C 316 E/8 Official Journal of the European Union EN 11.12.2008 Wednesday 8 October 2008 The following spoke: Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission). The following spoke: Piia-Noora Kauppi, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, on behalf of the PSE Group, and Wolf Klinz, on behalf of the ALDE Group. IN THE CHAIR: Mechtild ROTHE Vice-President The following spoke: Pierre Jonckheer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, John Purvis, Sharon Bowles, Margarita Starkevičiūtė and Olle Schmidt. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Avril Doyle, Harald Ettl and Czesław Adam Siekierski. The following spoke: Charlie McCreevy, Ieke van den Burg and Daniel Dăianu. The debate closed. Vote: Minutes of 09.10.2008, Item 7.14. 16. Welcome On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed Alaksandar Milinkevich, leader of the Belarusian democratic movement and winner of the 2006 Sakharov Prize, and Alaksandar Kazulin, honorary president of the Belarusian social democratic party Hramada, who had taken their seats in the distinguished visitors' gallery. 17. Situation in Belarus (debate) Council and Commission statements: Situation in Belarus Jean-Pierre Jouyet (President-in-Office of the Council) and Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) made the statements. The following spoke: Charles Tannock, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Elisabeth Schroedter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the UEN Group, Erik Meijer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Jacek Protasiewicz, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Wojciech Roszkowski, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi and Adrian Severin. IN THE CHAIR: Mario MAURO Vice-President The following spoke: Marian Harkin, Jana Hybášková, Józef Pinior, Jas Gawronski and Libor Rouček. The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Colm Burke and Zita Pleštinská. The following spoke: Jean-Pierre Jouyet and Charlie McCreevy. 11.12.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 316 E/9 Wednesday 8 October 2008 Motions for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2): — Jan Marinus Wiersma, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Pasqualina Napoletano and Klaus Hänsch, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B6-0527/2008), — Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Janusz Onyszkiewicz and Marian Harkin, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B6-0530/2008), — André Brie, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the results of the parliamentary elections in Belarus (B6-0532/2008), — Jacek Protasiewicz, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the parliamentary elections of 28 September 2008 in Belarus (B6-0533/2008), — Konrad Szymański, Adam Bielan, Wojciech Roszkowski, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Ryszard Czar- necki and Inese Vaidere, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the situation in Belarus after the parliament- ary election of 28 September 2008 (B6-0534/2008), — Elisabeth Schroedter and Milan Horáček, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B6-0535/2008). The debate closed. Vote: Minutes of 09.10.2008, Item 7.8. 18. Composition of Parliament Lilli Gruber had given notice of her resignation as a Member of the European Parliament with effect from 01.10.2008. Under Rule 4(1) and (7), Parliament established the vacancy with effect from that date and informed the Member State concerned. 19. Corrigenda (Rule 204a) The committees responsible had forwarded the following corrigenda to texts adopted by Parliament: — Corrigendum to the position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 18 June 2008 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EC) No …/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. P6_TA(2008)0298 — COM(2007)0741 — C6 0432/2007 — 2007/0262(COD) — JURI — Corrigendum to the position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 17 June 2008 with a view to the adoption of Directive 2008/…/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy and amending Directives 82/176/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC, 84/491/EEC, 86/280/EEC and 2000/60/EC. P6_TA-PROV(2008)0283 — (11486/3/2007 — C6-0055/2008 — 2006/0129(COD)) — ENVI Pursuant to Rule 204a, these corrigenda would be deemed approved unless, within 48 hours, a request was made by a political group or at least 40 Members that they be put to the vote. The corrigenda were available on the ‘Séance en direct’ site..