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Monday 4 July 2005 Parliament approved the request. — Request from the PSE Group for Commission Question Time to be withdrawn from the agenda to leave more time for the joint debate on the structural funds (Items 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 on the final draft agenda).

The following spoke: Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, who moved the request after expressing his condolences on behalf of his Group to the family of Filip Adwent, Françoise Grossetête, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Bill Newton Dunn, on behalf of the ALDE Group.

Parliament approved the request by EV (134 for, 70 against, 14 abstentions).

Wednesday — Request from Othmar Karas and 38 other Members to add to the agenda a Commission statement on the situation in Bulgaria after the elections there, and on Romania and Bulgaria's progress in view of accession.

The following spoke: Othmar Karas, who moved the request, , on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group.

Parliament approved the request by roll-call vote (authors) (110 for, 93 against, 21 abstentions).

Rebecca Harms and Othmar Karas informed the Chair that they had wished to vote in favour of the request. informed the Chair that she had wished to vote against.

The item was added as the last item on the agenda for Wednesday.

Deadlines for tabling amendments and motions for resolutions: — motions for resolution: Tuesday 05.07.2005 at 10.00. — amendments and joint motions for resolutions: Wednesday 06.07.2005 at 10.00.

Thursday — Request from the LIBE Committee for Parliament to confirm the rejection in plenary of the Claude Moraes report (A6-0139/2005), which had been referred back to committee (see Minutes of 26.05.2005, Item 8.3), by adopting a legislative resolution closing the consultation procedure.

Parliament approved the request.

The vote would be taken on Thursday. — Request from the LIBE Committee for additional time to consider the report (A6-0174/2005), which had been referred back to committee (see Minutes of 07.06.2005, Item 6.8).

Parliament approved the request.

The following spoke: Jean-Marie Cavada, Chairman of the LIBE Committee, and Hannes Swoboda. * **

The order of business was thus established.

14. 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:

Péter Olajos, Eluned Morgan, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Alyn Smith, Koenraad Dillen, Georgios Kar- atzaferis, Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, Bairbre de Brún, Vytautas Landsbergis, Proinsias De Rossa, Gay Mitchell, Othmar Karas, Jörg Leichtfried, Urszula Krupa, Jim Higgins, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Bogdan Pęk, Ursula Stenzel, Evangelia Tzampazi, Gerard Batten, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and Simon Busuttil. 6.7.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 157 E/9

Monday 4 July 2005 IN THE CHAIR: Vice-President

15. Request for defence of the immunity and privileges of Mr Bossi (debate)

Report on the request for defence of the immunity of Umberto Bossi (2004/2101(IMM)) — Committee on Legal Affairs Rapporteur: Diana Wallis (A6-0210/2005)

Diana Wallis introduced the report.

The following spoke: Klaus-Heiner Lehne, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Maria Berger, on behalf of the PSE Group.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 05.07.2005, Item 7.8

16. Request for defence of the immunity and privileges of Mr Marchiani (debate)

Report on the request for defence of the immunity of Jean-Charles Marchiani (2005/2105(IMM)) — Committee on Legal Affairs Rapporteur: Francesco Enrico Speroni (A6-0208/2005)

Francesco Enrico Speroni introduced the report.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 05.07.2005, Item 7.9

17. 2004 Annual Report — ECB — Communication strategy on the euro (debate)

Report on the 2004 Annual Report of the European Central Bank (2005/2048(INI)) — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Rapporteur: (A6-0203/2005)

Report on the implementation of an information and communication strategy on the euro and economic and monetary union (2005/2078(INI)) — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Rapporteur: Jules Maaten (A6-0197/2005)

Kurt Joachim Lauk introduced the report.

Jules Maaten introduced the report.

The following spoke: Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, and Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Com- mission).

The following spoke: Ján Hudacký, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, and Manuel António dos Santos, on behalf of the PSE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Miroslav OUZKÝ Vice-President

The following spoke: , on behalf of the ALDE Group, , on behalf of the GUE/ NGL Group, John Whittaker, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Liam Aylward, on behalf of the UEN Group, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, , Katerina Batzeli, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Georgios Toussas, Sergej Kozlík, Othmar Karas, Pervenche Berès, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Harald Ettl, , Benoît Hamon, Avril Doyle, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Stanisław Jałowiecki, Joseph Muscat, Zita Pleštinská, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Joaquín Almunia and Jean-Claude Trichet.