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DIRECTORATE FOR THE PLANNING OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 01/A-2004 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 http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins (Internet) \\Epades\public\bulletin\Activités Closed on : 05.01.2004 CONTENTS 3 PRESIDENCY Main decisions of the College of Quaestors .......................................................................................6 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Membership of the political groups ....................................................................................................8 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Written questions ..............................................................................................................................10 Question Time (B5-0416/2003)........................................................................................................29 Summary of Questions time - December 2003.................................................................................31 Written declarations..........................................................................................................................32 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Commission documents....................................................................................................... 36 GENERAL INFORMATION Common Foreign and Security Policy Declaration on the occasion of the opening of the Loya Jirga in Kabul on the 13 December 2003 .................................................................................................................................. 40 Declaration concerning the capture of Saddam Hussein .................................................... 40 Declaration on signatures collection for referenda in Venezuela ....................................... 41 Declaration on the Somali National Reconciliation Process .............................................. 41 Declaration on the peace agreement ................................................................................... 42 Declaration on the approval of a constitution for Afganistan ............................................. 42 Declaration welcoming the successful SAARC Summit .................................................... 43 Declaration on the Presidential elections in Georgia .......................................................... 43 Declaration on death penalty in Myanmar (Published in Rome on 31 December 2003) ... 44 Declaration on the situation in Darfur ................................................................................ 45 Declaration on the killing of the Archbishop Michael Courtney in Burundi ..................... 45 European Economic and Social Committee Plenary Assembly of 10 and 11 December 2003 .................................................................... Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 4 CONTENTS 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 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 PRESIDENCY 5 PRESIDENCY Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 6 PRESIDENCY MAIN DECISIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF QUAESTORS The Chairmen-in-Office of the College of Quaestors, have circulated the following communication to the Members of the European Parliament: No 48/2003 : Rules and regulations governing the use of official cars by Members of Parliament - Extension of the period of validity of the Bureau decision of 24 September 2003 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 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 7 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 8 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERSHIP OF THE POLITICAL GROUPS At its sitting of 18 December 2003 Parliament took note that: Adam BIELAN, Michal KAMIŃSKI, Marcin LIBICKI and Aleksander SZCZYGŁO had been affiliated, as observers, to the UEN Group with effect from 18 December 2003. ________________________ Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 9 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 10 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES WRITTEN QUESTIONS (Situation at 05.01.2004) Author Subject No Gerhard Schmid Setting-up of mobile customs control units in the E-3570/03 Federal Republic of Germany after the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union Gerhard Schmid Threat to a water protection zone in one member E-3571/03 State by a project in another Graham Watson Lloyds of London E-3572/03 Graham Watson European Agreement on the transmission of E-3573/03 applications for Legal Aid Graham Watson European Agreement on the transmission of E-3574/03 applications for Legal Aid Michl Ebner EU Identity document for the disabled E-3575/03 Michl Ebner EU Identity document for the disabled E-3576/03 Michl Ebner Environmentally friendly diesel fuel E-3577/03 Michl Ebner Environmentally friendly diesel fuel E-3578/03 Christoph Konrad Hunting season for carrion crows in the EU E-3579/03 Proinsias De Rossa EU working time legislation E-3580/03 Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna Shrimp fishing in Svalbard E-3581/03 Yasmine Boudjenah Role of multinational corporations in conflict E-3582/03 regions in Africa Cancelled question E-3583/03 Ria Oomen-Ruijten Receipt of supplementary reply E-3584/03 Mogens Camre The EUMC's shelved report on Muslim anti- E-3585/03 Semitism Mario Borghezio EU funding for an Italian company linked to E-3586/03 Romano Prodi Koenraad Dillen Report on anti-Semitism by the European E-3587/03 Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia José Ribeiro e Castro Mozambique - elections E-3588/03 José Ribeiro e Castro Syria - US sanctions E-3589/03 Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 11 José Ribeiro e Castro Ibero-American Summit - conclusions and E-3590/03 prospects José Ribeiro e Castro Côte d'Ivoire - the war breaks out again E-3591/03 Karl-Heinz Florenz Deposits on disposable drinks packaging in E-3592/03 Germany from an environmental point of view Baroness Sarah Ludford Cost of passports across the European Union E-3593/03 Member States Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler Novel Foods Regulation EC No 258/97, marketing P-3594/03 of noni products in the EU Claude Moraes Disability P-3595/03 Brigitte Langenhagen EU border controls E-3596/03 Glyn Ford Tendering processes for development and E-3597/03 humanitarian assistance Claude Moraes European Year of People with Disabilities E-3598/03 Armando Cossutta Payable Internet services E-3599/03 Roberto Bigliardo Overflying Brussels - extension of Zaventem E-3600/03 airport Elly Plooij-van Gorsel Buy American Act E-3601/03 Anne Van Lancker Article 51 of the European Constitution E-3602/03 José Ribeiro e Castro Portuguese Overseas War veterans - disabilities E-3603/03 José Ribeiro e Castro East Timor - Emergency aid E-3604/03 Michl Ebner Special conditions for transport by heavy goods E-3605/03 vehicles Michl Ebner Special conditions for transport by heavy goods E-3606/03 vehicles Olivier Duhamel Vienna Observatory E-3607/03 Marco Pannella and others Violation of the rights of the Çam minority E-3608/03 Giovanni Pittella and others Sending EU observers to Venezuela E-3609/03 Jan Mulder Circumvention of sugar import tariffs E-3610/03 Camilo Nogueira Román Legalising immigration E-3611/03 Camilo Nogueira Román Berlusconi's war on illegal immigration E-3612/03 Camilo Nogueira Román EU and Member State responsibility for the tragic E-3613/03 deaths of immigrants on Europe's shores Bulletin 12.01.2004 - EN - PE 338.108 12 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Esko Seppänen Cultivation of sweet rowanberries E-3614/03 Esko Seppänen Fishing for migratory salmon E-3615/03 Esko Seppänen Setting fishing quotas for the new Member States E-3616/03 Ioannis Marinos Discrimination against the Greek inhabitants of the P-3617/03 Turkish islands of Imbros and Tenedos Stavros Xarchakos Building cooperatives in Greece P-3618/03 Miquel Mayol i Raynal Enlarging