Minutes of the Sitting of Monday 18 January 2010
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23.4.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 104 E/1 Monday 18 January 2010 IV (Notices) NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2009-2010 SESSION Sittings of 18 to 21 January 2010 STRASBOURG MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF MONDAY 18 JANUARY 2010 (2010/C 104 E/01) Contents Pages 1. Resumption of the session .............................................................. 2 2. Statements by the President ............................................................. 2 3. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting ............................................ 2 4. Composition of political groups ......................................................... 2 5. Names of committees and delegations .................................................... 2 6. Composition of committees and delegations ............................................... 2 7. Documents received .................................................................... 3 8. Petitions .............................................................................. 4 9. Oral questions and written declarations (submission) ....................................... 5 10. Texts of agreements forwarded by the Council ............................................. 6 11. Order of business ...................................................................... 6 12. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance .................................... 8 13. Agenda of the next sitting ............................................................... 8 14. Closure of the sitting ................................................................... 8 ATTENDANCE REGISTER .................................................................. 9 C 104 E/2 EN Official Journal of the European Union 23.4.2010 Monday 18 January 2010 IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK President 1. Resumption of the session The sitting opened at 17.00. 2. Statements by the President The President made a statement on the recent earthquake in Haiti, recalling that Pilar Juárez Boal, an EU rep resentative in Haiti, was still missing. Parliament observed a minute’s silence in memory of the victims. The President condemned the execution of Akmal Shaikh, a British citizen, in China on 29 December 2009. The President referred to the first round of the presidential elections in Ukraine, which had taken place on 17 January 2010, and to the fact that the Spanish Presidency of the Council had begun. 3. Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting Dagmar Roth-Behrendt had made it known that she had been present at the sitting of 11 November 2009 but that her name was not on the attendance register. The minutes of the previous sitting were approved. 4. Composition of political groups Nicole Sinclaire was no longer a member of the EFD Group as of 18 January 2010. She would sit with the non-attached Members as of that date. 5. Names of committees and delegations The Conference of Presidents proposed that the name of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur be changed to the following: ‘Delegation for relations with Mercosur countries’. Parliament agreed to the proposal. 6. Composition of committees and delegations The President had received the following requests for appointments from the PPE and GUE/NGL Groups: Subcommittee on Human Rights: Marie-Christine Vergiat to replace Jean-Luc Mélenchon 23.4.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 104 E/3 Monday 18 January 2010 Delegation for relations with Mercosur countries: Nuno Teixeira to replace Albert Deß Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia: Albert Deß to replace Nuno Teixeira The appointments would be deemed ratified if there were no objections before the approval of these minutes. 7. Documents received The following documents had been received: (1) from the Council and Commission — Revision of the Treaties – Transitional measures concerning the composition of the European Par liament (17196/2009 [[01]] - C7-0001/2010 - 2009/0813(NLE)) referred to responsible: AFCO — Decision not to convene a Convention for the revision of the Treaties with regard to transitional mea sures concerning the composition of the European Parliament (17196/2009 [[02{] - C7-0002/2010 - 2009/0814(NLE)) referred to responsible: AFCO — Proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 concerning general pro visions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund as regards simplification of certain requirements and as regards certain provisions relating to financial management (COM(2009)0384 - C7-0003/2010 - 2009/0107(COD)) referred to responsible: REGI opinion: EMPL, BUDG, CONT (2) from committees (2.1) reports — * Report on the proposal for a Council regulation temporarily suspending autonomous Com mon Customs Tariff duties on imports of certain industrial products into the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores (COM(2009)0370 - C7-0222/2009 - 2009/0125(CNS)) - REGI Committee - Rapporteur: Danuta Maria Hübner (A7-0001/2010) — Report on the second revision of the Partnership Agreement ACP-EC (the ‘Cotonou Agree ment’) (2009/2165(INI)) - DEVE Committee - Rapporteur: Eva Joly (A7-0086/2009) C 104 E/4 EN Official Journal of the European Union 23.4.2010 Monday 18 January 2010 (3) from Members (3.1) oral questions for Question Time (Rule 116) (B7-0002/2010) to the Council: — Jáuregui Atondo Ramón, Mitchell Gay, Posselt Bernd, Higgins Jim, Aylward Liam, Désir Harlem, Martin Hans-Peter, Chountis Nikolaos, Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou Rodi, McGuinness Mairead, Ţicău Silvia-Adriana, Crowley Brian, Gallagher Pat the Cope, Czarnecki Ryszard, Andrikienė Laima Liucija, Toussas Georgios, Aggourakis Charalampos to the Commission: — Aylward Liam, Mitchell Gay, Ţicău Silvia-Adriana, Posselt Bernd, Chountis Nikolaos, Strasser Ernst, Messerschmidt Morten, Higgins Jim, Nitras Sławomir Witold, Mazzoni Erminia, Stevenson Struan, Papanikolaou Georgios, El Khadraoui Saïd, Iotova Iliana Malinova, De Angelis Francesco, McGuinness Mairead, Crowley Brian, Gallagher Pat the Cope, Czarnecki Ryszard, Belet Ivo, Andrikienė Laima Liucija, Toussas Georgios, Aggourakis Charalampos (3.2) motions for resolution (Rule 120) — Cristiana Muscardini. Motion for a resolution on the need to secure an international level play ing field for the EU’s basic industries (B7-0022/2010) referred to responsible: ITRE opinion: EMPL — Silvia-Adriana Ţicău. Motion for a resolution on the mid-term budget review of the priority projects regarding EU funding in the field of energy (B7-0279/2009) referred to responsible: ITRE opinion: REGI — Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, on behalf of the S&D Group. Motion for a resolution on investment in modern and sustainable transport infrastructures on the main European routes (B7-0280/2009) referred to responsible: TRAN opinion: REGI 8. Petitions The following petitions, which had been entered in the register on the dates shown below, had been forwarded to the committee responsible under Rule 201(6): 17 December 2009 Malgorzata Antczak (1711/2009); (name confidential) (1712/2009); (name confidential) (1713/2009); Klaus Samer (1714/2009); Walter Wasilewski (1715/2009); Emmanuelle Arnold (1716/2009); Matthew Lee Hart (1717/2009); (name confidential) (1718/2009); Benjamin Dovečar (1719/2009); Vince Llewelyn (1720/2009); (name confidential) (1721/2009); Matteo Gomirato (1722/2009); Pirjo Alatalo (1723/2009); Emil Lapadat (1724/2009); (name confidential) (1725/2009); (name confidential) (1726/2009); (name confidential) (1727/2009); Juan Manuel Pérez Revuelta (Fundación Comunidad Valenciana - Región Europea) (2 signatures) (1728/2009); Antonio Gavira Albarrán (Sociedad Ecologista Alwadi-ira) (1729/2009); Andreas Tschierschke (1730/2009). 23.4.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 104 E/5 Monday 18 January 2010 6 January 2010 (Name confidential) (1731/2009); (name confidential) (1732/2009); Nadine Frohmut (1733/2009); Thorsten Gernot Wulf (1734/2009); (name confidential) (1735/2009); Marita Wallin Andersson (1736/2009); Antonio Gaspari (Movimento per la vita Italiano) (500 000 signatures) (1737/2009); David Bremner (1738/2009); Jeanette Norvall-Lindh (1739/2009); Denis Brudna (Photonews) (1740/2009); Karl-Heinz Tröndle (1741/2009); Bruno Laufkötter (1742/2009); Michael Brass (1743/2009); Ad Schmidt (1744/2009); Stanisław Lipiec (Fundacja Cognosco) (2 signatures) (1745/2009); (name confidential) (1746/2009); Torsten Pasler (1747/2009); Bernd Siotka (1748/2009); Stefanie Günther (1749/2009); Alexandru Serbanescu (1750/2009); Alexandru Sain (1751/2009); Marius Gabriel Mioc (1752/2009); Dimitar Stefanov (1753/2009); Antonio Pérez y Gómez (1754/2009); Frizzi Miranda Persichi (1755/2009); Michelangelo Tripodi (Partito Dei Comunisti Italiani) (21 signatures) (1756/2009); Valls Alejandro Guillén (2 signatures) (1757/2009); Vasil Vlasev Vasilev (1758/2009); Georges Da Costa (1759/2009); (name confidential) (1760/2009); (name confidential) (1761/2009); (name confidential) (1762/2009); Anthony Mason (1763/2009); Salvatore Amato (1764/2009); Jesús Rojo Palacios (1765/2009); Federico Cappello (Ass. ne Guardie Ambientali d’Italia (Sez. Provinciale)) (1766/2009); Carmen Gherca (Asociatia Nationala pentru Copii si Adulti cu Autism din Romania - filliala Lasi) (1767/2009); Vitaly Trusevich (2 signatures) (1768/2009);Mario De Blas Silvan (1769/2009); Carlo Crotti (Associazione Salvaguardia Idraulica del Territorio Padovano e Veneziano) (1770/2009); Marin Mändrila (S.C. MARI-VILA COM S.R.L.) (1771/2009).