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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2004 - 2005 MINUTES of the sitting of Tuesday 11 January 2005 P6_PV(2005)01-11 PE 352.977 EN EN KEYS TO SYMBOLS USED * Consultation procedure ** I Cooperation procedure: first reading ** II Cooperation procedure: second reading *** Assent procedure ***I Codecision procedure: first reading ***II Codecision procedure: second reading ***III Codecision procedure: third reading (The type of procedure is determined by the legal basis proposed by the Commission) INFORMATION RELATING TO VOTING TIME Unless stated otherwise, the rapporteurs informed the Chair in writing, before the vote, of their position on the amendments. ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs DEVE Committee on Development INTA Committee on International Trade BUDG Committee on Budgets CONT Committee on Budgetary Control ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism REGI Committee on Regional Development AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development PECH Committee on Fisheries CULT Committee on Culture and Education JURI Committee on Legal Affairs LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs FEMM Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality PETI Committee on Petitions ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR POLITICAL GROUPS PPE-DE Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats PSE Socialist Group in the European Parliament ALDE Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Verts/ALE Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance GUE/NGL Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left IND/DEM Independence and Democracy Group UEN Union for Europe of the Nations Group NI Non-attached Members Contents 1. Opening of sitting............................................................................................................................. 3 2. Membership of committees and delegations.................................................................................... 3 3. Documents received......................................................................................................................... 3 4. Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolutions tabled).............................................................................................................4 5. Constitution for Europe (debate)...................................................................................................... 5 6. Voting time.......................................................................................................................................6 6.1. PEACE Programme *** (Rule 131) (vote).............................................................................. 6 6.2. Election of the European Ombudsman..................................................................................... 7 7. Explanations of vote......................................................................................................................... 7 8. Corrections to votes..........................................................................................................................7 9. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting...........................................................................................8 10. Constitution for Europe (continuation of debate)...........................................................................8 11. Green Paper on admission for employment (debate) .................................................................... 8 12. Question Time (Commission)........................................................................................................ 9 13. Agenda for next sitting................................................................................................................. 10 14. Closure of sitting.......................................................................................................................... 10 ATTENDANCE REGISTER............................................................................................................. 11 P6_PV(2005)01-11 PE 352.977 - 1 EN MINUTES IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES President 1. Opening of sitting The sitting opened at 9.10. 2. Membership of committees and delegations At the request of the PPE-DE Group, Parliament ratified the following appointment: Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC): Maria da Assunção Esteves 3. Documents received The following documents had been received: from the Council and Commission: - Proposal for a Council regulation applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences (COM(2004) 0699 - C6-0001/2005 - 2004/0242(CNS)) referred to responsible INTA opinion BUDG, ENVI, AGRI, PECH - Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community and Council Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 (COM(2004)0830 - C6-0002/2005 - 2004/0284(COD)) referred to responsible EMPL - Proposal for a Council and Commission decision on the conclusion of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic to the European Union (14025/2004 - C6-0003/2005 - 2004/0115(AVC)) referred to responsible AFET opinion INTA - Proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC01/2005 - Section III - Commission (SEC(2005)0012 - C6-0005/2005 - 2005/2006(GBD)) referred to responsible BUDG P6_PV(2005)01-11 PE 352.977 - 3 EN - Proposal for a regulation of the Council establishing an Instrument for Stability (COM(2004)0630 - C6-0251/2004 - 2004/0223(CNS)) referred to responsible AFET opinion INTA, BUDG, ITRE, LIBE 4. Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolutions tabled) Pursuant to Rule 115, the following Members or political groups had requested that such a debate be held on the following motions for resolutions: I. Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche - Tibet - Elspeth Attwooll and Cecilia Malmström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the human rights situation in Tibet: the case of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche (B6-0037/2005) - Thomas Mann and Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the human rights situation of Tibetans, especially the case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche (B6-0043/2005) - Jillian Evans, Evelin Lichtenberger and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche (Tibet) (B6-0047/2005) - Marcin Libicki, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the human rights situation in Tibet (B6- 0050/2005) Catherine Stihler and Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, on Tibet (the case of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche) (B6-0051/2005) - Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto and Jonas Sjöstedt, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Tibet and the case of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche (B6-0056/2005) II. Torture in Iran - Alexander Nuno Alvaro and Cecilia Malmström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Iran (B6- 0036/2005) - Salvatore Tatarella, on behalf of the UEN Group, on torture in Iran (B6-0040/2005) - Michael Gahler, Thomas Mann and Bernd Posselt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on torture in Iran (B6-0044/2005) - Christa Prets and Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, on torture and coercion in Iran (B6-0052/2005) - André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Iran (B6-0054/2005) - Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, on torture in Iran (B6-0057/2005) P6_PV(2005)01-11 PE 352.977 - 4 EN - Angelika Beer, Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, Hélène Flautre, Monica Frassoni and Joost Lagendijk, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on human rights violations in Iran (B6-0058/2005) III. Trafficking of women and children in Cambodia - Cecilia Malmström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the trafficking of women and girls in Cambodia (B6-0035/2005) - Cristiana Muscardini, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the trafficking of children in Cambodia (B6-0042/2005) - Thomas Mann, Bernd Posselt and Anna Záborská, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the trafficking of women and children in Cambodia (B6-0045/2005) - Jean Lambert and Frithjof Schmidt, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Cambodia (B6- 0046/2005) - Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez and Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the trafficking of women and girls in Cambodia (B6-0053/2005) - Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the trafficking of women and children in Cambodia (B6-0055/2005) Speaking time would be allocated in accordance with Rule 142. 5. Constitution for Europe (debate) Report on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe