EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2006 - 2007 MINUTES of the sitting of Thursday 26 October 2006 P6_PV(2006)10-26 PE 379.659 EN EN KEYS TO SYMBOLS USED * Consultation procedure ** I Cooperation procedure: first reading ** II Cooperation procedure: second reading *** Assent procedure ***I Codecision procedure: first reading ***II Codecision procedure: second reading ***III Codecision procedure: third reading (The type of procedure is determined by the legal basis proposed by the Commission) INFORMATION RELATING TO VOTING TIME Unless stated otherwise, the rapporteurs informed the Chair in writing, before the vote, of their position on the amendments. ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs DEVE Committee on Development INTA Committee on International Trade BUDG Committee on Budgets CONT Committee on Budgetary Control ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism REGI Committee on Regional Development AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development PECH Committee on Fisheries CULT Committee on Culture and Education JURI Committee on Legal Affairs LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs FEMM Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality PETI Committee on Petitions ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR POLITICAL GROUPS PPE-DE Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats PSE Socialist Group in the European Parliament ALDE Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Verts/ALE Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance GUE/NGL Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left IND/DEM Independence and Democracy Group UEN Union for Europe of the Nations Group NI Non-attached Members Contents 1. Opening of sitting............................................................................................................................. 3 2. Documents received......................................................................................................................... 3 3. European Central Bank Annual Report (2005) (debate).................................................................. 4 4. Support for rural development by the EAFRD * - Voluntary modulation of direct payments under the CAP * (debate)............................................................................................................................... 4 5. Welcome...........................................................................................................................................5 6. Voting time.......................................................................................................................................5 6.1. Draft general budget for the European Union - Financial year 2007 (vote)............................. 5 6.2. Draft general budget for 2007 (Section III) (vote) ...................................................................6 6.3. Draft general budget for 2007 (sections I, II, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII) (vote) ......................... 6 6.4. Fishing fleets registered in the outermost regions * (procedure without report) (vote) ...........7 6.5. Commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian uprising (vote)..........................................................7 6.6. Moldova (Transnistria) (vote)...................................................................................................7 6.7. Georgia (South Ossetia) (vote)................................................................................................. 8 6.8. Export of toxic waste to Africa (vote)...................................................................................... 8 6.9. Use of criminal law to protect the environment (vote)............................................................. 9 6.10. EC-Syria Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement (vote)............................................... 9 6.11. Nairobi Conference on Climate Change (vote).......................................................................9 6.12. Inland waterway transport (vote).......................................................................................... 10 6.13. Public-private partnerships (vote).........................................................................................10 6.14. Posting of workers (vote)......................................................................................................10 6.15. European Central Bank Annual Report (2005) (vote).......................................................... 10 7. Explanations of vote....................................................................................................................... 11 8. Corrections to votes and voting intentions..................................................................................... 11 9. Membership of committees and delegations.................................................................................. 11 P6_PV(2006)10-26 PE 379.659 - 1 EN 10. Communication of Council common positions............................................................................12 11. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting.......................................................................................12 12. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (debate)...............12 12.1. Tibet......................................................................................................................................12 12.2. Case against Rios Montt ...................................................................................................... 13 12.3. Uzbekistan............................................................................................................................ 13 13. Voting time...................................................................................................................................13 13.1. Tibet (vote)........................................................................................................................... 13 13.2. Case against Rios Montt (vote).............................................................................................14 13.3. Uzbekistan (vote)..................................................................................................................14 14. Decisions concerning certain documents......................................................................................15 15. Written declarations entered in the register (Rule 116)................................................................16 16. Forwarding of texts adopted during the sitting.............................................................................17 17. Dates for next sittings...................................................................................................................17 18. Adjournment of session................................................................................................................17 ATTENDANCE REGISTER............................................................................................................. 19 P6_PV(2006)10-26 PE 379.659 - 2 EN MINUTES IN THE CHAIR: Jacek Emil SARYUSZ-WOLSKI Vice-President 1. Opening of sitting The sitting opened at 10.05. 2. Documents received The following documents had been received from the Council and Commission: - Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 on the harmonisation of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation (COM(2006)0645 - C6-0362/2006 - 2006/0209(COD)) referred to responsible : TRAN - Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/…/EC laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels (COM(2006)0646 - C6-0360/2006 - 2006/0210(COD)) referred to responsible : TRAN - Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of an arrangement between the European Community and the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway on the modalities of those states' participation in the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (COM(2006)0178 - C6-0358/2006 - 2006/0063(CNS)) referred to responsible : LIBE opinion : AFET - Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation xxx/2006 on medicinal products for paediatric use and amending Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92, Directive 2001/20/EC, Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 (COM(2006)0640 - C6-0356/2006 - 2006/0207(COD)) referred to responsible : ENVI - Proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 47/2006 - Section III – Commission (SEC(2006)1288 - C6-0353/2006 - 2006/2254(GBD)) referred to responsible : BUDG - Proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC 42/2006 - Section III – Commission (SEC(2006)1282 - C6-0352/2006 - 2006/2253(GBD)) referred to responsible : BUDG - Proposal for a Council decision on the position of the Community in relation to the draft Regulation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning the approval of motor vehicles with regard to the forward field of vision