14.12.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 305 E/95

Wednesday 6 September 2006

(2006/C 305 E/03) MINUTES

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO Vice-President

1. Opening of sitting

The sitting opened at 09.00.

2. Documents received

The following document had been received from the Council/Commission: — Draft amending budget No 3 to the general budget for 2006 — General statement of revenue and expenditure — Section III — Commission — Section VIII Part B — European Data Protection Super- visor (11297/2006 — C6-0239/2006 — 2006/2119(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG

3. Request for referral back to committee

The President informed the House that the PSE Group was intending to request that the report by Bastiaan Belder on EU-China relations (A6-0257/2006) (Item 31 on the agenda) be referred back to committee.

The request would be put to the vote at the beginning of the debate on that report at 21.00.

4. EU preparation for its future role in Kosovo (debate)

Oral question (O-0082/2006) by Joost Lagendijk and , on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Hannes Swoboda and Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, Doris Pack, on behalf of the PPE- DE Group, Elizabeth Lynne, Sarah Ludford and Jelko Kacin, on behalf of the ALDE Group, to the Council: The EU's preparedness for its future role in Kosovo (B6-0426/2006)

Joost Lagendijk, Hannes Swoboda, Doris Pack and Sarah Ludford moved the oral question.

Paula Lehtomäki (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the oral question.

Olli Rehn (Member of the Commission) spoke.

The following spoke: , on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, István Szent-Iványi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Gisela Kallenbach, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Erik Meijer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Non-attached Member, Alexander Stubb, Panagiotis Beglitis, Jelko Kacin, Bart Staes, Tobias Pflüger and .

IN THE CHAIR: Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN Vice-President

The following spoke: Józef Pinior, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Athanasios Pafilis, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Joost Lagendijk, Paula Lehtomäki and Olli Rehn.

The debate closed.