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Session document
12 May 2005 B6-0318/2005
MOTION OF CENSURE
on the Commission
pursuant to Rule 100 of the Rules of Procedure
by Filip Adwent, James Hugh Allister, John Attard-Montalto, Peter Baco, Gerard Batten, Bastiaan Belder, Johannes Blokland, Godfrey Bloom, Jens- Peter Bonde, Graham Booth, Mario Borghezio, André Brie, Paul van Buitenen, Martin Callanan, Mogens N.J. Camre, Sylwester Chruszcz, Derek Roland Clark, Paul Marie Coûteaux, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Bairbre de Brún, Jillian Evans, Nigel Farage, Maciej Marian Giertych, Hélène Goudin, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Umberto Guidoni, Daniel Hannan, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Roger Helmer, Ian Hudghton, Georgios Karatzaferis, Roger Knapman, Sergej Kozlík, Ole Krarup, Urszula Krupa, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Patrick Louis, Caroline Lucas, Nils Lundgren, Mary Lou McDonald, Helmuth Markov, Hans-Peter Martin, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Erik Meijer, Ashley Mote, Michael Henry Nattrass, Bogdan Pęk, Tobias Pflüger, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Miguel Portas, Miloslav Ransdorf, Vladimír Remek, Karin Resetarits, Bogusław Rogalski, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Matteo Salvini, Carl Schlyter, Kathy Sinnott, Jonas Sjöstedt, Francesco Enrico Speroni, Bart Staes, David Sumberg, Eva-Britt Svensson, Jeffrey Titford, Witold Tomczak, Feleknas Uca, Paul Verges, Philippe de Villiers, Sahra Wagenknecht, John Whittaker, Wojciech Wierzejski, Thomas Wise, Lars Wohlin, Vladimír Železný and Gabriele Zimmer
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Motion of censure on the Commission
The European Parliament,
having regard to the EC Treaty, with special reference to Article 201,
having regard to Rule 100 of its Rules of Procedure,
1. Raises this motion of censure as its only means of ensuring that Commission President José Barroso appears before it in plenary to explain how he could receive a gift to the value of several thousand euros from a billionaire businessman, who then, one month later, received the green light from the Commission for a regional aid grant amounting to EUR 10 million;
2. Censures the Commission for this reason;
3. Instructs its President to forward this motion of censure to the Commission and notify the President of the Council and the President of the Commission of the result of the vote.
Reasons
The reason for this motion of censure is that it is the only means of ensuring that Commission President José Barroso appears before it in plenary to explain how he could receive a gift to the value of several thousand euros from a billionaire businessman, who then, one month later, received the green light from the Commission for a regional aid grant amounting to EUR 10 million.
However, it is prepared to withdraw this motion of censure if it obtains a reasonable explanation in plenary and clear rules obliging all Commissioners to register all gifts of substantial value.
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