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Volume 47
31 March 2004

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

2003-2004 SESSION

Wednesday 8 October 2003

2004/C 081E/1

MINUTES

1

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

Resumption of session

Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Official welcome

Membership of Parliament

Documents received

Transfers of appropriations

Action taken on Parliament's positions and resolutions

Agenda

Official welcome

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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

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

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

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

European space policy (debate)

EC Merger Regulation * (debate)

Tunnel safety ***I (debate)

Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries (debate)

Agenda for next sitting

Closure of sitting

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

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Thursday 9 October 2003

2004/C 081E/2

MINUTES

17

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

Opening of sitting

Written declarations (Rule 51)

Middle East (statement followed by debate)

Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

Membership of Parliament

Membership of committees and delegations

Request for defence of parliamentary immunity

Documents received

VOTING TIME

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

European space policy (Rule 110a) (vote)

EC Merger Regulation * (vote)

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

Difficulties encountered by European beekeeping (vote)

Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries (vote)

Explanations of vote

Corrections to votes

END OF VOTING TIME

Referral to committees

Communication of common positions of the Council

Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting

Dates for next sittings

Adjournment of session

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

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ANNEX I

27

ANNEX II

33

TEXTS ADOPTED

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P5_TA(2003)0419
Speed limitation devices of motor vehicles ***I
European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive 92/24/EEC relating to speed limitation devices or similar speed limitation on-board systems of certain categories of motor vehicles (COM(2003) 350 — C5-0272/2003 — 2003/0122(COD))

42

P5_TA(2003)0420
Regulation (EC) No 2596/97 on drinking milk *
European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2596/97 extending the period provided for in Article 149(1) of the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden (COM(2003) 372 — C5-0324/2003 — 2003/0144(CNS))

42

P5_TA(2003)0421
Accountancy data on agricultural holdings *
European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation No 79/65/EEC of the Council setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operations of agricultural holdings in the European Economic Community (COM(2003) 472 — C5-0437/2003 — 2003/0183(CNS))

43

P5_TA(2003)0422
Safety of third countries aircraft using Community airports ***II
European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on the safety of third countries aircraft using community airports (8478/1/2003 — C5-0278/2003 — 2002/0014(COD))

44

P5_TC2-COD(2002)0014
Position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 9 October 2003 with a view to the adoption of European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/.../EC on the safety of thirdcountry aircraft using Community airports

44

ANNEX I

52

ANNEX II

52

P5_TA(2003)0423
Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund
European Parliament resolution on the proposals for decisions on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (COM(2003) 431 — C5-0323/2003 — 2003/0166 (ACI) and COM(2003) 529 — C5-0418/2003 — 2003/0206(ACI))

56

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

57

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

58

P5_TA(2003)0424
Draft Amending Budget 5/2003
European Parliament resolution on the Draft Amending Budget No 5/2003 of the European Union for the financial year 2003, Section III — Commission (13014/2003 — C5-0449/2003 — 2003/2144(BUD) and 2003/2181(BUD))

59

P5_TA(2003)0425
Tunnel safety ***I
European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network (COM(2002) 769 — C5-0635/2002 — 2002/0309(COD))

60

P5_TC1-COD(2002)0309
Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 9 October 2003 with a view to the adoption of European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/.../EC on minimum safety requirements for tunnels on the Trans-European Road Network

61

ANNEX I
MEASURES

68

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

76

ANNEX III
ROAD SIGNING FOR TUNNELS

79

P5_TA(2003)0426
Better lawmaking
European Parliament decision on the conclusion of the interinstitutional agreement on Better Law-Making between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission (2003/2131(ACI))

84

ANNEX
INTERINSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT ON BETTER LAW-MAKING

84

P5_TA(2003)0427
European space policy
European Parliament resolution on European space policy — Green Paper (2003/2092(INI))

90

P5_TA(2003)0428
EC Merger Regulation *
European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation on the control of concentrations between undertakings: ‘The EC Merger Regulation’ (COM(2002) 711 — C5-0005/2003 — 2002/0296(CNS))

94

P5_TA(2003)0429
Transmission of personal data by airlines in the case of transatlantic flights
European Parliament resolution on transfer of personal data by airlines in the case of transatlantic flights: state of negotiations with the USA

105

P5_TA(2003)0430
Difficulties encountered by European beekeeping
European Parliament resolution on the difficulties faced by the European beekeeping sector

107

P5_TA(2003)0431
Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries
European Parliament resolution on the Commission communication on an integrated framework for fisheries partnership agreements with third countries (COM(2002) 637 — 2003/2034(INI))

109

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