling,

S.

whereas in its resolution of 16 November 2005 on Winning the Battle against Global Climate Change (7), the European Parliament stated that strong emission reductions, i.e. 30 % by 2020 and 60-80 % by 2050, need to be undertaken by developed countries,

T.

whereas agriculture uses 50 % of all land and consumes 30 % of all water and 20 % of all fuel,

U.

whereas transportation is the fastest growing end-use sector and is responsible for 40 % of all energy use worldwide and for approximately 40-80 % of all air pollution and for 28 % of all CO2 emissions in Europe,

V.

whereas an enhanced understanding of how natural systems work will open up new opportunities for ecologically sound production and consumption systems; whereas there are already more than 2000 patented technologies inspired by nature (‘biomimicry’),

W.

whereas one of the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2000 was that of ensuring a sustainable environment before 2015 by integrating sustainable development into national policy and programmes, halting the loss of natural resources and halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water; whereas by 2020 the living conditions of at least 140 million slum-dwellers must be significantly improved,

X.

whereas every year between 5 and 6 million people — mainly children — die of diseases caused by water and air pollution; whereas 370 000 premature deaths are caused by air pollution in Europe,

Y.

whereas sustainable use of natural resources is a ‘conditio sine qua non’ for long-term prosperity,

Z.

whereas the basis of most environmental problems is the unsustainable use of natural resources,

AA.

whereas a transformation of the present system of production and consumption is urgently needed;

AB.

whereas society depends primarily on products made up of a set of different materials, i.e. biological, mineral and synthetic materials, which are often combined to produce composite materials, and whereas these materials ought to be used and handled in such a way that, when the useful life of the products is over, they do not become useless waste,

AC.

whereas by 2015 at the latest better management and avoidance of overexploitation of renewable natural resources such as fish stocks, biodiversity, water, air, soil and the atmosphere must result in the recovery of damaged marine ecosystems, in accordance with the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation adopted at the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002,

AD.

whereas our industrial system feeds on distant ecosystems by means of trade and is often insensitive to their degradation; whereas therefore the natural resource strategy must be based on the application of the ecological footprint methodology and have as a primary goal to reduce the ecological footprint of the EU in the world, and to take a leading role and encourage other non-EU countries to do the same,

AE.

whereas by 2010 at the latest the loss of biodiversity must be halted, in accordance with the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation,

AF.

whereas there are major disparities between Member States as regards the productivity of resources; whereas eliminating these disparities alone would mean that the improved productivity would reduce the amount of natural resources used and consequently reduce pressure on the environment and improve the competitive position of the Member States,

AG.

whereas economically developed and service orientated Member States have exported a large amount of their energy and natural resource consuming activities to less developed EU and non-EU countries; whereas the Commission should take into consideration that different Member States use different amounts of natural resource to reach the same economic growth rate,

AH.

whereas the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation also called for a decoupling of economic growth and environmental degradation by improving efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and production processes and by reducing resource degradation, pollution and waste,

AI.

whereas the abovementioned European Union Environmental Technologies Action Plan:

—

notes that efficient use of resources and materials reduces costs to industry and households, thereby releasing funds and making the EU economy less dependent on scarce resources and highly unstable markets,

—

notes that scarce resources often cause regional conflicts in developing countries,

—

draws attention to the need to promote technologies which serve to prevent natural disasters or activities which can lead to the destruction of natural resources or damage to them,

AJ.

whereas a policy can only be implemented if the public and consumers are also encouraged to alter their consumption patterns to take account of environmental and health requirements;

1.

Takes reluctant note of the abovementioned communication from the Commission ‘Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources’, and regrets the lack of a clear vision on how to meet the overall objective; considers that it should be seen as a first step in a process eventually leading to a comprehensive strategy for the sustainable use of natural resources;

2.

Considers that the Commission's action platform for the study of the Sustainable Development Strategy is too cautious and limited in scope and that, in its present form, it will not be able to persuade the public or political decision-makers to pursue the crucial goals for which it provides;

3.

Calls on the Commission to establish goals and targets at political and at sectoral level for resource efficiency, and speed up the work on appropriate tools to maintain progress;

4.

Notes with regret that the Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources (Thematic Strategy) fails to pursue the objectives of the European Community's 6th EAP; considers that the objectives of the 6th EAP relating to the sustainable use of natural resources will remain unattained unless the concerted actions presented in the Thematic Strategy are made more effective; considers that this applies particularly to the objective of ensuring that the use of natural resources and their impact do not exceed the carrying capacity of the environment;

5.

Calls on the European Union to step up its efforts and take decisions with a view to becoming the most efficient economy in the world in terms of its use of resources and energy; stresses that the attainment of such aims would permit greater independence and security of supply of resources and energy and a decoupling of economic growth from the exploitation of natural resources;

6.

Stresses that pollution, the increasing scarcity of natural resources and raw materials and the increasing difficulty of gaining access to them constitute a threat to the conservation of biodiversity and will cause price rises on such a scale as to more or less completely destabilise the economic and social systems of the European Union and third countries, and will give rise to risks of conflict; urges the Commission and the European Union to respond in ways commensurate with the situation;

7.

Considers that, even if there is a need for more specific data in certain fields, this should not be taken as an excuse for postponing measures which need to be taken to ensure sustainable use of natural resources; notes, furthermore, that the knowledge currently available is sufficient to permit practical action to be taken now to improve the sustainable consumption of natural resources;

8.

Stresses the essential objectives of sustainable use of natural resources, including a high level of protection of the environment and public health, the availability of natural resources for future generations, a contribution to the stability and prosperity of our economic and social system and limiting the use of resources in order to reduce and stabilise environmental impact;

9.

Considers that the Commission should take Parliament, European public opinion and the environment seriously, and calls on the Commission to set binding targets and timetables for natural resources in the following way:

(a)

to develop and implement best practices for every production chain,

(b)

to achieve a quantitative greenhouse gas reduction of at least 30 % by 2020 and of 80 % by 2050 against 1990 levels;

10.

Encourages the Commission to define best practices for the major product groups, starting with the ‘top-ten’ (defined by the Commission), to be completed within three years. The Data Centre for Natural Resources (proposed in the Thematic Strategy) shall be responsible for defining best practices;

11.

Encourages the Commission to propose Community policies in order to:

—

foster stakeholder interaction and promote application of life-cycle assessments (LCA) and/or other methods among companies and provide information upon request,

—

develop CO2 targets on a national and a sectoral basis;

12.

Considers that the Thematic Strategy should include guidelines explaining the necessary measures for certain sectors and required changes proposed for policies to reach a sustainable or more efficient resource use;

13.

Considers that, by postponing practical action, the EU will surrender its competitive position in the field of innovation and trade in new eco-efficient technologies;

14.

Considers that the European Union should take the lead in the search for innovative solutions and in promoting more efficient use of resources, and that it should aim to be the world leader in eco-efficient technologies; notes that the market for sustainable products will have to grow in order to meet the increasing demand from a rapidly growing ‘middle class’ for consumer goods and services which respect regional and global carrying capacity;

15.

Welcomes the acknowledgement by the Commission that policy on the sustainable use of natural resources has so far proven inadequate;

16.

While acknowledging that working towards the sustainable use of natural resources is a long-term process, considers that a time horizon of 25 years as outlined in the Commission's communication is too long;

17.

Welcomes the Commission's focus on life-cycle thinking throughout the Communication and encourages the Commission to follow this approach through to concrete policy action;

18.

Stresses that R&D efforts must be geared towards enhancing our understanding of how natural systems work so as to structure production and consumption systems along biological lines, thereby improving resource productivity and reducing pollution;

19.

Considers the establishment of a European Data Centre before 2008 to be useful if its remit is to periodically assess and optimise the known indicators and in addition to establish which further indicators are still needed to facilitate the pursuit of the urgent objective of reducing the environmental and health impact of the use of natural resources to a minimum;

20.

Does not agree with the Commission that no indicators are known which would enable specific, clear and time-tabled objectives to be included in the Thematic Strategy now; notes that indicators which are already known include GDP (Gross Domestic Product), DMI (Direct Material Input) and DMC (Domestic Material Consumption); other indicators as available and detailed as the ones mentioned above would be related to various aspects of the quality of life, such as public health conditions, social inclusion, social awareness of decision-making processes and an environmental ‘footprint’; the challenge would be to improve the quality of life by pursuing more immaterial goals with the support of information and communication technologies, and in general less demanding technologies, and therefore reducing the pressure on natural resources;

21.

Proposes that the Commission perform within three years an assessment regarding the possibilities and the instruments for decoupling natural resource use from economic growth. The revised Thematic Strategy should include these decoupling instruments. This approach should also be implemented in the revision of existing policies;

22.

Stresses the need to develop a complement to the GDP — focusing on the qualitative aspects of growth — and in this process specifically develop methodologies to assign a value to natural capital;

23.

Considers that, if reductions in the use of natural resources are accompanied by a switch to an alternative, research should first be conducted into the environmental impact of the alternative in question;

24.

Calls on the EU to ensure that all Community instruments and legislation contribute overall to the conservation of natural resources and the pursuit of sustainable development in the EU and countries outside the EU; the EU should encourage the establishment of resource strategies in non-EU countries, which should also be reflected in its funds and aid policy;

25.

Considers it important to tackle not only Community use (use within the EU) of natural resources but also imports of resources from third countries;

26.

Stresses the need to address the obvious shortcomings of the current economic model with regard to assigning a value to ecosystem services, and to present a policy framework giving priority to resource efficiency and production systems progressively structured along biological lines;

27.

Considers that by 2030 the use of primary non-renewable resources in the EU must be reduced by a factor of 4, or the use of natural resources must be halved by 2030 while simultaneously increasing worldwide prosperity; notes that the following indicators can be used: TMR (Total Material Requirement), DMI (Domestic Material Input) and DMC (Direct Material Consumption); notes that these indicators show what quantities of resources are used in an economy and that by dividing GDP by these indicators it is possible to measure the productivity of natural resource use;

28.

Agrees that at present there are very few aggregated impact indicators that are already widely accepted for measuring the progress of reductions in the environmental impact of resource use, the so-called eco-efficiency indicator; considers that these need to be finalised as soon as possible and at the latest by 2008; notes that in this respect the further development of ‘environmentally weighted material consumption’ (EMC) should be actively supported;

29.

Considers that market instruments and subsidies, particularly of a fiscal nature, can be used to reduce the use of environmentally damaging resources, particularly by means of a re-allocation of subsidies and by reducing in stages, but quickly, any subsidies to unsustainable activities and supporting the introduction of ecotaxes; abolishing harmful subsidies on resource use should be incorporated in the Commission's preparation of a roadmap as demanded in the Sustainable Development Strategy;

30.

Considers that a re-allocation of subsidies, for example more subsidies for small-scale hydroelectric power, as well as for wind power and solar energy, would promote the use of new technologies and improve Europe's competitive position in the world, as well as reducing dependence on fossil fuels imported from other parts of the world;

31.

Notes that the decoupling of economic growth and improvement of the efficiency of resource use is already regarded as a political objective in nine Member States (including Germany and Finland) and Japan; considers that relative decoupling is not sufficient, given that absolute consumption of natural resources remains too high; stresses therefore that a political programme relating to the sustainable use of natural resources should concentrate on decoupling of economic growth from the use of natural resources that brings about an absolute reduction both in the resources used and in the environmental impact of resource use;

32.

Stresses that the EU should adopt a clear target for the absolute reduction of resource use, given that the analysis in the Annex to the Thematic Strategy indicates that we need to go beyond a 3% annual resource efficiency improvement, and that halving resource use in the period 2005-2030 requires almost 6% annual resource efficiency improvement;

33.

Considers that the adverse impact of the total use of resources in the EU per category of resource must be halved, for example by means of a sectoral approach in the construction industry, transport and other sectors, in order to reduce the impact of the use of these resources and dependence on them;

34.

Considers that the Thematic Strategy should aim to make more efficient use of natural resources, improve their management and the management of waste, adopt more sustainable methods of production and patterns of consumption, and ensure that the use of natural resources does not exceed the potential burden which the environment can withstand;

35.

Proposes that targets be set for resource use reduction in the following sectors: food, housing and transport, as according to recent studies these cause the highest negative impacts;

36.

Therefore calls on the Commission to undertake three key actions:

(a)

identify and develop specific policies and actions for the top 20 resources (materials) with the largest impacts; these should be proposed at the latest by 2008,

(b)

prepare stakeholder dialogues on the most resource-intensive extraction and production sectors in order to identify sectoral targets and appropriate measures for improving resource efficiency,

(c)

develop benchmark criteria for sustainable management and harvesting of biotic resources (e.g. wood, fish, agricultural products);

37.

Calls on the Commission to actively encourage the development of new models of offering products through, for example, product service systems, providing utility to consumers through the use of services rather than products, thereby optimising the use of both energy and materials;

38.

Stresses that efforts to use natural resources more efficiently must be implemented with full attention being paid to the impact of trade and have as a goal to progressively reduce the ecological footprint of the EU in the world;

39.

Considers that the Thematic Strategy should be integrated at various levels of policy and across all relevant policy areas; to this end EU waste prevention, re-use and recycling targets must play a fundamental role;

40.

Asks the Commission to promote technologies focusing on durable, repairable, re-usable and recyclable products;

41.

Considers that repair and re-use of products extends the product life and is a sustainable measure to achieve a reduction in waste generation and to increase resource conservation; therefore asks the Commission and the Member States to actively encourage a ‘re-use society’ by educational, economic and structural measures, such as support to re-use and repair organisations and networks;

42.

Supports the Thematic Strategy's approach to analyse existing policies to raise the Strategy's effectiveness, but proposes to select already in this phase the most relevant existing policies and the ones under preparation (e.g. Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste, Integrated Product Policy); the Thematic Strategy should be consistent with the Lisbon objectives as well;

43.

Proposes the identification of the deficiencies in current European policies which hamper the sustainable use of natural resources;

44.

Notes that the Commission envisages a regular review of the Thematic Strategy beginning in 2010 and continuing every five years thereafter; considers this to be of value but stresses the need for this review to include proper analysis of actions taken towards achieving the sustainable use of natural resources and to take into account the constant need for policy in this area to evolve in relation to scientific developments; the review should also examine the effects in third countries of actions undertaken at EU level;

45.

Considers that agricultural policy, in particular, should be geared partly to reducing pressure on the environment by means of the sustainable use of natural resources including, but not confined to, land, water and fuels;

46.

Stresses the importance of the global dimension of European policy on the sustainable use of natural resources and the need to ensure that any move towards sustainable resource use in Europe does not lead to increased environmental impacts in third countries;

47.

Considers that, in agriculture, genuine progress needs to be made in research into ecological production methods, regulation and monitoring relating, inter alia, to the use of fertilisers, pesticides and water, promotion of short chains, internalising external costs and attaching environmental conditions to economic support;

48.

Considers that the pioneering role and responsible use of natural resources in organic and sustainable farming should be acknowledged and supported;

49.

Considers that, as various fish species are currently among the most threatened long-term resources, and as the disappearance of species may result in further ecological changes, a responsible and strict fisheries policy is called for;

50.

Considers that the Member States must implement the EU's biodiversity strategy, both in fisheries and in other fields, and, in cooperation with the Commission, must take measures to attain the objective of halting the decline of biodiversity by 2010;

51.

Welcomes the proposal for the international panel which will include participants from developing countries and which will, inter alia, develop sustainability benchmarks for extracting, harvesting and transporting materials and products coming from outside the EU, including not only material quality standards but also production quality standards, taking account of social and environmental issues;

52.

Stresses the need for aid to developing countries, to non-EU Eastern European and West Balkan countries, by means of, but not confined to, sharing technology and know-how; adds that Europe cannot decently import biocapacity from other countries without the sustainable use of resources likewise becoming an objective for those countries and without ensuring that it is not importing resources which are overexploited or threatened;

53.

Considers that developing countries should be helped to meet EU standards and labelling requirements;

54.

Stresses the importance to this Thematic Strategy of the requirement already incorporated in other policy strategies that by 2010 an average of 12 % of energy consumption within the EU and 21 % of electricity consumption within the EU should be derived from sustainable natural resources, and that the lower of these figures should rise to 15 % by 2015;

55.

Aims to align the EU norm for green public procurement with the standard currently achieved by the Member State which performs best;

56.

Considers, in line with policy on renewable energy consumption, that by 2010 an average of at least 12 % of the renewable raw materials used in the EU should be derived from sources which are demonstrably managed sustainably, a figure which should rise to at least 15 % in 2015; at the same time underlines the importance of the EU target of 20 % energy savings by 2020;

57.

Considers that the EU should do everything possible to provide consumers and producers with proper information on the sustainable use of natural resources, that environmental education, particularly concerning sustainable consumption, should form part of elementary education, and that consumers and producers should be involved in ideas concerning changes which could lead to sustainable use of natural resources;

58.

Considers that producers should supply information to the public on the origin and production methods of their products and services and the production chains involved, including information about the environmental impact throughout the cycle through which the product and the resources used in the production process pass; as well as the extent to which the product is repairable, re-usable and recyclable;

59.

Considers that EU policy should be so framed as to encourage Member States to adopt more ambitious approaches — and certainly not discourage them from doing so — with a view to improving the sustainable use of natural resources;

60.

Considers that the Commission should submit by 2008 a roadmap for reform, per sector, of subsidy schemes which have a substantial adverse impact on the environment and are difficult to reconcile with sustainable development, with a view to their gradual abolition;

61.

Welcomes any Commission initiatives which could result in the sustainable use of natural resources and reduce the adverse impact of the use of natural resources on the environment;

62.

Draws attention to the need to improve communication between retailers and consumers; calls on the Commission in this connection to extend the present energy label (refrigerators, cars, buildings) to all energy using product groups by 2010;

63.

Proposes that the Commission develop, within three years, a methodology to measure the environmental impact of every production chain;

64.

Proposes that the Commission monitor on a three-yearly basis the progress in improving resource efficiency;

65.

Recommends using the international panel (proposed in the Thematic Strategy) to extend best practices and CO2 targets to global level;

66.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Council document 10117/2006, 9.6.2006.

(2)  OJ L 197, 21.7.2001, p. 30.

(3)  OJ L 242, 10.9.2002, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 157 E, 6.7.2006, p. 77.

(5)  ‘Ecological footprint’ is an expression of the extent to which human beings consume the Earth's resources in terms of hectares of productive land.

(6)  Communication to the Spring European Council — Working together for growth and jobs — A new start for the Lisbon Strategy (COM(2005)0024).

(7)  OJ C 280 E, 18.11.2006, p. 120.

P6_TA(2007)0155

Transatlantic relations

European Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on transatlantic relations

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to its previous resolutions on transatlantic relations, in particular its two resolutions of 1 June 2006 on improving EU-US relations in the framework of a Transatlantic Partnership Agreement (1) and on EU-US transatlantic economic relations (2),

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having regard to the EU-US Declaration on Combating Terrorism of 26 June 2004 and Declaration on Enhancing Cooperation in the field of Non Proliferation and the Fight Against Terrorism of 20 June 2005,

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having regard to the outcome of the EU-US Summit held on 21 June 2006 in Vienna,

—

having regard to the forthcoming EU-US Summit to be held on 30 April 2007 in Washington,

—

having regard to Rule 103(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas partnership between the EU and the US, based on the shared values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights, is the cornerstone of security and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area,

B.

whereas, in the fight against international terrorism, it is necessary to stress the importance of fully respecting international law and treaties regarding human rights and fundamental freedoms,

C.

whereas the ongoing situation at Guantanamo Bay and the CIA's secret detention programme are creating tensions in transatlantic relations, since the EU cannot accept those legal irregularities, which undermine the most fundamental values of the rule of law,

D.

whereas the global political and economic order is currently undergoing major changes, giving rise to significant political and economic challenges and posing serious security, social and environmental threats,

E.

whereas the current situation in the Middle East calls for strong cooperation between the EU and the US in the framework of the Quartet and with the League of Arab States (LAS) in order to bring more stability to the region by promoting peace, democracy and respect for human rights,

F.

whereas a strong and functioning partnership between the EU and the US is a vital tool for shaping global development in the interests of common values on the basis of effective multilateralism and international law; whereas strong and consistent political leadership is required to enable the partners to attain that goal,

G.

whereas the US is still unwilling to extend the Visa Waiver Programme and is continuing to impose, on a non-reciprocal basis, a visa requirement on citizens of the eleven new EU Member States, as well as Greece, thereby weakening transatlantic ties and perpetuating inequality among EU citizens,

H.

whereas the transatlantic market, comprising, as it does, the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world, provides employment for 14 million people in the EU and the US, accounts for 40 % of world trade and remains the engine of the world economy,

I.

whereas, given their role in the world economy, the transatlantic partners share responsibility for shaping global development and governance in the interest of common values, through effective multilateralism, in order to share prosperity more equally and to address successfully global challenges such as security, global economic governance, the environment and poverty reduction,

J.

whereas a cooperative transatlantic economic relationship is in the mutual interest of the EU and the US and consistent political leadership is needed to strengthen the transatlantic market; supports the German Presidency, therefore, in its effort to make real progress, at the upcoming Summit, in substantially strengthening regulatory cooperation,

K.

whereas the US Senate unanimously adopted a resolution on 9 December 2006 urging both transatlantic partners to work together to strengthen the transatlantic market and to show leadership at the 2007 EU-US Summit in agreeing to set a date for completing the transatlantic market,

L.

whereas financial services are a crucial issue for EU-US relations; whereas further enhanced cooperation, regulatory convergence and a level playing field between the US and the EU in the regulation of financial services are in the interest of both parties,

Political, security and human rights issues

1.

Welcomes the improvement in EU-US relations on an equal basis; believes that this positive backdrop offers serious opportunities for the EU and US to work closely together on a wide range of policy challenges of common concern, notably in the common approach to the Western Balkans, the South Caucasus region, Central Asia, the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Mediterranean, Latin America and Africa;

2.

Calls on the Council and the US administration to intensify efforts, within the framework of the Middle East Quartet, to foster negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians for a comprehensive peace solution on the basis of two secure and viable states; supports the Quartet's call for continued international assistance to the Palestinian people; is of the view that every effort should be made to stabilise the situation in Lebanon; welcomes the re-launch of the Plan adopted by the LAS at the Riyadh Summit, welcomes the formation of the Palestinian national unity government and urges both transatlantic partners to engage in a constructive dialogue with it, taking into account the position of the Council;

3.

Welcomes the recent visits to Damascus by high-ranking American and European politicians; calls for concerted EU-US action to be taken in order to test Syria's unconditional willingness to restart negotiations with Israel and cooperate constructively with the international community;

4.

Welcomes the close cooperation between the EU and the US on the Iranian nuclear issue and encourages both partners to continue cooperation in strengthening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and establishing a comprehensive system of international agreements on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in order to jointly reinforce the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a key element in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons;

5.

Deplores the announcement by Iran that it intends to begin uranium enrichment on an industrial scale, since such a step would directly oppose the repeated requests by the IAEA Board of Governors and the binding calls on Iran by the UN Security Council, in Resolutions 1737(2006) and 1747(2007), to suspend all enrichment-related activities,

6.

Believes that fighting terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction remain the greatest security challenges for both partners; stresses therefore the need for both sides to reinforce their collaboration in that field and to support the role that the UN must play in combating both challenges;

7.

Believes that it is necessary to define, with the US, a common and shared framework to safeguard the guarantees that are needed in the special EU-US partnership in the fight against terrorism, which could also deal with all aspects concerning the free movement of persons between the EU and the US; considers that, from that perspective, contacts should be strengthened between Parliament and Congress;

8.

Recognises that the sharing of data and information is a valuable tool in the international fight against terrorism and related crime, but stresses that strong data protection guarantees would facilitate data sharing while ensuring protection of privacy, and that such data sharing would in any case need to be based on one or more international agreements similar in structure to the EC/US agreement on judicial cooperation in criminal matters and extradition, which is currently being examined by Congress;

9.

Strongly regrets that the agreements on Passenger Name Records, SWIFT and the existence of the US Automated Targeting System have led to a situation of legal uncertainty with regard to the necessary data protection guarantees for data sharing and transfer between the EU and the US for the purposes of ensuring public security and, in particular, preventing and fighting terrorism; stresses that data should be exchanged where necessary in accordance with the existing EU-US agreement on mutual legal assistance and extradition and in compliance with EC and EU data protection legislation; believes that the sharing of personal data must take place on a proper legal basis, linked to clear rules and conditions, and must be covered by adequate protection of the privacy and civil liberties of individual citizens;

10.

Calls on the US and all other countries which apply entry visas to selected EU Member States to immediately lift the visa regime and to treat all citizens of EU Member States equally; regrets the inclusion of an additional ‘information sharing clause’ (a PNR clause) in the proposed changes to the US Visa Waiver Programme;

11.

Highlights the fact that many of the measures contained in the legislative proposal ‘Improving America's Security Act’ of 2007, when adopted by the US Congress, will have a direct impact on EU countries, in particular concerning police and judicial cooperation in the fight against terrorism and the protection of fundamental rights and guarantees;

12.

Welcomes the commitment shown by Vice-President F. Frattini to launching a Euro-Atlantic cooperation framework in the fight against international terrorism, with harmonised rules on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; requests the Commission to continue those efforts and to fully involve Parliament in that initiative;

13.

Notes the newly created High-Level Working Group composed of representatives of the Commission, the Council and US governmental representatives of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, which constitutes the framework for EU-US dialogue on security matters; so as to give greater democratic legitimacy to this dialogue, calls for the European Parliament to be involved;

14.

Recalls the resolutions of Parliament calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre; calls on the Council and the Commission to urge the US Government to find a mechanism that will facilitate the charging or releasing of detainees in accordance with international law; is concerned that the very existence of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre continues to send out a negative signal as to how the fight against terrorism is being pursued; urges the Council to issue a clear and forceful declaration calling on the US Government to put an end to the practice of extraordinary arrests and renditions and that the US Government be requested for clarifications regarding the existence of secret prisons outside US territory;

15.

Reiterates the view that NATO, which remains an important tie between many European countries and the US and a guarantor of European security, should develop its potential as a transatlantic forum for political debate in a true partnership of equals;

16.

Welcomes the close cooperation between the US and the EU on the status negotiations in Kosovo and highlights the need to find a balanced and viable outcome on Kosovo's future status; encourages both partners to use the EU-US Summit, to be held on 30 April 2007 in Washington, to endorse their consensus on the Ahtisaari Plan and to continue their dialogue with all parties concerned; recommends, to this end, a closer security relationship between NATO and the EU, in particular in view of the situation in Kosovo, where the EU will take over from United Nations Mission in Kosovo while some 16 000 NATO troops will remain; believes that a stronger EU-US partnership will complement rather than undermine that relationship;

17.

Calls on the US to redouble its efforts to consult and explain its planned missile defence system within NATO in order to allow the Alliance and Europe to remain united, resist foreign pressure and steer clear of disagreement in different areas of security; stresses the importance of consulting on the system within the NATO-Russia Council; stresses that the US system should be coordinated and interoperable with NATO's Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (TBMD) system;

18.

Calls on the EU Presidency and the US Government to signal to the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, that his withdrawal from the post would be a welcome step towards preventing the Bank's anti-corruption policy from being undermined;

Economic and Trade Issues

19.

Stresses that during the upcoming EU-US Summit new impetus should be given to transatlantic relations by updating the New Transatlantic Agenda;

20.

Strongly supports the initiative by the German Presidency of the European Council to launch a New Transatlantic Economic Partnership, with a road map for achieving a barrier-free transatlantic market, to strengthen the position of both partners in global competition and enable them to better use the potential of their economies, without undermining multilateral trade negotiations, including the Doha Round;

21.

Calls on the Presidents of the European Council, the Commission and the USA to use the upcoming EU-US Summit to initiate the negotiation of a new Transatlantic Partnership Agreement, including a strengthened transatlantic market between the EU and the US, covering investment, intellectual property, innovation, public procurement and the relationship between trade and security; calls for both partners to launch negotiations on an effective Agreement on Regulatory Cooperation, including common methodologies, measures to minimise future regulatory divergence, commitments to engage regulatory agencies and measures to engage industries, labour unions and consumer groups; urges that legislators on both sides be systematically involved in the negotiations;

22.

Insists that the negotiations on a barrier-free transatlantic market place must not lead to a downward harmonisation of social, environmental and health standards and must maintain the autonomy and integrity of the EU's competition policy and its rules on the protection of public services and cultural diversity;

23.

Is concerned about the potentially dangerous impact of the growing US federal current account deficit on the global economy and the stability of international currency markets; strongly encourages partners to commit themselves to avoiding excessive deficits, which exacerbate international imbalances;

24.

Welcomes the decision of the German G8 presidency to put the problem of international capital market regulation on the agenda for the next G8 summit; expresses its concern that the US has unilaterally announced new principles for private capital pools, which are based on non-binding transparency measures; requests the Commission to ensure equivalent ownership rights in each other's territory for enterprises; strongly believes that a dialogue on hedge funds and private equities should be engaged in view of the systemic risk their activities represent and the growing debate over their wider social and economic consequences; requests the Commission what it will do in this respect, bearing in mind that the US is preparing proposals; recalls that two-thirds of hedge and private equity funds are based in off-shore centres and therefore asks that their fiscal implications be examined;

25.

Stresses the importance of converging supervisory practices with regard to transatlantic consolidation of stock exchanges; reiterates its request, therefore, for the enhancement of the Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue via a bi-annual policy review of transatlantic financial services before and after every annual EU-US summit; urges the US-EU Summit to agree on the mutual recognition of accounting standards, based on reliable regulatory supervision; highlights the importance of US implementation of the Basel II Accord on Capital Requirements and of recognition, by the Securities and Exchange Commission, of International Financial Reporting Standards; reiterates with regret the need for EU reinsurers facing highly discriminatory State rules in the US to fully collateralise risks; calls therefore on the US-EU Summit to agree on further transatlantic mutual recognition and uniform solvency and reporting requirements; asks the Commission to ensure that transatlantic mergers and/or purchases of stock exchanges and other financial institutions will not, directly or indirectly, lead to US laws, regulations, or supervisory practices being unilaterally imposed within the EU;

26.

Calls on both sides to bring the WTO Doha Development Agenda to a successful conclusion with full respect for the development dimension; urges the EU and the US, therefore, to declare at the 2007 Summit their full commitment to working towards a positive breakthrough by Summer 2007 and, in addition to their market access and services objectives, to agree a joint approach to promoting enforceable International Labour Organization's core labour standards in the WTO and in bilateral trade agreements, to restate their commitment to the Green Box subsidies in agriculture, together with a common strategy on cross-compliance, bio-fuels, animal welfare, animal health and avian flu, and to underline the importance of the EU-US wine agreement;

27.

Requests the Council and the Commission to discuss with the transatlantic partners how to make progress in the matter of developing countries' access to medicines, and to oppose vigorously the initiative of the US to include in all bilateral agreements, negotiated with developing countries, clauses by which those countries renounce the use of the provision of the Doha Agreement that allows them to produce and import generic drugs needed to tackle major public health problems (AIDS, tuberculosis, etc); is concerned, nevertheless, that Congress's intention to authorise parallel imports of medicines from EU Member States may create obstacles to their availability to EU patients and could encourage counterfeiting; requests the EU, therefore, to raise that issue at the next Summit;

28.

Considers that the EU and the US, representing 38 % of world energy consumption, should take the lead through joint efforts to develop alternative energy production and energy efficiency; calls, therefore, on both partners to strengthen their cooperation on energy, energy security and environmental sustainability, to establish a stable and predictable global energy market based on market rules and to seek to include provisions governing energy trade in WTO regulations;

29.

Insists, in this context, on the specific responsibility of developed countries to take the lead in reducing emissions; urges the US to reconsider its position as regards ratification of the Kyoto Protocol; calls, moreover, on the US to take vigorous domestic measures leading to absolute emission reductions and to play an active role in future international negotiations with a view to participating in the future climate change regime; welcomes regional cap-and-trade initiatives in the US and activities at state level leading to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; urges the US administration, the Commission, the Council and the Member States urgently to adopt effective measures in order to reduce the impact of aviation on climate change; calls for climate change to be regularly raised at interparliamentary delegation level and in the context of the Transatlantic Legislative Dialogue;

30.

Expects the upcoming EU-US Summit to prepare the ground for a G8 Summit agreement in June for launching a post-Kyoto emissions regime that would involve the US and key emerging economies like China, Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia, with, among other things, an effective system of carbon emissions trading and the promotion of new technologies;

31.

Welcomes the Joint EU-US Action Strategy for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights adopted at the 2006 EU-US Summit; recommends a review of the patent reform process by both sides;

32.

Renews its request to the Commission (3), to investigate, as a matter of urgency, the fact that EU companies and sectors with operations in the US, not covered by the Safe Harbour agreement, may currently be forced to make personal data available to US authorities, in particular US branches of European banks, insurance companies, social security institutions and providers of telecoms services;

33.

Encourages the US Administration, the EU Presidency and the Commission to sign the Air Transport Agreement of 2 March 2007 between the US Administration and the EU Commission at the upcoming Summit as the first stage agreement for renewed cooperation between the US and the EU in the very important Transatlantic Aviation Area; hopes that the US will soon ratify that agreement and encourages both sides to start the negotiations for the second stage agreement as soon as possible;

34.

Calls on the European and American partners to take account in their economic relations of the role and special features of the cultural and educational sectors;

Institutional framework and role of Parliament

35.

Emphasises that only the wider involvement, at all levels, of Congress and the Parliament will make it possible to truly improve the whole process and that the existing interparliamentary exchange should be gradually transformed into a de facto ‘Transatlantic Assembly’;

36.

Calls on the upcoming EU-US Summit to support the parliamentary dimension of the transatlantic partnership, to enhance the role of legislators in the dialogue between the EU and the US, and to involve civil society from both sides of the Atlantic more closely;

37.

Stresses its commitment to continue contributing to the strength and stability of the Transatlantic Partnership through its engagement in the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue; supports the effort to establish a legislative early-warning system between the European Parliament and the US Congress;

38.

Urges the EU-US Summit to agree to an adequate level of parliamentary participation in the EU-US Summits and calls for a meeting prior to every summit between the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue and the Senior-Level Group to exchange views on the progress of the Work Programme and the preparations for the Summit; reiterates the need to create a stable institutional parliamentary framework;

39.

Requests the Commission to discuss with the relevant EP committees its negotiating strategy before engaging in negotiations with its US counterparts, when those negotiations tackle legislative issues;

40.

Calls on its relevant committee to use the budget for 2007 to provide the necessary funds for establishing a permanent European Parliament official post in Washington DC that ensures proper institutionalisation of Parliament's own activities and allows for an improvement in liaisons between the European Parliament and the US Congress;

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41.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the President and Congress of the United States of America.

(1)  OJ C 298 E, 8.12.2006, p. 226.

(2)  OJ C 298 E, 8.12.2006, p. 235.

(3)  European Parliament resolution of 14 February 2007 on SWIFT, the PNR agreement and the transatlantic dialogue on these issues, Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0039.

P6_TA(2007)0156

Progress report on Croatia

European Parliament resolution of 25 April 2007 on Croatia's 2006 progress report (2006/2288(INI))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the decision by the Council on 3 October 2005 to open accession negotiations with Croatia,

—

having regard to the Croatia 2006 Progress Report, published by the Commission on 8 November 2006 (SEC(2006)1385),

—

having regard to the recommendations of the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee of 3-4 October 2006,

—

having regard to the European Council's Presidency Conclusions of 14-15 December 2006,

—

having regard to its resolution of 13 December 2006 on the Commission's Communication on the Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2006-2007 (1),

—

having regard to the recommendations of the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee of 20 and 21 March 2007,

—

having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (A6-0092/2007),

A.

whereas Croatia has continued to make good progress in terms of the political, economic and acquis criteria and should be congratulated on the important steps taken in many fields to adapt its legislation in the light of the screening exercise,

B.

whereas, provided that Croatia addresses the outstanding challenges and develops adequate administrative capacity, negotiations should continue at a sustained pace and should lead, as soon as all the criteria have been met and the negotiations are completed, to a timely accession of Croatia to the European Union,

C.

whereas Croatia should do its outmost to carry out the necessary reforms so that the negotiations can be concluded in time for the European Parliament to give its assent before the next EU parliamentary election in June 2009,

D.

whereas Croatia's accession prospects have a regional dimension since they are a tangible sign that, in accordance with the conclusions of the 2003 Thessaloniki European Council, the future of all Western Balkans countries really lies in the European Union, as confirmed in various resolutions of the European Parliament,

E.

whereas Croatia is expressly supporting the European aspirations of its neighbours,

F.

whereas lessons from past enlargements show that each country should be judged on its own merits, that the pace of accession negotiations should be dictated by effective compliance with the Copenhagen criteria and that the degree of compliance with such criteria should also determine the final date of accession,

G.

whereas the Treaty of Nice does not provide an adequate basis for further enlargements, and whereas the essential substance of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe should therefore enter into force by the end of 2008, in order to create the necessary conditions for future enlargements and enable the Union to work more effectively, more transparently and more democratically, this being a prerequisite for further enlargements; whereas, moreover, the Commission and the Council must work intensively on creating the necessary preconditions for enlargement — and specifically for Croatia's accession to the EU,

H.

whereas responsibility for ensuring the European Union's capacity for further successful enlargement lies with the Union and not with the candidate countries,

I.

whereas the joint screening process was successfully completed in October 2006 and bilateral negotiations with Croatia could subsequently start on specific aspects of the acquis,

J.

whereas so far six different chapters of the acquis have been opened and two, concerning science and research and education and culture, have been provisionally closed,

K.

whereas the Commission has already made use of benchmarks in order to monitor progress by the Croatian authorities in crucial and sensitive areas such as competition policy, public procurement, the free movement of capital, justice, freedom and security, social policy and employment,

L.

whereas Croatia's efforts to meet the accession criteria need to be sustained and matched by effective implementation measures and adequate monitoring mechanisms,

M.

whereas a thorough reform of the public administration and the judiciary, together with the police, is central to, and a necessary condition for, achieving the standards required for EU accession,

N.

whereas a thorough and objective analysis of the region's recent history, true reconciliation between the different peoples and the establishment of good neighbourly relations can substantially contribute to a genuine European integration process,

O.

whereas the prosecution of war crimes and the reintegration of refugees and displaced persons are fundamental elements of the reconciliation process;

1.

Notes that Croatia has already made considerable progress on the way to EU accession;

2.

Considers, in line with the Commission's communication on Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2006-2007 (COM(2006)0649), that Croatia continues to meet the political criteria for accession and can be regarded as a functioning market economy that should be able to cope with competitive pressures and market forces within the Union in the medium term, provided that it vigorously implements its reform programme so as to remove the significant remaining weaknesses;

3.

Congratulates the Croatian authorities on the rapid progress made so far in accession negotiations, particularly in the adoption of key pieces of legislation in crucial areas such as public administration, the administration of courts and anti-corruption policy;

4.

Supports the government and opposition in their efforts, despite the forthcoming elections, to take necessary, albeit sometimes difficult decisions, particularly in the field of competition policy and state aid, and points out that those decisions will ultimately benefit all Croatian citizens;

5.

Asks the Croatian government to strengthen its capacity to implement laws transposed from the acquis communautaire into national legislation in all fields, especially in the area of the environment;

6.

In this regard, urges the Croatian authorities to take into due consideration the concerns raised by local communities and public opinion with regard to controversial industrial projects which might pose a threat to the environment or public health, and calls on them to set up a clear and transparent procedure whereby all stakeholders, and not merely investors, can be informed and consulted;

7.

Invites the Croatian government in this regard to fully respect and implement international documents such as the Aarhus Convention and to eventually ratify the Kyoto Protocol in accordance with the most recent EU environmental strategies;

8.

Is concerned by flagging public support for EU accession in Croatia and welcomes the fact that the Government and the opposition are joining forces in explaining to the public the economic, political, social and cultural benefits resulting from the accession process; calls on the Commission to intensify its own information activities concerning the above-mentioned benefits;

9.

Emphasises the need to implement rapidly and effectively the reforms adopted so far in order to further modernise Croatia and thereby to further strengthen and stabilise democracy and the social market economy; in this respect:

(a)

notes that the provisions in the Civil Service Act introducing transparency and objectivity in the appointment and assessment of civil servants will not enter into force until after the next election; further notes that this decision could create an impression of delay in this important area and thereby encourage the view that the government's determination to reform public administration is less than wholehearted, even though the ending of political interference in the civil service is of the highest importance to the present government;

(b)

notes the commitment of the Croatian Minister for Justice to pursue the rationalisation, as announced, of the number of courts operating in the country, in order to make them more professional and efficient; reminds the Minister that this process must go hand in hand with the establishment of adequate procedures and criteria for appointing and assessing judicial staff aimed at providing sufficient guarantees for a professional and independent judiciary; welcomes in this respect the establishment of a working party for the development of new framework criteria for the assessment of judges and the amendment of the Courts Act introducing the obligation for judges to declare their assets and the possibility of transferring judges to overburdened courts; is convinced that the backlog of cases should be further tackled by promoting alternative dispute resolution mechanisms with the aim of achieving an effective judicial system;

(c)

commends Croatia for fully cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); is concerned, however, that, as shown by recent judicial decisions, the effective prosecution of war crimes might be undermined by hostility at local level, persisting bias amongst some of the judicial staff against non-Croatian nationals and insufficient protection of witnesses against intimidation; urges the Croatian Government to continue actively to encourage and support the prosecution of war crimes, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrators; is also concerned about certain initiatives taken by the Government, notably its offer to support the defence costs for army generals and its request to act as amicus curiae in cases pending before the ICTY;

(d)

takes the view that the all Croatian institutions and parties should counteract the public's perception of the ICTY as a hostile institution and publicise the role which the ICTY plays in prosecuting crimes committed against Croat civilians;

(e)

notes that an appropriate legal framework is in place concerning the protection of minorities as well as a demonstrated commitment to integrating minorities in the political system; recalls the importance of guaranteeing adequate representation of those minorities in the civil service, in the police forces and in the judiciary, as well as equal treatment in property-related and economic matters; calls for the development at all levels of state administration of a concrete action plan for achieving proportional representation of minorities, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitutional Law and with adequate provisions for monitoring;

(f)

notes with satisfaction the positive developments in the process for the return of refugees and displaced persons; invites the Government to further encourage return by seeking fair, effective and sustainable ways of addressing the issues of housing and employment, these being the main concerns of prospective returnees; asks the Croatian authorities to guarantee water and electricity services for all villages concerned;

(g)

welcomes the Government's new five-year plan to tackle the issue of housing provision for former tenancy right-holders outside the areas of special state concern; in this context, emphasises the need for the accelerated implementation of the new action plan, in order to address the pressing needs of the population concerned;

(h)

yet again invites the Croatian authorities to reopen the deadline for the recognition of working years in respect of people who worked in the so-called ‘Republika Srpska Krajina’ during the conflict and to allow these non-residents too to apply for such recognition; reminds the authorities that this would be a tangible sign of Croatia's willingness to overcome the rifts left by the conflict and promote reconciliation in the country;

(i)

is pleased to note Croatia's steadily increasing economic growth, based on an ambitious reform agenda and on strong private investment, and hopes that this will be soon translated into more and better jobs;

(j)

reminds the Croatian authorities that an open, competitive market economy is a fundamental requirement for EU membership; urges them therefore to implement more seriously and expeditiously the agreed targets for the sale of minority and majority state-owned interests in companies and for the reduction of state subsidies, particularly in the shipbuilding and steel sectors; believes that more should be done to open the Croatian market to foreign investors and service providers and to place them on the same footing as national operators; appeals to Croatia to authorise, by making full and expedient use of its existing procedures, the acquisition of real estate by EU nationals, with the exception of the exempted areas; recalls that the above objectives are already envisaged in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Croatia;

(k)

calls on the Croatian government to strengthen its administrative capacity in order to benefit intensively from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance;

10.

Commends Croatia for the positive and leading role it plays in south-eastern Europe and welcomes in this respect the activities of the Croatian Government in its current capacity as Chairman-in-Office of the South-East European Cooperation Process; calls on Croatia and its neighbouring states to settle once and for all the unresolved border issues;

11.

Urges in particular both the Croatian and the Slovenian governments to exploit all the opportunities available in order to reach an agreement on all their pending border issues, taking into account the agreements reached so far and the conclusions of the European Council of 17-18 June 2004, and invites them to abstain from any unilateral action which might undermine such an agreement;

12.

Urges recourse to the good offices of a third party if solutions with the neighbouring countries cannot be found bilaterally to outstanding border disputes;

13.

Calls on the Commission to further encourage and support a broad-based truth and reconciliation process, in Croatia and throughout the Western Balkans, and to include other neighbouring countries when necessary; firmly believes that this process should involve civil society, political actors and cultural figures, and that it should lay the ground for lasting peace and stability in the region; considers that this reconciliation process must, in particular, target young people and that it should include a thorough review of school books and curricula for history studies;

14.

Encourages in this respect all efforts made by Croatian civil society to engage the public in debates and to raise public awareness about the recent past of the Western Balkans; stresses that Croatian nongovernmental organisations are a fundamental and indispensable element of a genuine pluralistic society; calls on the Croatian Government to support education in the field of recent history that fosters mutual understanding;

15.

Calls on the new Member States to play an active role in Croatia's move towards accession, allowing Croatia to benefit from their experience of reforms;

16.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States and of the Republic of Croatia.

(1)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0568.

Thursday 26 April 2007

20.3.2008   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 74/680

MINUTES

(2008/C 74 E/04)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS

Vice-President

1.   Opening of sitting

The sitting opened at 10.00.

The following spoke: Richard Corbett, who pointed out that he, along with other Members, had tabled a written declaration on the Bureau's reversal of the complete ban on smoking on Parliament's premises.

The relevant departments and the President had notified him that the written declaration was inadmissible as it pertained to an internal Parliament matter. Mr Corbett called for the matter to be referred to the AFCO Committee in order for that committee to provide an interpretation of the provisions of the relevant Rule (Rule 116) (the President agreed to proceed as Mr Corbett suggested).

2.   Documents received

The following documents had been received:

1)

from the Council and Commission:

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Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning meat and livestock statistics (COM(2007)0129 — C6-0099/2007 — 2007/0051(COD))

referred to

responsible: AGRI

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Proposal for a Council and Commission decision on the conclusion of the Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union (COM(2007)0007 — C6-0102/2007 — 2007/0004(CNS))

referred to

responsible: AFET

 

opinion: INTA

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Proposal for a Council and Commission decision on the conclusion of the Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union (COM(2007)0009 — C6-0103/2007 — 2007/0003(CNS))

referred to

responsible: AFET

 

opinion: INTA

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Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (COM(2007)0159 — C6-0104/2007 — 2007/0054(COD))

referred to

responsible: EMPL

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Proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 10/2007 — Section III — Commission (SEC(2007)0370 — C6-0107/2007 — 2007/2070(GBD))

referred to

responsible: BUDG

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Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to the installation of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural and forestry tractors (Codified version) (COM(2007)0192 — C6-0108/2007 — 2007/0066(COD))

referred to

responsible: JURI

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Proposal for a Council directive amending Directive 2003/96/EC as regards the adjustment of special tax arrangements for gas oil used as motor fuel for commercial purposes and the coordination of taxation of unleaded petrol and gas oil used as motor fuel (COM(2007)0052 — C6-0109/2007 — 2007/0023(CNS))

referred to

responsible: ECON

 

opinion: ENVI, ITRE, TRAN

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Proposal for a Council regulation Establishing a multi-annual recovery Plan for Bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (COM(2007)0169 — C6-0110/2007 — 2007/0058(CNS))

referred to

responsible: PECH

 

opinion: ENVI

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Proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (COM(2007)0122 — C6-0116/2007 — 2007/0045(CNS))

referred to

responsible: AGRI

 

opinion: BUDG, CONT

2)

from Members:

a)

proposals for recommendations (Rule 114)

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Graham Watson, Marco Cappato, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck and Marco Pannella, on behalf of the ALDE Group. Proposal for a recommendation to the Council on production of opium for medical purposes in Afghanistan B6-0187/2007)

referred to

responsible: AFET

 

opinion: LIBE

3.   Transfers of appropriations

The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 02/2007 (C6-0070/2007 — SEC(2007)0027 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in part under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 03/2007 (C6-0069/2007 — SEC(2007)0028 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 04/2007 (C6-0071/2007 — SEC(2007)0155 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 05/2007 (C6-0072/2007 — SEC(2007)0156 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 06/2007 (C6-0073/2007 — SEC(2007)0157 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 07/2007 (C6-0074/2007 — SEC(2007)0158 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered the Commission's proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 08/2007 (C6-0092/2007 — SEC(2007)0159 final).

Having noted the Council's opinion, it had authorised the transfer in full under Article 24(3) of the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002, as amended on 13 December 2006.

4.   Relations between the EU and Switzerland (debate)

Commission statement: Relations between the EU and Switzerland

Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Andreas Schwab, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Pervenche Berès, on behalf of the PSE Group, Diana Wallis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Mario Borghezio, on behalf of the UEN Group, Andreas Mölzer, on behalf of the ITS Group, James Nicholson, Aloyzas Sakalas, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Daniel Hannan, Ryszard Czarnecki and Joaquín Almunia.

The debate closed.

5.   Situation of disabled women in the European Union (debate)

Report on the situation of disabled women in the European Union [2006/2277(INI)] — Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Rapporteur: Esther Herranz García (A6-0075/2007)

Esther Herranz García introduced the report.

The following spoke: Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Anna Záborská, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Lissy Gröner, on behalf of the PSE Group, Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Urszula Krupa, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Lydia Schenardi, on behalf of the ITS Group, Hiltrud Breyer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Amalia Sartori, Ilda Figueiredo, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Piia-Noora Kauppi and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 8.4.

6.   Communication of Council common positions

Pursuant to Rule 57(1), the President announced that the Council had sent the following common position, along with the reasons for its adoption and the Commission's position on:

—

Common position adopted by the Council on 19 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing of certain measuring devices containing mercury (05665/1/2007 — C6-0114/2007 — 2006/0018(COD))

referred to

responsible: ENVI

The three-month period available to Parliament to adopt its position would therefore begin the following day, 27.04.2007.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.20 pending voting time and resumed at 12.05.)

IN THE CHAIR: Hans-Gert PÖTTERING

President

7.   Announcement by the President

The President pointed out that, at its meeting that morning, the Conference of Presidents had voted by a very large majority to express its backing for the press release made by the Presidency the previous day concerning the withdrawal of Bronisław Geremek's mandate. He then read out the press release:

So far the European Parliament has not received any information from the Polish authorities in relation to Mr Geremek's mandate. Mr Geremek is a political personality of the highest esteem who has always stood up for democracy in his country and for European unification. We will examine all legal possibilities with a view to enabling him to continue his work. According to our information the Polish Constitutional Court is currently examining the law on which the withdrawal of the mandate of Mr Geremek is based. A decision of the Court is expected during the next few weeks.

I have asked the Legal Service of the European Parliament to examine the exact legal situation. The Conference of Presidents will discuss the matter further at its meeting tomorrow.

The President added that at that meeting, the Conference of Presidents had expressed its sympathy for and solidarity with Mr Geremek.

8.   Voting time

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

8.1.   Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***I (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 89/391/EEC, its individual Directives and Council Directives 83/477/EEC, 91/383/EEC, 92/29/EEC and 94/33/EC with a view to simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation [COM(2006)0390 — C6-0242/2006 — 2006/0127(COD)] — Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Rapporteur: Ilda Figueiredo (A6-0059/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL, AMENDMENTS and DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0157)

8.2.   Compensation for certain fishery products * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the French departments of Guiana and Réunion from 2007 to 2013 [COM(2006)0740 — C6-0505/2006 — 2006/0247(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Duarte Freitas (A6-0083/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL, AMENDMENTS and DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0158)

8.3.   Common Fisheries Policy (Regional Advisory Councils) * (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2004/585/EC establishing Regional Advisory Councils under the Common Fisheries Policy [COM(2006)0732 — C6-0051/2007 — 2006/0240(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Elspeth Attwooll (A6-0078/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0159)

8.4.   Situation of disabled women in the European Union (Rule 131) (vote)

Report on the situation of disabled women in the European Union [2006/2277(INI)] — Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Rapporteur: Esther Herranz García (A6-0075/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P6_TA(2007)0160)

8.5.   Basic information on purchasing power parities ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination [COM(2006)0135 — C6-0100/2006 — 2006/0042(COD)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Sharon Bowles (A6-0077/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0161)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0161)

8.6.   Rapid Border Intervention Teams ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism [COM(2006)0401 — C6-0253/2006 — 2006/0140(COD)] — Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A6-0135/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0162)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0162)

8.7.   Conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources * (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy [COM(2006)0587 — C6-0402/2006 — 2006/0190(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries.

Rapporteur: Ioannis Gklavakis (A6-0085/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P6_TA(2007)0163)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0163)

8.8.   Galileo (vote)

Motion for a resolution B6-0155/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0164)

8.9.   Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter (vote)

Report on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter [2007/2020(INI)] — Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rapporteur: Simon Coveney (A6-0128/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0165)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Sarah Ludford, who moved two oral amendments to Amendment 19 and Amendment 13 respectively, which were supported by Simon Coveney (rapporteur) and accepted;

—

Simon Coveney, who moved an oral amendment to paragraph 94, which was accepted;

—

Józef Pinior, who moved an oral amendment to paragraph 150, which was not accepted, as more than 40 Members objected.

8.10.   Moratorium on the death penalty (vote)

Motion for a resolution B6-0164/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0166)

The following spoke on the vote:

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Marco Cappato, who moved an oral amendment to citation 4, which was accepted.

8.11.   Homophobia in Europe (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0167/2007, B6-0168/2007, B6-0170/2007 and B6-0171/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0167/2007

(replacing B6-0167/2007, B6-0168/2007 and B6-0171/2007):

tabled by the following Members:

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Martine Roure and Michael Cashman, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—

Sophia in 't Veld, Alexander Alvaro, Sarah Ludford and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—

Monica Frassoni, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—

Giusto Catania, Mary Lou McDonald, Eva-Britt Svensson, Miguel Portas, Gabriele Zimmer, Vittorio Agnoletto and André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0167)

(Motion for a resolution B6-0170/2007 fell.)

The following spoke on the vote:

—

Zbigniew Zaleski, who referred to the wording used in the joint motion for a resolution;

—

Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, who moved an oral amendment to insert a new paragraph 12a, which was rejected, as more than 40 Members opposed its inclusion.

8.12.   Public Finances in the EMU 2006 (vote)

Report on Public Finances in EMU 2006 [2007/2004(INI)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Rapporteur: Kurt Joachim Lauk (A6-0076/2007)

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0168)

9.   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:

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Report: Ilda Figueiredo — A6-0059/2007: Andreas Mölzer

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Report: Esther Herranz García — A6-0075/2007: Zita Pleštinská

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Report: Gérard Deprez — A6-0135/2007: Koenraad Dillen, Philip Claeys and Andreas Mölzer

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Homophobia in Europe — RC-B6-0167/2007: Eija-Riitta Korhola, Koenraad Dillen, Albert Deß and Manfred Weber

10.   Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Corrections to votes and voting intentions 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 and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.

Arlene McCarthy stated that, owing to technical reasons, she had been unable to vote on the joint motion for a resolution (as a whole) RC-B6-0167/2007 (Homophobia in Europe).

(The sitting was suspended at 12.50 and resumed at 15.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS

Vice-President

11.   Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

12.   Agenda

At its meeting that morning, the Conference of Presidents had decided to propose the following changes to the agenda for the sittings of 9 and 10 May 2007:

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Council and Commission statements: EU-Russia summit

Deadline for tabling amendments and joint motion for a resolution: Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 10.00.

—

The recommendation for second reading by Lissy Gröner (A6-0147/2007): Combating violence (Daphne III programme), the vote on which had been scheduled for Thursday, 10 May, would be included with debate on the agenda of the May 2007 part-session in Strasbourg.

—

Establishment of a temporary committee on climate change:

The nominations put forward by the Conference of Presidents would be announced at the beginning of the sitting on Wednesday, 9 May 2007.

Deadline for tabling amendments: Wednesday, 9 May 2007, at 18.00.

Vote: Thursday, 10 May 2007

The House agreed to the changes.

13.   Zimbabwe (debate)

Council and Commission statements: Zimbabwe

Nooke (President-in-Office of the Council) and Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Geoffrey Van Orden, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Margrietus van den Berg, on behalf of the PSE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the UEN Group, Athanasios Pafilis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Michael Gahler, Ana Maria Gomes, James Nicholson and Józef Pinior.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

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Geoffrey Van Orden, Nirj Deva and Michael Gahler, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the situation in Zimbabwe (B6-0162/2007);

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Gabriele Zimmer and Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Zimbabwe (B6-0163/2007);

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Marek Aleksander Czarnecki and Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group, on Zimbabwe (B6-0165/2007);

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Margrietus van den Berg and Glenys Kinnock, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the situation in Zimbabwe (B6-0166/2007);

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Marie-Hélène Aubert and Frithjof Schmidt, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Zimbabwe (B6-0169/2007);

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Thierry Cornillet, Marios Matsakis, Johan Van Hecke and Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in Zimbabwe (B6-0188/2007).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 15.4.

14.   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 24.04.2007, Item 2)

14.1.   Recent repression of demonstrations in Russia

Motions for resolution B6-0172/2007, B6-0175/2007, B6-0178/2007, B6-0179/2007, B6-0182/2007 and B6-0186/2007

Danutė Budreikaitė, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Milan Horáček, Tunne Kelam, Erik Meijer and Panagiotis Beglitis introduced motions for resolutions.

The following spoke: Gabriele Stauner, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Józef Pinior, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marcin Libicki, on behalf of the UEN Group, Witold Tomczak, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Bernd Posselt, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Günter Nooke (President-in-Office of the Council) and Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 15.1.

14.2.   Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston

Motions for resolution B6-0159/2007, B6-0161/2007, B6-0174/2007, B6-0177/2007, B6-0180/2007 and B6-0184/2007

Richard Howitt, Marcin Libicki, Marios Matsakis, Erik Meijer, Carl Schlyter and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou introduced motions for resolutions.

The following spoke: Simon Coveney, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Elizabeth Lynne, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Zuzana Roithová, Sarah Ludford, Günter Nooke (President-in-Office of the Council) and Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 15.2.

14.3.   Human rights situation in the Philippines

Motions for resolution B6-0160/2007, B6-0173/2007, B6-0176/2007, B6-0181/2007, B6-0183/2007 and B6-0185/2007

Karin Scheele, Marios Matsakis, Tobias Pflüger, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Thomas Mann and Michał Tomasz Kamiński introduced motions for resolutions.

The following spoke: Charles Tannock, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Günter Nooke (President-in-Office of the Council) and Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 26.04.2007, Item 15.3.

Simon Coveney spoke on behalf of the PPE-DE Group to welcome the first occasion of Council participation in the Thursday afternoon debates on human rights.

15.   Voting time

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

15.1.   Recent repression of demonstrations in Russia (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0172/2007, B6-0175/2007, B6-0178/2007, B6-0179/2007, B6-0182/2007 and B6-0186/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0172/2007

(replacing B6-0172/2007, B6-0175/2007, B6-0178/2007, B6-0179/2007, B6-0182/2007 and B6-0186/2007):

tabled by the following Members:

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Edward McMillan-Scott, Bernd Posselt, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Tunne Kelam, Eija-Riitta Korhola and Simon Coveney, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—

Pasqualina Napoletano, Panagiotis Beglitis and Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—

Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Henrik Lax, Marco Cappato, Marios Matsakis and Janusz Onyszkiewicz, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—

Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Konrad Szymański, Adam Bielan, Inese Vaidere, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Gintaras Didžiokas and Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the UEN Group,

—

Bart Staes, Milan Horáček and Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—

Vittorio Agnoletto and André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0169)

15.2.   Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0159/2007, B6-0161/2007, B6-0174/2007, B6-0177/2007, B6-0180/2007 and B6-0184/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0159/2007

(replacing B6-0159/2007, B6-0161/2007, B6-0174/2007, B6-0177/2007, B6-0180/2007 and B6-0184/2007):

tabled by the following Members:

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Ioannis Kasoulides, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Simon Coveney, Charles Tannock, John Bowis, Frieda Brepoels and Eija-Riitta Korhola, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—

Richard Howitt, Pasqualina Napoletano, Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Thijs Berman and Panagiotis Beglitis, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—

Elizabeth Lynne, Chris Davies, Sarah Ludford and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—

Brian Crowley, Konrad Szymański and Gintaras Didžiokas, on behalf of the UEN Group,

—

Margrete Auken, Jill Evans and Caroline Lucas, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—

Francis Wurtz, Luisa Morgantini and André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0170)

15.3.   Human rights situation in the Philippines (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0160/2007, B6-0173/2007, B6-0176/2007, B6-0181/2007, B6-0183/2007 and B6-0185/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0160/2007

(replacing B6-0160/2007, B6-0173/2007, B6-0176/2007, B6-0181/2007, B6-0183/2007 and B6-0185/2007):

tabled by the following Members:

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Thomas Mann, Bernd Posselt and Eija-Riitta Korhola, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,

—

Pasqualina Napoletano and Marc Tarabella, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—

Jules Maaten and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group

—

Gintaras Didžiokas, on behalf of the UEN Group,

—

Frithjof Schmidt, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Elisabeth Schroedter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,

—

Tobias Pflüger, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

—

(Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Adam Bielan and Marek Aleksander Czarnecki had withdrawn their signatures on behalf of the UEN Group.)

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0171)

15.4.   Zimbabwe (vote)

Motions for resolution B6-0162/2007, B6-0163/2007, B6-0165/2007, B6-0166/2007, B6-0169/2007 and B6-0188/2007

(Simple majority)

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

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION RC-B6-0162/2007

(replacing B6-0162/2007, B6-0165/2007, B6-0166/2007, B6-0169/2007 and B6-0188/2007):

tabled by the following Members:

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Geoffrey Van Orden and Michael Gahler, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group

—

Margrietus van den Berg and Glenys Kinnock, on behalf of the PSE Group,

—

Thierry Cornillet, Marios Matsakis, Johan Van Hecke and Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group,

—

Marek Aleksander Czarnecki and Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group,

—

Marie-Hélène Aubert and Frithjof Schmidt, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Adopted (P6_TA(2007)0172)

(Motion for a resolution B6-0163/2007 fell.)

16.   Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Corrections to votes and voting intentions 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 and voting intentions will be finalised so that it can be translated and published in the Official Journal.

17.   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.

18.   Membership of Parliament

The Romanian authorities had informed Parliament of the appointment of Cristian Silviu Buşoi and Horia-Victor Toma to replace Adrian Mihai Cioroianu and Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi respectively as Members of the European Parliament, with effect from 24.04.2007.

Under Rule 3(2), until such time as their credentials had been verified or a ruling had been given on any dispute, and provided that they had previously made a written declaration stating that they did not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, Cristian Silviu Buşoi and Horia-Victor Toma would take their seats in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto.

19.   Membership of committees and delegations

At the request of the PPE-DE, PSE and UEN Groups, Parliament ratified the following appointments:

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Subcommittee on Human Rights: Riccardo Ventre

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LIBE Committee and FEMM Committee: Esther De Lange

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Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: Michael Cashman to replace Glenis Willmott

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Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe: Glenis Willmott

—

Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia:

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Edit Bauer to replace Christian Ehler

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Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski

—

Delegation for relations with India: Christian Ehler to replace Edit Bauer

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Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China: Joop Post to replace Ria Oomen-Ruijten

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Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula: Astrid Lulling

20.   Verification of credentials

At the proposal of the JURI Committee, Parliament validated the mandate of Joop Post with effect from 1 March 2007.

21.   Decisions concerning certain documents

Enhanced cooperation between committees

ENVI Committee

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The placing of plant protection products on the market (COM(2006)0388 — C6-0245/2006 — 2006/0136(COD))

(opinion: ITRE)

Enhanced cooperation between committees ENVI, AGRI, IMCO

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 07.12.2006)

ITRE Committee

—

Prospects for the internal gas and electricity market (2007/2089(INI))

(opinion: ENVI, IMCO, REGI)

Enhanced cooperation between committees ITRE, ECON

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

LIBE Committee

—

Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child (2007/2093(INI))

(opinion: DEVE, CULT, AFET, EMPL, JURI)

Enhanced cooperation between committees LIBE, FEMM

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

Referral to committees

JURI Committee

—

Amendment of the Rules of Procedure in the light of the Statute for Members (2006/2195(REG))

referred to

responsible: AFCO

 

opinion: JURI

Decision to draw up own-initiative reports

FEMM Committee

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Report on equality between women and men in the European Union — 2007 (2007/2065(INI))

(opinion: CULT, AGRI, EMPL, LIBE, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 21.03.2007)

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

AFCO Committee

—

The road-map for the Union's constitutional process (2007/2087(INI))

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

AFET Committee

—

A more effective EU policy for South Caucasus: from promises to actions (2007/2076(INI))

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

—

Strengthening the European neighbourhood policy (2007/2088(INI))

(opinion: LIBE, INTA, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

CONT Committee

—

Court of Auditor' Special Report No 9/2006 concerning translation expenditure incurred by the Commission, the Parliament and the Council (2007/2077(INI))

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

CULT Committee

—

The role of sport in education (2007/2086(INI))

(opinion: FEMM)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

ECON Committee

—

Contribution of taxation and customs policies to the Lisbon Strategy (2007/2097(INI))

(opinion: ITRE, JURI, IMCO)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

—

Report on Competition Policy 2005 (2007/2078(INI))

(opinion: ENVI, EMPL, ITRE, IMCO, TRAN)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

ENVI Committee

—

International Health Regulations (2007/2079(INI))

(opinion: LIBE)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

ITRE Committee

—

A Road Map for renewable energy in Europe (2007/2090(INI))

(opinion: DEVE, AFET, AGRI, ENVI, ECON, INTA, IMCO, TRAN, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

—

Conventional energy sources and energy technology (2007/2091(INI))

(opinion: DEVE, AFET, ENVI, ECON, INTA, IMCO, TRAN, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

—

Prospects for the internal gas and electricity market (2007/2089(INI))

(opinion: ENVI, IMCO, REGI, ECON)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

JURI Committee

—

Better Regulation in the European Union (2007/2095(INI))

(opinion: PETI, FEMM, AFCO, DEVE, CULT, AFET, PECH, AGRI, ENVI, EMPL, BUDG, ITRE, ECON, CONT, LIBE, INTA, IMCO, TRAN, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

—

Strategy for the simplification of the regulatory environment (2007/2096(INI))

(opinion: PETI, FEMM, AFCO, DEVE, CULT, AFET, PECH, AGRI, ENVI, EMPL, BUDG, ITRE, ECON, CONT, LIBE, INTA, IMCO, TRAN, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

LIBE Committee

—

Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child (2007/2093(INI))

(opinion: DEVE, CULT, AFET, EMPL, JURI, FEMM)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

—

Application of Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (2007/2094(INI))

(opinion: FEMM, EMPL)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

TRAN Committee

—

Airport capacity and ground handling: towards a more efficient policy (2007/2092(INI))

(opinion: ENVI, EMPL, ITRE, ECON, LIBE, REGI)

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

Decision to draw up own-initiative reports (Rule 114)

LIBE Committee

—

On progress in the negotiations concerning the framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia (2007/2067(INI))

(Following the Conference of Presidents' decision of 19.04.2007)

22.   Written declarations entered in the register (Rule 116)

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

Document number

Author

Signatures

6/2007

Adriana Poli Bortone

25

7/2007

Oldřich Vlasák

13

8/2007

Jo Leinen, Frédérique Ries, Erik Meijer and Bernat Joan i Marí

264

9/2007

Jim Higgins, Dan Jørgensen, John Bowis and Linda McAvan

153

10/2007

Elmar Brok, Nicole Fontaine, Bronislaw Geremek, Jo Leinen and Iñigo Méndez de Vigo

277

11/2007

Michael Cashman, Sophia in 't Veld, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Alexander Stubb and John Bowis

238

12/2007

Graham Watson, Joseph Daul, Martin Schulz, Cristiana Muscardini and Daniel Cohn-Bendit

229

13/2007

Daniel Strož

12

14/2007

Jamila Madeira

50

15/2007

Adriana Poli Bortone

37

16/2007

Zita Gurmai, Anders Wijkman, Vittorio Prodi, Umberto Guidoni and Claude Turmes

304

17/2007

Véronique Mathieu, Anne Van Lancker, Sophie in't Veld, Luisa Morgantini and Hiltrud Breyer

153

18/2007

Urszula Krupa and Witold Tomczak

15

19/2007

Daniel Strož, Athanasios Pafilis and Tobias Pflüger

41

20/2007

Gianni Pittella, Lapo Pistelli, Luciana Sbarbati, Lilli Gruber and Claudio Fava

92

21/2007

Alyn Smith, Karin Resetarits, Luisa Morgantini, Marie-Arlette Carlotti and Anna Záborská

46

22/2007

Pierre Schapira, Kader Arif, Johan Van Hecke, Luisa Morgantini and Caroline Lucas

93

23/2007

Mojca Drčar Murko, Jelko Kacin, Sepp Kusstatscher, Karin Resetarits and Csaba Sándor Tabajdi

23

24/2007

Elizabeth Lynne, Angelika Beer, Véronique De Keyser and Mihael Brejc

148

25/2007

Andreas Mölzer

10

26/2007

Andreas Mölzer

2

27/2007

Aldo Patriciello

40

28/2007

Marco Cappato, Gérard Onesta, Riccardo Ventre, Józef Pinior and Marco Pannella

72

29/2007

Caroline Lucas, Mojca Drčar Murko, Karin Scheele, Satu Hassi and Jens Holm

75

30/2007

Adrian-Mihai Cioroianu and Alexandru Ioan Morţun

14

31/2007

Andreas Mölzer

8

32/2007

Elizabeth Lynne

60

33/2007

Jacky Henin and Marco Rizzo

11

34/2007

Viorica-Pompilia-Georgeta Moisuc

10

35/2007

Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Silvia Ciornei, Simon Coveney, Lissy Gröner and Raül Romeva i Rueda

101

36/2007

Romana Jordan Cizelj and Jan Christian

Ehler 20

37/2007

Ivo Belet, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Adeline Hazan, Guy Bono and Patrick Gaubert

60

38/2007

Cristian Stănescu

4

39/2007

Věra Flasarová

10

40/2007

Jens Holm, Rebecca Harms, John Bowis, Martine Roure and Mojca Drčar Murko

42

41/2007

Geoffrey Van Orden, Struan Stevenson, Ivo Strejček, Syed Kamall and Nina Škottová

30

42/2007

Glyn Ford, Bernd Posselt, Viktória Mohácsi, Claude Moraes and Feleknas Uca

37

43/2007

Roberto Musacchio, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Françoise Castex, Maria da Assunção Esteves and Jean Lambert

50

44/2007

Diana Wallis, Gérard Onesta, Marc Tarabella, Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Dimitrios Papadimoulis

124

45/2007

Nikolaos Vakalis, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, David Hammerstein Mintz and Pia Elda Locatelli

49

23.   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.

24.   Dates for next sittings

The next sittings would be held on 09.05.2007 and 10.05.2007.

25.   Adjournment of session

The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.

The sitting closed at 17.00.

Harald Rømer

Secretary-General

Hans-Gert Pöttering

President

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

The following signed:

Adamou, Agnoletto, Aita, Albertini, Allister, Alvaro, Anastase, Andersson, Andrejevs, Andria, Andrikienė, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Ashworth, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Attwooll, Aubert, Audy, Ayala Sender, Aylward, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Baco, Badia i Cutchet, Bărbuleţiu, Barsi-Pataky, Batten, Battilocchio, Bauer, Beaupuy, Beazley, Becsey, Beglitis, Belder, Belet, Belohorská, Bennahmias, Beňová, Berend, Berès, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bielan, Birutis, Bliznashki, Blokland, Böge, Bösch, Bonde, Bono, Borghezio, Bourlanges, Bourzai, Bowis, Bowles, Bozkurt, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Breyer, Březina, Brie, Budreikaitė, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Buruiană-Aprodu, Bushill-Matthews, Busk, Buşoi, Busquin, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Camre, Capoulas Santos, Cappato, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casa, Casaca, Cashman, Casini, Caspary, Castex, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Catania, Cavada, Cederschiöld, Cercas, Chatzimarkakis, Chervenyakov, Chichester, Chmielewski, Christensen, Chruszcz, Ciornei, Claeys, Clark, Cocilovo, Coelho, Cohn-Bendit, Corbett, Corbey, Cornillet, Correia, Coşea, Paolo Costa, Cottigny, Coveney, Cramer, Corina Creţu, Ryszard Czarnecki, Daul, Davies, De Blasio, Degutis, Dehaene, De Keyser, Demetriou, Deprez, De Rossa, De Sarnez, Descamps, Désir, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, De Vits, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dičkutė, Didžiokas, Díez González, Dillen, Dimitrakopoulos, Martin Dimitrov, Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov, Dîncu, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Douay, Dover, Doyle, Drčar Murko, Dührkop Dührkop, Duff, Duka-Zólyomi, Dumitrescu, Ebner, El Khadraoui, Esteves, Ettl, Fajmon, Falbr, Fatuzzo, Fava, Fazakas, Ferber, Fernandes, Anne Ferreira, Elisa Ferreira, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Flautre, Florenz, Foltyn-Kubicka, Fontaine, Fourtou, Fraga Estévez, Frassoni, Freitas, Fruteau, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, García Pérez, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gebhardt, Gentvilas, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gewalt, Gibault, Gierek, Gill, Gklavakis, Glante, Glattfelder, Goebbels, Goepel, Golik, Gollnisch, Gomes, Gomolka, Gottardi, Goudin, Grabowska, Grabowski, Graça Moura, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Grandes Pascual, Grech, Griesbeck, Gröner, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Groote, Grosch, Grossetête, Guardans Cambó, Guellec, Guerreiro, Gurmai, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Guy-Quint, Gyürk, Hänsch, Hammerstein, Hamon, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Harms, Hasse Ferreira, Hassi, Haug, Hazan, Heaton-Harris, Hedh, Hegyi, Hellvig, Helmer, Henin, Hennicot-Schoepges, Hennis-Plasschaert, Herczog, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Holm, Honeyball, Hoppenstedt, Horáček, Howitt, Hudacký, Hughes, Hutchinson, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Janowski, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jensen, Joan i Marí, Jöns, Jørgensen, Jonckheer, Jordan Cizelj, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kaczmarek, Kallenbach, Kamall, Kamiński, Karas, Karatzaferis, Karim, Kasoulides, Kaufmann, Kauppi, Tunne Kelam, Kelemen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Kohlíček, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krasts, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kristovskis, Krupa, Kuc, Kudrycka, Kuhne, Kułakowski, Kušķis, Kusstatscher, Kuźmiuk, Lagendijk, Laignel, Lambert, Lambrinidis, Lambsdorff, Lang, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, La Russa, Lauk, Lax, Lechner, Lehideux, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, Le Rachinel, Lévai, Lewandowski, Liberadzki, Lichtenberger, Lienemann, Liese, Liotard, Lipietz, Locatelli, López-Istúriz White, Louis, Lucas, Ludford, Lulling, Lundgren, Lynne, Maaten, McAvan, McGuinness, Madeira, Maldeikis, Manders, Maňka, Erika Mann, Thomas Mann, Mantovani, Marinescu, Markov, Martens, David Martin, Martinez, Martínez Martínez, Masiel, Maštálka, Mastenbroek, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Matsakis, Matsis, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Medina Ortega, Meijer, Menéndez del Valle, Meyer Pleite, Miguélez Ramos, Mihăescu, Mihalache, Mikko, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Mölzer, Mohácsi, Moisuc, Moreno Sánchez, Morgantini, Morillon, Morţun, Moscovici, Mote, Mulder, Musacchio, Muscat, Mussolini, Napoletano, Nassauer, Nattrass, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson, Nicholson of Winterbourne, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Özdemir, Olbrycht, Ó Neachtain, Onesta, Onyszkiewicz, Oomen-Ruijten, Ortuondo Larrea, Őry, Ouzký, Oviir, Paasilinna, Pack, Pafilis, Pahor, Paleckis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Pannella, Panzeri, Papadimoulis, Paparizov, Papastamkos, Parvanova, Paşcu, Patrie, Pęk, Petre, Pflüger, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pinior, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Pirker, Piskorski, Pittella, Pleštinská, Podestà, Podgorean, Podkański, Pöttering, Poignant, Pomés Ruiz, Popeangă, Portas, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Prets, Vittorio Prodi, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ransdorf, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Remek, Resetarits, Reul, Reynaud, Ribeiro e Castro, Ries, Rogalski, Roithová, Romagnoli, Romeva i Rueda, Rosati, Roszkowski, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Rühle, Rutowicz, Sacconi, Saïfi, Sakalas, Saks, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Salinas García, Samuelsen, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Savi, Sbarbati, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schenardi, Schierhuber, Schlyter, Olle Schmidt, Frithjof Schmidt, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Jürgen Schröder, Schroedter, Schuth, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Segelström, Seppänen, Şerbu, Severin, Shouleva, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Simpson, Sinnott, Siwiec, Skinner, Škottová, Sommer, Søndergaard, Sonik, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Spautz, Speroni, Staes, Stănescu, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Šťastný, Stauner, Sterckx, Stevenson, Stihler, Stockmann, Strejček, Strož, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Svensson, Szabó, Szájer, Szejna, Szent-Iványi, Szymański, Tabajdi, Tajani, Tannock, Tarabella, Tarand, Tatarella, Thyssen, Ţicău, Ţîrle, Titley, Toma, Tomczak, Trakatellis, Trautmann, Triantaphyllides, Turmes, Uca, Ulmer, Vaidere, Vakalis, Vălean, Van Hecke, Van Lancker, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Vaugrenard, Ventre, Veraldi, Vergnaud, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vigenin, de Villiers, Virrankoski, Vlasák, Vlasto, Voggenhuber, Wagenknecht, Wallis, Walter, Watson, Henri Weber, Manfred Weber, Weiler, Weisgerber, Westlund, Whittaker, Wieland, Wiersma, Wijkman, Willmott, Wise, Wohlin, Bernard Wojciechowski, Janusz Wojciechowski, Wortmann-Kool, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zani, Zapałowski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Ždanoka, Železný, Zieleniec, Zīle, Zingaretti, Zwiefka

ANNEX I

RESULTS OF VOTES

Abbreviations and symbols

+

adopted

-

rejected

↓

lapsed

W

withdrawn

RCV (..., ..., ...)

roll-call vote (in favour, against, abstentions)

EV (..., ..., ...)

electronic vote (in favour, against, abstentions)

split

split vote

sep

separate vote

am

amendment

CA

compromise amendment

CP

corresponding part

D

deleting amendment

=

identical amendments

§

paragraph

art

article

rec

recital

MOT

motion for a resolution

JT MOT

joint motion for a resolution

SEC

secret ballot

1.   Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***I

Report: Ilda FIGUEIREDO (A6-0059/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

2.   Compensation for certain fishery products *

Report: Duarte FREITAS (A6-0083/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

3.   Common Fisheries Policy (Regional Advisory Councils) *

Report: Elspeth ATWOOLL (A6-0078/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

4.   Situation of disabled women in the European Union

Report: Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA (A6-0075/2007)

Subject

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

single vote

 

+

 

5.   Basic information on purchasing power parities ***I

Report: Sharon BOWLES (A6-0077/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

block 1

(text as a whole)

1-9

11-23

28-32

committee

 

+

 

block 2

(text as a whole)

33-37

39

ALDE

 

+

 

art 2, § 1

40

ALDE

 

+

 

10

committee

 

↓

 

art 12

38

ALDE

 

+

 

24-27

committee

 

↓

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

 

+

 

6.   Rapid Border Intervention Teams ***I

Report: Gérard DEPREZ (A6-0135/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

proposal to reject the commission proposal

2

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

text as a whole

1

committee

 

+

 

after art 8

3

GUE/NGL

 

-

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

RCV

+

526, 63, 28

Requests for roll-call votes

ALDE: final vote

7.   Sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources *

Report: Ioannis GKLAVAKIS (A6-0085/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

amendments by the committee responsible — block vote

1-2

committee

 

+

 

art 11, § 5

3

PSE

 

+

 

vote: amended proposal

 

+

 

vote: legislative resolution

RCV

+

572, 35, 10

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

8.   Galileo

Motion for a resolution: (B6-0155/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

motion for a resolution B6-0155/2007

(ITRE committee)

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

9.   Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter

Report: Simon COVENEY (A6-0128/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

after § 3

1

ALDE

RCV

+

315, 251, 50

§ 4

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 15

2

ALDE

 

+

 

§ 16

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 19

3

ALDE

RCV

+

575, 32, 10

§ 21

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 28

19

PPE-DE

 

+

oral amendment

§

original text

 

↓

 

§ 29

21

PPE-DE

 

+

 

§ 36

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 47

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 56

18D

PPE-DE

 

-

 

after § 65

11

PSE

 

+

 

after § 66

4

ALDE

 

+

 

§ 68

20

PPE-DE

 

+

 

§ 81

5

ALDE

 

-

 

after § 84

6

ALDE

RCV

-

89, 520, 9

§ 85

17

PPE-DE

 

+

 

§ 93

16

PPE-DE, PSE

 

+

 

§ 94

§

original text

 

+

oral amendment

§ 106

15

PPE-DE

 

+

 

after § 109

7=

14=

ALDE,

Verts/ALE, PSE

RCV

+

327, 281, 5

§ 122

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

3

+

 

4

+

 

§ 126

8

ALDE

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/EV

+

332, 273, 8

§ 132

§

original text

sep

+

 

after § 133

9

ALDE

RCV

+

333, 233, 40

§ 144

10

ALDE

RCV

+

524, 45, 53

12

PSE

 

W

 

after § 145

13

PSE

 

+

oral amendment

§ 149

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 150

§

original text

sep

+

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

Requests for roll-call votes

ALDE: ams 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10

Requests for separate votes

PSE: § 150

PPE-DE: §§ 4, 28, 36, 47, 132, 149 and 150

Requests for split votes

PSE, GUE/NGL

§ 122

1st part:‘Recalls its ... human rights;’

2nd part:‘more specifically’

3rd part:‘is concerned ... 14 February 2006’

4th part:‘stresses ... third countries;’

PPE-DE

§ 16

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘the need to ratify ... Families’

2nd part: those words

§ 21

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘between the parties to the conflict’

2nd part: those words

am 8

1st part:‘Expresses its deep ... to enter Member States;’

2nd part: remainder

Miscellaneous

Sarah Ludford moved an oral amendment to amendment 19, which then read as follows:

28. Expresses its concern at the effect on the ordinary Palestinian people of the EU decision to suspend the provision of aid through the Palestinian Authority, as a result of the failure of the Authority to fulfil legitimate conditions; urges expansion of the temporary international mechanism and urges the Council and the Commission to monitor changing circumstances that would allow for the resumption of the provision of aid through the Authority;

Simon Coveney (rapporteur) moved an oral amendment to § 94, which then read as follows:

94. Recognises the significant human rights consequences of the ongoing war in Iraq and the complex nature of the current fragile political situation; notes the reports and resolutions adopted by Parliament on Iraq and the recommendations contained within them; urges the Council and the Commission to constantly assess how the EU could play a more constructive role in bringing about stability in Iraq; notes with total stupefaction the provisional suspension by ECHO of humanitarian aid for Iraq, notwithstanding the disastrous situation afflicting the suffering Iraqi people and Iraqi refugees; welcomes, however, the resumption of this aid from February 2007;

Sarah Ludford moved an oral amendment to amendment 13, which then read as follows:

145a. Recalls its Resolution of 18 January 2007 on Gender Mainstreaming in the Work of the Committees; calls on its committees to make every reasonable effort to respect gender balance in their activities (including the composition of delegations and invited speakers) and to implement gender action plans put forward by the Members appointed within each Committee as responsible for gender mainstreaming;

10.   Universal moratorium on the death penalty

Motion for a resolution: (B6-0164/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

motion for a resolution B6-0164/2007

(PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL)

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

oral amendment to citation 4

Miscellaneous

Marco Cappato moved an oral amendment to citation 4, which then read as follows:

—

having regard to the statement on abolition of the death penalty delivered on 19 December 2006 in the UN General Assembly by the EU Presidency, which was initially signed by 85 countries from all geographical groups,

11.   Homophobia in Europe

Motions for resolutions: (B6-0167/2007, B6-0168/2007, B6-0170/2007, B6-0171/20070)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

joint motion for a resolution: RC-B6-0167/2007

(PSE, ALDE, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL)

§ 6

§

original text

sep/EV

+

324, 245, 22

§ 8

§

original text

sep

+

 

rec C

§

original text

sep/EV

+

301, 256, 34

rec H

§

original text

sep

+

 

rec K

§

original text

sep

+

 

rec M

§

original text

sep

-

 

rec Q

§

original text

sep/EV

+

296, 261, 41

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

325, 124, 150

motions for resolutions by political groups

B6-0167/2007

 

ALDE

 

↓

 

B6-0168/2007

 

PSE

 

↓

 

B6-0170/2007

 

UEN

 

↓

 

B6-0171/2007

 

Verts/ALE

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

Requests for roll-call votes

UEN: final vote

Verts/ALE: final vote

PSE: final vote

Requests for separate votes

ALDE: recs C, H, K, M and Q, §§ 6 and 8

PSE: rec M

12.   Public finances in EMU — 2006

Report: Kurt Joachim LAUK (A6-0076/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

§ 1

11

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

3

PSE

 

+

 

§ 2

12

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

204, 344, 42

§ 3

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 4

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 5

4

PSE

 

-

 

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/EV

+

305, 257, 13

§ 6

5

PSE

 

+

 

§ 7

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 9

6

PSE

 

+

 

§

original text

 

↓

 

§ 14

13

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

7

PSE

 

-

 

§ 18

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2

+

 

§ 19

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 20

8=

14=

PSE,

Verts/ALE

RCV

-

278, 283, 7

1

PPE-DE

RCV

-

212, 335, 35

15

ALDE

 

+

 

§

original text

 

↓

 

after § 20

9

PSE

 

+

 

§ 23

§

original text

sep

+

 

§ 26

2D

PPE-DE

EV

-

272, 285, 21

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

277, 142, 130

Amendment 10 had been cancelled.

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

PSE: ams 1 and 8/14

Verts/ALE: ams 1, 8/14 and 12

Requests for separate votes

GUE/NGL: §§ 3, 4, 19 and 23

Verts/ALE: § 20

Requests for split votes

GUE/NGL

§ 5

1st part:‘Stresses that ... of the SGP;’

2nd part: remainder

§ 7

1st part:‘is concerned ... in some Member States;’

2nd part: remainder

§ 18

1st part:‘Calls for the reorientation ... human capital accumulation;’

2nd part: remainder

13.   Recent repression of demonstrations in Russia

Motions for resolutions: B6-0172/2007, B6-0175/2007, B6-0178/2007, B6-0179/2007, B6-0182/2007, B6-0186/2007

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

joint motion for a resolution: RC-B6-0172/2007

(PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL)

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

65, 0, 2

motions for resolutions by political groups

B6-0172/2007

 

PSE

 

↓

 

B6-0175/2007

 

ALDE

 

↓

 

B6-0178/2007

 

UEN

 

↓

 

B6-0179/2007

 

Verts/ALE

 

↓

 

B6-0182/2007

 

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

B6-0186/2007

 

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

14.   Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston

Motions for resolutions: (B6-0159/2007, B6-0161/2007, B6-0174/2007, B6-0177/2007, B6-0180/2007, B6-0184/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

joint motion for a resolution: RC-B6-0159/2007

(PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL)

vote: resolution (as a whole)

 

+

 

motions for resolutions by political groups

B6-0159/2007

 

UEN

 

↓

 

B6-0161/2007

 

PSE

 

↓

 

B6-0174/2007

 

ALDE

 

↓

 

B6-0177/2007

 

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

B6-0180/2007

 

Verts/ALE

 

↓

 

B6-0184/2007

 

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

15.   Human rights situation in the Philippines

Motions for resolutions: (B6-0160/2007, B6-0173/2007, B6-0176/2007, B6-0181/2007, B6-0183/2007, B6-0185/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

oint motion for a resolution: RC-B6-0160/2007

(PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL)

§ 1

§

original text

split

 

 

1

+

 

2/RCV

-

29, 41, 0

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

68, 0, 0

motions for resolutions by political groups

B6-0160/2007

 

PSE

 

↓

 

B6-0173/2007

 

ALDE

 

↓

 

B6-0176/2007

 

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

B6-0181/2007

 

Verts/ALE

 

↓

 

B6-0183/2007

 

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

B6-0185/2007

 

UEN

 

↓

 

Requests for split votes

PPE-DE

§ 1

1st part: text as a whole without the words ‘the role that army forces play in perpetrating such murders’

2nd part: those words

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

16.   Zimbabwe

Motions for resolutions: (B6-0162/2007, B6-0163/2007, B6-0165/2007, B6-0166/2007, B6-0169/2007, B6-0188/2007)

Subject

Amendment No

Author

RCV, etc.

Vote

RCV/EV — remarks

joint motion for a resolution: RC-B6-0162/2007

(PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN, Verts/ALE)

rec L

1

Verts/ALE

 

-

 

vote: resolution (as a whole)

RCV

+

68, 1, 1

motions for resolutions by political groups

B6-0162/2007

 

PPE-DE

 

↓

 

B6-0163/2007

 

GUE/NGL

 

↓

 

B6-0165/2007

 

UEN

 

↓

 

B6-0166/2007

 

PSE

 

↓

 

B6-0169/2007

 

Verts/ALE

 

↓

 

B6-0188/2007

 

ALDE

 

↓

 

Requests for roll-call votes

PPE-DE: final vote

ANNEX II

RESULT OF ROLL-CALL VOTES

1.   Deprez report A6-0135/2007

Resolution

For: 526

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Karatzaferis, Sinnott

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mussolini, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Nassauer, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Maldeikis, Ó Neachtain, Pirilli, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Against: 63

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Bonde, Clark, Goudin, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Helmer

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Kuźmiuk, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Verts/ALE: Schlyter

Abstention: 28

IND/DEM: Krupa

NI: Baco

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Deva, Dover, Doyle, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Jackson, Kamall, Kirkhope, Mitchell, Nicholson, Purvis, Stevenson, Tannock, Van Orden

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen, Flautre, Lucas, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Voggenhuber

2.   Gklavakis report A6-0085/2007

Resolution

For: 572

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Kaufmann, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Karatzaferis, Sinnott

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Mussolini, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stevenson, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 35

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Markov, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Batten, Bonde, Clark, Goudin, Lundgren, Nattrass, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

PPE-DE: Fajmon, Hannan, Ouzký, Škottová, Strejček, Van Orden, Vlasák, Wohlin

PSE: Andersson, van den Berg, Christensen, Hedh, Hegyi, Jørgensen, Kinnock, Rasmussen, Schaldemose, Segelström, Westlund

Abstention: 10

ALDE: Schmidt Olle

GUE/NGL: Pafilis

IND/DEM: Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Chruszcz

PPE-DE: Kamall

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

3.   Coveney report A6-0128/2007

Amendment 1

For: 315

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Flasarová, Henin, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Uca, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Coşea, Mihăescu, Mussolini

NI: Belohorská

PPE-DE: Belet, Brepoels, Buzek, Cederschiöld, Dehaene, Esteves, Fjellner, Gklavakis, Hökmark, Hybášková, Ibrisagic, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Mavrommatis, Olajos, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Seeberg, Thyssen, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Kuc, Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Bennahmias, Breyer, Cohn-Bendit, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Harms, Lichtenberger, Özdemir, Onesta, Schroedter, Staes

Against: 251

GUE/NGL: Meyer Pleite

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Clark, Goudin, Lundgren, Nattrass, Sinnott, Tomczak, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Le Rachinel

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 50

GUE/NGL: Holm, Meijer, Pafilis, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Krupa, Louis, de Villiers

ITS: Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Saïfi, Sonik

Verts/ALE: Aubert, van Buitenen, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Hammerstein, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lipietz, Lucas, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

4.   Coveney report A6-0128/2007

Amendment 3

For: 575

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Flasarová, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Železný

ITS: Mihăescu

NI: Allister, Belohorská, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 32

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Krupa, Louis, Nattrass, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mussolini, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Chruszcz

PPE-DE: Pomés Ruiz

UEN: Czarnecki Ryszard, Rogalski

Abstention: 10

GUE/NGL: Meyer Pleite, Pafilis

IND/DEM: Sinnott

ITS: Martinez, Mote

NI: Baco, Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Lewandowski, Wohlin

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

5.   Coveney report A6-0128/2007

Amendment 6

For: 89

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Karatzaferis

ITS: Coşea, Mussolini

NI: Belohorská

PPE-DE: Posselt, Saïfi, Wijkman

PSE: Paparizov, Tarand

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Ó Neachtain

Against: 520

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Goudin, Louis, Lundgren, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 9

IND/DEM: Bonde, Krupa, Sinnott, Tomczak

NI: Baco

PPE-DE: Szabó

PSE: Vigenin

Verts/ALE: Bennahmias, van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Claude Turmes, Tokia Saïfi

6.   Coveney report A6-0128/2007

Amendments 7 + 14

For: 327

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis, Sinnott

ITS: Mussolini

NI: Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Belet, Brepoels, Dehaene, Grosch, Posselt, Saïfi, Seeberg, Thyssen, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 281

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Goudin, Krupa, Lundgren, Nattrass, Tomczak, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Baco, Chruszcz, Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 5

GUE/NGL: Pafilis

IND/DEM: Louis, de Villiers

PPE-DE: Szabó

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

7.   Coveney report A6-0128/2007

Amendment 9

For: 333

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bowles, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Samuelsen, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Wallis, Watson

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Sinnott

ITS: Coşea, Mussolini

NI: Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Audy, Daul, Dehaene, Descamps, De Veyrac, Gaubert, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Grossetête, Kauppi, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Seeberg, Stubb, Sudre, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Varvitsiotis, Ventre, Wijkman

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Crowley, Kuc, Ó Neachtain

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 233

ALDE: Bourlanges, Deprez, Morillon, Virrankoski

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Krupa, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Chruszcz

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gauzès, Gewalt, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Surján, Szájer, Tannock, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 40

ALDE: Budreikaitė, Matsakis, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Ries, Savi

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Louis, Nattrass, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Helmer

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Belet, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Dover, Esteves, Fjellner, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Ibrisagic, Jackson, Kamall, Korhola, Nicholson, Purvis, Saïfi, Stevenson, Szabó, Thyssen, Van Orden

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Claude Turmes

Abstention: Charles Tannock

8.   Coveney report A6-0128/2007

Amendment 10

For: 524

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Davies, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Samuelsen, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis, Watson

IND/DEM: Bonde, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Krupa, Lundgren, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Gollnisch, Mussolini

NI: Belohorská, Chruszcz, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, Deva, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Florenz, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Glattfelder, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Reul, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Ulmer, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, McCarthy, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stihler, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Aylward, Crowley, Maldeikis, Ó Neachtain, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 45

GUE/NGL: Meyer Pleite

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister

PPE-DE: Pomés Ruiz

UEN: Bielan, Borghezio, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Masiel, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Abstention: 53

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Louis, Nattrass, Sinnott, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

NI: Baco, Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Gklavakis, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Mavrommatis, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Sonik, Trakatellis, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis

UEN: Pirilli, Tatarella, Vaidere

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Javier Pomes

9.   RC-B6-0167/2007 — Homophobia in Europe

Resolution

For: 325

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bowles, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Davies, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Lambsdorff, Lax, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Mohácsi, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Uca, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Goudin, Lundgren, Železný

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Bachelot-Narquin, Belet, Bowis, Brepoels, Cederschiöld, Coveney, Dehaene, De Veyrac, Doorn, Doyle, Fjellner, Fontaine, Freitas, Gaubert, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Hökmark, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Kauppi, Korhola, Mathieu, Saïfi, Seeberg, Stubb, Thyssen, Vlasto, Wijkman, Wohlin

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Gottardi, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani, Zingaretti

UEN: Kuc

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 124

ALDE: Deprez, Morillon, Virrankoski

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Mussolini, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Helmer

PPE-DE: Andrikienė, Becsey, Berend, Buzek, Callanan, Casini, Chmielewski, Deß, Ebner, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Handzlik, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Hybášková, Jałowiecki, Kaczmarek, Klaß, Klich, Konrad, Kudrycka, Lechner, Lewandowski, Liese, Marques, Mauro, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Olbrycht, Ouzký, Pīks, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Reul, Saryusz-Wolski, Schnellhardt, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Strejček, Surján, Ţîrle, Vlasák, Záborská, Zaleski, Zwiefka

PSE: Golik, Grabowska, Liberadzki, Rosati, Szejna

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Szymański, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 150

ALDE: Budreikaitė, Costa, Geremek, Kułakowski, Lehideux, Matsakis, Onyszkiewicz, Savi, Staniszewska

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Busuttil, Casa, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Chichester, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Descamps, Deva, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duka-Zólyomi, Esteves, Fraga Estévez, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gyürk, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Iacob-Ridzi, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kamall, Karas, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Koch, Kónya-Hamar, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mato Adrover, Mavrommatis, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pinheiro, Podestà, Posdorf, Purvis, Rack, Radwan, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Sudre, Szabó, Tajani, Tannock, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec

PSE: Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Koterec

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Arlene McCarthy, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert

Against: Jean Marie Beaupuy

Abstention: Eija-Riitta Korhola, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Javier Pomes

10.   Lauk report A6-0076/2007

Amendment 12

For: 204

ALDE: Cornillet, Drčar Murko

NI: Belohorská

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, Cottigny, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Golik, Gomes, Gottardi, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Kreissl-Dörfler, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Moscovici, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Salinas García, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 344

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Costa, Deprez, De Sarnez, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Pafilis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Bonde, Clark, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Whittaker, Wise, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mote, Mussolini, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Helmer

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Ashworth, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Bushill-Matthews, Buzek, Callanan, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chichester, Chmielewski, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Dover, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, Nicholson, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Radwan, Reul, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Siekierski, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Stevenson, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Tannock, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Kamiński, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Pirilli, Podkański, Rogalski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski, Zīle

Abstention: 42

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Allister, Battilocchio, Chruszcz, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Szabó, von Wogau

PSE: Carlotti, Hänsch, Hedh

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

11.   Lauk report A6-0076/2007

Amendments 8 + 14

For: 278

ALDE: Andria, Cocilovo, Costa, Ortuondo Larrea, Sbarbati

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Maštálka, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Goudin, Lundgren

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Lang, Le Pen Marine, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mussolini, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Baco, Battilocchio, Belohorská, Helmer

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Dover, Hannan, Jackson, Kamall, Kirkhope, Nicholson, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Stevenson, Tannock, Wohlin

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bliznashki, Bösch, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Pittella, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Janowski, Kuc, Libicki, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pirilli, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Against: 283

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Deprez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Savi, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Batten, Belder, Blokland, Clark, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Mote, Popeangă

NI: Chruszcz

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Coveney, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Doyle, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Nassauer, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Queiró, Radwan, Reul, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Van Orden, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

UEN: Krasts, Kristovskis, Maldeikis, Pęk, Vaidere, Zīle

Abstention: 7

IND/DEM: Bonde, Karatzaferis

ITS: Gollnisch

NI: Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Szabó

UEN: Borghezio

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

For: Luisa Morgantini, Geoffrey Van Orden

12.   Lauk report A6-0076/2007

Amendment 1

For: 212

ALDE: Ortuondo Larrea

GUE/NGL: Ransdorf

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Krupa, Tomczak, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr

NI: Belohorská, Chruszcz

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Busuttil, Buzek, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, Coelho, Daul, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fajmon, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hoppenstedt, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Kelemen, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Marques, Martens, Mathieu, Mato Adrover, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Nassauer, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Ouzký, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Queiró, Radwan, Reul, Roithová, Rudi Ubeda, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Šťastný, Stauner, Strejček, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, Wijkman, von Wogau, Wohlin, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Bliznashki, Severin

UEN: Krasts, Kristovskis, Maldeikis, Vaidere, Zīle

Against: 335

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Ries, Savi, Sbarbati, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Van Hecke, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Flasarová, Guerreiro, Henin, Kaufmann, Markov, Maštálka, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Portas, Remek, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Goudin, Karatzaferis, Lundgren, Whittaker, Wise

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Moisuc, Mussolini, Popeangă, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Coveney, Doyle, McGuinness, Mitchell

PSE: Andersson, Arif, Arnaoutakis, Athanasiu, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Berman, Bösch, Bono, Bourzai, Bozkurt, Bulfon, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carlotti, Carnero González, Casaca, Cashman, Castex, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Correia, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, De Keyser, De Rossa, Désir, De Vits, Díez González, Dîncu, Douay, Dührkop Dührkop, Dumitrescu, El Khadraoui, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, Fazakas, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Glante, Goebbels, Gomes, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hazan, Hedh, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jöns, Jørgensen, Kindermann, Kirilov, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Lehtinen, Leichtfried, Leinen, Liberadzki, Lienemann, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Muscat, Myller, Napoletano, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Paasilinna, Pahor, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Patrie, Piecyk, Pinior, Podgorean, Poignant, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Reynaud, Rosati, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Saks, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Schapira, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Simpson, Siwiec, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Stockmann, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Tarand, Ţicău, Titley, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud, Vigenin, Walter, Weber Henri, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

UEN: Aylward, Bielan, Borghezio, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Janowski, Kuc, Libicki, Masiel, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Pirilli, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Speroni, Tatarella

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Lucas, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Voggenhuber, Ždanoka

Abstention: 35

GUE/NGL: Holm, Liotard, Meijer, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson

IND/DEM: Bonde, Louis, de Villiers, Železný

ITS: Mote

NI: Allister, Baco, Helmer, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Beazley, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Dover, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Jackson, Kamall, Kirkhope, Nicholson, Purvis, Stevenson, Tannock, Van Orden

PSE: Hänsch

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

13.   Lauk report A6-0076/2007

Resolution

For: 277

ALDE: Alvaro, Andrejevs, Andria, Attwooll, Bărbuleţiu, Beaupuy, Bourlanges, Bowles, Budreikaitė, Busk, Cappato, Cavada, Chatzimarkakis, Ciornei, Cornillet, Deprez, De Sarnez, Drčar Murko, Duff, Fourtou, Gentvilas, Geremek, Gibault, Griesbeck, Guardans Cambó, Hall, Hellvig, Hennis-Plasschaert, Ilchev, in 't Veld, Jensen, Juknevičienė, Kacin, Karim, Kułakowski, Lambsdorff, Lax, Lehideux, Ludford, Lynne, Manders, Matsakis, Mohácsi, Morillon, Morţun, Mulder, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Onyszkiewicz, Ortuondo Larrea, Oviir, Pannella, Parvanova, Piskorski, Prodi, Resetarits, Savi, Schmidt Olle, Schuth, Şerbu, Shouleva, Staniszewska, Sterckx, Szent-Iványi, Vălean, Veraldi, Virrankoski, Wallis

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland

ITS: Moisuc, Popeangă

PPE-DE: Albertini, Anastase, Andrikienė, Audy, Ayuso, Bachelot-Narquin, Barsi-Pataky, Bauer, Beazley, Becsey, Belet, Berend, Böge, Braghetto, Brejc, Brepoels, Březina, Busuttil, Buzek, Casini, Caspary, Castiglione, del Castillo Vera, Cederschiöld, Chmielewski, De Blasio, Dehaene, Demetriou, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dimitrov Martin, Dimitrov Philip Dimitrov, Dombrovskis, Doorn, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Esteves, Fatuzzo, Ferber, Fjellner, Fontaine, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Gahler, Gál, Gaľa, Galeote, Ganţ, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gewalt, Gklavakis, Glattfelder, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Grosch, Grossetête, Guellec, Gyürk, Handzlik, Hennicot-Schoepges, Herranz García, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Hökmark, Hudacký, Iacob-Ridzi, Ibrisagic, Jałowiecki, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jordan Cizelj, Karas, Kauppi, Kelam, Klamt, Klaß, Klich, Koch, Konrad, Kónya-Hamar, Korhola, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Kudrycka, Kušķis, De Lange, Langen, Lauk, Lechner, Liese, López-Istúriz White, Lulling, McGuinness, Mann Thomas, Mantovani, Marinescu, Martens, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Mayor Oreja, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Nassauer, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Őry, Pack, Papastamkos, Petre, Pieper, Pīks, Pinheiro, Pleštinská, Podestà, Posdorf, Posselt, Post, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Radwan, Reul, Rübig, Saïfi, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schierhuber, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schröder, Schwab, Seeber, Seeberg, Silva Peneda, Sommer, Sonik, Spautz, Stauner, Stubb, Sudre, Surján, Szabó, Szájer, Tajani, Thyssen, Ţîrle, Trakatellis, Ulmer, Vakalis, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Varvitsiotis, Vatanen, Ventre, Vernola, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasto, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Wortmann-Kool, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zatloukal, Zieleniec, Zwiefka

PSE: Bulfon, Dîncu, Dumitrescu, Glante, Jöns, Kirilov, Lehtinen, Leinen, Obiols i Germà, Öger, Rosati, Siwiec, Stockmann, Weber Henri

UEN: Aylward, Borghezio, Crowley, Kuc, Maldeikis, Ó Neachtain, Pirilli, Speroni, Tatarella, Vaidere, Zīle

Against: 142

ALDE: Cocilovo, Costa, Sbarbati

GUE/NGL: Agnoletto, Aita, Brie, Catania, Figueiredo, Guerreiro, Henin, Holm, Kaufmann, Liotard, Markov, Meijer, Meyer Pleite, Morgantini, Musacchio, Pafilis, Papadimoulis, Pflüger, Ransdorf, Remek, Seppänen, Søndergaard, Svensson, Wagenknecht, Wurtz

IND/DEM: Batten, Clark, Goudin, Krupa, Louis, Lundgren, Tomczak, de Villiers, Whittaker, Wise, Wojciechowski Bernard Piotr, Železný

ITS: Buruiană-Aprodu, Claeys, Coşea, Dillen, Gollnisch, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Pen Marine, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mihăescu, Mölzer, Mussolini, Romagnoli, Schenardi, Stănescu

NI: Chruszcz, Martin Hans-Peter

PPE-DE: Coveney, Doyle, Fajmon, Ouzký, Škottová, Strejček, Vlasák

PSE: Arif, Berman, Bliznashki, Bono, Bourzai, Carlotti, Casaca, Castex, Cottigny, Creţu Corina, Désir, Douay, El Khadraoui, Ferreira Anne, Ferreira Elisa, Fruteau, Guy-Quint, Hamon, Hazan, Hedh, Hutchinson, Jørgensen, Laignel, Lambrinidis, Leichtfried, Lienemann, Patrie, Poignant, Reynaud, Roure, Sacconi, Sakalas, Schapira, Trautmann, Van Lancker, Vaugrenard, Vergnaud

UEN: Bielan, Czarnecki Ryszard, Foltyn-Kubicka, Janowski, Libicki, Masiel, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Szymański

Verts/ALE: Aubert, Bennahmias, Breyer, Buitenweg, Cohn-Bendit, Cramer, Flautre, Frassoni, Graefe zu Baringdorf, de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Hammerstein, Harms, Hassi, Horáček, Jonckheer, Kallenbach, Kusstatscher, Lagendijk, Lambert, Lichtenberger, Lipietz, Özdemir, Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Rühle, Schlyter, Schmidt Frithjof, Schroedter, Staes, Turmes, Ždanoka

Abstention: 130

NI: Baco, Battilocchio

PPE-DE: Ashworth, Bowis, Bradbourn, Bushill-Matthews, Callanan, Chichester, Dover, Hannan, Heaton-Harris, Hoppenstedt, Jackson, Kamall, Kelemen, Kirkhope, Mathieu, Nicholson, Stevenson, Tannock, Van Orden

PSE: Andersson, Arnaoutakis, Attard-Montalto, Ayala Sender, Badia i Cutchet, Beglitis, Beňová, van den Berg, Berlinguer, Bösch, Bozkurt, Bullmann, van den Burg, Busquin, Capoulas Santos, Carnero González, Cashman, Cercas, Chervenyakov, Christensen, Corbett, Corbey, Correia, De Keyser, De Rossa, Díez González, Dührkop Dührkop, Ettl, Falbr, Fava, García Pérez, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gierek, Gill, Goebbels, Gomes, Grabowska, Grech, Gröner, Groote, Gurmai, Hänsch, Hasse Ferreira, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Honeyball, Howitt, Hughes, Kindermann, Kósáné Kovács, Koterec, Krehl, Liberadzki, Locatelli, McAvan, Madeira, Maňka, Mann Erika, Martin David, Martínez Martínez, Mastenbroek, Medina Ortega, Menéndez del Valle, Miguélez Ramos, Mihalache, Mikko, Moreno Sánchez, Napoletano, Paasilinna, Paleckis, Panzeri, Paparizov, Paşcu, Piecyk, Pittella, Podgorean, Prets, Rapkay, Rasmussen, Rothe, Rouček, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sârbu, Schaldemose, Scheele, Schulz, Segelström, Severin, Simpson, Skinner, Sornosa Martínez, Sousa Pinto, Szejna, Tabajdi, Tarabella, Ţicău, Titley, Vigenin, Walter, Weiler, Westlund, Wiersma, Willmott, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Zani

Verts/ALE: van Buitenen

Corrections to votes and voting intentions

Against: Mairead McGuinness

Abstention: Dan Jørgensen

14.   RC-B6-0172/2007 — Repression in Russia

Resolution

For: 65

ALDE: Budreikaitė, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Onyszkiewicz

GUE/NGL: Meijer

IND/DEM: Krupa, Tomczak

PPE-DE: Andrikienė, Audy, Bauer, Bowis, Braghetto, Březina, Castiglione, Chichester, Coveney, Daul, Deß, Dover, Duka-Zólyomi, Gauzès, Grossetête, Kaczmarek, Kelam, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Lauk, Mann Thomas, Mavrommatis, Nicholson, Pleštinská, Posselt, Purvis, Roithová, Saryusz-Wolski, Schöpflin, Sonik, Stauner, Sudre, Tannock, Van Orden, Záborská, Zaleski, Zwiefka

PSE: Bourzai, Bullmann, Ettl, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Howitt, Martínez Martínez, Paleckis, Pinior, Roure, Sakalas, Scheele, Trautmann

UEN: Bielan, Kuc, Libicki, Rutowicz, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schlyter

Abstention: 2

GUE/NGL: Pafilis

IND/DEM: Wise

15.   RC-B6-0160/2007 — Human rights situation in the Philippines

Paragraph 1/2

For: 29

ALDE: Budreikaitė, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Onyszkiewicz

GUE/NGL: Meijer, Pafilis, Pflüger

IND/DEM: Tomczak

PSE: Ayala Sender, Bourzai, Bullmann, Cashman, Ettl, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Howitt, Martínez Martínez, Paleckis, Pinior, Roure, Sakalas, Scheele, Trautmann, Vigenin

Verts/ALE: Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schlyter

Against: 41

IND/DEM: Krupa

PPE-DE: Audy, Bauer, Bowis, Braghetto, Březina, Castiglione, Chichester, Coveney, Daul, Deß, Dover, Duka-Zólyomi, Gauzès, Grossetête, Kaczmarek, Kelam, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Lauk, Mann Thomas, Mavrommatis, Nicholson, Pleštinská, Posselt, Purvis, Roithová, Saryusz-Wolski, Schöpflin, Sonik, Stauner, Sudre, Tannock, Van Orden, Záborská, Zaleski, Zwiefka

UEN: Bielan, Kuc, Libicki, Rutowicz, Zīle

16.   RC-B6-0160/2007 — Human rights situation in the Philippines

Resolution

For: 68

ALDE: Budreikaitė, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Onyszkiewicz

GUE/NGL: Meijer, Pflüger

IND/DEM: Krupa, Tomczak

PPE-DE: Andrikienė, Audy, Bauer, Bowis, Braghetto, Březina, Castiglione, Chichester, Coveney, Daul, Deß, Dover, Duka-Zólyomi, Gauzès, Grossetête, Kaczmarek, Kelam, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Lauk, Mann Thomas, Mavrommatis, Nicholson, Pleštinská, Posselt, Purvis, Roithová, Saryusz-Wolski, Schöpflin, Sonik, Stauner, Sudre, Tannock, Van Orden, Záborská, Zaleski, Zwiefka

PSE: Ayala Sender, Bourzai, Bullmann, Cashman, Ettl, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Paleckis, Pinior, Roure, Sakalas, Scheele, Trautmann, Vigenin

UEN: Bielan, Kuc, Libicki, Rutowicz, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schlyter

17.   RC-B6-0162/2007 — Zimbabwe

Resolution

For: 68

ALDE: Budreikaitė, Ludford, Lynne, Matsakis, Onyszkiewicz

GUE/NGL: Meijer

IND/DEM: Krupa, Tomczak

PPE-DE: Andrikienė, Audy, Bauer, Bowis, Braghetto, Březina, Castiglione, Chichester, Coveney, Daul, Deß, Dover, Duka-Zólyomi, Gauzès, Grossetête, Kaczmarek, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Lauk, Mann Thomas, Mavrommatis, Nicholson, Pleštinská, Posselt, Purvis, Roithová, Saryusz-Wolski, Schöpflin, Sonik, Stauner, Sudre, Tannock, Van Orden, Záborská, Zaleski, Zwiefka

PSE: Ayala Sender, Bourzai, Bullmann, Cashman, Ettl, Gebhardt, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gill, Howitt, Martínez Martínez, Paleckis, Pinior, Roure, Sakalas, Scheele, Trautmann, Vigenin

UEN: Bielan, Kuc, Libicki, Rutowicz, Zīle

Verts/ALE: Onesta, Romeva i Rueda, Schlyter

Against: 1

GUE/NGL: Pafilis

Abstention: 1

GUE/NGL: Pflüger

TEXTS ADOPTED

 

P6_TA(2007)0157

Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 89/391/EEC, its individual Directives and Council Directives 83/477/EEC, 91/383/EEC, 92/29/EEC and 94/33/EC with a view to simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation (COM(2006)0390 — C6-0242/2006 — 2006/0127(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2006)0390) (1),

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having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 137(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0242/2006),

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having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the report of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0059/2006);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0127

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2007/.../EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 89/391/EEC, its individual Directives and Council Directives 83/477/EEC, 91/383/EEC, 92/29/EEC and 94/33/EC with a view to simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive 2007/30/EC.)

P6_TA(2007)0158

Compensation for certain fishery products *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the French departments of Guiana and Réunion from 2007 to 2013 (COM(2006)0740 — C6-0505/2006 — 2006/0247(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0740) (1),

—

having regard to Articles 37 and 299(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0505/2006),

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having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Fisheries and the opinions of the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Regional Development (A6-0083/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

4.

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

5.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission.

TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 1

Title

Proposal for a Council regulation introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the French departments of Guiana and Réunion from 2007 to 2013

Proposal for a Council regulation introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the French departments of Guiana and Réunion, as a result of those regions' remoteness

(This amendment applies throughout the text.)

Amendment 2

Recital -1 (new)

 

(-1) The outermost regions have fragile economies, with permanent structural constraints on their development and few possibilities for economic diversification, in which the fisheries sector and ancient fishing communities play an important role in maintaining economic activity and employment, upstream and downstream, and in promoting economic and social cohesion.

Amendment 3

Recital -1a (new)

 

(-1a) The specific features and existing sectoral differences of the outermost regions should be taken into account, given that these regions each have their own particular needs.

Amendment 4

Recital -1b (new)

 

(-1b) The increase which the marked rise in oil prices has brought about, especially since 2003, in transport and other related costs should be taken into account, since its end effect is to add still further to the additional costs arising from remoteness.

Amendment 5

Recital 1

(1) The fisheries sector in the outermost regions of the Community is facing difficulties, and in particular additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products due to the particular handicaps recognised by Article 299(2) of the Treaty, and resulting mainly from the transport costs to continental Europe.

(1) The fisheries sector in the outermost regions of the Community is facing difficulties, and in particular additional costs relating to the production and marketing of certain fishery products due to the particular handicaps recognised by Article 299(2) of the Treaty, and resulting namely from the transport costs to continental Europe.

Amendment 6

Recital 5

(5) Member States should set the compensation amount at a level which allows appropriate off-setting of additional costs, arising from the specific handicaps of the outermost regions and in particular from the costs of transporting the products to the European mainland. To avoid overcompensation, the amount should be proportional to the additional costs the aid off-sets and in no case exceed a determined share of the transport and other related costs to the European continent. To this end, it should also take into account other types of public intervention having an impact on the level of additional costs.

(5) Member States should set the compensation amount at a level which allows appropriate off-setting of additional costs, arising from the specific handicaps of the outermost regions , and namely from the costs of transporting the products to the European mainland. To avoid overcompensation, the amount should be proportional to the additional costs the aid off-sets. To this end, it should also take into account other types of public intervention having an impact on the level of additional costs.

Amendment 7

Recital 5a (new)

 

(5a) Due account should be taken of the socio-economic importance to the outermost regions of small-scale inshore fishing and non-industrial fishing and of the need to create the conditions required for their development.

Amendment 8

Recital 5b (new)

 

(5b) It should be permissible to obtain supplies on the Community market, without exceeding existing production capacity, when catches by the outermost regions' fishing fleets are insufficient to supply the local fish-processing industry.

Amendment 9

Recital 6

(6) In order to achieve properly the objectives of this Regulation and to guarantee the compliance with the Common Fisheries Policy, support should be limited to fishery products harvested and processed in accordance with its rules.

(6) In order to achieve properly the objectives of this Regulation and to guarantee compliance with the Common Fisheries Policy, support should be granted to fishery products harvested and processed in accordance with its rules , and to other raw materials used in fish processing .

Amendment 10

Recital 7a (new)

 

(7a) A derogation may be granted from the Commission's consistent policy of not authorising State operating aid for the production, processing and marketing of fishery products listed in the Treaty in order to mitigate the specific constraints on fishing in the outermost regions as a result of their remoteness, insularity, small size, topography and climate and their economic dependence on a few products.

Amendment 11

Recital 9

(9) To enable a decision to be taken on whether to continue the compensation scheme after 2013 the Commission should submit a report to the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Economic and Social Committee based on an independent evaluation in due time before the end of the scheme .

(9) To enable the compensation scheme to be revised, taking into account the real progress made in attaining the objectives of this Regulation, the Commission should, by 31 December 2011 , submit a report to the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Economic and Social Committee based on an independent evaluation showing the impact of the measures implemented under this Regulation, accompanied, where necessary, by appropriate legislative proposals .

Amendment 12

Article 1, introductory part

This Regulation introduces a scheme for the period 2007 to 2013 to provide compensation for the additional costs incurred by the operators set out in Article 3 in the marketing of certain fishery products from the following regions as a result of those regions' specific handicaps (hereinafter referred to as ‘the compensation’):

This Regulation introduces a scheme to provide compensation for the additional costs incurred by the operators set out in Article 3 in the marketing of certain fishery products from the following outermost regions as a result of those regions' specific handicaps and remoteness (hereinafter referred to as ‘the compensation’):

Amendment 13

Article 3, paragraph 1, introductory part

1. The compensation shall be paid to the following operators who incur additional costs in the marketing of fishery products:

1. The compensation shall be paid to the following operators who incur additional costs in the marketing of fishery products in the regions referred to in Article 1 as a result of those regions' remoteness:

Amendment 14

Article 3, paragraph 1, point (c)

(c)

the operators in the processing and marketing sector or associations of such operators, who incur additional costs in marketing the products concerned.

(c)

the operators in the processing and marketing sector or associations of such operators, who incur additional costs in producing, processing and marketing the products concerned.

Amendment 15

Article 4, paragraph 3, point (ca) (new)

 

(ca) Monitoring.

Amendment 16

Article 4, paragraph 4, point (b)

(b)

caught by Community fishing vessels that are not registered in a port of one of the regions referred to in Article 1,

(b)

caught by Community fishing vessels that are not registered in a port of one of the regions referred to in Article 1, except where use is to be made of fish caught by Community vessels in cases where catches in the regions referred to in Article 1 are insufficient to supply those regions' processing industries,

Amendment 17

Article 4a (new)

 

Article 4a

Other eligible products

Compensation may also be granted for products used in processing fishery products, provided that it does not overlap with Community aid for those products.

Amendment 18

Article 5, paragraph 2, point (a)

(a)

for each fishery product the additional costs resulting from the specific handicaps of the regions concerned, in particular the expenditure for the transport to the European continent,

(a)

for each fishery product, the additional costs resulting from the specific handicaps of the regions concerned, namely the expenditure for transport to the European continent or between neighbouring regions referred to in Article 1 ,

Amendment 19

Article 5, paragraph 2, point (b)

(b)

 any other type of public intervention affecting the level of additional costs.

(b)

 for each fishery product, the additional costs arising from geographical fragmentation incurred in transport within each of the regions referred to in Article 1,

Amendment 20

Article 5, paragraph 2, point (ba) (new)

 

(ba)

the category of recipients, giving particular attention to small-scale inshore fishing and non-industrial fishing,

Amendment 21

Article 5, paragraph 2, point (bb) (new)

 

(bb)

any other type of public intervention affecting the level of additional costs.

Amendment 22

Article 5, paragraph 3

3. The compensation to the additional costs shall be proportional to the additional costs it intends to off-set and shall not exceed 75 % of the transport and other related costs to the European continent.

3. The compensation to the additional costs shall be proportional to the additional costs it intends to off-set and shall cover the cost of transport to the European continent and between regions referred to in Article 1 and other related costs.

Amendment 23

Article 5, paragraph 4, point (a)

(a) Azores and Madeira: EUR 4 283 992

(a) Azores and Madeira: EUR 4 855 314

Amendment 24

Article 5, paragraph 4, point (b)

(b) Canary Islands: EUR 5 844 076

(b) Canary Islands: EUR 6 623 454

Amendment 25

Article 5, paragraph 4, point (c)

(c) French Guiana and Réunion: EUR 4 868 700

(c) French Guiana and Réunion: EUR 5 518 000 .

Amendment 26

Article 5, paragraph 4a (new)

 

4a. Each year the amounts referred to in paragraph 4 shall be subject to technical adjustment as provided for in point 16 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (2).

Amendment 27

Article 7, paragraph 1

1. Within four months of the entry into force of this Regulation the Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission the list and quantities referred to in Article 4(1) and the level of compensation referred to in Article 5(1), hereinafter jointly referred to as ‘the compensation plan’.

1. Within four months of the entry into force of this Regulation the Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission the list and quantities referred to in Article 4(1) , the level of compensation referred to in Article 5(1) and a detailed list of measures to be applied to ensure compliance with the provisions of Articles 4(2) to 4(4) , hereinafter jointly referred to as ‘the compensation plan’.

Amendment 28

Article 7, paragraph 4

4. If a Member State makes amendments pursuant to Article 6, it shall submit its amended compensation plan to the Commission and the procedure laid down in paragraph 2 and 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis .

4. If a Member State makes amendments pursuant to Article 6, it shall submit its amended compensation plan to the Commission. If the Commission fails to react within a period of four weeks after receiving the amended plan, the amended plan shall be deemed to have been approved.

Amendment 29

Article 7a (new)

 

Article 7a

Adjustment of amounts

An adjustment may be made among regions belonging to the same Member State within the limits of the overall financial framework for this Regulation.

Amendment 30

Article 7b (new)

 

Article 7b

State aid

1. For the fishery products to which Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty apply, the Commission may authorise operating aid in the sectors producing, processing and marketing those products with a view to mitigating the specific constraints on the outermost regions as a result of their special characteristics and conditions.

2. In such cases, the Member States shall notify the Commission of the aid as part of the compensation schemes and it shall be approved by the Commission in accordance with Article 7. Aid thus notified shall be deemed to meet the obligation to provide information laid down in the first sentence of Article 88(3) of the Treaty.

Amendment 31

Article 8, paragraph 1

1. Each Member State concerned shall draw up an annual report on the implementation of the compensation and submit it to the Commission by 30 April of each year.

1. Each Member State concerned shall draw up an annual report on the implementation of the compensation and submit it to the Commission by 30 June of each year.

Amendment 32

Article 8, paragraph 2

2. By 31 December 2011 at the latest, the Commission shall on the basis of an independent evaluation report to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on the implementation of the compensation, accompanied where necessary , by legislative proposals.

2. By 31 December 2011 at the latest, and thereafter every five years, the Commission shall , on the basis of an independent evaluation , report to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on the implementation of the compensation, accompanied where necessary by legislative proposals.

Amendment 33

Article 10

Member States shall adopt appropriate provisions to ensure compliance with the requirements set out in this Regulation and the regularity of operations.

Member States shall adopt appropriate provisions to ensure compliance with the requirements set out in this Regulation and the regularity of operations. Provisions on the traceability of fisheries products shall be sufficiently detailed to allow the identification of products that are not eligible for compensation.

Amendment 34

Article 14, paragraph 2

It shall apply from 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2013.

It shall apply as from 1 January 2007.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

(2)   OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

P6_TA(2007)0159

Common Fisheries Policy (Regional Advisory Councils) *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2004/585/EC establishing Regional Advisory Councils under the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2006)0732 — C6-0051/2007 — 2006/0240(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0732) (1),

—

having regard to Article 37 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0051/2007),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Fisheries (A6-0078/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal;

2.

Recognises that the current proposal relates only to the financial aspects of Regional Advisory Councils and that other aspects remain to be resolved at the time of the forthcoming review, in particular those relating to their number and composition;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

4.

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

5.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TA(2007)0160

The situation of women with disabilities in the EU

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the situation of women with disabilities in the European Union (2006/2277(INI))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 December 2006,

—

having regard to the Manifesto of Disabled Women in Europe adopted on 22 February 1997 by the European Disability Forum,

—

having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (1),

—

having regard to European Year of Equal Opportunities for All (2007),

—

having regard to Article 13 of the Treaty establishing the European Community,

—

having regard to the Commission Communication entitled ‘Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities: a European Action Plan’ (COM(2003)0650),

—

having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (A6-0075/2007),

A.

whereas in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Convention) it is recognised that women and girls with disabilities are often at greater risk, both within and outside the home, of violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation,

B.

whereas the Convention also emphasises the need to incorporate a gender perspective in all efforts to promote the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities,

C.

whereas the Convention recognises the right of all persons with disabilities who are of marriageable age to marry and to start a family,

D.

whereas nearly 80 per cent of women with disabilities are victims of psychological and physical violence and whereas the risk of sexual violence is greater for them than for other women; whereas violence is not only a common feature of the lives of women with disabilities but is also sometimes the cause of their disability,

E.

whereas persons with disabilities constitute a diverse population group, and actions designed to support them must take into account both this diversity and the fact that some groups, such as women with disabilities, face additional difficulties and multiple discrimination,

F.

whereas, according to research carried out in the Member States, it is the mothers of disabled children in particular who take steps (medical, educational, administrative, etc.) aimed at finding out about their child's disability and finding the best solutions for tackling it,

G.

whereas responsibility for disabled and dependent persons is usually taken on by women and this means, in certain cases where there are no appropriate care facilities, that they must leave the labour market,

H.

whereas both the EU institutions and the Member States' central and regional authorities should take action designed to ensure that equality for all is real and effective, and whereas the Year of Equal Opportunities for All (2007) should serve as a catalyst for this,

I.

whereas women with disabilities suffer multiple discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, impairment and disability and are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion,

J.

whereas the equal treatment of women with disabilities and mothers of children with disabilities is a fundamental human right and an ethical obligation;

1.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the removal of existing barriers and obstacles, including architectural barriers, with a view to creating equal rights and opportunities for women and girls with disabilities to play a part in family, political, cultural, social and professional life, particularly through better implementation of Community anti-discrimination and gender-equality legislation and better use of the opportunities provided by relevant Community programmes and the European Social Fund;

2.

Calls on the Member States to take full account of the needs of persons with disabilities and the special needs of women in all national, regional and local policies, particularly those relating to town planning, education, employment, housing, transport, health and social services;

3.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt and implement the necessary measures to support women with disabilities so that they may progress in those areas of social life and the world of work, culture and politics in which they are still underrepresented;

4.

Calls on national and regional governments to promote and fund, with adequate resources, innovative policies and services addressing gender and disability, in particular regarding personal assistance, mobility, health, education, training, lifelong learning, employment, independent living and social security;

5.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in place effective legislation and policies focusing on women and children which will ensure that instances of exploitation, violence against and sexual abuse of persons with disabilities — within their places of residence and elsewhere — are identified and investigated and, where appropriate, lead to prosecution; suggests that, in that context, particular attention be paid to women with disabilities whose disability prevents them from representing themselves and that preventive measures be drawn up to eliminate any differences between the rights of disabled women and those of other women as regards their personal physical integrity and their sexual expression;

6.

Is shocked at the fact that women with disabilities are three times as likely to be the victims of violence as women without disabilities and calls therefore for the Daphne Programme to be used also to combat this type of violence;

7.

Emphasises the importance of actively combating the segregation from childhood onwards of people with disabilities;

8.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote pilot schemes and tried and tested procedures for integrative establishments from kindergarten, school and training to professional life;

9.

Stresses the need for the European Union to take all possible steps, including legislative action, to streamline its aid system and make more funding available for women and children with disabilities;

10.

Calls on the Member States to address the lack of adequate health care for women with disabilities by providing specialist medical staff and appropriate infrastructures;

11.

Calls on the Commission, in conjunction with the competent national authorities, to investigate the particular health and medical care problems suffered by women with disabilities, focusing on prevention and information;

12.

Considers there to be a relationship between disability and a lower level of educational achievement which subsequently affects employment rates amongst disabled people;

13.

Expresses its concern at the fact that women with disabilities have lower levels of educational achievement, which makes it more difficult for them to gain access to, stay in and be promoted in the labour market; considers that people with disabilities must be given the same opportunities to study and must have a right of access to the labour market so that they can support themselves; considers that women and girls with disabilities should be encouraged to seek education and employment on the basis of their resources and interests rather than of what they are lacking;

14.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to foster implementation of the principle of universal access in the environment and to goods and services, so that women with disabilities may enjoy as much autonomy as possible;

15.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in view of the fact that, in many situations, ITC facilities are a fundamental instrument for the integration of persons with a disability, to draw up appropriate measures to eliminate the digital divide between the sexes, so that women with disabilities may have access to ITC facilities and benefit from them under equal conditions with men;

16.

Believes that, with a view to improving access to the labour market for persons with disabilities and enabling them to become more active and develop their abilities, use should be made of all possible incentive measures, including tax incentives, to encourage employers to take on persons with disabilities and tailor working hours to the needs of parents bringing up children with disabilities;

17.

Calls on the Commission and Member States, in their efforts to increase the employment of women with disabilities, to prevent discrimination by employers in connection with the appointment of women with disabilities;

18.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to incorporate flexibility into matters relating to disability in recognition of the fact that every disabled person has different needs, in order that, in a diverse community of citizens, assistance can be tailored to each individual situation;

19.

Considers that the measures created should be geared towards greater integration;

20.

Points out that it is women who, in most cases, care for people with disabilities, and hence considers it necessary to develop measures to raise social awareness in order to ensure that men too are involved in this task;

21.

Calls upon the Commission and the Member States to seek to make responsibility for the care and participation of people with disabilities the responsibility of society as a whole rather than that only of the families of persons with disabilities and to take into account, when devising policies, the particular dedication of women who are responsible for persons with disabilities and the situation of those persons — often relatives — who take responsibility for persons with disabilities; considers it important to reiterate the fact that this work is mainly done by women and that women are therefore particularly affected by cuts in public care services, both as paid carers and as relatives;

22.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up the necessary measures to assist the work of families and organisations that support both people with disabilities and their families;

23.

Considers that various support measures must be proposed so that both people with disabilities and their families can live normal lives on the same terms as people without disabilities and their families, as well as support measures for those — often relatives — who take economic and social responsibility for people with disabilities who, in many cases, require total dedication, something which isolates them and necessitates support at many levels; notes that, as things currently stand, women bear a large share of such responsibilities, both paid and unpaid; considers it self-evident that this is not a task primarily for one sex or the other and that the view that this is a responsibility for women should be actively combated;

24.

Proposes that Member States should harmonise municipal regulations governing parking for the disabled and consider whether to reduce transport fares for those who accompany disabled persons;

25.

Considers that one of the main objectives which the European Union should set itself is to improve the quality of life of disabled people and their families and ensure that they are fully integrated into society;

26.

Stresses the need to raise the profile and improve the image of women with disabilities in the media, which will make the general public more aware of their daily lives and give them greater opportunities to express themselves and take part in social and political life;

27.

Stresses how important it is for Member States to recognise the self-evident right of women with disabilities to their own sexual expression and their right to start a family;

28.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in place legislation ensuring independent living for disabled women and men, acknowledging that this is a fundamental right that must be respected;

29.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that children, young people and adults with disabilities enjoy the necessary conditions for independence and self-determination and, in so doing, to devote special attention to equality issues;

30.

Recognises that even in relation to existing independent-living services and health services disabled women experience discrimination in access;

31.

Highlights the role played by the education of children of both sexes in the building of the society of the future, and stresses that efforts must be made in order to gear it towards ensuring that disability is not an obstacle to their playing a part in society on the basis of the same rights and opportunities, with a view to fostering a framework for cooperation, integration and disability awareness-raising at school, the latter being an indispensable tool for making this a reality;

32.

Stresses the important role of non-governmental organisations working with disabled women and calls on the Commission and the Member States to support them;

33.

Stresses the need for recent data broken down by gender to be gathered on the subject of disability and for research to be carried out using gender equality indicators in order to discover the real situation of women and girls with disabilities;

34.

Stresses the need to ensure care for the reproductive health of women with disabilities, paying attention to aspects such as family planning, health services and information about motherhood, so that they may be able to establish relationships that are equitable, responsible and satisfying;

35.

Takes the view that EU policy should give employers' organisations, trade unions and nongovernmental organisations greater encouragement to devise more effective means of assisting persons with disabilities;

36.

Calls on the Commission to facilitate the creation of a network for disabled women across the European Union and in candidate countries, allowing for the exchange of best practices, capacity-building and empowerment;

37.

Highlights the need for free access to the new audiovisual media for women with disabilities;

38.

Reminds the Commission that thorough knowledge of this matter and of the ‘social model of disability’, which focuses on society's barriers, as opposed to the ‘medical model of disability’, which deals only with the medical aspects of disability, is the proper basis for providing solutions, services and support, for devising policies, for assigning resources and for measuring the impact of policies on the situation of persons with disabilities;

39.

Reminds the Member States that their collaboration in advancing and improving the situation of women and girls suffering from any kind of disability is of fundamental importance;

40.

Calls on the Member States to promote citizens' initiatives aimed at supporting those with disabilities;

41.

Recalls the importance of the social partners, business and civil society, and in particular organisations of women and of parents of children with disabilities, in promoting and furthering equal opportunities, access to employment and lifelong learning for people with disabilities that has due regard for special needs;

42.

Pays homage to the work of parents' associations, usually created and run by the mothers of children with disabilities, who, via their organisations and Internet sites, compile information (on specialised medical centres and regulations on education, social security, etc.) thereby helping other parents and raising the awareness of the public authorities;

43.

Calls on the Member States to report to the European Parliament and Commission on the situation of women and girls with disabilities as they do in their country reports and on the measures which they have taken to comply with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;

44.

Considers that disabilities should be regarded as a natural phenomenon which is part of everyday life, and not as a deviation from it; notes that there will always be citizens with disabilities and that it is therefore self-evident that disabilities are an integral part of society;

45.

Believes that it ought itself promote greater development and exploitation of technology and facilities to eliminate environments that are hostile to disabled persons; considers that development work should be based on the fact that men and women sometimes have different needs;

46.

Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote equality of living conditions for girls and boys and women and men with disabilities;

47.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Council of Europe and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(1)  OJ C 364, 18.12.2000, p. 1.

P6_TA(2007)0161

Basic information on purchasing power parities ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination (COM(2006)0135 — C6-0100/2006 — 2006/0042(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2006)0135),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 285(1) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0100/2006),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the opinion of the Committee on Regional Development (A6-0077/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission.

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0042

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EC) No .../2007.)

P6_TA(2007)0162

Rapid Border Intervention Teams ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism (COM(2006)0401 — C6-0253/2006 — 2006/0140(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2006)0401) (1),

—

having regard to Article 251(2) and Articles 62(2)(a) and 66 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0253/2006),

—

having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0135/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Approves the annexed declaration;

3.

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

4.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0140

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 April 2007 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No .../2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention Teams and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 as regards that mechanism and regulating the tasks and powers of guest officers

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EC) No 863/2007.)

ANNEX

STATEMENT BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSION

The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission stress that in a situation of urgent and exceptional pressure at the external borders requiring the intervention of a Rapid Border Intervention Team, and possible insufficiency of financial means in the budget of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex) to do so, all possibilities to ensure funding should be explored. The Commission will verify with extreme urgency whether funds could possibly be redeployed. In the event of a decision of the budgetary authority becoming necessary, the Commission will initiate a procedure in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Regulation, namely Articles 23 and 24, in order to secure a timely decision of the two arms of the budgetary authority on the means of providing for additional funding for Frontex to deploy a Rapid Border Intervention Team. The budgetary authority commits itself to act as quickly as possible, taking into account the urgency.

P6_TA(2007)0163

Conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 April 2007 on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2006)0587 — C6-0402/2006 — 2006/0190(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0587) (1),

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having regard to Article 37 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0402/2006),

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having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the report of the Committee on Fisheries (A6-0085/2007);

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

2.

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

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Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

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Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 3

ARTICLE 1, POINT 1

Article 11(5) (Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002)

5. Between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2006, on fishing vessels of 5 years of age or more, modernisation over the main deck to improve safety on board, working conditions, hygiene and product quality may increase the tonnage of the vessel, provided that such modernisation does not increase the ability of the vessel to catch fish. The reference levels, as established in accordance with this Article and with Article 12, shall be adapted accordingly. The corresponding capacity need not be taken into account for the establishment of the balance of entries and exits by Member States under Article 13.

5. Modernisation over the main deck to improve safety on board, working conditions, hygiene and product quality may increase the tonnage of the vessel, provided that such modernisation does not increase the ability of the vessel to catch fish. The reference levels, as established in accordance with this Article and with Article 12, shall be adapted accordingly. The corresponding capacity need not be taken into account for the establishment of the balance of entries and exits by Member States under Article 13.

Amendment 1

ARTICLE 1, POINT 1

Article 11, paragraph 6, indents 1 and 2 (Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002)

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4 % of the average annual tonnage withdrawn with public aid between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2006 for the Member States that were part of the Community on 1 January 2003 and 4 % of the annual average tonnage withdrawn with public aid between 1 May 2004 and 31 December 2006 for the Member States that acceded to the Community on 1 May 2004 and,

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10 % of the average annual tonnage withdrawn with public aid between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2006 for the Member States that were part of the Community on 1 January 2003 and 10 % of the annual average tonnage withdrawn with public aid between 1 May 2004 and 31 December 2006 for the Member States that acceded to the Community on 1 May 2004 and,

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4 % of the tonnage withdrawn from the fleet with public aid as from 1 January 2007

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10 % of the tonnage withdrawn from the fleet with public aid as from 1 January 2007

Amendment 2

ARTICLE 1, POINT 2

Article 13, paragraph 1, point (c), subparagraphs 1a and 1b (new) (Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002)

 

Nevertheless, this reduction in power must not under any circumstances diminish the vessel's safeness, habitability or the efficiency of fish-processing systems.

Furthermore, given that the objective of the reduction is to avoid any increase in the vessel's fishing capacity, the provisions of the first subparagraph shall not be taken into account where the engine is replaced in order to conserve energy and/or improve the vessel's performance in areas other than fishing capacity, or where more selective fishing methods, as regards the use of the vessel, have been opted for.

(1)  Not yet published in OJ.

P6_TA(2007)0164

Galileo concession contract negotiations

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the Galileo concession contract negotiations

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the Commission proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the implementation of the deployment and commercial operating phases of the European programme of satellite radionavigation (COM(2004)0477), and to its position adopted at first reading on 6 September 2005 (1),

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having regard to the Commission proposal for a Council regulation amending the Statutes of the Galileo Joint Undertaking annexed to Council Regulation (EC) No 876/2002 (COM(2006)0351), and its position of 24 October 2006 (2),

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having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1321/2004 of 12 July 2004 on the establishment of structures for the management of the European satellite radio-navigation programmes (3) and to the Commission proposal for a Council regulation amending that Regulation (COM(2005)0190), and its position of 12 October 2006 (4),

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having regard to its resolution of 28 September 2006 on taking stock of the Galileo Programme (5),

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having regard to the conclusions adopted by the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE) on the status of the concession contract negotiations in respect of the global navigation satellite system, held on 22 March 2007,

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having regard to the relevant documents submitted to the TTE Ministers, such as the letter from Vice-President Barrot of the Commission concerning the status of the concession negotiations and the report from the current President of the Council concerning the outstanding issues listed by the bidding consortium,

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having regard to the dual mandate conferred by the TTE Council on Vice-President Barrot of the Commission to submit, to the June 2007 Council meeting, proposals for attaining the long-term public financial objectives and for alternative scenarios, in the event of failure, for resuming effective negotiations that have a time limit with the bidding consortium,

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having regard to Rule 103(2) of its Rules of Procedure;

1.

Reiterates its support for the Galileo Programme, including the EGNOS satellite navigation services as a precursor to Galileo, but is deeply concerned by the fact that the concession negotiations have remained at a standstill for several months and that such delays will have a significant impact on overall cost;

2.

Recalls its resolution of 28 September 2006, which called on the parties concerned in the negotiations to reach agreement in a constructive manner; welcomes, therefore, the letter by the Vice- President of the Commission responsible for the Galileo Programme and the conclusions of the TTE Council of 22 March 2007, and emphasises the importance of implementing, by the parties concerned, the decisions reached in December 2005 (the so-called van Miert agreement);

3.

Points out that the Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the consultative bodies of the EU overwhelmingly support the clear mandate given to the Vice-President of the Commission responsible for the Galileo Programme to submit to the June 2007 Council, in particular:

(a)

a credible roadmap for concluding contracts as soon as possible,

(b)

possible solutions for meeting the long-term financial obligations,

(c)

a scenario for the earliest possible provision of EGNOS satellite navigation services,

(d)

alternative scenarios for the realisation of the programme, especially for costs, risk and affordability;

4.

Calls on the Commission to speed up the legislative process related to the regulated market, based on the Commission's Green Paper on Satellite Navigation Applications, in order to ensure a credible business plan;

5.

Calls on the Commission to make a proposal — together with the European Space Agency — capable of solving the problem of better public governance by ensuring clear political responsibility and leadership on the part of the Commission;

6.

Calls on the Commission, given the Community character of the project, to respect the Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission (6) and, in particular, paragraph 19 on external relations, and thus to ensure that Parliament is fully informed of the implementation of the Council's decision authorising the Commission to negotiate with third countries with a view to concluding agreements on their associate membership for participation in the Galileo Supervisory Authority;

7.

Calls on the Commission to submit to it one progress report by mid-July 2007 and another well before the negotiations reach the point of a revised proposal for a modified legal base for financing the Galileo Programme being made available;

8.

Calls on the Council to ensure that any further delays to this project are kept to a minimum;

9.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.

(1)  OJ C 193 E, 17.8.2006, p. 61.

(2)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0423.

(3)  OJ L 246, 20.7.2004, p. 1.

(4)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0401.

(5)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0385.

(6)  See the Annex to Parliament's Decision of 26 May 2005 (OJ C 117 E, 18.5.2006, p. 125).

P6_TA(2007)0165

Human rights in the world 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2006 and the EU's policy on the matter (2007/2020(INI))

The European Parliament,

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having regard to the eighth EU Annual Report on Human Rights (2006) (1),

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having regard to Articles 3, 6, 11, 13 and 19 of the Treaty on European Union and Articles 177 and 300 of the EC Treaty,

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having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to all relevant international human rights instruments (2),

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having regard to the United Nations Charter,

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having regard to all UN human rights conventions and their optional protocols,

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having regard to the entry into force on 1 July 2002 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and to its resolutions related to the ICC (3),

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having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and the 2005 EU plan on best practices, standards and procedures for combating and preventing trafficking in human beings (4);

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having regard to Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances,

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having regard to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,

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having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (5),

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having regard to the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement and its revision (6),

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having regard to its previous resolutions on human rights in the world,

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having regard to its resolution of 16 March 2006 on the outcome of the negotiations on the Human Rights Council and on the 62nd session of the UNCHR (7),

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having regard to its resolution of 14 February 2006 on the human rights and democracy clause in European Union agreements (8),

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having regard to its resolution of 1 February 2007 on the initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty (9),

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having regard to all urgency resolutions adopted by it on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law,

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having regard to its resolution of 18 January 2007 on the Council's Seventh and Eighth Annual Reports according to Operative Provision 8 of the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports (10),

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having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1889/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on establishing a financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide (11),

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having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 of 15 February 2007 establishing a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (12),

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having regard to the conclusions of the EU Annual Forum on Human Rights, organised by the Finnish Presidency and the Commission and held in Helsinki in December 2006,

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having regard to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted by UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/106 on 13 December 2006, which lays down an obligation to incorporate the interests and concerns of persons with disabilities in human rights actions towards third countries,

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having regard to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted by General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/177 on 20 December 2006 and opened for signature on 6 February 2007,

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having regard to the European Union Guidelines on promoting compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) (13),

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having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (A6-0128/2007),

A.

whereas the Council and Commission's EU Annual Report on Human Rights 2006 provides a general overview of the activities of the European Union institutions regarding human rights inside and outside the EU,

B.

whereas this resolution sets out to examine, evaluate and, in specific cases, offer constructive criticism of the human rights activities of the Commission and the Council and of the overall activities of Parliament, in particular by drawing attention to issues neglected in those activities,

C.

whereas it should be acknowledged that there is a link between the EU's internal and external policies on the basis that the EU's internal human rights record has a direct impact on its credibility and ability to implement an effective external policy,

D.

whereas respect for human rights and a democratic system of governance are necessarily interrelated, and whereas the promotion of human rights should be linked to the promotion and application of democratic governance,

E.

whereas efforts must be made in general to focus greater attention on respect for fundamental human rights, in particular political rights, in negotiating bilateral or regional trade agreements even with important trading partners;

1.

Welcomes the fact that the EU is playing an increasingly active role on the world stage to improve human rights and democracy globally; considers that the most recent enlargement of the EU to 27 Member States with 494 million inhabitants has increased the global importance of the EU and has thus given it greater weight in its efforts to promote human rights and democracy internationally;

2.

Considers that greater priority needs to be given to improving the ability of the EU to respond to human rights breaches by third countries, not least by mainstreaming human rights policy with respect to EU policies vis-à-vis such countries, including the external impact of EU internal policies;

3.

Continues to emphasise the need for a consistent policy implemented by all EU Member States in their bilateral relations with third countries where human rights are frequently violated or where there is a genuine risk that they may be, and calls upon Member States to conduct their bilateral contacts with those countries in a manner consistent with EU policy, particularly as regards active efforts to ensure respect for human rights;

4.

Takes the view that a consistent European foreign policy must give absolute priority to promoting democracy, given that democratic society is the basis for upholding human rights;

5.

Considers that the progress made in setting up the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights represents a first step in responding to Parliament's call for the establishment of an integrated framework of rules and institutions designed to confer binding force on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and to ensure compliance with the system provided for in the ECHR; underlines the fact that the mandate of the Agency also covers those countries which have concluded a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU; believes that the Agency should have the competence to play a role in assisting the EU in the implementation of its external policies, when these require an assessment of the situation in a third country with respect to human rights;

The EU Annual Report on Human Rights in the World 2006 (drawn up by the Council and the Commission)

6.

Underlines the importance of the EU Annual Report on Human Rights in analysing and evaluating the EU's human rights policy, notably with a view to raising the visibility of human rights issues in general;

7.

Welcomes the public presentation of the 2006 Report by the Council and the Commission at the December 2006 plenary, in parallel with Parliament's award of its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Mr Aliaksandr Milinkevich, the freedom and democracy campaigner from Belarus; considers that, by establishing this practice, the December European Parliament plenary session has become an annual focal point for the EU's activities on human rights;

8.

Recognises the volume of EU human rights-related activities in different parts of the world, but reiterates its call for increased assessment of the use of EU instruments and initiatives in third countries; welcomes the evaluations mentioned in the report by the Council and the Commission; considers that a mechanism should be developed enabling Members of Parliament to receive evaluations carried out in specific subject areas, such as individual countries, groups of countries and geographic areas, but, first and foremost, regarding specific human rights problem areas; considers that such a mechanism should enable Parliament to discuss the outcome of those evaluations within the most appropriate framework;

9.

Underscores the importance of ongoing efforts to promote the mainstreaming of human rights and democracy and the coherence and consistency of the policies and actions of the Council, the Commission, the European Parliament and the Member States of the EU in the field of human rights and democracy;

10.

Regards it as a positive development that the report endeavours to do justice to the activities of the European Parliament, but reiterates its request, included in the 2006 Parliament resolution on human rights, that future Presidencies report in the EU Annual Reports on the ways in which Parliament's resolutions — including urgency resolutions on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law — have been taken into account by the Council and the Commission; notes with satisfaction the developments mentioned in paragraph 13 below;

11.

Reiterates that, in their future Annual Reports on Human Rights, the Council and the Commission should analyse the ways in which human rights are dealt with in other EU policies, such as the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the policies on development and trade and immigration, and other relevant policies relating to the EU's external relations, in particular within the Council's working groups and in specific mechanisms established in cooperation agreements; considers that they should also take note of decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights;

12.

Calls on the Council and the Commission to consider adopting the approach taken by governments of some Member States and by certain international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and thus to identify an overall list of ‘countries of particular concern’ with respect to human rights violations in the context of their Annual Report each year;

13.

Understands that, especially in the area of human rights, EU activities such as demarches to third countries must sometimes be confidential; however, believes that a list of those activities should be included in the Annual Report while allowing some scope for bilateral diplomatic contacts with governments in full confidentiality;

14.

Welcomes the increased consultation with the European Parliament and moves towards the drafting of an EU Annual Report that represents the activities of the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament, while taking the view that Parliament must continue to issue its own report on this matter; considers in this context that in the future an open discussion at draft stage in Committee would give Parliament an opportunity to improve the accuracy and content of the report;

Council and Commission activities in the area of human rights in international fora

15.

Pays tribute to the excellent work of the outgoing Personal Representative of the Secretary-General/High Representative on Human Rights in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Mr Michael Matthiessen, during 2006; continues to support the newly appointed Personal Representative, Mrs Riina Kionka, in her efforts to increase the visibility and strengthen the role of the EU in international human rights fora; expects that the High Representative, the Council and all Member State representatives will fully support her work at all times;

16.

Considers that the EU's capacity to prevent, respond to and manage crises is insufficient at present; recommends that a new infrastructure be put in place for the prevention and management of civil conflicts requiring proactive/preventive measures, the provision of suitable civilian early warning systems, the introduction of preventive contingency planning, the training of specialised personnel for international conflict management missions and greater concentration on promoting societies that are structurally capable of living in peace; stresses the importance of carefully considering human rights aspects in connection with the planning of preventive and conflict-management measures in relation to each crisis with which the EU is involved;

17.

Requests the Commission to encourage EU Member States to sign up to, and ratify, all core UN and Council of Europe human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto; draws the attention of EU Member States to, in particular, the need to ratify the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and the newly adopted International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;

18.

Recognises the active involvement of the EU and its Member States with respect to human rights and democracy issues in a variety of international fora in 2006, including the newly established UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN General Assembly, the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe;

19.

Welcomes the Council's intention to strengthen the relationship between the European Union and the Council of Europe; to that end, calls on the Council and the Commission to take into account the recommendations set out in the Juncker report of 11 April 2006 entitled ‘Council of Europe-European Union: a sole ambition for the European continent’;

20.

Notes that the new UNHRC has the potential to develop into a valuable framework for the EU's multilateral human rights efforts and recognises that, in its first year of existence, the UNHRC set an ambitious working programme which includes reviewing and maintaining of the system of Special Procedures, the establishment and implementation of the Universal Periodic Review to which all states will be subject, the definition of its working methods and the promotion and protection of human rights, especially where those rights have been violated or are at risk; regrets, however, that the new UNHRC has proven to be ineffectual in responding appropriately to human rights crises around the world due to the use of the UNHRC by many states as a forum for political pressure instead of the promotion of human rights; calls on the EU institutions and EU Member States to play a more active role in the UNHRC within the framework of the community of democracies, in order to strengthen and deepen democratic norms and practices worldwide;

21.

Calls on EU Foreign Ministers and Presidencies to use their political influence to work towards tackling the difficulties encountered by the new UNHRC; affirms the need for a clear political agenda as regards action by Member States within the UNHRC; stresses that the UNHRC must no longer be used as a political forum for conflict between different geographical and ideological blocs globally; therefore urges EU Foreign Ministers and Presidencies to work towards building a consensus within the UNHRC in favour of greater involvement on the part of the international community in contributing to the resolution of serious human rights and humanitarian abuses;

22.

Reiterates its call for a wide-ranging human rights agreement between the parties to the conflict in Sri Lanka and its facilitation by an effective, independent international monitoring mission, with unhindered access to areas controlled both by the government and by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, as recommended by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Mr Philip Alston; considers that the European Union, as Co-Chair of the Tokyo Donor Conference, should take the lead in developing a consensus on the proposals submitted to the UNHRC in this regard;

23.

Recognises the need for the EU to make more effective use of its leverage in order to promote important issues on the agenda of the UNHRC and to better fine-tune its lobbying and outreach activities;

24.

Reminds the Council of its above-mentioned resolution of 16 March 2006, which welcomed the establishment of the UNHRC and called on the EU to play a pioneering role within that institution; welcomes, in this context, the setting-up of a mechanism aimed at holding special sessions to respond to urgent crises and human rights violations; is concerned, however, about the already high degree of politicisation of UNHRC special sessions; calls for the retention and protection of the independence of the Special Procedures; welcomes the creation of a universal periodic review mechanism and calls in this regard for an evaluation process based on the implementation of the recommendations made by UN independent mechanisms; encourages the involvement of independent civil society where appropriate, and recognises the value of the involvement of victims of human rights violations in an interactive dialogue with the international community, especially in cases where people cannot express their opinions in their own countries; calls on EU members of the UNHRC to explain their votes on all resolutions;

25.

Underlines the positive role that Special Rapporteurs can play in the UNHRC structure, and calls for continued support for such special procedures; recognises, however, that, if Special Rapporteurs are to be effective, they need to be properly financed and staffed; underlines that their independence should be preserved;

26.

Urges Member States, in their bilateral dealings with UNHRC members, to push the agenda of the UNHRC in a positive direction; recognises that Parliament and the EU must continue to forge alliances outside Geneva, particularly with influential states; considers that Parliament needs to continue to attend UNHRC meetings on a regular basis;

27.

Expresses its disappointment at the weakness of the UNHRC resolution on Darfur; considers that the Darfur conflict is increasingly affecting the stability of the Central African region and constitutes a threat to international peace and security; deplores the fact that the UNHRC delegation was prevented from entering Sudan by not being granted visas by the authorities; considers that immediately halting the spread of violence and protecting the people of Darfur must remain the highest priority for the international community; recognises also that long-term security can only be guaranteed with a political settlement of disputes in the region; urges both the Council and the Commission to work within the UNHRC towards the establishment of a comprehensive peace strategy involving all parties; urges the European Union and Member States to make more effective use of their leverage at UNHRC level and for the UNHRC to adopt appropriate and strong measures to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur, following the report of the special UNHRC mission;

28.

Expresses its concern at the difficulties experienced by EU Member States in reaching agreement with the Organization of the Islamic Conference on a series of UNHRC resolutions; considers that the continuing unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a major stumbling block to positive cooperation;

29.

Expresses its concern at the effect on the ordinary Palestinian people of the EU decision to suspend the provision of aid through the Palestinian Authority, as a result of the failure of the Authority to fulfil legitimate conditions; urges expansion of the temporary international mechanism and urges the Council and the Commission to monitor changing circumstances closely and to encourage circumstances that would allow for the resumption of the provision of aid through the Authority;

30.

Encourages EU members of the UNHRC to examine how they might make more effective use of their debating time;

31.

Is concerned that, despite the fact that the Council's Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) has increased the number of meetings it holds, more time and resources are required to achieve EU goals at UNHRC level; calls on Member States and the Commission to strengthen available human resources in Geneva;

32.

Urges Member States not to support as candidates for positions of responsibility in international fora countries which have been shown to commit gross and systematic human rights and democracy violations; calls on Member States to enter into negotiations with like-minded influential states aimed at blocking the election of such countries to such positions; supports the call for all candidate countries to be required to cooperate with Special Procedures and other mechanisms set up by the UNHRC; in this respect, calls once again on Member States to express support for membership criteria which would link accession to the UNHRC to the obligation for Member States to issue a standing invitation to UN mechanisms;

33.

Encourages the Council to use targeted sanctions, as introduced against the Belarusian regime, to penalise persons particularly responsible for violations of human rights in other countries;

34.

Reiterates its request to the Council to explain how it was possible for Belarus to be elected onto the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in June 2005 when four major EU countries are permanent members of that Governing Body; asks the Council to explain its diplomatic demarches prior to that election and whether it considered opposing Belarus' membership;

35.

Notes with concern that in October 2006 a report of a UN group of experts concluded that conflict diamonds from Côte d'Ivoire were infiltrating the legitimate diamond trade through Ghana, a Kimberley Process participant; calls on the Commission to use its position, as Chair of the Kimberley Process throughout 2007, to strengthen the mechanisms designed to stem the flow of conflict diamonds; recommends that the Commission work towards building a consensus requiring all sectors of the diamond trade to implement systems which track diamonds from the mines to the retailer, to have responsible and transparent policies in place with warranties verified by an independent auditor and to improve the accuracy of the rough diamond trade statistics so that effective analyses may be produced quickly enough to detect any trade in conflict diamonds;

36.

Calls on the Council and the Commission to uphold the Oslo Declaration on Cluster Munitions of 23 February 2007, signed by 46 countries, which seeks the conclusion by 2008 of an international treaty prohibiting the production, use, transfer or storage of cluster bombs in accordance with the principles of international humanitarian law; calls on the Council and the Commission to take action at European Union level to ensure that the various Member States follow the example of Austria and Belgium in banning cluster bombs and at international level to ensure that those countries which have not yet signed the Oslo Declaration now do so;

37.

Calls on the Council and the Commission to continue their vigorous efforts to promote the universal ratification of the Rome Statute and the adoption of the necessary national implementing legislation, in conformity with Council Common Position 2003/444/CFSP of 16 June 2003 on the International Criminal Court (14) and the related Action Plan of 4 February 2004; welcomes the fact that Chad recently ratified the Rome Statute, thereby bringing the total number of states parties to 104 as at 1 January 2007; urges the Czech Republic, as the only remaining EU Member State not to have ratified the Rome Statute, to do so without delay; in the same spirit, calls on the Council and the Commission to encourage third countries to promote transitional justice mechanisms on their territory as a step towards securing justice for the victims of grave violations of human rights;

38.

Welcomes the fact that references to the ICC have been included in several new European Neighbourhood Action Plans (relating to Egypt, Jordan, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lebanon and Ukraine) and are being negotiated in the context of other new Action Plans as well as Partnership and Cooperation Agreements with several countries; fully supports the Commission's financing, via the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), of the work of, inter alia, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, of No Peace Without Justice, of the International Federation for Human Rights and of Parliamentarians for Global Action to promote the ratification and implementation of the Rome Statute;

39.

Recognises the importance that ratification of the Rome Statute by the United States would have from a global perspective; calls once again on the Council and the Commission to use all available mechanisms to encourage the US to sign and ratify the Rome Statute and also to express strong disapproval of US efforts to actively prevent other countries from ratifying the Statute and from proposing to third countries parallel agreements such as bilateral exemption treaties;

40.

Urges all Member States to collaborate fully in international criminal justice mechanisms, and especially in bringing fugitives to justice;

41.

Urges all Member States to contribute actively to ad hoc international judicial mechanisms, particularly those receiving voluntary funding;

42.

Stresses that the above-mentioned transitional judicial mechanisms must never deviate from respect for human rights and the rule of law, this being the only means of ensuring justice for victims and preventing continued impunity for the most serious human rights violations;

Performance regarding the EU Human Rights Guidelines

43.

Appreciates the ongoing efforts to implement the methods and policy priorities outlined in the five EU guidelines on human rights as well as the production of impact assessments for each of those guidelines, weighing up their effectiveness in forging change in third countries; is concerned at regular reports that the embassies of EU Member States in third countries and EU missions have little or no knowledge of the guidelines;

44.

Asks the Commission to ensure that all its staff, in particular those working in the field of development policy, are sufficiently aware of the human rights guidelines; recognises the need for greater transparency regarding the way in which the different guidelines are operated, including feedback on individual cases and information on action taken by NGOs; calls for regular and transparent evaluations of the implementation of the EU guidelines involving Parliament, so as to allow it to play an active role in accountability;

45.

Commends the German Presidency's commitment to establish EU human rights guidelines on the rights of the child; encourages it to consult Parliament, the Commission and civil society on the detail of such guidelines and, if necessary, to coordinate with the future Portuguese Presidency in order to complete the introduction of those guidelines, which should aim at the effective elimination of child labour, focusing principally on teaching and educating children, this being one of the Millennium Development Goals;

46.

Notes that the EU guidelines relate to different countries in different ways and that individual plans to implement the guidelines are required in different circumstances;

47.

Notes the responsibility of EU Special Representatives and EU missions abroad in promoting the EU guidelines; encourages a more proactive approach to promoting the guidelines at all levels; underlines the resource and personnel problem within EU missions in third countries concerning guideline awareness, monitoring and implementation; calls on the Member State representations in third countries and the Commission delegations to coordinate more effectively, sharing structures and staff so as to create genuine ‘European Union embassies’ throughout the world and thereby assume responsibilities in the field of human rights;

Death penalty

48.

Urges Presidencies to continue the approach of promoting the abolition of the death penalty by prioritising a specific number of countries where there are prospects for a positive change in policy;

49.

Encourages Presidencies to disclose which countries they intend to target in the context of the EU guidelines on the death penalty under the so-called ‘countries on the cusp’ campaign aimed at states whose policy on the death penalty is in flux; encourages the Council and the Commission to seek greater support for moves by the current UN General Assembly to achieve a universal moratorium on capital punishment leading to its total abolition, including sentencing; urges the Council to update the guidelines, which date back to 1998, so that new elements and strategies which have developed since then can be taken into consideration;

50.

Suggests that the Council undertake a review of the guidelines and that this review could provide for the EU to intervene with regard to individual cases of particular concern which do not fall under UN minimum standards as provided for in the guidelines;

51.

Calls on the Presidency to encourage those remaining countries which have not signed up to and ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to do so, as well as those Member States that have not signed Protocol No. 13 to the ECHR concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances (15); recognises, in that regard, that the guidelines on the death penalty could be implemented more coherently if Member States were to sign up to and ratify such protocols and conventions;

52.

Welcomes the organisation in Paris (1-3 February 2007) of the third World Congress against the Death Penalty and associates itself with its final declaration; intends to follow up on the Congress, notably by developing the parliamentary dimension of the global campaign against the death penalty and raising the matter through its inter-parliamentary delegations and participations in joint parliamentary assemblies; calls on the Council and the Commission to take every possible opportunity to support the establishment of regional abolitionist coalitions, with a special focus on Arab countries;

53.

Welcomes — as a good example of the effective use of the EU guidelines on the death penalty — the coordinated and public reaction of EU representations in Peru to the proposals to extend the death penalty in that country in violation of the Peruvian constitution and the American Convention on Human Rights;

54.

Applauds the coordinated, effective action — both public and diplomatic — of the European Parliament, the Commission, concerned Member States and NGOs to secure the sovereign decision of the President of Pakistan to commute the death sentence imposed on, and ultimately release, Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British national who had served 18 years on death row in Pakistan; urges the EU to continue to raise individual cases under the death penalty guidelines and recommends that the Council and the Commission make effective use of the parliamentary dimension in this regard, having recourse, in particular, to timely and useful interventions by inter-parliamentary delegations;

Torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment

55.

Welcomes the entry into force on 22 June 2006 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT); notes that only 19 EU Member States have so far signed and only 9 ratified the Protocol (16); urges all EU Member States which have not so far signed and ratified the OPCAT to do so in the coming year;

56.

Welcomes the launch of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; asks all EU Member States to sign and ratify it promptly;

57.

Recommends that the EU continue to raise individual cases of torture under the torture guidelines in the same way as it has done with death penalty cases under the death penalty guideline;

58.

Approves of the Council's decision to make the terms of certain demarches public, and recognises this step as progress towards greater transparency; asks the Council and the Commission to take into particular consideration the conclusions and recommendations of Parliament's study concerning implementation of the EU guidelines on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

59.

Underlines that, although those guidelines were adopted as long ago as 2001, the use of political dialogues, declarations and demarches in relation to the actual practice of torture has been minimal; encourages future Presidencies to carry out an assessment, evaluation and planning for the torture guidelines; calls on the Council to take into consideration the recommendations provided by the study on this matter requested by its Subcommittee on Human Rights within the Foreign Affairs Committee in the future process of evaluation of those guidelines; encourages the EU to broaden the scope of implementation, in particular by developing a procedure to identify and demarche on individual cases in selected countries;

60.

Recommends to the German and Portuguese Presidencies that they continue the series of demarches on torture when and where relevant; underlines nevertheless that demarches alone are not enough and that other complementary actions should be carried out consistently and after thorough analysis of local situations, for example by strengthening relations with civil society groups working in the field of torture and illtreatment, considering efficient ways to address individual cases of torture and ill-treatment in addition to those involving well-known human rights defenders and ensuring the coherence and continuity of action of EU missions committed to fighting torture and ill-treatment in third countries;

61.

Emphasises that the regular presence of the Presidency or the Council Secretariat in the relevant UN Committees as well as further cooperation with the Council of Europe and its Committee for the Prevention of Torture can result in substantial and useful material input into decision-making concerning demarches towards certain countries;

62.

Urges the Council and the Commission to continue the practice of demarches in respect of all of the EU's international partners regarding the ratification of international conventions banning the use of torture and ill-treatment, as well as the provisions of rehabilitation to torture survivors; calls on the EU to regard the fight against torture and ill-treatment as a top priority of its human rights policy, in particular through enhanced implementation of the EU guidelines and all other EU instruments such as the EIDHR and by ensuring that EU Member States refrain from using diplomatic assurances with third countries where there is a real risk of people being subjected to torture or ill-treatment;

63.

Reaffirms that female genital mutilation is a violation of the human right to physical integrity and is alarmed at attempts to place such acts of mutilation in the same category as standard medical practices;

Children and armed conflict (CAAC)

64.

Welcomes the appointment of Ms Radhika Coomaraswamy as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict in April 2006, with the mandate of defining strategies to deliver tangible protection for children affected by armed conflict and to ensure the full implementation of international child protection standards and norms;

65.

Welcomes the joint organisation by the French Foreign Minister and the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) of the Conference entitled ‘Free Children from War’ in February 2007, and the adoption of the Paris Principles and guidelines on children associated with armed forces or armed groups, as an important step in motivating the international community to promote protection, to raise awareness and to make the issue of children in armed conflicts central to peacekeeping and peace-building;

66.

Stresses that girl soldiers give particular cause for concern, being victims of both sexual exploitation and all too frequent ostracism within their communities following their demobilisation, and calls for measures specifically addressing their problems and helping them to adapt following their demobilisation and return to civilian life;

67.

Calls on all the Member States to ratify the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

68.

Notes that many countries, including some EU Member States, train children for armed conflict; calls on all countries to take steps to ensure that persons under the age of 18 are not given training for armed conflict;

69.

Welcomes the Implementation Strategy (IS) adopted in April 2006 by the Austrian Presidency, which identifies specific recommendations for action, and its indications that human rights issues should be considered systematically in the early stages of the planning of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operations; praises the efforts made by the Finnish Presidency with a view to implementation of the IS; regrets that political tools available to the EU (such as demarches and political dialogues) have not been applied to their full potential since the adoption of the guidelines in 2003;

70.

Emphasises the importance of continuing to focus on the guidelines in addition to the IS, inasmuch as the guidelines are more holistic; regrets that the Finnish Presidency undertook only very few demarches and other steps regarding CAAC; insists that the EU maintain high standards of quality and depth when monitoring and reporting on CAAC; urges the Commission and the High Representative for the CFSP to ensure that future Presidencies are fully aware of the IS;

71.

Asks the Commission and the Council to draw up a list of questions for heads of mission to refer to in order to assist them in their regular reporting; asks the Commission and the Council to draw up a list of criteria determining whether or not a country is a ‘priority’, and asks that the Commission and the Council consult more with stakeholders with a view to seeking their opinions; urges the Commission and the Council to produce a paper, as suggested in the IS recommendations, containing proposals as to how to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1612 (2005);

72.

Calls on the Commission to better reflect the aims of the guidelines by mainstreaming CAAC in all areas, including development cooperation;

73.

Welcomes the call for proposals launched by the Commission in early 2006 with a view to selecting for funding projects that fight against the trafficking of women and children and seek to protect the rights of vulnerable groups in armed conflicts, especially children's rights;

74.

Welcomes also the adoption in December 2006 of the EU Concept for support to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration, containing strong and systematic references to children, and EC support (via the Commission's Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid, ECHO) to the Unicef-led process of revision of the ‘Cape Town Principles’ on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of children;

Human rights defenders

75.

Stresses that full implementation of the 2004 EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders must be prioritised and that the Council recommendations adopted in June 2006, further to the first review of the implementation of the guidelines conducted by the Austrian Presidency, must be followed up with concrete action; encourages the Council to facilitate adequate follow-up to demarches, and the evaluation of the impact of action taken on behalf on individuals, by creating a central database in respect of EU demarches;

76.

Stresses that the EU needs to increase the level of awareness among all EU actors in Brussels, in capitals and at mission level about the existence, purpose, content and operational application of the guidelines; recognises that internal awareness-raising should aim at creating a deeper understanding of the work of human rights defenders; calls on the Commission and on Member States to organise training workshops for regional departments as well as staff in delegations, embassies and consulates on the application of those guidelines, with human rights defenders participating at an early stage, as well as exchanges of good practice regarding the provision of financial and non-financial support to human rights defenders; considers that the idea of issuing visas for human rights defenders in grave danger, as recommended by the Council, should be an important priority;

77.

Emphasises the importance of making the handbook for the implementation of the guidelines available to human rights defenders on the ground; encourages COHOM to disseminate translations of the EU Guidelines for Human Rights Defenders in EU languages that are the lingua franca in third countries and in key non-EU languages amongst regional desks and embassies/delegations; stresses that EU missions need to reach out to local human rights defenders in a more proactive manner;

78.

Calls on the Council and the Commission to raise the situation of human rights defenders systematically in all political dialogues including bilateral dialogues with EU Member States; calls on the Council to inform Parliament systematically about the implementation of the guidelines on the ground and to involve it fully in the process of evaluating them; welcomes the fact that one of the priorities of the EIDHR is the protection of human rights defenders, which includes the introduction of urgent protection measures by the EU; welcomes also the initiative of the global EU campaign in support of women human rights defenders; notes the reports and recommendations of the UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, Ms Hina Jilani;

Guidelines on human rights dialogues and recognised consultations with third countries

79.

Stresses that the European Union global strategy for the promotion of human rights and democracy cannot be based solely on bilateral or multilateral relations between States, but must involve and encompass as far as possible non-governmental actors, including parliamentarians, academics, intellectuals, journalists, the defenders of democratic values, activists, NGO leaders and opinion makers;

80.

Welcomes the fact that the Council has drawn up a document providing an overview of human rights dialogues and consultations; asks the Council to take into consideration Parliament's own-initiative report, currently being drafted, on the evaluation of human rights dialogues and consultations with third countries; in this context, regrets that the Council's evaluation was declared confidential and asks the Council to respond favourably to the invitation to develop, together with Parliament, a system whereby selected Members of the European Parliament can be kept informed about classified activities; suggests once again that such a scheme could be modelled on the system for informing selected MEPs about classified material regarding security and defence; takes the view that, in general, dialogue concerning human rights should be planned and conducted transparently, with appropriate means being sought to attain that purpose;

81.

Emphasises the need to strengthen and improve the EU-China human rights dialogue considerably; recognises that China has now decided to have all death penalty cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, but remains concerned that China still carries out the majority of executions worldwide; stresses that China's human rights record remains a matter of serious concern; calls on the Council to provide a more detailed briefing to Parliament in public session following discussions; stresses the importance of reiterating points that were raised in previous dialogues; supports the Commission and the Council in their current reflections on ways of improving the dialogue; notes that, despite significant economic reforms, political and human rights concerns still persist regarding such matters as political imprisonment, forced labour, freedom of expression and religion, rights of religious and ethnic minorities, the Laogai camp system and allegations of organ harvesting; notes that such concerns should receive more focus in the build-up to the Beijing Olympic games; urges the EU to ensure that its trading relationship with China is contingent upon human rights reforms and calls in this regard on the Council to make a comprehensive evaluation of the human rights situation before finalising any new Partnership and Cooperation Framework Agreement; calls on the Council and the Commission to raise the issue of Tibet and to actively support the strengthening of the dialogue between the Chinese Government and envoys of the Dalai Lama;

82.

Is very concerned that the human rights dialogue with Iran has been interrupted since 2004 due to a lack of cooperation from Iran; regrets that, according to the Council, no progress had been made; urges Iran to re-engage in the dialogue and, drawing on input from the EU, to define benchmarks aimed at real improvements in the field; calls on the Commission to implement all actions required within the framework of the EIDHR, so as to promote contacts and cooperation with Iranian civil society and to further support democracy and human rights; expresses its deep concern regarding the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran and points out, in particular, the intensification of the repression directed against human rights defenders; at the same time, deplores the fact that Iran continues to apply the death penalty under conditions which violate international standards, and denounces in particular the executions of juvenile offenders; calls on the Council to express concern about the human rights situation in the country in all its contacts with the Iranian government and to concentrate its efforts on protecting human rights defenders, and especially women, as well as to persuade Iran to adopt an immediate moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolition;

83.

Notes the continuation of the EU human rights consultations with Russia; supports the Council in its aim of developing those consultations into a frank and genuine EU-Russia human rights dialogue and calls for the involvement of the European Parliament and of European and Russian NGOs in such a process; regrets that the EU has had only limited success in bringing about policy change as a result of raising difficult issues such as the situation in Chechnya, impunity and the independence of the judiciary, the treatment of human rights defenders, the independence of the media and freedom of expression, the treatment of ethnic minorities, respect for the rule of law and human rights protection in the armed forces, discrimination based on sexual orientation as well as other issues; is concerned about Russian legislation limiting the activities of NGOs; deplores the fact that journalists and human rights defenders have been threatened and remains appalled at the murder of Anna Politkovskaja; expects that Russia will take further measures to protect freedom of expression and the security of journalists and human rights defenders; considers, in this regard, that Russian cooperation with UN human rights mechanisms as well as the ratification of all relevant human rights conventions should be regarded as a priority by the EU; is concerned about allegations that the Russian government is behind the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, who died in November 2006 in London; expresses concern at new allegations being brought against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos chief detained in 2003, and is equally concerned about his alleged treatment while in detention; urges the Commission and the Council to raise such cases with Russian authorities at the highest level and in the new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia; urges the Commission to lay down clearer obligations and establish more efficient monitoring mechanisms, in addition to the human rights clause, in order to achieve a real improvement in the human rights situation;

84.

Welcomes the efforts made so far by the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament to combat human rights abuses in Belarus; stresses that this policy should be continued, with particular emphasis on violations of freedom of speech and of the rights of peaceful assembly and association, as well as violations of the rights of national minorities; points to the need to support the political opposition, which is a target of repression;

85.

Urges the Commission and the Council to set up human rights subcommittees with all neighbourhood countries aimed at the promotion of human rights and democracy, as has been the case for Morocco and Jordan and as is presently envisaged for Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon; reiterates its call for Parliament to be associated with the preparation of these meetings and to be duly informed of their outcome;

86.

Recognises attempts to set up a human rights dialogue with Uzbekistan, but notes that this has not been possible due to the inability of Uzbekistan to approach such a dialogue in a constructive way; considers, in this regard, that engaging in a human rights dialogue with Uzbekistan should not lead to the lifting of sanctions imposed on that country if no progress is made in the area of human rights and democracy; consequently, calls on the Council to make a comprehensive evaluation of the human rights situation before taking any decision;

87.

Is confident that progress in the Six-Party Talks will contribute to a more favourable political climate in which the human rights dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea might be re-opened; calls on the Commission and the Council to vigorously pursue that objective in the course of contacts and negotiations with the DPRK;

88.

Notes the negotiations by the Commission and the Council in relation to Turkey's road to accession and the problems that have been encountered; is concerned about the limited progress achieved to date and the need for greater focus on human rights issues in Turkey, especially as regards freedom of religion for all religious communities and full enjoyment of their property rights, protection of minorities, freedom of expression and human rights concerns relating to the population of Kurdish origin in the south-east of the country; condemns the tragic murder of journalist Hrant Dink in January 2007, which exemplifies a nationalistic feeling amongst certain sections of Turkish society, but was encouraged by the strong condemnation of the murder across the country including by the government and the swift apprehension of the perpetrators; encourages the Turkish government to change Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which clearly limits freedom of expression in the media;

89.

Asks the Council and the Commission, particularly in post-conflict situations, including situations in which the rape of women and girls has been used as a weapon of war, and in which violence against women is still widespread, to take into account efforts of partner countries to address past human rights violations as evidence of current commitments to human rights issues;

90.

Underlines that, during human rights dialogues and consultations, EU institutions should raise all concerns relating to violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms as well as cases of discrimination; stresses the importance of such dialogues and consultations when violations are widespread and/or systematic and recognises that international pressure can play a role in preventing further violations;

91.

Notes with concern that the participation of Parliament is not always as comprehensive as it should be in human rights dialogues and consultations, and encourages the Council and the Commission to open up the dialogues to increased participation by Members of the European Parliament;

General scrutiny of Council and Commission activities including the performances of the two Presidencies

92.

Commends the cooperation between the Finnish and Austrian Presidencies aimed at ensuring a consistency of approach towards human rights and democracy issues; looks forward to the German, Portuguese and Slovene Presidencies' continuation of this process of collaboration;

93.

Supports the Council and the Commission in their stance against the ongoing human rights and democracy violations in Burma/Myanmar and the EU's commitment to attaining its stated objectives, namely to see the establishment of a legitimate, democratically elected civilian government which respects the human rights of its people and restores normal relations with the international community; urges the Commission and the Council to strengthen the EU's common position by adopting more effective and targeted sanctions in light of the reality that the situation in Burma/Myanmar continues to deteriorate; encourages the Council and the Commission — as part of the common position on Burma/Myanmar — to engage more proactively with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries and neighbouring states to urge them to use their influence responsibly so as to bring about positive change; calls for a proactive initiative to be taken by the UNHRC, which could take the form of a special session on this matter; encourages the Council and the Commission to urge China, India and other countries which continue to supply weaponry and other support to the military junta to desist from this and to join the international community in its efforts to bring about change for the better in Burma/Myanmar; notes the efforts made to date at UN Security Council level in recognition of the continuing humanitarian crisis; urges the Council and the Commission to seek a consensus with China, Russia and South Africa on a binding resolution, requiring meaningful tripartite dialogue between the State Peace and Development Council, the National League for Democracy and the ethnic nationalities, and the release of all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi;

94.

Expresses its disappointment at the lack of any positive results in the process to obtain the release of, or ensure a fair trial for, five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, who were detained and sentenced to death by the Libyan regime for intentionally infecting children with the AIDS virus, on the grounds of confessions obtained through torture; notes that, despite ongoing efforts by the Commission to resolve the issue through political dialogue and by providing medical treatment to the infected children, the Libyan regime remains as defiant as ever with regard to the case and continues to issue provocative statements in the media; in light of this, urges the Commission to review its policy tools vis-à-vis Libya so as to find a more efficient approach to resolving the issue quickly and put an end to eight years of agony and flagrant human rights violations;

95.

Regrets that the Council and the Commission have failed to take any decisive action to persuade the Ethiopian Government to immediately and unconditionally release all elected Members of Parliament and other political prisoners and to fulfil its obligations with respect to human rights, democratic principles and the rule of law; recalls the several European Parliament resolutions on Ethiopia, adopted since the 2005 Ethiopian elections observed by the EU, and especially the most recent of these, adopted on 16 November 2006 (17);

96.

Invites the Council and the Commission to encourage and assist the government of Senegal in preparing for the prompt and fair trial of Hissène Habré, in order to answer accusations of mass violations of human rights;

97.

Recognises the significant human rights consequences of the ongoing war in Iraq and the complex nature of the current fragile political situation; notes the reports and resolutions adopted by Parliament on Iraq and the recommendations contained within them; urges the Council and the Commission to constantly assess how the EU could play a more constructive role in bringing about stability in Iraq; notes with total stupefaction the provisional suspension by ECHO of humanitarian aid for Iraq, notwithstanding the disastrous situation afflicting the suffering Iraqi people and Iraqi refugees; welcomes, however, the resumption of this aid from February 2007;

98.

Commends the Commission for raising the profile of the problem of human trafficking in the EU and urges that the necessary measures be taken to combat the trafficking of human beings, in particular women and children; urges the Commission to continue to hold to account Member States which have not complied with agreed anti-trafficking conventions and directives, particularly Council Directive 2004/81/EC of 29 April 2004 on the residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities (18); also emphasises that in the fight against trafficking in human beings a human rights approach with respect to the victims of trafficking should be adopted; praises the Austrian Presidency in particular for organising a number of anti-trafficking initiatives including an EU expert conference in June 2006 on the implementation of the EU Plan on Trafficking in Human Beings, and notes the conclusions and recommendations resulting from that two-day event;

99.

Regrets that the Finnish Presidency did not organise a fourth meeting of the EU Network of contact points in respect of persons responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, which represents an invaluable means of strengthening cooperation among EU Member States in investigations and prosecutions of international crimes at national level; draws attention to the commitment in the Council's conclusions on the EU Network to hold one meeting during each Presidency, and calls for effective implementation of the conclusions of previous EU Network meetings; asks each Presidency to make this a standard point in its programme;

100.

Welcomes the communication from the Commission entitled ‘Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child’ (COM(2006)0367); hopes that the Commission is thereby providing a solid basis for more effective and comprehensive policies designed to protect the most fundamental rights of the child; is concerned, however, at the increasing lack of respect for the rights of the child being shown at international level;

101.

Deplores the fact that the violence in Darfur has continued unchecked, and that the Sudanese government has not been held accountable for its repeated failures to comply with international demands and protect its citizens from violence, while welcoming the recent indictments issued by the ICC; regrets that the EU has not taken more unilateral action regarding the crisis in Darfur and has not tried harder to persuade the government of Sudan to accept an international peacekeeping force; stresses that persistent diplomatic pressure is needed to demonstrate to the government of Sudan that its verbal commitments must be followed by comprehensive and sustained efforts aimed at halting the violence in Darfur, and that the international community will not accept further neglect by Sudan of its commitments and its responsibility to protect its citizens; urges the Council to agree a plan of specific, targeted sanctions to be imposed on the Khartoum regime, in accordance with a clear timetable, in the event of non-compliance with the demands of the international community; urges the EU to contribute (and to put pressure on others to also contribute) to an international peacekeeping force and the enforcement of the no-fly zone over Darfur, and to ensure that the African Union is adequately resourced and assisted to fulfil its mandate; asks that the EU push for a UN peacekeeping mission in Chad with a strong civilian protection mandate; implores the Member States, the Council and the Commission to assume their responsibilities and to provide effective protection for the people of Darfur from a humanitarian disaster;

102.

Calls for the adoption of a code of conduct on the standards to be adhered to by military and civilian peacekeeping and humanitarian personnel while on mission in areas of armed conflict, to include sanctions for non-compliance with the high standards of conduct expected, especially in relation to any form of gender-based violence;

103.

Welcomes the fact that five Member States have appointed special Ambassadors for Human Rights in order to conduct outreach activities, specifically in the human rights area, to third countries and notes the ongoing work in this area; asks other Member States to consider taking the same step;

104.

Requests from the Commission and the Council an overview of countries which have not issued standing invitations to all Special Mechanisms, Special Rapporteurs and Special Representatives of the United Nations;

105.

Welcomes the use of the new instrument of an EU list of ‘prisoners/detainees of concern’ in respect of a few individual countries; reiterates its request that the Council should establish EU lists of ‘prisoners/detainees of concern’ for each third country where there are human rights concerns and that it should raise the relevant list at each political dialogue meeting; asks the Commission to inform Parliament about all such existing lists;

106.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission and the Council now establish and regularly update lists of ‘focus countries’ in relation to specific issues, notably the list of countries ‘on the cusp’ for the death penalty, ‘focus countries’ in relation to torture and countries where the situation of human rights defenders is particularly distressing;

107.

Is surprised that the Council Secretariat has so far not adhered to the decisions of the General Affairs Council of 12 December 2005 adopting the provision that the Council's updated EU human rights fact sheets are to be made available to all EU institutions (19); looks forward to receiving the current version of those fact sheets as soon as possible;

108.

Welcomes the recognition by the Council that the newly adopted International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will further enable the EU to turn its attention outward in the promotion and protection of disability rights and, in the context of that new Convention, requests that the EU more effectively monitor the human rights situation of persons with disabilities in third countries with a view to reporting on key findings by 2009-2010;

109.

Insists that all human rights and democracy discussions with third countries, instruments, documents and reports including the Annual Reports need to address explicitly discrimination issues including the issues of ethnic minorities, religious freedoms including discriminatory practices towards minority religions, and explicitly the protection and promotion of the rights of ethnic minorities, the human rights of women, the rights of children, the rights of indigenous peoples, disabled people including people with intellectual disabilities, and people of all sexual orientations, fully involving their organisations, both within the EU and in third countries, where appropriate;

110.

Takes the view that an active policy to promote human rights cannot be confined to the cases attracting greatest public notice; points out that serious violations of rights occur on the fringe of public scrutiny, in closed institutions, for children, the elderly and the sick, and in prisons; points to the need for the Union to bring expert scrutiny to bear on the life of those institutions;

111.

Asks the Council to reassess the procedure for listing terrorist groups and also to consider a clear method for taking groups off the list if they deserve to be removed therefrom (taking into account their attitude, history and practice);

112.

Considers that a clear, efficient and harmonised common arms export control policy, anchored in a legally binding code of conduct, can play a decisive role in the fight against terrorism, in conflict prevention, in regional stability and in the promotion of human rights, and calls on the EU Presidency, the Council, the Commission and Member States to continue to be supportive of an International Arms Trade Treaty;

113.

Deplores, as expressed in its resolution of 14 February 2007, the failure by the Council and the EU Presidencies to comply with their obligations to keep Parliament fully informed of the main aspects and basic choices of CFSP in relation to the work of its Temporary Committee investigating the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners;

114.

Underlines that, at this stage when it is not possible for the EU to offer Belarus full participation in the neighbourhood policy, the EU should still make every effort to find appropriate ways to prevent further anti-democratic developments and human rights violations in that country, which is a direct neighbour of the EU; therefore calls on the Council and the Commission to monitor closely the situation in Belarus and to increase their support for the activities of civil society, NGOs and the political opposition;

The Commission's external assistance programmes

The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)

115.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission and the Council agreed with Parliament, at the latter's insistence, that a special financing instrument (the EIDHR) was needed for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide;

116.

Welcomes the consultations carried out by the Commission with NGOs and civil society in relation to the implementation of the new EIDHR; calls for complete transparency regarding the ways in which money is spent and projects are chosen and assessed under that instrument;

117.

Welcomes the adoption, under the EIDHR, of a new measure (among the ad hoc measures recently introduced under that instrument), making it possible to take urgent action for the protection of human rights defenders without the need for a tendering procedure; calls on the Commission to implement this new measure rapidly and effectively;

118.

Notes that EIDHR funds used for European Union election observation missions in 2006 amounted to 23 % of the total EIDHR funds used (EUR 35 176 103) and that such missions were conducted to 13 countries and territories including Aceh, Fiji and the Democratic Republic of Congo;

119.

Notes that a large proportion (49 %) of the total EIDHR funding for projects contracted in 2006 went to big thematic projects and only a small proportion (24 %) to micro projects implemented by EC delegations; expects that the new financial instrument will enable the Commission to finance those NGOs which play a key role in the promotion of human rights and democracy in their countries but which are not legally recognised by the authorities in those countries;

120.

Remains concerned that the administrative burden on civil society organisations as recipients of funding must be reduced and flexibility in the disbursement of funds increased by allowing re-granting, smaller grants for grassroots organisations and funding for unregistered NGOs;

121.

Recommends that the Commission draft clear guidelines in order that potential recipients of funding understand the objectives and qualifying criteria;

Assistance programmes in general

122.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission has begun to mainstream issues related to respect for human rights, democratic principles, the rule of law and good governance into programming meetings and documents when developing legal bases for instruments, country strategies, national indicative programmes, sectoral programmes, individual projects and evaluations; welcomes the fact that officers preparing projects or programmes have guidelines on how to mainstream such issues;

123.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission (DG EuropeAid) is in the process of commissioning a study on how to mainstream into its activities a number of governance areas such as democratisation, the promotion and protection of human rights, reinforcement of the rule of law and the administration of justice, empowerment of civil society, public administration reform including anti-corruption, decentralisation and local governance; supports the Commission's work in developing this study into a practical tool to be used for the mainstreaming of governance into EC development cooperation for the benefit of programme managers in delegations and at headquarters level and consultants involved in the design or implementation of EC programmes; looks forward to receiving the study once it has been finalised;

124.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission is in the process of drafting governance profiles for all ACP countries in the context of the 10th European Development Fund programme; calls, however, for greater transparency in the process of developing the governance profiles, to involve real and effective consultation with all stakeholders, including ACP partners and civil society organisations; calls on the Commission to include, in the section on social governance, government performance in the provision of basic social services to their entire populations;

125.

Welcomes the fact that the Instrument for Economic Cooperation and Development Cooperation (ECDCI) has been split into two in such a manner that developing countries are now separated from industrialised ones (20); remains concerned, however, that no instrument now appears to cover conflict prevention;

Implementation of human rights and democracy clauses in external agreements

126.

Recalls its above-mentioned resolution of 14 February 2006 regarding future EU policy on the application of human rights clauses in all EU agreements; notes as a first reaction that the Commission outlined several measures to improve the application of the clause, such as gradually extending human rights committees to more third countries; points out that the Council has not yet given a specific reply to the above-mentioned resolution, preferring continued implementation of the clause in the more general foreign policy context; welcomes the fact that heads of Commission delegations in third countries are required, as part of their mandate, to emphasise human rights more specifically; is concerned, however, by the recent Commission proposal to exempt India from the rule that all EU agreements must include a human rights and democracy clause, in the context of the negotiations for the EU-India Free Trade Agreement; considers that such a move would be a retrograde step and could set a worrying precedent for future negotiations on trade agreements; requests, therefore, that the Commission and the Council adopt a clear position on the detailed proposals contained in the above-mentioned resolution of 14 February 2006; stresses in particular the need to introduce a monitoring mechanism, regular assessment of compliance with human rights obligations and a progressive system of penalties for non-compliance in order to ensure proper implementation of the human rights and democracy clause contained in agreements concluded by the EU with third countries;

127.

Notes that the Commission intends to draft new measures to improve implementation of the democratic clause, such as the progressive extension of human rights committees to encompass a larger number of third countries, or the invitation to the ‘EU heads of delegation’ throughout the world to place greater emphasis on human rights; observes, however, that it is necessary for the Commission to table a strategic political plan together with a specific legislative initiative for the comprehensive reform of the democratic clause as indicated by Parliament, this being a strategic problem concerning the general approach of the European Union to the issue of human rights;

128.

Draws the attention of the Council and the Commission to, in particular, the need to systematically include a human rights clause in all new-generation sector-based agreements such as trade agreements so as to further foster the promotion, protection and realisation of human rights within the aims of those agreements;

Mainstreaming of human rights

129.

Continues to support the Council in its efforts to mainstream human rights and democracy throughout the EU's work, in particular by focusing on the regular review and implementation of a particular set of EU human rights guidelines;

130.

Points out that numerous internal policies, particularly those relating to asylum, immigration and anti-terrorist measures, are having a major impact on respect for human rights in third countries; considers that greater efforts must be made to ensure that the internal policies in question comply with human rights and international humanitarian law; expresses its deep concern at the high number of deaths of refugees trying to enter Member States; calls for more legal options to seek asylum and urges the Member States to take into account human rights violations, considering the right of persons coming from third countries to be granted asylum in a Member State; observes that, under the body of case-law established by the European Court of Human Rights, European States may under no circumstances return individuals to States where they are in danger of being subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;

131.

Welcomes the ongoing work that the Council and the Commission are undertaking in order to strengthen the coherence between the EU's human rights policy and other international policies; considers it vital for the pursuit of a credible EU human rights policy that such coherence be reinforced; considers it necessary for Europe in future to speak with one voice; approves of the central theme of the EU Human Rights Forum entitled ‘Mainstreaming Human Rights and Democracy into European Union Policies’;

132.

Calls on the Commission to continue to monitor closely the granting of GSP+ benefits (Generalised System of Benefits) to countries which have shown serious flaws in the implementation of the eight ILO conventions relating to core labour standards, on account of breaches of civil and political rights or the use of prison labour; asks the Commission to develop criteria for when the GSP should be withdrawn on human rights grounds;

133.

Condemns unconditionally all forms of exploitation of children, whether in the form of sexual exploitation, including child pornography and child sex tourism, or compulsory labour, together with all forms of human trafficking; notes with indignation the absence of any real reduction in the sexual exploitation of children, particularly as a result of internet use; takes the view that serious criminal offences are hereby being committed which must be prosecuted and punished;

134.

Urges the Commission to continue to promote corporate social responsibility with European and local companies; asks the Council to report back to Parliament on any feedback from the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Mr John Ruggie, clarifying standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights;

135.

Welcomes the conclusions of the General Affairs Council of 13 November 2006 on promoting gender equality and gender mainstreaming in crisis management;

136.

Recognises that immigration policy has become a priority on the Union's internal and external policy agenda and that in its texts the Union has been attempting to link immigration and development and ensure that the fundamental rights of immigrants are respected; maintains, however, that the reality on the ground gives the lie to those texts; expresses particular disquiet at the fact that agreements for the readmission of illegal immigrants are being concluded with third countries that do not have the legal and institutional machinery needed in order to handle the readmission of nationals and protect their rights; calls on the Council and the Commission to brief it on the progress made in this area since the publication, in 2005, of the first annual monitoring and evaluation report on cooperation by third countries to combat illegal migration; recommends that Parliament be involved from the outset when readmission agreements are to be negotiated and concluded; and maintains, in short, that any migration policy has to be a common policy and, above all, preventive rather than punitive;

137.

Reiterates the importance of EU internal policy promoting adherence to international human rights law and the need for Member States to legislate in a way consistent with, inter alia, the obligations arising out of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention against Torture, the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute of the ICC; welcomes the progress made in the application of universal jurisdiction in some Member States; in pursuit of greater coherence of internal and external policies, encourages the Council, the Commission and the Member States to incorporate the fight against impunity for serious international crimes in the development of a common EU area of freedom, security and justice;

138.

Asks the Commission, the Council and the Member States to systematically include in the framework of discussions on human rights and fundamental freedoms with third countries the issue of persecution of, or discrimination against, persons on the basis of their sexual orientation, and to take appropriate progressive measures when similar human rights violations take place; requests them to take all necessary initiatives at the international level to stop persecutions based on sexual orientation as well as for decriminalisation, such as the adoption of a resolution on these issues by UN bodies, and decides to sponsor and celebrate every year, on 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia;

Effectiveness of the European Parliament's interventions in human rights cases

139.

Welcomes Parliament's important role in the human rights sphere, and in safeguarding commitments to improving human rights and democracy throughout the world by scrutinising the activities of other institutions and, in particular, through the Sakharov Prize;

140.

Asks the Council and the Commission to note the study by the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation entitled ‘Beyond Activism: The impact of the resolutions and other activities of the European Parliament in the field of human rights outside the European Union’, finalised in October 2006;

141.

Welcomes the activities of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, including regular reports by the Presidency, the Commission and the Personal Representative for Human Rights, exchanges of views (notably with UN Special Rapporteurs and independent experts), numerous hearings, expert testimony and studies; suggests that the impact of its work could be enhanced by systematic association with other committees such as the Committees on Development, International Trade, Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Budgets;

142.

Recognises that the Subcommittee on Human Rights has continued to be committed to evaluating the implementation of the EU instruments in the fields of human rights and democracy, with special focus on the EU guidelines on torture, to making the Commission and the Council accountable for their actions in this field, to setting up a constant dialogue with international institutions on human rights issues, to providing a platform of expertise and, at the same time, an input on human rights and democracy aspects in response to reports from the Foreign Affairs Committee, to drafting own-initiative reports on specific human rights instruments, to mainstreaming human rights issues throughout the different bodies of the Parliament (committees and delegations), to organising and preparing the Sakharov Prize award procedure and to providing a platform for a permanent dialogue with civil society representatives;

143.

Stresses the importance of enhanced cooperation with national parliamentarians with a view to coordinating the monitoring of human rights policies; considers that the Subcommittee on Human Rights should seek to open channels of communication and organise meetings with analogous committees of the national parliaments of EU Member States as well as of the third countries;

144.

Calls for a more constructive role for the Subcommittee on Human Rights in the development of consistent and transparent criteria for the selection of urgency topics so as to ensure that parliamentary interventions are timely and have maximum impact; suggests that debates and voting time on urgency resolutions should be reorganised so that the Council may participate;

145.

Recommends full implementation of the guidelines for Parliament delegations on visits to third countries;

146.

Recommends translating resolutions and other key documents relating to human rights issues into the language spoken in the targeted countries;

147.

Welcomes the active role played by the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Development and the President of Parliament in standing up to cases of injustice around the world, especially through the award of the Sakharov Prize; considers that Parliament should aim at conferring more than a momentary visibility and that it should better fulfil the expectations raised, e.g. through systematic liaison with former laureates and sustained support; takes the view that the European Parliament should facilitate the establishment of a network of Sakharov Prize laureates, with regular meetings being held in the European Parliament so that the Sakharov Prize laureates may associate themselves with Parliament's activities in the field of human rights; strongly regrets the response of the Burmese and Cuban authorities to Parliament's request for their agreement to the sending of a delegation to visit former Sakharov Prize laureates;

148.

Asks the Subcommittee on Human Rights to raise the profile of public hearings by improving attendance by MEPs and media visibility; calls on the Subcommittee to continue to invite prominent experts and key actors to attend, and to consider extending invitations to third country representatives and heads of EU missions; asks the Subcommittee to draw operational conclusions from all its meetings and exchanges of views with a view to following up on commitments and information obtained and on policy options devised;

149.

Welcomes the resolutions passed by Parliament calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the contributions that Parliament has made to raising the profile of that centre and its human rights concerns relating thereto; calls on the Council and the Commission to urge the US Government to find a mechanism that will facilitate the charging or releasing of detainees in accordance with international law; welcomes the fact that, in May 2006, Albania became the first country to resettle five Chinese Uighurs from Guantanamo, but regrets that 13 Chinese Uighurs who have been cleared for release by the United States Government remain in Guantanamo Bay as the United States Government has rightly concluded that they cannot be returned to China for fear of torture; calls on the Council, the Commission and Member States to work with the United States Government to facilitate the settlement of all those remaining individuals who the United States has concluded pose no threat to the United States or its allies but who cannot be returned to their home countries for fear of torture; is concerned that the very existence of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre continues to send out a negative signal as to how the fight against terrorism is being pursued;

150.

Considers that the effectiveness of Parliament's work on human rights and democracy could be enhanced by establishing priorities for its actions, notably by focusing on issues where it is possible to reach a broad political consensus; considers that its Subcommittee on Human Rights should set up small working groups to follow each of the human rights guidelines; considers that existing formal powers should be better used to promote human rights, in particular the budgetary powers and the right to give assent;

151.

Recalls its resolution of 18 January 2007 on Gender Mainstreaming in the Work of the Committees (21); calls on its committees to make every reasonable effort to respect gender balance in their activities (including the composition of delegations and invited speakers) and to implement gender action plans put forward by the Members appointed within each Committee as responsible for gender mainstreaming;

152.

Suggests that different policy areas within the European Parliament could be better linked through the work of the committees in charge of human rights, budgets and international trade, in such a way as to improve the integration of budgetary and trade issues in the articulation of human rights concerns, so as to make the latter more realistic in terms of achievement and better attuned to the formal powers of the European Parliament;

153.

Calls on the Council systematically to invite MEPs to attend preparatory and de-briefing sessions, such as those organised with NGOs, for human rights dialogues with third countries as well as European Neighbourhood Policy subcommittees on human rights;

154.

Regards it as a priority to continue to work closely with the United Nations, in particular the UNHRC, and with Council of Europe representatives and bodies; considers that it is also important to establish closer working relations with the ACP, Euro-Mediterranean (EMPA) and Euro-Latin American (Eurolat) parliamentary assemblies in order to exchange specialist knowledge and ensure greater coherence with regard to activities in the field of human rights and democracy;

155.

Acknowledges the work of its Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, and the report of that Committee adopted on 14 February 2007 (22); welcomes the efforts to collect information, examine the allegations and establish the facts in that regard and to raise the profile of extraordinary rendition and the use of EU countries by CIA aircraft to transport victims as a breach of human rights and a violation of international law; notes the criticism, as well as the recommendations, addressed to the Council, its Secretary General/High Representative and Member States; notes the role of its competent committees in ensuring the appropriate political follow-up to the above-mentioned report; requests the EU and Member States to work together at all levels to denounce the practice of extraordinary rendition now and in the future;

156.

Welcomes the adoption of its resolution of 1 February 2007 on the human rights situation of the Dalits in India (23);

Resources devoted to human rights work

157.

Welcomes the fact that the Commission now gives greater prominence to human rights in the mandate of heads of Commission delegations in third countries;

158.

Welcomes the fact that, in the ongoing process of renewing the mandates of the EU Special Representatives, a reference to human rights has been added to all the mandates;

159.

Advocates that increased human resources in the human rights area be made available to all Special Representatives appointed by the Council;

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160.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the candidate countries, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the governments of the countries and territories mentioned in this resolution, and the offices of the main human rights NGOs based in the EU.

(1)  Council document 13522/1/2006.

(2)  For all relevant basic texts, please consult the table in Annex III to report A6-0128/2007 of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

(3)  OJ C 379, 7.12.1998, p. 265; OJ C 262, 18.9.2001, p. 262; OJ C 293 E, 28.11.2002, p. 88; OJ C 271 E, 12.11.2003, p. 576.

(4)  OJ C 311, 9.12.2005, p. 1.

(5)  OJ C 364, 18.12.2000, p. 1.

(6)  OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3; OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 27.

(7)  OJ C 291 E, 30.11.2006, p. 409.

(8)  OJ C 290 E, 29.11.2006, p. 107.

(9)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0018.

(10)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0008.

(11)  OJ L 386, 29.12.2006, p. 1.

(12)  OJ L 53, 22.2.2007, p. 1.

(13)  OJ C 327, 23.12.2005, p. 4.

(14)  OJ L 150, 18.6.2003, p. 67.

(15)  As at 7 February 2007, France, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Spain had signed but not ratified Protocol No. 13.

(16)  Signed but not yet ratified (as of January 2007): Austria (2003), Belgium (2005), Cyprus (2004), Finland (2003), France (2005), Germany (2006), Italy (2003), Luxembourg (2005), the Netherlands (2005), Portugal (2006) and Romania (2007). Signed and ratified: the Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Malta, Estonia and Slovenia. Therefore, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia have so far neither signed nor ratified the OPCAT.

(17)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0501.

(18)  OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 19.

(19)  Council Conclusions of 12 December 2005, 15293/1/05 REV 1, Annex, p. 14.

(20)  Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation (OJ L 378, 27.12.2006, p. 41) and Council Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006 of 21 December 2006 establishing a financing instrument for cooperation with industrialised and other high-income countries and territories (OJ L 29, 3.2.2007, p. 16).

(21)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0010.

(22)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0032.

(23)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0016.

P6_TA(2007)0166

Universal moratorium on the death penalty

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the initiative for a universal moratorium on the death penalty

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to its resolution of 1 February 2007 on the initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty (1),

—

having regard to the Guidelines on EU policy towards third countries on the death penalty of 29 June 1998,

—

having regard to the final declaration of the third World Congress against the Death Penalty held in Paris between 1 and 3 February 2007,

—

having regard to the statement on abolition of the death penalty delivered on 19 December 2006 in the UN General Assembly by the EU Presidency, which was initially signed by 85 countries in all geographical groups,

—

having regard to the statement read by the EU Presidency on behalf of the European Union during the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council on 29 March 2007,

—

having regard to the public support for a moratorium expressed by the Secretary-General of the UN during his recent visit to Rome,

—

having regard to Rule 103(2) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas the call for a universal moratorium on the death penalty is a strategic move towards the abolition of the death penalty in all countries,

B.

whereas its resolution of 1 February 2007 called on the EU Presidency to urgently submit a resolution to the current UN General Assembly and to keep Parliament informed of the results achieved; whereas at this stage no resolution has been submitted to the current UN General Assembly,

C.

whereas the statement on the death penalty presented by the European Union in the UN General Assembly on 19 December 2006 has now gathered 88 signatures from countries in all geographical groups;

1.

Reiterates its call to the EU Member States to gather third-country support for the statement;

2.

Encourages the EU to seize the existing opportunities and press its case and calls on the EU Member States and the EU to immediately submit — seeking the co-sponsorship of countries in other continents — a resolution for a universal moratorium on the death penalty to the current UN General Assembly;

3.

Calls on the EU Presidency to encourage those remaining countries which have not signed and ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to do so, and those Member States that have not signed Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights on the death penalty to do so;

4.

Fully endorses the final declaration of the third World Congress and intends to follow up the Congress, notably by developing the parliamentary dimension of the global campaign against the death penalty and raising the matter through its interparliamentary delegations and participation in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly;

5.

Calls on the Council and the Commission to take every possible opportunity to support the establishment of regional abolitionist coalitions;

6.

Calls on all institutions of the European Union, together with the Council of Europe, to support the World Day against the Death Penalty by declaring 10 October a European Day against the Death Penalty, from 2007 onwards, and endorses the initiative of organising a high-profile European conference against the death penalty in connection with that day; mandates its President to represent the European Parliament, together with the relevant delegation, on that occasion;

7.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the EU Member States, the UN Secretary-General, the Chair of the UN General Assembly and the UN Member States.

(1)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2007)0018.

P6_TA(2007)0167

Homophobia in Europe

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on homophobia in Europe

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to international instruments guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms and prohibiting discrimination, notably the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR),

—

having regard to Articles 6 and 7 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Article 13 of the EC Treaty, which commit the EU and the Community, respectively, as well as the Member States, to upholding human rights and fundamental freedoms and which provide means at European level to fight discrimination and human rights violations,

—

having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular Article 21 thereof, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation,

—

having regard to EC activities to fight homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation, in particular Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (1) and Decision No 771/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 establishing the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All (2007) — towards a just society (2),

—

having regard to its previous resolutions on homophobia, protection of minorities and anti-discrimination policies, and notably to those of 18 January 2006 on homophobia in Europe (3) and of 15 June 2006 on the increase in racist and homophobic violence in Europe (4),

—

having regard to Rule 103(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas Parliament has monitored a proliferation of hate speech targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in a number of European countries,

B.

whereas statements and actions by political and religious leaders have a major impact on public opinion, so that they have an important responsibility in contributing positively to a climate of tolerance and equality,

C.

whereas this resolution, like the above-mentioned resolutions, has been triggered by the proliferation of hate speech and other series of worrying events, such as the prohibition by local authorities of holding equality and gay pride marches, the use by leading politicians and religious leaders of inflammatory or threatening language or hate speech, and the failure by the police to provide adequate protection against violent demonstrations by homophobic groups, even while breaking up peaceful demonstrations,

D.

whereas equality and gay pride events are planned throughout Europe and the world in the forthcoming months, with participants and organisers facing possible physical violence, despite their fundamental right to freedom of expression and assembly, as recalled inter alia by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights,

E.

whereas Matteo, a 16-year-old Italian citizen from Turin, recently committed suicide and left two suicide notes citing as the reason for his suicide the bullying that he suffered because of his sexual orientation; whereas civil society organisations in the United Kingdom have signalled an increase in instances of homophobic bullying in secondary schools throughout the United Kingdom; whereas a gay man was bludgeoned to death in the Netherlands solely for his sexual orientation and feminine appearance,

F.

whereas Parliament has repeatedly asked for the completion of the anti-discrimination legislative package based on Article 13 of the EC Treaty, and periodically asks the Commission to propose a directive prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in all sectors,

G.

whereas in its above-mentioned resolution of 15 June 2006, Parliament has already expressed its serious concern at the situation in Europe and notably in Poland, condemning the declarations of incitement to hatred and violence by the leaders of the Party of the League of Polish Families and, notably, by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education,

H.

whereas in March 2007 the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education announced draft legislation punishing ‘homosexual propaganda’ in schools, and illustrated its content, which is to provide for dismissing, fining or imprisoning school heads, teachers and pupils in the event of LGBT rights ‘activism’ in schools,

I.

whereas the Polish Deputy Minister for Education confirmed that the administration is drafting such legislation and declared that ‘teachers who reveal their homosexuality will be fired from work’; whereas various members of the Polish Government reacted in different ways, leaving it unclear whether the legislation will in fact be proposed,

J.

whereas the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education has expressed a desire to promote the adoption of similar laws at European level,

K.

whereas the proposed legislation received the support of the Polish Prime Minister, who declared that ‘promoting a homosexual lifestyle for young people in school as an alternative to normal life goes too far, and that these kinds of initiatives in schools have to be stopped’, thus presenting a distorted interpretation of education and tolerance,

L.

whereas the Polish Ombudsman for Children has stated that she is preparing a list of jobs for which homosexuals are unfit,

M.

whereas in June 2006 the State Prosecutor's office ordered checks on the funding of LGBT organisations in connection with ‘criminal movements’ and their presence in schools, in order to find traces of criminal activities, without any result,

N.

whereas on 8 June 2006 the Polish Government sacked the head of the Centre for Teacher Development and prohibited the distribution of an official Council of Europe anti-discrimination manual, and whereas the new head of the Centre stated on 9 October 2006 that ‘improper patterns must not be present in schools, because the objective of school is to explain the difference between good and evil, beauty and ugliness ... school must explain that homosexual practices lead to drama, emptiness and degeneracy’,

O.

whereas Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis reacted to the events described by stating that ‘the Polish Government is free to decide whether it wishes to use Council of Europe material for human rights education, but if the teaching material is optional, the values and principles contained therein are certainly not’ and expressed concern about ‘some policies promoting homophobia ... and homophobic behaviours being accepted by the government’,

P.

whereas the Polish Government has also denied funding for projects sponsored by LGBT organisations in the framework of the European Youth Programme, and illustrated this decision in a letter to those organisations by stating that ‘the policy of the Ministry does not support actions that aim to propagate homosexual behaviour and such an attitude among young people ... [and] the role of the Ministry is not to support cooperation with homosexual organisations’,

Q.

whereas a number of positive developments may also be noted, such as the successful gay pride event in Warsaw in June 2006, the massive demonstration for tolerance and democracy in Warsaw in November 2006 after the banning of a tolerance demonstration in Poznan, the protection of the gay rights march in Krakow in April 2007, and the fact that gay pride marches are no longer systematically banned,

R.

whereas Parliament has asked the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia to conduct an inquiry into the emerging climate of racist, xenophobic and homophobic intolerance in Poland, and has asked the Commission to verify whether the actions and declarations of the Polish Minister for Education are consistent with Article 6 of the TEU, while recalling the sanctions provided for breaching it, and whereas those requests have remained unmet;

1.

Underlines that the European Union is first and foremost a community of values, with respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination among its most cherished values;

2.

Affirms that the EU institutions and Member States have a duty to ensure that the human rights of people living in Europe are respected, protected and promoted, as provided for by the ECHR, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Article 6 of the TEU, Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (5) and Council Directive 2000/78/EC;

3.

Reiterates its request to the Commission to ensure that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in all sectors is prohibited by completing the anti-discrimination package based on Article 13 of the EC Treaty, without which lesbians, gays, bisexuals and other individuals facing multiple discrimination continue to be at risk of discrimination; calls for a worldwide decriminalisation of homosexuality;

4.

Will mark International Day against Homophobia on 17 May each year;

5.

Urges the Commission to speed up the review of implementation of the anti-discrimination directives and to institute proceedings against Member States in the event of violations of their obligations under Community law;

6.

Reminds all Member States that, in accordance with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the right to freedom of assembly may be exercised even when the views of those exercising that right challenge the views of the majority and that, in consequence, discriminatory bans of pride marches, as well as the failure to provide proper protection to those taking part in them, contravene the principles protected by the ECHR; invites all competent authorities, including local authorities, to authorise such marches and protect participants adequately;

7.

Condemns the discriminatory remarks by political and religious leaders targeting homosexuals, since they fuel hate and violence even if later withdrawn, and asks the respective organisations' hierarchies to condemn them;

8.

Reiterates its invitation to all Member States to propose legislation to overcome the discrimination experienced by same-sex couples, and asks the Commission to make proposals to ensure that the mutual recognition principle is applied in this field also, in order to ensure the freedom of movement for all persons in the EU without discrimination;

9.

Expresses its solidarity with, and support for, fundamental rights activists and defenders of equal rights for members of the LGBT community;

10.

Urges the competent Polish authorities to refrain from proposing or adopting legislation as described by the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education or from implementing intimidating measures against LGBT organisations;

11.

Calls on the competent Polish authorities publicly to condemn and take measures against declarations by public leaders inciting discrimination and hatred based on sexual orientation; believes that any other behaviour would constitute a violation of Article 6 of the TEU;

12.

Requests the Polish authorities to facilitate the implementation of the Year of Equal Opportunities 2007, and requests the Commission to monitor the implementation of the Year, in particular the clause whereby funding is conditional on ensuring that all grounds for discrimination are addressed equally in the national programmes;

13.

Asks the Conference of Presidents to authorise the sending of a delegation to Poland on a factfinding mission, with a view to obtaining a clear picture of the situation and entering into dialogue with all the parties concerned;

14.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments of the Member States and the candidate countries, and the Council of Europe.

(1)  OJ L 303, 2.12.2000, p. 16.

(2)  OJ L 146, 31.5.2006, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 287 E, 24.11.2006, p. 179.

(4)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0273.

(5)  OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.

P6_TA(2007)0168

Public Finances in the EMU 2006

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on Public Finances in the EMU 2006 (2007/2004(INI))

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘Public Finances in EMU 2006 — The first year of the revised Stability and Growth Pact’ (COM(2006)0304),

—

having regard to the Presidency conclusions of the Stockholm European Council of 23 and 24 March 2001 calling for regular review of the long-term sustainability of public finances, including the expected strains caused by the demographic changes ahead,

—

having regard to the Commission communication on the long-term sustainability of public finances in the EU (COM(2006)0574),

—

having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1056/2005 of 27 June 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1467/97 on speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure (1),

—

having regard to the Commission Convergence Report December 2006 (COM(2006)0762),

—

having regard to the Commission's recommendations on Member States' stability and convergence programmes for 2006-2007,

—

having regard to the Presidency conclusions of the Brussels European Council of 22 and 23 March 2005 on the review of the Stability and Growth Pact,

—

having regard to the Commission communications relating to the second report on the practical preparations for the future enlargement of the euro area (COM(2005)0545) and the 2006 Annual Statement on the Euro Area (COM(2006)0392),

—

having regard to its resolutions of 1 June 2006 on the enlargement of the euro zone (2) and of 14 November 2006 on the 2006 annual report of the euro area (3),

—

having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

—

having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A6-0076/2007),

A.

whereas Member States are expected to maintain their budget deficits below 3% of GDP in line with the rules underpinning the single currency; and whereas that rule has been regularly flouted; whereas whenever the budget deficit is above 3% this can be judged more favourably if it is coupled with high growth and declining debt ratio (excluded privatisation revenue), also bringing down the annual deficit under 3% in the medium term,

B.

whereas the OECD's recent deficit warning calls on the Member States to focus on reforms to consolidate their economic progress by using the economic recovery to cut their budget deficits and by making labour markets more competitive,

C.

whereas the average debt ratio for the euro area was 70,6 % in 2005 and around 69,4 % in 2006 and is projected to fall to 68 % in 2007; whereas the difference between the lowest and the highest debt ratio was in excess of 100 percentage points of GDP in both 2005 and 2006, and the same spread is expected to be maintained in 2007; whereas these figures are still much higher than the reference value of 60 % for the debt-GDP ratio, one of the two pillars of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP),

D.

whereas the average deficit for the euro area was -2,6% of GDP in 2005 and around -2,0% in 2006 and is projected to fall to -1,5% in 2007; whereas the spread in the deficit ratio was close to 9 percentage points in 2005 and 2006 and is projected to fall to around 7 percentage points in 2007,

E.

whereas the average GDP growth rate for the euro area in 2005 was 1,4% and around 2,6% in 2006 and is projected to measure 2,1 % in 2007; whereas the spread in the growth rate in 2005 and 2006 was around 5 percentage points and is projected to remain at around 5 percentage points in 2007; whereas these growth rates are clearly lower than those of other areas of the world,

F.

whereas the unemployment rate in the euro area was 8,6% (12 600 000) in 2005 and went down to 8,1% (11 900 000) in 2006; whereas the unemployment rate is projected to fall to 7,7% (11 500 000) in 2007 and whereas the projected fall shows that deficit reduction enhances economic activity and reduces unemployment,

G.

whereas age-related expenditure is projected to increase by 4% of GDP by 2050; whereas in a number of Member States, as a consequence, age-related public expenditure will increase by 5 % to 13 % of GDP, which will put enormous pressure on the sustainability of their public finances, while growth is projected to fall from 2,4 % during the period 2004 to 2010 to 1,9% during the period 2011 to 2030 and further to 1,2% only during the period 2031 to 2050; whereas declining growth and increased agerelated expenditure may jeopardise the economic and social well-being of European citizens and the social cohesion of our societies, and may put disintegration pressure on the European institutions and common policies,

H.

whereas the Commission and the ECB biennially assess the fulfilment of the Maastricht criteria for adopting the euro by all Member States with a derogation,

Experiences with the revised SGP

1.

Recalls that the main objective of the SGP is to ensure budgetary positions that are close to balance or in surplus over the medium term and the sustainability and stability of government finances, which is essential in view of the upcoming demographic challenges;

2.

Welcomes the fact that a good many Member States have made a considerable effort in trying to meet their obligations with regard to the SGP; points out, however, that it is still too early to evaluate the results obtained following the coming into force of the revised SGP;

3.

Shares the Commission's concerns regarding the implementation of the preventive arm of the SGP, especially with regard to those Member States which have not yet managed to balance their public finances;

4.

Fears that the revised SGP, in particular its corrective arm, if enforced in a lenient way, entails a risk of high and persistent public debt, which could pose a serious threat to balanced public finances and employment opportunities;

5.

Stresses that the attitude of the Member States towards the revised SGP will ultimately decide the success or failure of the SGP; warns that any further revision is unlikely to be accepted by the public or by economic actors;

6.

Is concerned that the different spreads among the Member States in the fields of deficit, debt and growth may widen, which could have the effect of undermining the single currency, stifling economic growth and reducing employment prospects; encourages Member States to implement coordinated economic policies that narrow the identified spreads and lead to further convergence towards lower deficit and debt levels and higher growth;

7.

Is concerned about the slow pace of public debt reduction in some Member States; opposes neverending and inconclusive deficit procedures and therefore urges the Council and the Commission to act in a swift and decisive manner; suggests that the credibility of the excessive deficit procedure be maintained and that Member States continue to be judged according to the same single standard;

8.

Wonders to what extent European growth may be cyclical and draws attention to the need to increase the European Union's growth potential as a means of creating employment; reminds Member States that increased growth and higher employment should lead to a substantial increase in tax revenue, thus reducing the risk of excessive deficits while allowing for substantial reductions in public debt;

9.

Underlines that violations of the SGP could ultimately undermine the common monetary policy and add to the pressure to increase interest rates; emphasises that an independent European Central Bank is essential to maintaining price stability, thereby creating conditions for economic policies that contribute to high levels of growth and employment;

10.

Sees, therefore, an urgent need for the Member States to adapt their fiscal policies to the requirements of the common Economic and Monetary Policy in order further to increase the welfare of European citizens and that a common budgetary timetable and framework should apply to all Member States;

11.

Welcomes the fact that the revised SGP allows for reform programmes to be developed that have realistic deadlines and medium-term budgetary targets;

12.

Agrees that tailor-made reform programmes adapted to Member States' needs should allow for better implementation of the preventive arm of the SGP;

13.

Regrets that Member States do not sufficiently exploit their positive economic situation in order to implement significant structural reforms that increase the efficiency of the markets in goods, services, employment and capital and that in the longer term would ensure fiscal consolidation, economic growth and higher employment;

Challenges ahead

14.

Recalls that the SGP is the main and strongest instrument for the coordination of economic policies in the European Union; stresses that so long as the SGP is implemented consistently and vigorously, the economic policies will continue to lead to higher growth and increased employment;

15.

Is alarmed by the Commission's projections showing a dramatic increase in age-related expenditure whilst long-term growth prospects show a future decline which, taken together, will inevitably put enormous pressure on the sustainability of the Member States' public finances;

16.

Is concerned that six Member States are considered to be exposed to a high risk as regards the longterm sustainability of their public finances as a result of the budgetary impact of ageing populations, while ten other Member States are regarded to be facing a medium risk, and only nine Member States a low risk;

17.

Urges that such a major EU budgetary challenge be addressed; recalls that the reduction of public debt should be accelerated during periods of economic upturn whilst avoiding pro-cyclical measures and implementing structural and tax reforms to improve the economic performance of Member States; encourages Member States to use the current upswing in the economy to conduct necessary reforms in the labour market, services sector and reduce administrative burdens on business; considers that there is still room and a need for further acceleration in investment activity and thus calls for structural reforms and additional measures that would permanently improve the investment climate and boost investment;

18.

Calls for the reorientation of public expenditure towards physical and human capital accumulation and the creation of public-private partnerships operating in areas such as innovation, renewable energies, education and training, research, information technologies, telecommunication, and transportation networks;

19.

Welcomes the fact that projections made by Member States for 2007 and 2008 have incorporated the GDP deficit reduction of 0,5% foreseen by the revised SGP; shares the Commission's concerns that the average annual structural adjustment for 2006 does not reach that target; is convinced that given the good economic prospects there is scope for structural adjustment going far beyond the recommended 0,5% in most Member States;

20.

Urges Member States to avoid unsubstantiated budgetary projections and to refrain from one-off measures and creative accounting; advises the Council to ensure that Member States running an unsustainable public debt render new public debt either unconstitutional or unlawful by 2015, thus drawing on the best practices of certain Member States and regions in the European Union; recommends that the Commission prepare a study on best practices concerning the statistical governance of fiscal data reporting and the accounting of public assets and liabilities in Member States;

21.

Welcomes the recent agreements of the Eurogroup to jointly discuss budgetary projections in order to determine ex ante the appropriate fiscal strategy for the respective following year, and is convinced that a public debate on those projections should take place in the European Parliament together with representatives of national parliaments;

22.

Recommends exploring whether to set a uniform calendar for budgetary procedures across the European Union, while extending the budgetary planning beyond the current one-year span; takes the view that Member States' budget planning must be based on uniform assumptions regarding key economic parameters to be uniformly assessed and established across the European Union;

23.

Warns Member States to report statistics that are of a high standard to the Commission in order to ensure that public deficit and debt can be compared; encourages the Commission to check vigorously the quality of statistics reported by Member States; urges the Commission to take every step necessary, including penalty measures, to ensure that Member States provide high-quality, reliable , uniform and comparable statistics, incorporating all present and future liabilities (such as pensions and health care); invites the Commission to complete its work rapidly;

24.

Agrees with the Commission that independent institutions and specific rules concerning budgetary balance have a very positive influence on Member States' medium-term objectives and on the long-term stability of balanced public finances;

25.

Notes that in its latest convergence report in December 2006 the Commission considers that most of the assessed Member States have made progress, but that none presently meets all of the necessary conditions for adopting the euro;

26.

Recalls that the Maastricht criteria against which the Commission makes its assessment must be applied in an even way, that is, without, in particular circumstances, making it more difficult for Member States to join the euro-zone or interpreting the criteria in a lenient way;

27.

Encourages the Commission to explore the advantages of establishing national independent bodies in charge of determining the annual level of deficit consistently with the medium-term objective of a balanced budget;

28.

Welcomes the efforts of the Council and the Commission to improve statistical governance reporting of fiscal data with a recommendation to Member States on EU-wide standards concerning statistical institutes, including principles on professional independence, the confidentiality, reliability, and timeliness of data, and the adequacy of resources of statistical institutes and improved monitoring rights for the Commission;

29.

Considers that there is room for improvement in the accounting of public assets and implicit liabilities in order to increase transparency and comparability and to provide a sounder basis for taking decisions; considers that the Commission should launch an initiative in this field;

30.

Deplores the lack of policy coordination in the euro-zone, draws attention to the divergence in fiscal policies of the Member States in the euro-zone and is concerned about possible antagonistic effects of such a lack of coordination; encourages further research into the different kinds of and measures relating to structural and macroeconomic reform and their interaction and mutual impact at different phases of the economic cycle in order to identify the best possible means of strengthening public finances while at the same time achieving the Lisbon Strategy;

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31.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.

(1)  OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 5.

(2)  OJ C 298 E, 8.12.2006, p. 249.

(3)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0485.

P6_TA(2007)0169

Recent repression of demonstrations in Russia

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on Russia

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the objectives of consolidating democracy and political freedoms in the Russian Federation, as laid down in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Russian Federation, of the other part (PCA) (1), which entered into force in 1997 and expires in 2007,

—

having regard to the EU-Russia human rights dialogue,

—

having regard to its previous resolutions on Russia, and in particular to its resolution of 25 October 2006 on EU-Russia relations following the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya (2) and its resolution of 13 December 2006 on the EU-Russia Summit in Helsinki on 24 November 2006 (3),

—

having regard to Rule 115(5) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas Russian opposition members rallied in Moscow's Pushkin Square on 14 April 2007; whereas the so-called Dissenters' March was organised by Another Russia, an umbrella group which includes various movements with different political backgrounds,

B.

whereas minutes after the march began, the 2 000 protesters found themselves outnumbered by more than four to one by security forces, who quickly dispersed the activists, beating and briefly detaining those who sought to break through the riot-control lines,

C.

whereas among those detained were the leader of the United Civic Front, former world chess champion Gari Kimovič Kasparov and Maria Gaidar, the daughter of Russia's first post-Soviet reformist prime minister; whereas former prime minister Mikhail Mikhailovitch Kasyanov only avoided arrest because his bodyguards helped him to escape; whereas many journalists, including ARD correspondent Stephan Stuchlik, who tried to capture the events and disseminate them to the West, were also beaten and arrested,

D.

whereas on 15 April 2007 another protest, albeit far smaller, organised by the same grouping, was broken up in a similar way in St Petersburg, though Gari Kimovič Kasparov was detained before the protest even began and some demonstrators were arrested pre-emptively whilst en route to the event,

E.

whereas Vladimir Petrovich Lukin, Russia's human rights ombudsman, said that he believed police in both cities had exceeded their authority and whereas Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko, the governor of St Petersburg, ordered an investigation into human rights violations that took place at the rally in St Petersburg,

F.

whereas the Russian authorities, in the run-up to the parliamentary and presidential elections, are putting increased pressure on opposition groups and non-governmental organisations to refrain from any activities directed against the president and the government and to prevent the media from reporting any such activities,

G.

whereas democracy has been weakened in Russia, in particular by the bringing of all major TV stations and most radio stations under government control, the spread of self-censorship among the print media, new restrictions on the right to organise public demonstrations and a worsening climate for NGOs,

H.

whereas the right of free assembly is a fundamental part of the democratic principles and human rights standards that Russia has committed itself to upholding and repeatedly expressed its commitment to; whereas those principles and values are also the basis for the strategic partnership between the EU and Russia,

I.

whereas as a member of the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe, the Russian Federation has undertaken to respect freedom of speech and assembly; whereas observance of those principles is of particular importance in view of the forthcoming elections in Russia;

1.

Strongly condemns the use of excessive force by the Russian anti-riot police during last weekend's peaceful demonstrations in Moscow and St Petersburg, and calls on the Russian authorities to comply with their international obligations and to respect freedom of expression and freedom of assembly;

2.

Condemns, in particular, the repressive actions of the security forces against journalists carrying out their professional duty; regards such assaults on the media as unacceptable;

3.

Calls on the Russian authorities to order an investigation into the human rights violations that took place at both rallies and to identify and bring to justice those responsible for the violations;

4.

Encourages the Russian State Duma to set up a working group to investigate why such force was used against peaceful demonstrators;

5.

Urges the Commission and the Council to express those concerns clearly in their contacts with the Russian Government, in particular during the next EU-Russian Summit, to be held on 18 May 2007 in Samara;

6.

Calls on the Russian leadership to do its utmost to avoid any repetition of those regrettable events, in particular in the run-up to the next presidential and Duma elections, and to guarantee all political parties and movements a chance to take part in the democratic process; calls on the Central Election Commission and on the Russian judiciary to be vigilant, objective and impartial in scrutinising the campaign and election processes;

7.

Is deeply disturbed by an emerging pattern of use of excessive force by the Russian authorities towards opposition activists, which raises deep concern as regards democracy and respect for human rights in the Russian Federation;

8.

Reiterates its call for the EU-Russia Human Rights Dialogue to be stepped up so as to make it more effective and result-oriented, while fully involving the European Parliament at all levels, with a view to strengthening that element in the new PCA, which is due to be negotiated soon;

9.

Emphasises that, in order to achieve visible progress as regards democracy in Russia, the EU common policy and Member States' bilateral relations with Russia should be guided by jointly agreed principles and common positions;

10.

Urges the Russian authorities to fully respect, during the run-up to the parliamentary and presidential elections, the democratic standards and principles laid down by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe; calls on the Council of Europe to investigate the human rights violations that took place at the rallies in Moscow and St Petersburg;

11.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Council of Europe and the Government and Parliament of the Russian Federation.

(1)  OJ L 327, 28.11.1997, p. 1.

(2)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0448.

(3)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0566.

P6_TA(2007)0170

Kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the kidnapping in Gaza of the journalist Alan Johnston

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to Rule 115(5) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas BBC journalist Alan Johnston was abducted at gunpoint on 12 March 2007 while returning home in Gaza City and his whereabouts have remained unknown since that date,

B.

whereas Mr Johnston has remained in Gaza for the past three years during a period of increased violence, precisely to report on what is happening in Gaza to the outside world,

C.

whereas the Palestinian media community, public and politicians from all sides have condemned the kidnapping and are calling for his immediate release and an end to all kidnappings, proving the extent to which his work is appreciated by the local population,

D.

whereas the Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed publicly that there is credible evidence that Mr Johnston is alive, that he is being held in secure conditions and that there is some information as to which group is holding him,

E.

whereas no group has claimed responsibility for Mr Johnston's abduction, which has been condemned by President Abbas and all the heads of the leading Palestinian movements,

F.

whereas, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 15 foreign journalists have been kidnapped in the Gaza Strip since August 2005, and thousands of journalists around the world face the threat of kidnapping, violence and intimidation on a daily basis,

G.

whereas the BBC retains a justified reputation as one of the world's leading broadcasters, upholding the values of impartiality, objectivity and fairness in its reporting,

H.

whereas press freedom is of primary importance for democracy and respect for humans rights and fundamental freedoms, given its essential role in guaranteeing the free expression of opinions and ideas and in contributing to people's effective participation in democratic processes;

1.

Calls for Mr Johnston to be immediately and unconditionally released unharmed and returned to safety;

2.

Expresses its warm support for Mr Johnston's family in these difficult circumstances, and for his BBC colleagues and management, who have been campaigning tirelessly to build public and political support for his release;

3.

Pays tribute to Mr Johnston's record as a journalist of the highest integrity, with a record of sixteen years working for the BBC and, in particular, the past three years spent in Gaza, where he has been the only permanently-based foreign journalist from a major media organisation;

4.

Expresses solidarity with the IFJ and its member unions, including the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, in their efforts to secure Mr Johnston's release and their campaign for a new global commitment to ending threats to independent journalism; recalls in this regard the appeal delivered by the IFJ to the leaders of the Palestinian National Authority on 19 April 2007, with the signatures of 197 Members of the European Parliament;

5.

Calls on the Palestinian National Authority to redouble its efforts to secure Mr Johnston's speedy release, to ensure that journalists in Gaza are able to carry out their duties free from the threat of kidnap and harassment and to ensure that all attacks against journalists and other civilians are investigated thoroughly and those responsible brought to justice;

6.

Calls on the European Commission's Technical Assistance Office to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the diplomatic representatives of the EU Member States and the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) to strengthen and coordinate their efforts to secure Mr Johnston's release and support the Palestinian National Authority's efforts in this regard;

7.

Condemns this and all other acts of violence and intimidation against the free exercise of journalism and freedom of expression; stresses that the safety of journalists must be treated as a priority by all those attached to an open and democratic society and to progress towards peace everywhere, in line with the unanimously agreed United Nations Security Council Resolution S/RES/1738 (2006) adopted on 23 December 2006;

8.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the High Representative for the CFSP, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, the Palestinian Legislative Council and the UN Secretary-General.

P6_TA(2007)0171

Human rights situation in the Philippines

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on the human rights situation in the Philippines

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to the Report of the independent Commission to Address Media and Activist Killings, chaired by Justice Jose Melo (the Melo Commission), which was released on 22 February 2007,

—

having regard to the preliminary report by Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions,

—

having regard to the statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, of 12 March 2007,

—

having regard to the pledges the Philippine Government gave to the international community prior to its election to the UN Human Rights Council,

—

having regard to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984, as ratified by the Philippines on 18 June 1986, and its First and Second Optional Protocols allowing, respectively, individual complaints and visits to detention facilities by independent bodies,

—

having regard to the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance of 2006,

—

having regard to the Congressional and local elections in the Philippines scheduled for 14 May 2007, and the EU observer mission to be deployed,

—

having regard to the 16th EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Joint Co-Chairmen's Statement of 15 March 2007,

—

having regard to the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of Foreign Ministers scheduled for 28 and 29 May 2007 in Hamburg,

—

having regard to the Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union of 26 June 2006 on the complete abolition of the death penalty in the Philippines,

—

having regard to the European Commission's Country Strategy Paper (CSP) and the National Indicative Programme (NIP) 2005-2006 for the Philippines,

—

having regard to its previous resolutions on the Philippines,

—

having regard to Rule 115(5) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas in recent years the number of politically motivated killings in the Philippines has dramatically risen and the human rights situation in the country gives reason for serious concern,

B.

whereas the local human rights organisation Karapatan has recorded 180 forced disappearances and over 800 killings, most of them by unidentified gunmen, since 2001,

C.

whereas most of those killed, such as opposition party members, church people, community leaders, peasants, journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, trade unionists or simply witnesses of extra-judicial killings, have been accused by government representatives of being members of front organisations for illegal armed groups and ‘terrorists’,

D.

whereas the President of the Republic of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has appointed the above mentioned Melo Commission to examine the problem and a national-level police task force (Task Force Usig) to investigate the killings promptly and to prosecute the perpetrators,

E.

whereas both the findings of the Melo Commission and the results of the investigations by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions indicate the involvement of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in those political killings and whereas attacks rarely result in the arrest, charge or prosecution of the murderers,

F.

whereas the Melo Commission's recommendations include: the creation of an independent civilian investigative agency with authority to execute warrants and make arrests; training for prosecutors; the creation of Special Courts to handle these cases; enhancement of the Witness Protection Programme; increasing the investigative capabilities of the police; and orientation and training for security forces,

G.

whereas as a follow-up to the recommendations of the Melo Commission, President Arroyo has issued a 6-point plan to stop extrajudicial killings, including an order to the Department of Justice to broaden and enhance the Witness Protection Programme, requests to the Supreme Court to create Special Courts to try those accused of killings of a political or ideological nature, to the AFP to issue a new document on Command Responsibility and to the Department of Justice and the Department of National Defence to coordinate with the independent Melo Commission on Human Rights and an order to the Department of Foreign Affairs to submit a formal request to the European Union, Spain, Finland and Sweden to send investigators to assist the Commission,

H.

whereas recent anti-terrorist measures adopted by the Government give rise to serious concern regarding the possible breaches of human rights of the persons detained on the basis of this law;

1.

Expresses its grave concern at the increasing number of political killings that have occurred in recent years in the Philippines and urges the Philippine authorities to make the necessary investigations in a timely, thorough and transparent manner and to bring those responsible to justice;

2.

Condemns in the strongest terms the murder of Mrs Siche Bustamante-Gandinao, a dedicated human rights activist who was killed just days after testifying to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and is concerned about the lack of any police investigation concerning this important case;

3.

Takes the view that the adoption of the Human Security Act 2007, which will enter into force in July 2007, is liable to further increase the incidence of human rights violations by the Security Forces because it will allow arrest without warrant and arbitrary detention for up to three days; calls in this respect upon the Government of the Philippines to introduce concrete protection measures to avoid human rights abuses that could result from the application of this law;

4.

Denounces attacks on legal opposition groups, and calls on the authorities to put an end to allegations of collusion between peaceful opposition groups and illegal armed groups;

5.

Welcomes the establishment and the recommendations of the Melo Commission and the establishment of the Task Force Usig, as well as President Arroyo's declaration of 30 January 2007 that she has ‘no tolerance for human rights violations’, as a first step;

6.

Calls upon the Philippine Government to adopt measures to end the systematic intimidation and harassment of witnesses in connection with prosecutions for killings and to ensure truly effective witness protection; stresses also the need to stop inciting violence towards certain political or civil-society groups and to restore normal accountability mechanisms to check government abuses; calls particularly in this respect on the Philippine Ombudsman to take seriously his constitutional role in responding to extrajudicial killings attributed to public officials;

7.

Views positively the 6-point plan of the Government to end the political killings; stresses, however, that the Government of the Philippines must show real commitment to investigating those killings and a readiness to bring those responsible for them, including representatives of the security forces, to justice; notes that so far most police investigations have tended to be flawed;

8.

Welcomes the signing by President Arroyo on 24 June 2006 of legislation abolishing the death penalty in the Philippines (Act No. 9346 or ‘An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines’); also calls on the Philippine authorities to ratify the newly adopted UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances and to adopt implementing legislation;

9.

Is concerned that the climate of impunity has a corrosive impact on public confidence in the rule of law and that the killings are creating a climate in which people in the Philippines do not feel free to exercise their rights of political expression and association;

10.

Appeals to President Arroyo to take immediate action in order to prevent the risk of the further escalation of violence before and during the upcoming polls;

11.

Calls on the Government of the Philippines to guarantee the security of those applying for the redistribution of land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme (CARP) and to expedite the implementation of the land reform programme in order to curb one of the root causes of political violence;

12.

Welcomes the Commission's announcement that it will contribute to the Philippine Government's efforts with regard to the inquiries into extrajudicial killings by sending a team of experts;

13.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the UN Human Rights Council, the governments of the ASEAN Member States and the Government and Parliament of the Philippines.

P6_TA(2007)0172

Zimbabwe

European Parliament resolution of 26 April 2007 on Zimbabwe

The European Parliament,

—

having regard to its resolutions of 15 January 2004 (1), 16 December 2004 (2), 7 July 2005 (3) and 7 September 2006 (4),

—

having regard to the Emergency Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit of 28-29 March 2007, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,

—

having regard to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Bureau's Declaration of 21 March 2007 the on the ill-treatment of the Zimbabwean opposition MP Nelson Chamisa,

—

having regard to Council Common Position 2007/120/CFSP (5)of 19 February 2007 renewing restrictive measures against Zimbabwe until 20 February 2008,

—

having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 236/2007 (6) extending the list of those persons in Zimbabwe targeted by the restrictive measures,

—

having regard to the Declaration on Zimbabwe of the African Civil Society Forum 2007 of 24 March 2007,

—

having regard to the International Crisis Group's report of 5 March 2007 entitled ‘Zimbabwe: An End to the Stalemate?’,

—

having regard to Rule 103(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

A.

whereas this month marks the 27th anniversary of Zimbabwean independence but the Zimbabwean people have yet to gain their freedom,

B.

whereas members of the opposition parties, civil society groups and individuals in Zimbabwe are assaulted and/or arbitrarily arrested, and are victims of police and government security service brutality in a climate of systematic political violence aimed at destroying the structures of the opposition and civil society before the 2008 elections,

C.

whereas, since the violent break-up of the opposition gathering of 11 March 2007, in which two people were killed, more than 300 members of civil society groups and opposition parties have been arrested,

D.

whereas the Bureau of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly has stated that it ‘condemns the brutal attack on its colleague Nelson Chamisa in the strongest possible terms’,

E.

whereas the country's political and economic situation has now been deteriorating for eight years and Zimbabweans continue to face serious food shortages, with the World Food Programme providing emergency food aid to 1,5 million Zimbabweans in the first three months of 2007 but calculating that over 4,5 million suffer from malnutrition,

F.

whereas life expectancy in Zimbabwe is now among the lowest in the world, at 37 for men and 34 for women, and 20 % of adults are HIV-positive, with over 3 200 people dying each week from the disease, creating the world's highest orphan rate,

G.

whereas 80 % of the population is living below the poverty line, the country has an unemployment rate of 80 % in the formal sector and the few Zimbabweans who are in employment do not earn enough to meet even their basic needs, suffering from massive de-skilling, corruption, prohibitive school fees and the collapse of the health system and vital services,

H.

whereas a third of Zimbabwe's population live within the borders of neighbouring countries, millions of Zimbabweans have already fled the country and currently 50 000 Zimbabweans are fleeing the country each month,

I.

whereas alarm is growing within the region at the repercussions of Zimbabwe's economic disaster on neighbouring countries,

J.

whereas all forms of gathering of over three people are now subject to prior police consent under the Public Order and Security Act as a consequence of the amendments made by President Robert Mugabe to the Constitution prior to February 2007, and whereas media laws are repressive and the Electoral Act is undemocratic,

K.

whereas many Zimbabweans do not receive information on the violence the security forces have unleashed on the opposition and civil society activists because of the absence of any independent daily press and media; whereas, however, the stories of the victims of violence are widespread,

L.

whereas, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), every African country will enjoy positive economic growth in 2007 with the exception of Zimbabwe, whose economy has contracted by 40 % in the last decade and will contract by a further 5,7 % this year; whereas Zimbabwe moved into technically defined ‘hyper-inflation’ when its annualised inflation rate surged to 2 200 % in March 2007 and whereas, according to the IMF, that rate could top 5 000 % by the end of the year,

M.

whereas, according to the Zimbabwean Chamber of Mines, the gold mining sector, which is the country's biggest exporter and accounts for 52 % of its mineral output, is facing collapse; whereas the Zimbabwe tobacco industry, which accounts for approximately 50 % of the country's foreign exchange, is facing a similar position with the start of the 2007 tobacco selling season being postponed; and whereas agricultural productivity has fallen by 80 % since 1998,

N.

whereas the development of Africa is a priority for the Western democracies, whereas aid alone can achieve little and whereas African governments are expected to commit themselves to democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights,

O.

whereas the African Union (AU), the SADC and in particular South Africa all have vital roles to play in resolving the crisis, and whereas the SADC meeting on 28-29 March 2007 was a significant step in this direction;

1.

Strongly condemns the Mugabe dictatorship for its relentless oppression of the Zimbabwean people, opposition parties and civil society groups and its destruction of the Zimbabwean economy, which has deepened the misery of millions of Zimbabweans;

2.

Welcomes the Council Conclusions of 23 April 2007 expressing strong concern at the rapidly deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe and the wide-scale human rights abuses still taking place in the country, and urges the Zimbabwean Government to honour its own commitments, as a signatory to the SADC Treaty and the Protocols thereto, the Constitutive Act of the AU, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the New Partnership for Africa's Development, to democratic principles, human rights and the rule of law;

3.

Deplores the fact that, despite the condition of the country, regional and international criticism and a 27-year rule, Robert Mugabe was again endorsed as the Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front's (Zanu-PF) candidate for President in 2008 by its central committee and that a campaign of intimidation is already taking place in order to destroy the structures of the opposition and civil society and to ensure the result of the parliamentary and presidential elections;

4.

Calls again on Robert Mugabe to abide by his own promise to stand down, sooner rather than later, which would be the largest single step possible towards reviving Zimbabwean society, politics and the economy;

5.

Strongly condemns the violent break-up of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign prayer rally organised on 11 March 2007 by opponents of Mugabe; condemns, in particular, the murders and expresses profound sorrow at the deaths of Gift Tandare, an opposition activist, who was shot and whose body was snatched and secretly buried without his family's knowledge , Itai Manyeruke, who died a day later after being severely beaten up by the police, and the journalist Edmore Chikomba on 30 March 2007;

6.

Strongly condemns the attacks on opposition leaders and the subsequent arrest of Morgan Tsvangirai, Chairman of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Nelson Chamisa, Grace Kwinjeh, Lovemore Madhuku, William Bango, Sekai Holland, Tendai Biti, Arthur Mutambara and many others, their brutal treatment by the police forces and the prohibition on seeking medical treatment outside Zimbabwe; deeply deplores the fact that several other participants in the gathering were savagely assaulted by the Zimbabwe police; expresses deep consternation at the fact that on the same occasion Zimbabwe's Information Minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, rejected the reports of police brutality and torture, instead accusing the opposition of attacking the police;

7.

Protests at the re-arrest of MDC members including Morgan Tsvangirai and others on 28 March 2007, the continued detention of many opposition activists, including Ian Makone, special adviser to Mr Tsvangirai, the renewed attacks against MDC members, the on-and-off court trials they face on unsustainable charges and the ongoing arrests and abductions of suspected opposition members;

8.

Finds unacceptable the attack on Nelson Chamisa, perpetrated on his way to Harare airport, where he was to take a flight to attend the meetings of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU JPA);

9.

Is deeply concerned by the news that 56 women belonging to Zimbabwe's NGO ‘Women of Zimbabwe Arise’ were arrested on 23 April 2007 and that ten of their babies were jailed with them;

10.

Strongly condemns the indiscriminate police and army violence against civilians, as took place on the eve of the Easter holiday, with heavily armed riot police assaulting people waiting for transport to their holiday destinations — a tactic which is clearly designed to sow terror;

11.

Calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to restore the rule of law and to immediately halt violent attacks on opposition and civil society groups and individuals, to end ‘disappearances’ and arbitrary detentions, to end torture and the abuse of detainees, to respect the courts and members of the legal profession, and to respect and uphold the rights to freedom of expression and assembly;

12.

Calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to begin an immediate process to end the country's crisis by agreeing to a credible road map for a democratic transition, the immediate restoration of the rule of law, a framework for free and fair elections under international supervision, and transitional guarantees of nonpartisan control of key state institutions such as the army and the police;

13.

Calls also for the necessary constitutional changes to be enacted and for the Electoral Commission to be properly empowered as a genuinely independent body able to oversee the conduct of free and fair elections, through a transparent system, and considers that an essential part of this process will be complete control of ballot papers, properly audited from beginning to end with a reliable record of how many ballot papers have been printed, how many are distributed to each district and how many are validly used;

14.

Offers, in this regard, its assistance in the implementation of any agreed process that will establish the basis for truly free and fair elections, including the deployment of an EU Election Observation Mission, and trusts that other organisations, such as the Commonwealth, will also be invited to send electoral observers;

15.

Welcomes the new-found unity of purpose among opposition parties and groups in Zimbabwe, including all elements of the MDC, the Churches and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), and their determination to work together in defiance of government oppression in order to bring democracy and freedom to the people;

16.

Welcomes the recognition by SADC that a crisis exists in Zimbabwe and the appointment of President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa to facilitate dialogue between Zanu-PF and the opposition MDC; supports the frank assessments of the situation in Zimbabwe by Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, Ghanaian President John Kuffour, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo; emphasises that there are no economic sanctions against Zimbabwe, only restrictive measures targeted at the Mugabe regime; welcomes the SADC's initiative in seeking a solution that will benefit both the citizens of Zimbabwe and the region as a whole; and urges the entire international community, and particularly African nations, to seize this opportunity;

17.

Trusts that the mediation of South African President Mbeki will bring an end to the current cycle of violence and intimidation, without which his mandate to facilitate dialogue between the opposition and the Government in Zimbabwe and a wide national dialogue beyond Zanu-PF and the MDC, including Church leaders, business, trade unions and other civil society players, cannot be adequately fulfilled;

18.

Supports the student movement in Zimbabwe, whose leaders and activists are continually arrested, beaten and harassed, and the ongoing campaign of the ZCTU, and applauds their bravery in having staged a two-day ‘national stay-away’, denouncing the incapacity of Mugabe to stop the economic collapse of the country, despite the fact that there were reports of police brutality and that the ZCTU's leaders were severely assaulted by police after their last demonstration in 2006; regrets that no constructive engagement is possible with a violent government;

19.

Deplores the renewed declaration by the Zimbabwe Government of its intention to harass and close down NGOs which it deems to be supporting opposition and political change, and sees this threat as a serious indication of bad faith on the part of the government in relation to finding a way forward for the country;

20.

Calls on the Council to ensure that all Member States rigorously apply existing restrictive measures, including the arms embargo and the travel ban, emphasising that Zimbabwe cannot be treated as a separate issue from the EU's wider relations with Africa; calls, therefore, on the Council to ensure that no banned persons are invited to, or attend, the planned EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon in December 2007; considers that weakness in the application of targeted sanctions severely undermines the EU's policy towards Zimbabwe and gravely disappoints those in Zimbabwe who seek the support of the international community;

21.

Calls on the Council further to expand the scope of the targeted restrictive measures and to enlarge the list of banned individuals so that it encompasses even more of Mugabe's power structure, including government ministers, deputies and governors, military personnel, the Central Intelligence Organisation and police personnel, and the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe;

22.

Observes that the EU is the most important donor to Zimbabwe, with total funding of EUR 193 million in 2006, of which the total funding from the EU Member States amounts to EUR 106,9 million and the total funding from the Commission amounts to EUR 86,1 million, and that EUR 94,7 million alone go to food and humanitarian and emergency aid and EUR 49,9 million to human and social development; deeply regrets, however, that the Mugabe regime manipulates such support, particularly food aid, using it as a political weapon with which to punish those who dare voice opposition to the regime;

23.

Insists that all aid for Zimbabwe must be delivered through genuine non-governmental organisations and must reach the people for whom it is intended without being intercepted in any way by agents of the Mugabe regime;

24.

Calls on the United Kingdom, which assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council in April 2007, to put Zimbabwe on the agenda of the Security Council, and expects that South Africa will play a constructive role as a non-permanent member of the Security Council;

25.

Repeats its demand that the Mugabe regime derive absolutely no financial benefit or propaganda value from either the run-up to the 2010 World Cup or the tournament itself; in this regard, calls on South Africa, the host nation, and on FIFA to exclude Zimbabwe from participating in pre-World Cup matches, holding international friendly games or hosting national teams involved in the event;

26.

Welcomes the initiative of the ACP-EU JPA of sending a joint delegation to Zimbabwe to ascertain the situation on the ground, calls on the ACP-EU JPA to carry out this investigation as soon as possible and calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to grant access to Zimbabwe to all members of such a delegation; stresses that the delegation should be given access to all areas of civil society and should not be restricted to meeting government-organised groups; requests the Commission to organise a visit to Zimbabwe and urges the authorities in Zimbabwe to cooperate with regard to the idea of a visit;

27.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Government and Parliament of Zimbabwe, the Government and Parliament of South Africa, the Secretary-General of the Southern African Development Community, the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, the Chairmen of the Commission and Executive Council of the African Union, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the governments of the G8 countries and the President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

(1)  OJ C 92 E, 16.4.2004, p. 417.

(2)  OJ C 226 E, 15.9.2005, p. 358.

(3)  OJ C 157 E, 6.7.2006, p. 491.

(4)  Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0358.

(5)  OJ L 51, 20.2.2007, p. 25.

(6)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 236/2007 of 2 March 2007 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 314/2004 concerning certain restrictive measures in respect of Zimbabwe (OJ L 66, 6.3.2007, p. 14).