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DIRECTORATE FOR THE PLANNING OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 11/A-2002 Directorate-General for the Presidency EN EN ABBREVIATIONS USED Political Groups PPE-DE Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats PSE Group of the Party of European Socialists ELDR Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Verts/ALE Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance GUE/NGL Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left UEN Union for Europe of the Nations group EDD Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities NI Non-attached Members Committees AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy BUDG Committee on Budgets CONT Committee on Budgetary Control LIBE Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs JURI Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market ITRE Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development PECH Committee on Fisheries RETT Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism CULT Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport DEVE Committee on Development and Cooperation AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities PETI Committee on Petitions ENQU Temporary Committee of Inquiry http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins (Internet) \\Epades\public\bulletin\Activités Closed on : 11.11.2002 CONTENTS 3 PRESIDENCY Main decisions of the College of Quaestors .......................................................................................6 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Appointments/resignations/end of Members' terms of office.............................................................8 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Written questions ..............................................................................................................................12 Question Time (B5-0494/2002)........................................................................................................27 Summary of Questions time - October 2002 ....................................................................................29 Written declarations..........................................................................................................................30 COMMITTEES Appointment of rapporteurs and draftsmen......................................................................... 34 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Commission documents....................................................................................................... 38 GENERAL INFORMATION Common Foreign and Security Policy Declaration on the occasionof the elections to be held in Jamaica on 16 October.............. 40 Declaration on the resumption of the Sudanese Peace Negotiations .................................. 40 Declaration on the general elections in Pakistan ................................................................ 41 Declaration on developments in South Asia ....................................................................... 41 Declaration on the ongoing fighting in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .................................................................................... 42 Declaration regarding North Corea Nuclear Programme .................................................... 43 Declaration concerning the extention of the common position on Burma/Myanmar ......... 44 Declaration on the cessation of hostilities in Somalia ........................................................ 44 Declaration on the attempted coup in the Central African Republic .................................. 45 Declaration following the Presidential election in Brazil on 27 October 2002 .................. 45 Declaration on Unimpeded Humanitarian Access in Sudan .............................................. 46 Declaration following the parliamentary elections in Bahrain ........................................... 46 Declaration on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism .......................... 47 Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 4 CONTENTS European Economic and Social Committee Plenary Assembly of 22, 23 an 24 October 2002 ................................................................48 ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT This document is available at : http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins/postsession.htm (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins/postsession.htm (Internet) Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 PRESIDENCY 5 PRESIDENCY Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 6 PRESIDENCY MAIN DECISIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF QUAESTORS The Chairmen-in-Office of the College of Quaestors, have circulated the following communications to the Members of the European Parliament: No 30: Ban on smoking in official cars; No 31: Use of secretarial assistance allowance appropriations (Item 3910) in respect of the 2 financial year Further information may be obtained from the Secretariat of the College of Quaestors in: Strasbourg : Salvador de Madariaga (SDM) Building, 6/20 Tel. 74195 Brussels : Paul-Henri Spaak (PHS) Building, 8b/66 Tel. 43722 ____________________ Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 7 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 8 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPOINTMENTS/RESIGNATIONS/END OF MEMBERS' TERMS OF OFFICE RESIGNATION OF A SPANISH MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Pursuant to Rule 8(3) M. Pere ESTEVE (ELDR/ES) has resigned as a Member of the European Parliament with effect from 17 Octo ber 2002. Parliament took note of his resignation at the sitting of 23 October 2002. ____________________ OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION OF A SPANISH MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT At its sitting of 24 September 2002 Parliament took note of the election of: Mr Peder WACHTMEISTER to replace Mrs Gunilla CARLSSON (PPE-DE/SV), with effect from 23 October 2002. ________________ Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 9 OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION OF A SPANISH MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT At its sitting of 6 November 2002 Parliament took note of the election of: Mr Joan VALLVÉ to replace MrPere ESTEVE (ELDR/ES), with effect from 25 October 2002. ________________________ Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 11 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 12 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES WRITTEN QUESTIONS (Situation at 07.11.2002) Author Subject No Charles Tannock The cost of bank transfers and the Commission's powers E-2864/02 to authorise legal proceedings Christopher Huhne Budget balance forecasting record E-2865/02 Christopher Huhne Growth forecasting record E-2866/02 Christopher Huhne Growth forecasting record E-2867/02 Christopher Huhne Growth forecasting record E-2868/02 Christopher Huhne Relationship between growth and budget balance E-2869/02 Christopher Huhne Economic assumptions E-2870/02 Charles Tannock, Neil Parish and France's illegal ban on the import of British beef E-2871/02 Theresa Villiers Cancelled question E-2872/02 Mogens Camre EU financial support to the Palestinian Authority P-2873/02 Jonas Sjöstedt Early payment of subsidies to Irish farmers P-2874/02 Nelly Maes Illegal government support for the FN weapons factory P-2875/02 Stavros Xarchakos Health and welfare in Greece E-2876/02 Stavros Xarchakos Health and welfare in Greece E-2877/02 Konstantinos Hatzidakis Relocation of the tramline route in Athens E-2878/02 Ulla Sandbæk The Everything But Arms initiative E-2879/02 Giles Chichester Energy liberalisation progress in the EU E-2880/02 Theresa Villiers and Charles Selling of Irish newspapers E-2881/02 Tannock María Valenciano Martínez-Orozco Case brought by the Commission against the Kingdom of E-2882/02 Spain - Case C-358/01 - importation of cleaning agents containing bleach Ilda Figueiredo Community support E-2883/02 Erik Meijer Lack of adequate enforcement of rules protecting the E-2884/02 welfare of farm animals during transport Brice Hortefeux Civil defence E-2885/02 Bulletin 18.11.2002 - EN - PE 320.292 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 13 Brice Hortefeux Price of newspapers E-2886/02 Cristiana Muscardini Fuel and pollution E-2887/02 Adriana Poli Bortone Floods in Salento -- European Union intervention E-2888/02 Adriana Poli Bortone Coordination of Community aid measures E-2889/02 Hanja Maij-Weggen Arrest of a North Korean and her interpreter in China E-2890/02 Alexander de Roo Problems with the High Flux Reactor in Petten E-2891/02 Erik Meijer The danger of ruptures in cooling-water pipes at the High E-2892/02 Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, and failure to take measures to avert the danger Erik Meijer Contract awarded to an external company which is having E-2893/02 the EU website rebuilt by a Commission official Jens-Peter Bonde Bookkeeping in the Commission E-2894/02 Olivier Dupuis Arrest of Mr Wei Jingyi, bishop of the 'unofficial' Chinese E-2895/02 Catholic Church Kathleen Van Brempt Tobacco smuggling E-2896/02 Margrietus van den Berg Agreement of international rules concerning top-class E-2897/02 sport Alexander de Roo Courage of convictions E-2898/02 Nelly Maes Violations of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports E-2899/02 Hiltrud Breyer EU limits