14 . 02 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 44/ 19 Tuesday, 18 January 1994 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING OF TUESDAY, 18 JANUARY 1994 (94/C 44/02) PART I Proceedings of the sitting IN THE CHAIR : Mr ESTGEN — Report of the Committee on External Economic Vice-President Relations on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the introduction of time limits for investigations carried out under the Community instruments of commercial defence and modification of the relevant Council Regu­ (The sitting was opened at 9 a.m.) lations (COM(93)0541 — C3-0005/94) * Rapporteur: Mr De Vries (A3-00 16/94) 1. Approval of Minutes The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved . (b) motions for resolutions pursuant to Rule 45 from the following Members : 2. Documents received — de la Cámara Martinez on the establishment of a European Youth Year (B3- 1665/93) The President announced that he had received : referred to responsible : CULT (a) from the parliamentary committees the following reports : — de la Cámara Martinez on setting up a Community — Report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism programme for aids to craft production (B3- 1666/93) on the proposal for a Council Regulation modifying referred to Regulation (EEC) No 1 101 /89 on structural improve­ ments in inland waterway transport (COM(93)0553 — responsible : ECON C3-05 12/93 — SYN 475) **I opinion : BUDG Rapporteur: Mr Van der Waal (A3-00 12/94) — Izquierdo Rojo, Arbeloa Muru, Belo, Bofill Abeilhe , Bru Purón, Cabezón Alonso, Cano Pinto, Colino Sala­ — Report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and manca, Colom i Naval , Dührkop Dührkop, Garcia Arias , Citizens' Rights on the application of the Treaty on Happart, Imbeni , Linkohr, Medina Ortega, Miranda de European Union to proposals pending before the Council Lage, Pons Grau , Rosmini , Sakellariou , Sanz Fernandez, on 31 October 1993 for which its entry into force will Sapena Granell , Sierra Bardají and Vazquez Fouz on the require a change in the legal base and/or a change in revision of Regulation (EEC) No 295/91 establishing procedure (COM(93)0570 — C3-0369/93) common rules for a denied-boarding compensation sys­ tem in scheduled air transport (B3- 1667/93) Rapporteur: Mr Bontempi (A3-00 13/94) referred to responsible : TRAN — Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control on the appointment of a Member of the Court of Auditors (C3-03 10/93) — Fernandez-Albor on associations for the promotion of youth exchanges (B3- 1668/93) Rapporteur: Mr Bourlanges (A3-00 14/94) referred to responsible : CULT — Second Report of the Committee on External Econ­ opinion : BUDG, REGI omic Relations on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the harmonization and streamlining of decision­ making procedures for Community instruments of com­ — Fernandez-Albor on stimulating growth by applying mercial defence and modification of the relevant Council a new type of investment (B3- 1 669/93) Regulations (SEC(92)1097 -C3-0322/92) * referred to Rapporteur : Mr De Vries responsible : ECON (A3-00 15/94) opinion : SOCI No C 44/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 14 . 02 . 94 Tuesday, 18 January 1994 — Lafuente Lopez on a Community contribution to the — Langer on protecting human procreation against funding of international music festivals (B3- 1670/93) manipulation and industrialization (B3- 1680/93 ) referred to referred to responsible : CULT responsible : LEGA opinion : BUDG opinion : ENER — Lafuente Lopez on a Community solidarity fund for — Parodi on health education in schools (B3- 168 1 /93) employment (B3- 167 1 /93) referred to referred to responsible : CULT responsible : SOCI opinion : ENVI opinion : BUDG — Pierros , on behalf of the PPE Group, on the creation — de la Cámara Martinez on the establishment of a of a Euro-Arab Development Bank (B3- 1682/93) European Institute for North-South Dialogue (B3-1672/ referred to 93) responsible : FASE referred to opinion : DEVE responsible : DEVE — Apolinário on granting special aid to Portuguese pig — de la Cámara Martinez on the creation of a European breeders in areas infected with African swine fever Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology (B3- 1673/93) (B3- 1683/93) referred to referred to responsible : SOCI responsible : AGRI opinion : BUDG, ENVI opinion : BUDG — de la Cámara Martínez on conscientious objectors — Posada Gonzalez on the 'brain drain' and regional and development cooperation (B3- 1674/93) development (B3- 1684/93) referred to referred to responsible : CIVI responsible : REGI opinion : DEVE opinion : SOCI — Arbeloa Muru on UN peace-keeping operations (B3- 1675/93) (c) a proposed modification to the Rules of Procedure pursuant to Rule 163 from the following Member: referred to responsible : FASE — Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado, on the amendment of Rule 8 (B3- 1685/93 ) — Denys on road safety (B3- 1676/93) referred to referred to responsible : RULE responsible : TRAN — Miranda de Lage on trade between the Community and cocoa-producing countries (B3- 1677/93) 3. Texts of Treaties forwarded by the Council referred to responsible : RELA The President announced that he had received from the opinion : DEVE Council certified true copies of the following documents : — Muscardini and de la Malène, on behalf of the RDE — Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters on Group, and Mitolo and Gawronski on harmonization of the provisional application of the protocol defining , for conditions for the exercise of the profession of mountain the period 21 May 1992 to 20 May 1995 , the fishing guide (B3- 1678/93) opportunities and the financial contribution provided for * referred to by the agreement between the European Community and responsible : LEGA the Government of the Democratic Republic of Madagas­ opinion : CULT car on fishing off Madagascar — Dury on behalf of the PSE Group on human rights — Protocol defining , for the period 21 May 1992 to violations in Zaire (B3- 1679/93 ) 20 May 1995 , the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the agreement between the referred to European Community and the Government of the Demo­ responsible : FASE cratic Republic of Madagascar on fishing off Madagas­ opinion : DEVE car . 14 . 02 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 44/21 Tuesday, 18 January 1994 4. Topical and urgent debate (announcement — Lenz and Oomen-Ruijten , on behalf of the PPE of motions for resolutions tabled) Group, on the human rights situation of soldiers in Russia (B3-0062/94); The President announced that he had received from the following Members requests for the inclusion in the — Oomen-Ruijten and Lenz, on behalf of the PPE debate on topical and urgent subjects of major impor­ Group, on the 50th session of the United Nations Com­ tance of motions for resolutions pursuant to Rule 47(1 ): mission on Human Rights (Geneva, 31 January to 11 March 1994) (B3-0063/94); — Inglewood, Kellett-Bowman, Bethell , Newton Dunn, Scott-Hopkins , Spencer, Patterson, Prout, Cassi­ dy, Simmonds, Christopher Jackson , McIntosh, Turner, — Ferruccio Pisoni, Guidolin and Mantovani , on Seligman, Caroline F. Jackson, Prag, Catherwood, Price, behalf of the PPE Group, on the right to vote and stand as Christopher J.P. Beazley and Elles , on the operation of a candidate in the 1994 European elections for Commun­ Thorp at Sellafield (B3-0050/94); ity citizens residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals (B3-0064/94); — Pinton, Taradash, Böge , Gunther, Pack, Quisthoudt­ Rowohl , Schleicher, Alber, Menrad, Merz, Schieder­ — Guermeur, on behalf of the RDE Group, on the meier, Rinsche , Brand, Keppelhoff-Wiechert, Muscar­ dini , Fantini , Fernández-Albor, Theato , Lamanna, Brok, threats to production and employment in the poultry­ raising sector as a result of Community measures (B3­ Braun-Moser, Deprez, Cassanmagnago Cerretti and 0065/94); Lafuente Lopez, on the situation of the Greek Catholic minority in Romania (B3-0051 /94); — Martinez, on behalf of the DR Group, on the situa­ — Oostlander and Habsburg , on behalf of the PPE tion of Mexican peasants (B3-0066/94); Group, Bertens , on behalf of the LDR Group, and Langer, on behalf of the V Group, on the crisis in Bosnia- Herzegovina and the declarations of NATO (B3-0052/ — Lehideux , Antony , Le Pen , Le Chevallier, Scho­ 94); druch and Gollnisch, on behalf of the DR Group, on the attack on human dignity by genetic manipulations (B3­ — Bertens , von Alemann and Holzfuss , on behalf of the 0067/94); LDR Group, on the crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the declarations of NATO (B3-0053/94); — Antony, Lehideux, Le Pen, Le Chevallier, Dillen and Gollnisch, on behalf of the DR Group, on the forcible — Mendes Bota and Cayet, on behalf of the LDR return of two Iranian terrorists to their country (B3­ Group , on the situation in the Congo and the expulsion of 0068/94); the journalist, Mrs Frederique Genot (B3-0054/94); — Raffarin , on behalf of the LDR Group, on the — Antony , Lehideux, Le Pen, Dillen, Schodruch, Goll­ thousands of detonators and other toxic products washed nisch and Le Chevallier, on behalf of the DR Group, on up on the Atlantic coast (B3-0055/94); the war in the former Yugoslavia (B3-0069/94); — Raffarin, Soulier, von Alemann , Bertens , André- Léonard and Wurth-Polfer, on behalf of the LDR Group, — Martinez, Le Pen, Le Chevallier, Megret and Goll­ on the flooding in France , Germany , the Benelux coun­ nisch, on behalf of the DR Group, on the flooding in the tries and the United Kingdom (B3-0056/94); Camargue (B3-0071/94); — Ruiz-Giménez Aguilar, Calvo Ortega,