EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2006 - 2007 MINUTES of the sitting of Wednesday 17 May 2006 P6_PV(2006)05-17 PE 373.294 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. Announcement by the President....................................................................................................... 3 3. IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management - Conclusion of the IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (debate).......................................................... 3 4. Voting time.......................................................................................................................................4 4.1. Appointment of an Executive Board Member of the European Central Bank (Rule 131) (vote) ...............................................................................................................................................4 4.2. Accession to the Geneva Act on the international registration of industrial designs * (Rule 131) (vote) .......................................................................................................................................4 4.3. Measures to give effect to the accession to the Geneva Act * (Rule 131) (vote) .................... 5 4.4. Conclusion of the IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (vote)......... 5 4.5. IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (vote).......................................5 5. Formal sitting - Greece..................................................................................................................... 6 6. Voting time (continuation)............................................................................................................... 6 6.1. Improvement of the environmental performance of the freight transport system ("Marco Polo II") ***I (vote) ................................................................................................................................ 6 6.2. Rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ***I (vote) .......................................................................................................... 6 6.3. Financing of European standardisation ***I (vote) ................................................................7 6.4. Public finances in the EMU (vote)............................................................................................7 7. Explanations of vote......................................................................................................................... 8 8. Corrections to votes and voting intentions....................................................................................... 8 9. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting...........................................................................................9 10. Human Rights in the World in 2005 and EU policy (debate).........................................................9 11. Financing instrument for development and economic cooperation ***I - European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument ***I - Instrument for Stability ***I - Instrument for Pre- Accession Assistance (IPA) * (debate).................................................................................................9 12. Question Time (Council)..............................................................................................................11 P6_PV(2006)05-17 PE 373.294 - 1 EN 13. Conclusion of the Energy Community Treaty *** - Treaty establishing the Energy Community for South-East Europe (debate).......................................................................................................... 12 14. Commission's Annual Policy Strategy for 2007 (debate).............................................................12 15. Cohesion Policy in support of growth and jobs (debate)..............................................................13 16. Agenda for next sitting................................................................................................................. 13 17. Closure of sitting.......................................................................................................................... 13 ATTENDANCE REGISTER............................................................................................................. 15 P6_PV(2006)05-17 PE 373.294 - 2 EN MINUTES IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES President 1. Opening of sitting The sitting opened at 9.05. 2. Announcement by the President On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, the President pointed out that the LIBE Committee would be organising a seminar that evening entitled 'Ending the hate' and encouraged MEPs to attend. ° ° ° ° The following spoke: Agnes Schierhuber, who voiced her objection to the fact that since the previous day she had been harassed by a television crew that she believed to be accompanying Hans-Peter Martin (the President replied that Parliament's security services would be informed with a view to taking the appropriate action), Reinhard Rack, on Mrs Schierhuber's remarks, Hans-Peter Martin, who made a personal statement in response to Agnes Schierhuber's remarks, and Agnes Schierhuber, on Hans-Peter Martin's comments. Javier Moreno Sánchez voiced his displeasure at certain remarks made about a Spanish Government Minister during the one-minute speeches the previous Monday. 3. IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management - Conclusion of the IIA on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (debate) Report on the Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management [2004/2099(ACI)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (A6-0150/2006) Report on the conclusion of the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) on budgetary discipline and sound financial management [2006/2028(ACI)] - Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteur: Sérgio Sousa Pinto (A6-0144/2006) Reimer Böge introduced the report (A6-0150/2006). Sérgio Sousa Pinto introduced the report (A6-0144/2006). The following spoke: Karl-Heinz Grasser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Dalia Grybauskaitė (Member of the Commission). The following spoke: Glenys Kinnock (draftsman of the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Karl von Wogau (draftsman of the opinion of the AFET Committee), Jan Mulder (draftsman of the opinion of the CONT Committee), Constanze Angela Krehl (draftsman of the opinion of the REGI Committee), Bernadette Bourzai (draftsman of the opinion of the AGRI Committee), Rosa Miguélez Ramos (draftsman of the opinion of the PECH Committee), Ruth Hieronymi (draftsman P6_PV(2006)05-17 PE 373.294 - 3 EN of the opinion of the CULT Committee), Gérard Deprez (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Jean-Luc Dehaene, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Ralf Walter, on behalf of the PSE Group, and Anne E. Jensen, on behalf of the ALDE Group. IN THE CHAIR: Ingo FRIEDRICH Vice-President The following spoke: Helga Trüpel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Esko Seppänen, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Wojciech Roszkowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, Janusz Lewandowski, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Kyösti Virrankoski, Johannes Voggenhuber, Pedro Guerreiro, Witold Tomczak, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Hans- Peter Martin, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Richard Corbett, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Alyn Smith, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Jeffrey Titford, Sergej Kozlík, Ville Itälä, Szabolcs Fazakas, Jean Marie Beaupuy,