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| 14.8.2008 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | CE 207/279 |
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14.8.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 207/279

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MINUTES

(2008/C 207 E/05)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Hans-Gert PÖTTERING

President

1.   Resumption of the session

The sitting opened at 09.05.

2.   Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

3.   Results of the European Council meeting of 19 and 20 June 2008 in Brussels — Slovenian Presidency's term of office (debate)

(debate)

European Council report and Commission statement: Results of the European Council meeting of 19 and 20 June 2008 in Brussels

Statement by the Presidency-in-Office of the Council: Slovenian Presidency's term of office

Janez Janša (President-in-Office of the Council) presented the European Council's report on the results of the European Council meeting on 19 and 20 June in Brussels and, as President-in-Office of the Council, made a statement on the six months of the Slovenian Presidency's term of office.

José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) also made a statement on the results of the European Council meeting.

The following spoke: Hartmut Nassauer, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Monica Frassoni, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group, Francis Wurtz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Kathy Sinnott, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Roger Helmer, Non-attached Member, Philip Bushill- Matthews, Hannes Swoboda, Jelko Kacin, Mario Borghezio, Mary Lou McDonald, Luca Romagnoli, Mihael Brejc, Jo Leinen, Andrew Duff, Jim Allister, Avril Doyle, Andrzej Jan Szejna, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Philip Claeys, Elmar Brok, Proinsias De Rossa, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Libor Rouček, Gay Mitchell, Enrique Barón Crespo and Ljudmila Novak.

The following spoke under the ‘catch-the-eye’ procedure: Carlo Fatuzzo, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Reinhard Rack, Gérard Onesta, Genowefa Grabowska, Tunne Kelam, Richard Corbett, Derek Roland Clark and Alojz Peterle.

The following spoke: Janez Janša and José Manuel Barroso.

The debate closed.

4.   Composition of Parliament

The Italian authorities had given notice of the election of Gian Paolo Gobbo and Francesco Musotto to offices incompatible with those of Members of the European Parliament under Article 7(3) of the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage.

Parliament took note of this and, in accordance with Rule 4(1), established that the seats were vacant with effect from 23 June 2008.

The Italian authorities had given notice of the appointment of Paolo Bartolozzi, Erminio Enzo Boso and Innocenzo Leontini, to replace Antonio Tajani, Gian Paolo Gobbo and Francesco Musotto, as Members of the European Parliament with effect from 23 June 2008.

Under Rule 3(2), until such time as their credentials had been verified or a ruling had been given on any dispute, and provided that they had previously made a written declaration stating that they did not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, Paolo Bartolozzi, Erminio Enzo Boso and Innocenzo Leontini would take their seats in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto.

5.   Texts of agreements forwarded by the Council

The Council had forwarded certified true copies of the following:

| — | Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons, regarding the participation, as contracting parties, of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania pursuant to their accession to the European Union; |
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Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons, regarding the participation, as contracting parties, of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania pursuant to their accession to the European Union;

| — | Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part |
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Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part

6.   Dates of forthcoming sittings

The next sittings would be held from 7 July 2008 to 10 July 2008.

7.   Adjournment of the session

The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.

The sitting closed at 11.45.

Harald Rømer

Secretary-General

Hans-Gert Pöttering

President

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ATTENDANCE REGISTER

The following signed:

Agnoletto, Aita, Albertini, Allister, Anastase, Andersson, Andrikienė, Arnaoutakis, Atkins, Attwooll, Ayala Sender, Aylward, Baco, Enrique Barón Crespo, Batten, Battilocchio, Batzeli, Bauer, Beaupuy, Becsey, Belder, Belet, Berlinguer, Bielan, Blokland, Bodu, Booth, Borghezio, Borrell Fontelles, Botopoulos, Bourzai, Bowis, Bozkurt, Bradbourn, Brejc, Březina, Brie, Elmar Brok, Budreikaitė, Bulfon, Bullmann, Bulzesc, Burke, Bushill-Matthews, Busk, Buşoi, Camre, Capoulas Santos, Carnero González, Cashman, Castiglione, Catania, Cercas, Chmielewski, Chukolov, Claeys, Clark, Coelho, Corbett, Cramer, Gabriela Creţu, Crowley, Csibi, Dăianu, Davies, De Blasio, de Brún, Degutis, Demetriou, Deprez, De Rossa, De Sarnez, Descamps, Deß, De Veyrac, Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Dičkutė, Dillen, Douay, Dover, Doyle, Duchoň, Andrew Duff, El Khadraoui, Estrela, Ettl, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Fatuzzo, Fazakas, Ferrari, Anne Ferreira, Filip, Fiore, Florenz, Fourtou, Frassoni, Freitas, Friedrich, Gahler, Gaľa, Garcés Ramón, Gaubert, Gauzès, Gebhardt, Georgiou, Geremek, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gibault, Gierek, Goebbels, Grabowska, Griesbeck, Grossetête, Guardans Cambó, Guerreiro, Gurmai, Guy-Quint, Hänsch, Hall, Hammerstein, Hamon, Handzlik, Harkin, Helmer, Herczog, Honeyball, Hoppenstedt, Hutchinson, Hyusmenova, Iacob-Ridzi, Jäätteenmäki, Janowski, Járóka, Jarzembowski, Jeggle, Jeleva, Jöns, Jordan Cizelj, Kacin, Kaczmarek, Kallenbach, Karas, Kaufmann, Kauppi, Kazak, Tunne Kelam, Kirilov, Kirkhope, Klamt, Klaß, Koch, Koch-Mehrin, Kohlíček, Koppa, Kósáné Kovács, Krahmer, Krupa, Kuhne, Kusstatscher, Kuźmiuk, Lambrinidis, Landsbergis, Lang, De Lange, Langen, Langendries, Lax, Lefrançois, Leinen, Lewandowski, Liberadzki, Libicki, Lichtenberger, López-Istúriz White, Louis, McAvan, McDonald, McGuinness, Manders, Maňka, Marques, Martens, David Martin, Maštálka, Mavrommatis, Mayer, Medina Ortega, Meijer, Méndez de Vigo, Miguélez Ramos, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Mölzer, Moraes, Moreno Sánchez, Elisabeth Morin, Mote, Musacchio, Myller, Napoletano, Naranjo Escobar, Nassauer, Newton Dunn, Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson, Niculescu, van Nistelrooij, Novak, Ó Neachtain, Onesta, Oprea, Ortuondo Larrea, Őry, Pafilis, Paleckis, Panayotov, Papastamkos, Alojz Peterle, Petre, Pietikäinen, Pīks, Pinheiro, Piotrowski, Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Pleštinská, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Pohjamo, Pomés Ruiz, Mihaela Popa, Nicolae Vlad Popa, Vittorio Prodi, Protasiewicz, Purvis, Queiró, Rack, Radwan, Ransdorf, Rapkay, Resetarits, Ribeiro e Castro, Riera Madurell, Ries, Rocard, Rogalski, Romagnoli, Rosati, Roth-Behrendt, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Rovsing, Rutowicz, Ryan, Sacconi, Saïfi, Sakalas, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sánchez Presedo, dos Santos, Sanzarello, Sanz Palacio, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schaldemose, Schlyter, Olle Schmidt, Schmitt, Schnellhardt, Schöpflin, Schulz, Schwab, Seeber, Segelström, Seppänen, Severin, Siekierski, Simpson, Sinnott, Siwiec, Škottová, Smith, Søndergaard, Šťastný, Stavreva, Sterckx, Stolojan, Strož, Sudre, Susta, Swoboda, Szájer, Szejna, Szent-Iványi, Tabajdi, Tarand, Ţicău, Trüpel, Urutchev, Vanhecke, Varvitsiotis, Vaugrenard, Vernola, Visser, Voggenhuber, Wagenknecht, Walter, Watson, Manfred Weber, Wieland, Wiersma, Willmott, Iuliu Winkler, Wise, Bernard Wojciechowski, Janusz Wojciechowski, Wurtz, Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zimmer

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