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Monday 4 September 2006 Thursday — Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 115): — Request from the PSE Group to replace the item on Zimbabwe (Item 56 on the final draft agenda) with an item on Transnistria.

The following spoke: Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, who moved the request, Marianne Mikko and Charles Tannock.

Parliament rejected the request by electronic vote (74 in favour, 103 against, 19 abstentions).

The order of business was thus established.

17. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Pursuant to Rule 144, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:

Geoffrey Van Orden, Marc Tarabella, Danutė Budreikaitė, Margrete Auken, Pedro Guerreiro, Janusz Wojcie- chowski, Thomas Wise, Georgios Karatzaferis, Ashley Mote, James Nicholson, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Lívia Járóka, Pál Schmitt, Bogusław Liberadzki, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Véronique De Keyser, Glenys Kinnock, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Ioannis Gklavakis, Sophia in 't Veld, Monika Beňová, Vytau- tas Landsbergis, Georgios Papastamkos, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Adamos Adamou, Mai- read McGuinness, Marianne Mikko, , Manuel Medina Ortega, Marios Matsakis, Simon Busut- til, Milan Gaľa, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou and Inés Ayala Sender.

IN THE CHAIR: Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN Vice-President

18. Passenger car related taxes * (debate)

Report on the proposal for a Council directive on passenger car related taxes [COM(2005)0261 — C6-0272/2005 — 2005/0130(CNS)] — Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Karin Riis-Jørgensen (A6-0240/2006)

The President announced that Karin Riis-Jørgensen (rapporteur) would be a little late and would introduce her report as soon as she arrived.

László Kovács (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: Jan Marinus Wiersma (draftsman of the opinion of the TRAN Committee), Werner Langen, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Katerina Batzeli, on behalf of the PSE Group, Marian Harkin, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Satu Hassi, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Erik Meijer, on behalf of the GUE/ NGL Group, Roberts Zīle, on behalf of the UEN Group, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Non-attached Member, Anja Weisgerber, Donata Gottardi, Henrik Lax, Margrete Auken, Johannes Blokland, Gunnar Hökmark and Andrzej Jan Szejna.

Karin Riis-Jørgensen introduced the report. 14.12.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 305 E/15

Monday 4 September 2006 IN THE CHAIR: Ingo FRIEDRICH Vice-President

The following spoke: Claude Turmes (draftsman of the opinion of the ENVI Committee), John Whittaker, Zsolt László Becsey, Matthias Groote, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Joseph Muscat, Geor- gios Karatzaferis, Reinhard Rack, Kathy Sinnott, Avril Doyle, Philip Bradbourn, Luís Queiró, Renate Sommer and László Kovács (Member of the Commission).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 05.09.2006, Item 9.3.

19. Funding to deal with pollution caused by ships ***I (debate)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the and of the Council on a multiannual funding for the action of the European Maritime Safety Agency in the field of response to pollution caused by ships and amending Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 [COM(2005)0210) — C6-0153/2005 — 2005/0098(COD)] — Committee on Transport and Tourism. Rapporteur: Luis de Grandes Pascual (A6-0184/2006)

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) spoke.

Luis de Grandes Pascual introduced the report.

The following spoke: Jutta Haug (draftsman of the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Rodi Kratsa-Tsagar- opoulou, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Willi Piecyk, on behalf of the PSE Group, and Josu Ortuondo Larrea, on behalf of the ALDE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS Vice-President

The following spoke: Margrete Auken, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Georgios Toussas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Luís Queiró, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Alyn Smith, Nikolaos Sifunakis, Inés Ayala Sender and Jacques Barrot.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 05.09.2006, Item 9.1.

20. Forest fires and floods (debate)

Commission statement: Forest fires and floods

Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Gerardo Galeote, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, on behalf of the PSE Group, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Janusz Wojciechowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, Non-attached Member, Konstantinos Hatzidakis, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Willy Meyer Pleite, Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci and Ville Itälä.