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Tuesday 15 November 2005 15. European regulatory agencies (debate)

Oral question by Jo Leinen and Janusz Lewandowski, on behalf of the AFCO Committee, to the Council (O-0093/2005): Draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies (COM(2005)0059 — 2005/2035(ACI)) (B6-0337/2005)

Georgios Papastamkos (deputising for the author) and Janusz Lewandowski moved the oral question.

Lord Bach (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the oral question.

The following spoke: Maria da Assunção Esteves, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Richard Corbett, on behalf of the PSE Group, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Lord Bach and Louis Michel (Member of the Com- mission).

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 01.12.2005, Item 6.15.

IN THE CHAIR: Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN Vice-President

16. Question Time (Commission)

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0339/2005).

The following spoke: David Martin and Mairead McGuinness on the way in which the questions had been classified.

First part

Question 37 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Taxation of passenger air traffic. Peter Mandelson (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Josu Ortuondo Larrea and Agnes Schierhuber.

Question 38 (Sarah Ludford): Data protection and EU databases. (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Sarah Ludford.

Question 39 (Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos): Kosovo. Olli Rehn answered the question and supplementaries by Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos and Bart Staes.

Second part

Question 40 (Bart Staes): Impact of FLEGT on the protection of social rights and the environment in devel- oping countries.

Louis Michel (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Bart Staes, John Bowis and Agnes Schierhuber.

Question 41 (): Development cooperation. Louis Michel answered the question and a supplementary by Othmar Karas.

Question 42 (Marie-Hélène Aubert): Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Louis Michel answered the question and a supplementary by Marie-Hélène Aubert. 18.11.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 280 E/25

Tuesday 15 November 2005 Questions 43 to 45 would receive written answers.

Question 46 (Sajjad Karim): Greater transparency and accountability in the WTO negotiations.

Peter Mandelson answered the question and supplementaries by David Martin, James Hugh Allister and Paul Rübig.

Question 47 (Hélène Goudin): Reduced tariffs on Thai prawns.

Peter Mandelson answered the question.

Question 48 (Ilda Figueiredo): Problems in the footwear industry.

Peter Mandelson answered the question and supplementaries by Ilda Figueiredo, David Martin and Anne E. Jensen.

Question 54 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Restructuring forecasts.

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Marie Panayo- topoulos-Cassiotou.

Question 55 (Joachim Wuermeling): Freedom of movement for workers.

Vladimír Špidla answered the question and supplementaries by and Claude Moraes.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers.

Commission Question Time closed.

(The sitting was suspended at 20.15 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Jacek Emil SARYUSZ-WOLSKI Vice-President

17. Enlargement II (debate)

Commission statement: Enlargement II

Olli Rehn (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Elmar Brok, 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, Joost Lagendijk, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Cristiana Muscardini, on behalf of the UEN Group, Camiel Eurlings, Hannes Swoboda, Sarah Lud- ford, Gisela Kallenbach, Georgios Papastamkos, Borut Pahor, Zbigniew Zaleski, Panagiotis Beglitis, Doris Pack, Guido Podestà, Bernd Posselt and Olli Rehn.

The debate closed.

18. Information to air passengers ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the and of the Council on the information to air transport passengers on the identity of the operating carrier and on communication of safety information by Member States [COM(2005)0048 — C6-0046/2005 — 2005/0008(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Christine De Veyrac (A6-0310/2005)

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