C 286 E/274 Official Journal of the European Union EN 23.11.2006 Thursday 15 December 2005 (2006/C 286 E/04) MINUTES PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES President 1. Opening of sitting The sitting opened at 10.05. 2. Membership of political groups Sylwester Chruszcz, Maciej Marian Giertych and Bernard Piotr Wojciechowski had left the IND/DEM Group with effect from 15.12.2005. They would henceforth sit as non-attached Members. 3. Documents received The following documents had been received from the Council and Commission: — Council of the European Union: Amending letter No 1 to the draft general budget of the European Communities of the financial year 2006 (14862/2005 — C6-0413/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG — Council of the European Union: Amending Letter No 2 to the draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 2006 (14863/2005 — C6-0414/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG — Draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 2006, as amended and accompanied by proposals for modifications (14864/2005 — C6-0415/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG — Council of the European Union: Amending letter No 3 to the draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 2006 (15379/2005 — C6-0427/2005 — 2005/2001(BUD)) referred to responsible: BUDG — Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the Court of Audi- tors: annual accounts for the financial year 2004 of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th European Development Funds (COM(2005)0485 — C6-0430/2005 — 2005/2157(DEC)) referred to responsible: CONT opinion: DEVE, BUDG — Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and Ukraine on certain aspects of air services (COM(2005)0368 — C6-0431/2005 — 2005/0155 (CNS)) referred to responsible: TRAN — Proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the amendments to the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the finan- cial contribution provided for in the Agreement on cooperation in the sea fisheries sector between the European Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the period 1 August 2001 to 31 July 2006 (COM(2005)0591 — C6-0433/2005 — 2005/0229(CNS)) referred to responsible: PECH opinion: DEVE, BUDG — Draft Council regulation imposing certain specific restrictive measures against certain persons suspected of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (15098/2005 — C6-0434/2005 — 2005/0234(CNS)) referred to responsible: LIBE opinion: AFET, ECON 23.11.2006 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 286 E/275 Thursday 15 December 2005 — Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion by the European Community of the Energy Com- munity Treaty (13886/2005 — C6-0435/2005 — 2005/0178(AVC)) referred to responsible: ITRE opinion: AFET, ENVI 4. Farming of bear bile in China (written declaration) Written declaration 52/2005, submitted by David Martin, Neil Parish, Peter Skinner, Terence Wynn and Robert Evans on rising international concern over the farming of bear bile in China, had, by 15.12.2005, been signed by the majority of Parliament's component Members. Consequently, pursuant to Rule 116(4), it would be sent to its addressees and published, together with the names of the signatories, in the Texts Adopted of the sitting of 17.01.2006 (P6_TA(2006)0008). Neil Parish spoke. * ** Bruno Gollnisch made a personal statement in response to remarks made during the explanations of vote on Tuesday by Edward McMillan-Scott, when he was in the Chair. Edward McMillan-Scott spoke in reply. 5. Voting time Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in the ‘Results of votes’ annex to the Minutes. 5.1. Mobilisation of the flexibility instrument (vote) Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the flexibility instrument in favour of the European Union's external actions according to point 24 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 [COM(2005)0278 — C6-0211/2005 — 2005/2137(ACI)] — Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (A6-0395/2005) (Qualified majority + 3/5 of votes cast) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 1) MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Adopted (P6_TA(2005)0513) 5.2. Rejection of the draft general budget (vote) Motion for a resolution tabled under Article 6 of Annex IV to the Rules of Procedure by Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Gerard Batten, Godfrey Bloom, Jens-Peter Bonde, Graham Booth, Mario Borghezio, Martin Cal- lanan, Sylwester Chruszcz, Derek Roland Clark, Paul Marie Coûteaux, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Nigel Farage, Maciej Marian Giertych, Daniel Hannan, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Roger Helmer, Georgios Karatzaferis, Roger Knapman, Urszula Krupa, Patrick Louis, Hans-Peter Martin, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Michael Henry Nattrass, Bogdan Pęk, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Bogusław Rogalski, Leopold Józef Ruto- wicz, Matteo Salvini, Kathy Sinnott, Francesco Enrico Speroni, Jeffrey Titford, Witold Tomczak, Philippe de Villiers, John Whittaker, Thomas Wise, Bernard Piotr Wojciechowski, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski and Vladimír Železný, on total rejection of the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2006 (B6-0642/2005) (Qualified majority + 2/3 of votes cast) (Voting record: ‘Results of votes’, Item 2) MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Rejected.