DIRECTORATE FOR THE PLANNING OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 03/A-2006 Directorate-General for the Presidency EN EN ABBREVIATIONS USED Political Groups PPE-DE Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats PSE Group of the Party of European Socialists ELDR Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Verts/ALE Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance GUE/NGL Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left UEN Union for Europe of the Nations group EDD Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities NI Non-attached Members Committees AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy BUDG Committee on Budgets CONT Committee on Budgetary Control LIBE Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs JURI Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market ITRE Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development PECH Committee on Fisheries RETT Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism CULT Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport DEVE Committee on Development and Cooperation AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities PETI Committee on Petitions http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins (Internet) \\Epades\public\bulletin\Activités Closed on : 06.03.2006 CONTENTS 3 PRESIDENCY Main decisions of the College of Quaestors....................................................................................... 6 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Written questions................................................................................................................................ 8 Question Time (B6-0002/2006) ....................................................................................................... 33 Summary of Questions time - February 2006 ................................................................................. 35 Written declarations.......................................................................................................................... 36 COMMITTEES Appointment of rapporteurs and draftsmen......................................................................... 42 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Commission documents....................................................................................................... 56 GENERAL INFORMATION Common Foreign and Security Policy Declaration on direct cross-strait flights over the Chinese New Year ............................... 64 Declaration on the inauguration of the CARICOM - Single Market ................................. 64 Declaration on the announcement of venue and date for the holding of the Somali Parliamentary session ................................................................................... 65 Declaration on the announcement of Certified results of Iraq's 15 December 2005 elections ................................................................................................... 66 Declaration on the agreement between Chad and Sudan ................................................... 67 Declaration on the referendum in Montenegro .................................................................. 68 Declaration on the closure of the Union of Youth and Children's Public associations "RADA" by the Supreme Court of Belarus ................................................... 68 Declaration on recent developments in Georgia - South Ossetia ....................................... 69 Declaration following the presidential election in Haiti ..................................................... 70 Declaration calling for negotiations on a humanitarian agreement in Colombia ............... 71 Declaration on resumption of direct talks between the Chinese goverment and envoys of the Dalai Lama ................................................................................................... 71 Declaration regarding the award of the Olof Palme Prize 2005 to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ................................................................................................. 72 Bulletin 06.03.2006 - EN - PE 369.012 4 CONTENTS Declaration on the bombing of the Imam Ali-Hadi mosque in Samarra ............................73 Declaration on the elections in Uganda ..............................................................................73 Declaration on the decision of the Taiwanese leader regarding the NUC ..........................74 Declaration on the opening session of the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament ..........75 European Economic and Social Committee Plenary Assembly of 18 and 19 January 2006 ....................................................................76 Plenary Assembly of 14 and 15 February 2006 ..................................................................80 ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT This document is available at : http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins/postsession.htm (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins/postsession.htm (Internet) Bulletin 06.03.2006 - EN - PE 369.012 PRESIDENCY 5 PRESIDENCY Bulletin 06.03.2006 - EN - PE 369.012 6 PRESIDENCY MAIN DECISIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF QUAESTORS The Chairmen-in-Office of the College of Quaestors, have circulated the following communications to the Members of the European Parliament: No 05/2006 : Increased provision of Computer equipment and Computer accounts; No 06/2006 : The removal of personal effects belonging to Members whose mandat expires before the end of a parliamentary term; No 08/2006 : Article 21 of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members: No 09/2006 : Calendar of official meetings of the European Parliament in 2006 . Further information may be obtained from the Secretariat of the College of Quaestors in: Strasbourg : Salvador de Madariaga (SDM) Building, 6/20 Tel. 74195 Brussels : Paul-Henri Spaak (PHS) Building, 8b/66 Tel. 43722 ____________________ Bulletin 06.03.2006 - EN - PE 369.012 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 7 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Bulletin 06.03.2006 - EN - PE 369.012 8 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES WRITTEN QUESTIONS Situation on 03.30.2006 Author Subject No Carl Schlyter Illegal fishing in the Barents sea P-0377/06 Carmen Fraga Estévez Ban on gillnets P-0378/06 Giusto Catania Transposition of Directive 2003/109/EC concerning P-0379/06 the status of third-country nationals who are long- term residents Robert Kilroy-Silk Denial of cancer drug E-0380/06 Robert Kilroy-Silk Alzheimers patients - anti cholinesterate inhibitors E-0381/06 Glyn Ford Gibraltar consultations E-0382/06 David Martin Gate Gourmet and Common Agricultural Policy E-0383/06 funding Philip Claeys Dropping of charges against Orhan Pamuk - further E-0384/06 steps Philip Claeys Dropping of charges against Orhan Pamuk - further E-0385/06 steps Paul van Buitenen Check for compliance with European law of the E-0386/06 Dutch agreement on cancellation of claims in return for compensation for damage caused by price-fixing in the building fraud affair Erik Meijer Offers to potential traffic offenders in a growing E-0387/06 number of EU Member States of insurance relieving them of the obligation to pay fines in person Erik Meijer Status and equal rights within Israel of Palestinian E-0388/06 residents of East Jerusalem and the right of their children to be entered in the population register Paulo Casaca Use of driftnets E-0389/06 Hélène Goudin Postal services directive E-0390/06 Evangelia Tzampazi Transposition of directive E-0391/06 Georgios Karatzaferis Support for Greek immigrants E-0392/06 Georgios Karatzaferis Community funding through the development law E-0393/06 in Greece Bulletin 06.03.2006 - EN - PE 369.012 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 9 Georgios Karatzaferis VAT refunds to Greek export companies E-0394/06 Georgios Karatzaferis Letter from Mr Meadows to the Greek Government E-0395/06 concerning the third CSF Georgios Karatzaferis The 'ORIO' programme for the unemployed co- E-0396/06 funded by the European Social Fund Georgios Karatzaferis Take-up rate in Greece E-0397/06 Georgios Karatzaferis EU compensation for the cost of economic E-0398/06 migrants Klaus-Heiner Lehne Freedom of movement within the EU; Financial E-0399/06 Assistance Regulation of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Caroline Lucas Bulgarian zoos E-0400/06 María Salinas García Aid for processed tomatoes P-0401/06 Czesław Siekierski Definition of vodka P-0402/06 Jörg Leichtfried Animal welfare - stray dogs in Bulgaria P-0403/06 Bill Newton Dunn Anti-dumping investigation into safety footwear E-0404/06 Bill Newton Dunn Loss of EU jobs and the import of footwear E-0405/06 Bill Newton Dunn Dumping of shoes from China E-0406/06 Bill Newton Dunn EU footwear manufacturers' failures E-0407/06 Alyn Smith European funding for breast cancer research E-0408/06 Alyn Smith European funding for breast cancer research E-0409/06 Maria Matsouka and British workers: victims of labour exploitation E-0410/06 Stephen Hughes Elly de Groen- Lack of regular and effective state supervision of E-0411/06 Kouwenhoven the labour conditions in the Bulgarian private sector Elly de Groen- Reforms of Decree on Combating Minor E-0412/06 Kouwenhoven Hooliganism and the Juvenile Delinquency Act in Bulgaria Elly de Groen- Conditions in prisons in Bulgaria E-0413/06 Kouwenhoven Elly