18.10.2007 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 244 E/27

Wednesday 17 January 2007 6. Order of business

The next item was the order of business.

The final draft agenda for the sittings of January I and II (PE 382.948/PDOJ) had been distributed. The following change had been proposed under Rule 132:

Sittings of 17.01.2007 and 18.01.2007

Wednesday — Request from the ECON Committee to hold over until a later part-session the oral question by Per- venche Berès to the Commission on further convergence in supervisory practices in the EU (Item 28 on the final draft agenda), with a view to taking it as part of a joint debate along with an oral question to the Council on the same subject.

Pervenche Berès (Chairwoman of the ECON Committee) moved the request.

Parliament approved the request.

Thursday — no changes

Sittings of 31.01.2007 and 01.02.2007 — no changes

The order of business was thus established.

7. Imposition of the death penalty on medical personnel in Libya (debate)

Council and Commission statements: Imposition of the death penalty on medical personnel in Libya

Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Evgeni Kirilov, on behalf of the PSE Group, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Hélène Flautre, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Geoffrey Van Orden, Atanas Paparizov, Alexander Lambsdorff, Mario Borghezio, Eoin Ryan, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, Simon Busuttil, Kristian Vigenin, Sarah Ludford, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda, Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Marian Harkin, , Ana Maria Gomes, Bogusław Sonik and Pierre Schapira.

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS Vice-President

The following spoke: Miroslav Mikolášik, Günter Gloser and Jacques Barrot.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2): — Vittorio Agnoletto, André Brie and Willy Meyer Pleite, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the imprisonment and trial in Libya of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges related to the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi children's hospital (B6-0024/2007) — Kristian Vigenin, Georgi Bliznashki, Evgeni Kirilov, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Mladen Petrov Cherve- nyakov, Atanas Paparizov, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Pasqualina Napoletano, Catherine Guy-Quint, Alexan- dra Dobolyi, Hannes Swoboda, Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco and Pierre Schapira, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the death sentence inflicted on the medical personnel in Libya (B6-0025/2007) C 244 E/28 Official Journal of the European Union EN 18.10.2007

Wednesday 17 January 2007 — Filiz Husmenova, Graham Watson, Adrian-Mihai Cioroianu, Stanimir Ilchev, Tchetin Kazak, Antonyia Parvanova and Frédérique Ries, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the imprisonment and trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges related to the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Ben- ghazi children's hospital (B6-0026/2007)

— , Cristiana Muscardini, Roberta Angelilli and Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the imprisonment and trial of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic on charges related to the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi children's hospital (B6-0027/2007)

— Hélène Flautre, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Cem Özdemir, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the imprisonment and trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges related to the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi children's hospital (B6-0028/2007)

— Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov, Geoffrey Van Orden, Luisa Fernanda Rudi Ubeda, Simon Busuttil, Simon Coveney, Konstantin Dimitrov, Martin Dimitrov and Stefan Sofianski, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the imprisonment and trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges related to the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi children's hospital (B6-0029/2007)

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 18.01.2007, Item 9.7.

8. Seventh and eighth annual reports on arms exports (debate)

Report on the Council's Seventh and Eighth Annual Reports according to Operative Provision 8 of the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports (2006/2068(INI)) — Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Raül Romeva i Rueda (A6-0439/2006)

Raül Romeva i Rueda introduced the report.

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

The following spoke: Karl von Wogau, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Ana Maria Gomes, on behalf of the PSE Group, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, , on behalf of the UEN Group, Carl Schlyter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Tobias Pflüger, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Georgios Karatzaferis, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Günter Gloser, Geoffrey Van Orden, Pana- giotis Beglitis, Marios Matsakis, Bart Staes, Jaromír Kohlíček, Gerard Batten and Luis Yañez-Barnuevo García.

IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT Vice-President

The following spoke: Sarah Ludford, Richard Howitt, Marianne Mikko, Józef Pinior, Joel Hasse Ferreira, and Jacques Barrot.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 18.01.2007, Item 9.8.