Minutes of the sitting of Tuesday 16 December 1997
Date: 1997-12-16
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Parliament, parliamentary debate

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MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 1997

Tuesday 16 December 1997

(98/C 14/02)

PART I

Proceedings of the sitting

IN THE CHAIR: Mrs FONTAINE

Vice-President

which she urged Members to examine, aimed at ensuring that
former  Presidents  could  undertake  the  various  official  duties
which still came their way without undue difficulty);

(The sitting opened at 9 a.m.)

1.  Approval of Minutes

Mr Scha¤fer had informed the Chair that he had been present at
the  previous  day(cid:146)s  sitting  but  that  his  name  was  not  on  the
attendance register.

The following spoke:

› Mr Thomas, who asked for the President of Parliament to
write to the President of the Commission asking if there was
any truth in press reports to the effect that US companies were
lobbying  for  Community  legislation  on  genetically  modified
organisms and foodstuffs to be watered down;

› Mr  Lindqvist,  who  said  that  he  had  been  present  the
previous  day  but  that  his  name  was  not  on  the  attendance
register.

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

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The following spoke:

› Mrs  Bloch  von  Blottnitz  who  referred  to  comments  she
had previously made, most recently on 17 November (Minutes
of that sitting, Item 2), and said tht she had been waiting for six
months  for  an  answer  to  her  request  for  an  explanation
concerning claims made in Zimbabwe by the Dutch presiden-
cy-in-office  of  the  Council  that  Parliament  had  not  taken  a
stance on the CITES Convention when in fact Parliament had
adopted a resolution on this subject; she hoped she would soon
have a reply so that she would no longer have to take the floor
on the subject (the President noted her request);

› Mr  Rosado  Fernandes  who  said  that  he  had  tabled  a
question to the Bureau on 22 October 1997, pursuant to Rule
28(2),  asking  why  a  former  President  of  Parliament,
Mr  Ha¤nsch,  could  still  use  an  official  car  and  enjoy  the
privileges  he  had  had  as  President;  he  wanted  to  know  what
precedents  there  were  in  this  area  and  how  much  these
facilities  cost  (after  confirming  that  the  Bureau  had  indeed
considered  the  question  of  how  to  ensure  that  former  Presi-
dents who were still Members of Parliament received treatment
commensurate with their status, the President said that it had
adopted  provisions  which  were  reasonable  and  modest  and

› Mrs  Pack,  who  wanted  to  know  which  of  Mr  Ha¤nsch(cid:146)s
predecessors  had  enjoyed  similar  privileges  (the  President
replied  that  the  Bureau(cid:146)s  decision  concerned  all  former
Presidents);

› Mr Ha¤nsch, who made a personal statement saying that the
official car which he was entitled to use was purely to enable
him to carry out commitments arising from the fact that he had
been President, and was not for his use as a Member;

› Mrs  Pack,  who  repeated  her  previous  request,  asking
specifically which of Mr Ha¤nsch(cid:146)s predecessors had asked the
Quaestors  for  an  official  car  for  months,  if  not  years  after
leaving office (the President read out the following decisions
concerning  former  Presidents  taken  by  the  Bureau,  on  a
proposal by the Secretary-General, at its meeting of 5 Novem-
ber 1997;

›  allocation of offices similar to those allocated to commit-

tee or delegation chairmen,

›  allocation of secretarial services for two and a half years,

›  entitlement to an official car with driver for the first three

months,

›  priority  access  to  the  drivers(cid:146)  pool  to  enable  former
Presidents to meet their commitments outside the normal
places of work for the following nine months);

› Mr  De  Vries,  who  pointed  out  that  the  Bureau  decision,
which  he  felt  was  reasonable,  concerned  future  Presidents
leaving office and who praised Mr Ha¤nsch(cid:146)s work as President;

› Mr Samland, who pointed out that the minutes of Bureau
meetings were public and that its decisions could therefore be
examined by all Members, adding that the decision in question
merely reflected current practice in national parliaments; it was
in the interests of Parliament, he said, that former Presidents
should be able to represent it fittingly in the Member States; he
also  expressed  appreciation  for  Mr  Ha¤nsch(cid:146)s  work  as  Presi-
dent;

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› Mr Lindqvist, who said that he had put two questions, one
to  the  Council  and  one  to  the  Commission,  on  Parliament(cid:146)s
buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg, and had not received an
answer to either of them, but instead a letter according to which
his  questions  were  inadmissible  under  Rule  41(1);  he  asked
who  was  responsible  for  deciding  whether  a  question  was
admissible  or  not,  (the  President  said  that  rulings  on  the
admissibility  of  questions  were  made  by  the  President  of
Parliament  and  that  the  two  questions  should  have  been
submitted  under  Rule  28,  a  course  of  action  which  she
recommended Mr Lindqvist to take);

› Mr Falconer, who said that he had also put a question to
the President on the cost of Parliament(cid:146)s computer equipment
in  Brussels  and  on  certain  drawbacks  in  the  equipment;  he
hoped  that  the  provisions  of  the  Rules  would  not  be  used  to
avoid having to answer questions which Members(cid:146) electorate
wanted  to  see  answered  (the  President  replied  that  if  he
re-tabled his question under Rule 28 he could expect a reply);

› Mr  Rosado  Fernandes,  who  said  that  he  had  tabled  a
written  question  to  the  Commission  on  20  October  1997
(3479/97) on what he described as the disastrous farm policy
implemented in Portugal using the Structural Funds and said
that he had not received a reply, even though the Portuguese
electorate, he said, was entitled to one; he  accused  Commis-
sioner Pinheiro of trying to block the reply, a tactic which, he
said, was unacceptable in a democracy and possibly worse than
those  used  in  totalitarian  states  (the  President,  after  pointing
out that she had (cid:145)not heard the end of Mr Rosado Fernandes(cid:146)s
remarks(cid:146),  replied  that  the  matter  would  be  checked  and
Mr Rosado Fernandes would receive a reply to his question);

› Mr  Medina  Ortega,  who  asked  Mr  Rosado  Fernandes  to
withdraw the last part of his remarks.

2.  Transfers of appropriations

The  Commission  had  referred  to  the  budgetary  authority
transfer  of  appropriations  No  50/97,  (SEC(97)1958  ›  C4-
0584/97)  concerning  the  transfer  of  ECU  44  million  from
Sub-Section  B1  to  the  monetary  reserve,  in  accordance  with
Article  10  of  the  Council  Decision  of  31  October  1994  on
budgetary discipline.

This  transfer  was  governed  by  the  procedure  laid  down  in
Article  15  of  the  Interinstitutional  Agreement  of  29  October
1993.

The transfer request was put on the agenda of the trialogue of
19 November 1997. At that meeting it emerged that there were
no differences of opinion between Parliament and the Council
on the matter.

At its meeting of 8 and 9 December 1997, the Committee on
Budgets noted that, pursuant to Article 15 of the Interinstitu-
tional Agreement, there was no difference of opinion and that
the transfer could be deemed to have been adopted.

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The  Committee  on  Budgets  had  considered  the  proposed
transfer  of  appropriations  No  52/97  (SEC(97)2055  ›  C4-
0578/97), which concerned two budget items:

›  A-3050 European Institute for South and South-East Asian

Studies,

›  A-3059 European Institute for Research on Mediterranean

and Euro-Arab Cooperation.

It  decided  to  authorize,  pursuant  to  Article  26(5)(b)  of  the
Financial Regulation, transfer of part of the reserve entered:

in Chapter
A-100

Provisions

(for Articles A-3050 and A-3059)

to item A-
3050

to item A-
3059

European Institute for
South and South-East
Asian Studies
in the amount of:

European Institute for
Research on Mediterra-
nean and Euro-Arab
Cooperation.
in the amount of:

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ECU 200 000

ECU 50 000

The Committee on Budgets considered the proposed transfer
of  appropriations  No  53/97  (SEC(97)2056  ›  C4-0579/97),
which  concerend  Article  B8-013  Other  Joint  Actions  of  the
European  Union  under  the  common  foreign  and  security
policy.

It  decided  to  authorize,  pursuant  to  Article  26(5)(b)  of  the
Financial Regulation, transfer of part of the reserve entered:

in Chapter
B0-40

Provisions

(for Article B8-013)

to Article
B8-013

Other Joint Actions of
the European Union
under the common for-
eign and security policy
to an amount of:
(in commitment appro-
priations)
(in payment appropria-
tions)

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ECU 3 500 000

ECU 1 144 000

The Committee on Budgetary Control had considered proposal
for  transfer  of  appropriations  54/97,  (SEC(97)2106  ›  C4-
0611/97). The committee noted that this request concerned an
item of operating expenditure for the replacement of furniture,
which should be submitted within the framework of a normal
budgetary procedure. It also pointed out that in implementation
of  the  1997  budget,  by  means  of  transfer  of  appropriations

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from  article  to  article  C-inf  3/97,  notified  to  the  budgetary
authority at the time of first reading of the 1998 draft budget,
Item  C-2211,  (cid:145)Replacement  of  furniture’,  had  been  increased
by ECU 24 500.

The committee also drew attention to the fact that from 1998
the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the
Regions  would  be  taking  over  the  premises  vacated  by
Parliament (see Amendment 676).

In view of these considerations the Committee on Budgetary
Control rejected the proposal unanimously.

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Should the Council take a different decision from Parliament, a
trialogue would have to be convened pursuant to Article 15 of
the Interinstitutional Agreement.

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The  Committee  on  Budgets  had  considered  proposal  for
transfer  of  appropriations  No  61/97,  (SEC(97)2295  ›  C4-
0654/97) concerning budget line B8-013 › Other joint actions
of  the  European  Union  under  the  Common  Foreign  and
Security Policy.

The  committee  decided  to  authorize,  pursuant  to  Article
26(5)(b) of the Financial Regulation, the transfer of part of the
reserve entered in:

The Committee on Budgetary Control had considered proposal
for  transfer  of  appropriations  55/97,  (SEC(97)2157  ›  C4-
0612/97) and adopted it in full.

Chapter B0-
40:

Provisions

(for heading B8-013)

However,  with  regard  to  the  allocation  of  the  sum  of
ECU 30 million  ›  originally  earmarked  for  the  long-term
purchase by the Commission of the Jean Monnet building and
the land on which it was built › the committee decided that
ECU 16 million should be used for the outright purchase of the
Breydel II building.

The  balance  of  ECU  14  million  would  if  necessary  be  the
subject of a request for non-automatic carry-over of appropria-
tions to 1998 after the Commission submitted to the budgetary
authority a communication on the conclusion of the negotia-
tions under way between the Commission and the Luxembourg
Government concerning the above building.

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The Committee on Budgets had considered proposed transfer
of  appropriations  No  58/97,  (SEC(97)2171  ›  C4-0616/97)
concerning budget line B0-230 › Reserve for loans and loan
guarantees to and in non-member countries.

This  transfer  was  governed  by  the  procedure  laid  down  in
Article  15  of  the  Interinstitutional  Agreement  of  29  October
1993.

The committee decided to authorize, pursuant to Article 26 of
the Financial Regulation, transfer of part of the reserve entered
in:

Chapter B0-
23:

Guarantee reserve

(for heading B0-230)

to heading
B0-240

Payments to the Gua-
rantee Fund in respect
of new operations
to an amount of:
(in commitment appro-
priations)

ECU 69 000

This  payment  to  the  Guarantee  Fund  covered  the  decisions
already adopted by the Council, i.e.:

› 

the former Republic of Yugoslavia and Macedonia,

›  Bulgaria, Armenia and Georgia.

The payment did not cover any aid to Tadjikistan.

to Chapter
B8-013

Other joint actions of
the European Union
under the Common
Foreign and Security
Policy
to an amount of
(in commitment appro-
priations)
(in payment appropria-
tions)

ECU 8 000 000

ECU 6 000 000

3.  Topical and urgent debate (motions for reso-

lutions tabled)

The  President  announced  that  she  had  received  from  the
following Members or political groups requests for the inclu-
sion  in  the  debate  on  topical  and  urgent  subjects  of  major
importance of motions for resolutions pursuant to Rule 47(1):

› Andre·-Le·onard,  Spaak,  Fassa,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR
Group, on Algeria (B4-1036/97);

› Vallve·, Watson and Fassa, on behalf of the ELDR Group,
on the situation in Western Sahara (B4-1037/97);

› La Malfa and Cars, on behalf of the ELDR Group, on the
situation of civil society in Croatia (B4-1038/97);

› Gaso‘liba  i  Bo¤hm,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR  Group,  on  the
political situation in Equatorial Guinea (B4-1039/97);

› Bertens  and  Frischenschlager,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR
Group, on the lack of control of nuclear material (B4-1040/97);

› Bertens,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR  Group,  on  arms  export
controls (B4-1041/97);

› Gu¤nther and Oomen-Ruijten, on behalf of the PPE Group,
on  the  convention  of  Ottawa  on  a  total  ban  convention  on
anti-people mines (B4-1042/97);

› Habsburg-Lothringen, Pack and Oomen-Ruijten, on behalf
of the PPE Group, on legal certainty in Albania (B4-1043/97);

› Habsburg-Lothringen  and  Oomen-Ruijten,  on  behalf  of
the PPE Group, on the situation in the Republic of Ingushetia
(B4-1044/97);

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› von  Habsburg,  Maij-Weggen  and  Oomen-Ruijten,  on
behalf  of  the  PPE  Group,  on  the  situation  in  Nagaland
(B4-1045/97);

› Moorhouse  and  Maij-Weggen,  on  behalf  of  the  PPE
Group, on Nigeria (B4-1046/97);

› Gillis, Cushnahan, McCartin and Banotti, on behalf of the
PPE  Group,  on  the  blockade  of  Irish  beef  exports  and  free
movement  of  goods  in  the  European  Internal  Market  (B4-
1047/97);

› Tindemans, Gu¤nther and Oomen-Ruijten, on behalf of the
PPE Group, on the situation in Burundi (B4-1049/97);

› Maij-Weggen, Ferna·ndez Mart(cid:14)·n and Oomen-Ruijten, on
behalf  of  the  PPE  Group,  on  the  situation  in  Sierra  Leone
(B4-1050/97);

› Bertens,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR  Group,  on  the  Ottawa
Treaty on anti-people mines (B4-1051/97);

› Andre·-Le·onard, Bertens and Fassa, on behalf of the ELDR
Group, on the warring factions in Burundi (B4-1052/97);

› Bertens,  Fassa,  Andre·-Le·onard,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR
Group, on Nigeria (B4-1053/97);

› Mulder  and  Watson,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR  Group,  on
land reform in Zimbabwe (B4-1054/97);

› Puerta and Sornosa Mart(cid:14)·nez, on behalf of the GUE/NGL
Group, on human rights in Colombia (B4-1055/97);

› Ainardi,  Manisco,  Marset  Campos,  Svensson,  Seppa¤nen
and Alavanos, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the case
of Mumia Abu-Jamal in the United States (B4-1056/97);

› Carnero  Gonza·lez,  Pettinari,  Svensson  and  Ojala,  on
behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on freedom of expression and
association in Croatia (B4-1057/97);

› Pailler, Eriksson, Puerta, Wurtz, Miranda, Ephremidis and
Alavanos, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the release of
Leyla Zana (B4-1058/97);

› Carnero Gonza·lez, Wurtz, Vinci, Pettinari, Ojala, Sornosa
Mart(cid:14)·nez, Gutie·rrez D(cid:14)·az, Alavanos and Theonas, on behalf of
the GUE/NGL Group, on the Ottawa Treaty on the prohibition
of  the  use,  stockpiling,  production  and  transfer  of  anti-
personnel mines and on their destruction (B4-1059/97);

› Dupuis, Dell(cid:146)Alba and Hory, on behalf of the ARE Group,
on the situation in the Republic of Ingushetia (B4-1060/97);

› Dupuis, Dell(cid:146)Alba and Hory, on behalf of the ARE Group,
on the situation of fundamental rights in the People(cid:146)s Republic
of China (B4-1061/97);

› Dupuis  and  Dell(cid:146)Alba,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  on
Nagaland (B4-1062/97);

› Hory, Macartney and Taubira-Delannon, on behalf of the
ARE  Group,  on  the  results  of  the  Ottawa  Conference  on
anti-people mines (B4-1063/97);

› Dell(cid:146)Alba, on behalf of the ARE Group, on the situation of
civil society in Croatia (B4-1064/97);

› Vandemeulebroucke,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  on
arms flows to the warring factions in Burundi (B4-1065/97);

› Hory,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  on  human  rights
abuses in Djibouti (B4-1066/97);

› Hory,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  on  human  rights  in
Sierra Leone (B4-1067/97);

› Hory, on behalf of the ARE Group, on the human rights
situation in Equatorial Guinea (B4-1068/97);

› Hory  and  Macartney,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  on
human rights in Nigeria (B4-1069/97);

› Ford, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the case of Mr Toma
Petre Ghitulescu (B4-1070/97);

› Lambraki, Hatzidakis, Dimitrakopoulos and Oomen-Ruijt-
en,  on  behalf  of  the  PSE  Group,  on  the  bomb  attack  on  the
ecumenical patriarchate (B4-1071/97);

› Cunningham,  Swoboda,  Apolina·rio  and  Theorin,  on
behalf  of  the  PSE  Group,  on  the  Ottawa  Treaty  on  the
prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of
anti-personnel mines and on their destruction (B4-1072/97);

› Van  Putten,  Vecchi  and  Junker,  on  behalf  of  the  PSE
Group, on the situation in Sierra Leone (B4-1073/97);

› Baro·n Crespo, Apolina·rio, Barros Moura and Rocard, on
behalf  of  the  PSE  Group,  on  the  situation  of  civil  society  in
Croatia (B4-1074/97);

› Swoboda and Van Putten, on behalf of the PSE Group, on
the situation in Burundi (B4-1075/97);

› Azzolini,  Pasty,  Baldi  and  Caccavale,  on  behalf  of  the
UPE Group, on banning anti-people mines (B4-1076/97);

› Azzolini,  Pasty,  Baldi  and  Caccavale,  on  behalf  of  the
UPE Group, on the situation in Burundi (B4-1077/97);

› Azzolini,  Pasty,  Baldi  and  Caccavale,  on  behalf  of  the
UPE  Group,  on  the  human  rights  situation  in  Nigeria  (B4-
1078/97);

› Azzolini,  Pasty,  Baldi  and  Caccavale,  on  behalf  of  the
UPE  Group,  on  the  human  rights  situation  in  Sierra  Leone
(B4-1079/97);

› Van  Bladel,  on  behalf  of  the  UPE  Group,  on  respect  for
human rights in Surinam (B4-1080/97);

› Telka¤mper,  Hautala,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,  on  the
Ottawa  Treaty  on  the  prohibition  of  the  use,  stockpiling,
production  and  transfer  of  anti-personnel  mines  and  on  their
destruction (B4-1081/97);

› Aelvoet,  Bloch  von  Blottnitz,  Holm  and  Lannoye,  on
behalf  of  the  V  Group,  on  uranium  mining  on  aboriginal
territory (B4-1082/97);

› Kreissl-Do¤rfler, on behalf of the V Group, on human rights
in Colombia (B4-1083/97);

› Roth,  Aelvoet,  Telka¤mper  and  Wolf,  on  behalf  of  the
V Group,  on  the  situation  of  refugees  and  displaced  persons
throughout the world and the HCR report (cid:145)State of the World
Refugees(cid:146) (B4-1084/97);

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› Aelvoet, Telka¤mper, McKenna and Hautala, on behalf of
the V Group, on arms flows to the warring factions in Burundi
(B4-1085/97);

› Telka¤mper  and  Aelvoet,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,  on
Sierra Leone (B4-1086/97);

› Aelvoet  and  Telka¤mper,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,  on
Djibouti (B4-1087/97);

Non-attached Member, Mr Samland, chairman of the Commit-
tee on Budgets, Mr Christodoulou, Mr Kaklamanis, Mr Virran-
koski,  Mr  Nicholson,  Mr  Lukas,  Mrs  Du¤hrkop  Du¤hrkop,
Mr McCartin, Mrs Kjer Hansen, Mr Colom i Naval, Mr Garriga
Polledo, Mrs Ghilardotti, Mr Fabra Valle·s, Mr Tappin, Mr Sar-
lis,  Mr  Willockx,  Mr  Ru¤big,  Mr  Imaz  San  Miguel  and
Mr Bourlanges.

The President closed the debate.

› Mu¤ller, Telka¤mper, Aelvoet and Ripa di Meana, on behalf
of the V Group, on Nigeria (B4-1088/97);

Vote: Minutes 18.12.1997, Part I, Item 3.

› Aelvoet, Cohn-Bendit, Gahrton and Tamino, on behalf of
the V Group, on freedom of the press and right of association
in Croatia (B4-1089/97);

› Aglietta,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,  on  China  (B4-
1090/97).

The  President  announced  that,  pursuant  to  Rule  47(2),  first
subparagraph, Parliament would be informed at the end of the
morning(cid:146)s sitting of the list of subjects to be included on the
agenda  for  the  next  debate  on  topical  and  urgent  subjects  of
major importance to be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday 18
December.

4.  1998  draft  general  budget  ›  1998  draft

ECSC operating budget (debate)

The next item was a joint debate on two reports drawn up on
behalf of the Committee on Budgets.

Mr Tillich and Mr Tomlinson introduced the report which they
had  drawn  up  on  the  draft  general  budget  of  the  European
Communities for the financial year 1998, as modified by the
Council (Sections I to VI) (C4-0600/97) and on amending letter
1/98  to  the  1998  preliminary  draft  budget  (Section  III  ›
Commission) (C4-0645/97) (A4-0390/97).

Mr Giansily introduced his report on the draft ECSC operating
budget for 1998 (SEC(97)0933 › C4-0270/97) (A4-0409/97).
He  also  spoke  on  behalf  of  the  UPE  Group  on  report
A4-0390/97.

The following spoke: Mr Mulder, draftsman of the opinion of
the  Committee  on  Agriculture,  Mr  Wolf,  draftsman  of  the
opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs,
Mrs  Morgan,  draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on
Culture,  Mrs  McNally,  draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the
Committee on Research, Mr Fischbach, President-in-Office of
the  Council,  Mr  Liikanen,  Member  of  the  Commission,
Mr Wynn, on behalf of the PSE Group, Mr Elles, on behalf of
the PPE Group, Mr Podesta‘, on behalf of the UPE Group, and
Mr Brinkhorst, on behalf of the ELDR Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Mr IMBENI

Vice-President

5.  Justice and home affairs (debate)

The next item was a debate on two oral questions.

Mr Nassauer moved the oral questions which he had tabled on
behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs,
to  the  Council  (B4-0915/97)  and  to  the  Commission  (B4-
0916/97) on the annual debate on progress made in implemen-
tation of the areas of justice and home affairs › Article K.6,
third paragraph of the EU Treaty.

The following spoke: Mr Fischbach, President-in-Office of the
Council, and Mrs Gradin, Member of the Commission.

IN THE CHAIR: Mrs SCHLEICHER

Vice-President

As it was now voting time the debate was adjourned to 3 p.m.
(Item 19).

6.  Official welcome

On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed the family of
Miguel Angel Blanco, the young town councillor from Ermua
in  the  Basque  country,  assassinated  in  July  by  the  terrorist
organization  ETA,  who  had  taken  their  seats  in  the  official
gallery.

VOTING TIME

7.  Pollutants  from  internal  combustion  en-

***III (vote)

gines
Report  by  Parliament(cid:146)s  delegation  to  the  Conciliation
Committee  (rapporteur:  Mr  Kenneth  D.  Collins  ›  A4-
0413/97)
(Simple majority for approval)

The  following  spoke:  Mr  Seppa¤nen,  on  behalf  of  the  GUE/
NGL  Group,  Mrs  Mu¤ller,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,
Mr  Dell(cid:146)Alba,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  Mr  Fabre-
Aubrespy,  on  behalf  of  the  I-EDN  Group,  Mr  Antony,

JOINT TEXT C4-0627/97 › 95/0209(COD):

Parliament approved the joint text (Part II, Item 1).

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8.  Consumer  protection 

in 

indication  of

12. COM in raw tobacco * (Rule 99) (vote)

***III (vote)

prices
Report  by  Parliament(cid:146)s  delegation  to  the  Conciliation
Committee (rapporteur: Mrs Oomen-Ruijten › A4-0414/
97)
(Simple majority for approval)

Proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  amending  Regulation
(EEC)  No  2075/92  on  the  common  organization  of  the
market  in  raw  tobacco  (COM(97)0529  ›  C4-0568/97  ›
97/0286(CNS))
(Simple majority)

JOINT TEXT C4-0643/97 › 95/0148(COD):

Parliament approved the joint text (Part II, Item 2).

referred to
responsible: AGRI
opinion: BUDG

9.  Procurement  procedures  in  water,  energy,
***III

transport  and  telecommunications
(vote)
Report  by  Parliament(cid:146)s  delegation  to  the  Conciliation
Committee (rapporteur: Mr Langen › A4-0398/97)
(Simple majority for approval)

JOINT TEXT C4-0619/97 › 95/0080(COD):

Parliament approved the joint text (Part II, Item 3).

10. Wheat,  rye,  barley,  maize,  sorghum  and

* (Rule 99) (vote)

durum wheat
Proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  amending  Regulation
(EEC) No 2731/75  fixing standard qualities  for common
wheat,  rye,  barley,  maize,  sorghum  and  durum  wheat
(COM(97)0463 › C4-0511/97 › 97/0241(CNS))
(Simple majority)

referred to
responsible: AGRI
opinion: BUDG

PROPOSAL  FOR  A  REGULATION  COM(97)0529  ›  C4-
0568/97 › 97/0286(CNS)

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  (Part  II,
Item 6).

13. Generalized  tariff  preferences

*  (Rule  99)

(vote)
Proposals for Council Regulations:
I. 

applying the special incentive arrangements concern-
ing  labour  rights  and  environmental  protection  pro-
vided  for  in  Articles  7  and  8  of  Council  Regulation
(EC) Nos 3281/94 and 1256/96 applying the scheme
of generalized tariff preferences in respect of certain
industrial  and  agricultural  products  originating  in
developing countries (COM(97)0534 › C4-0593/97 ›
97/0293(CNS))

II.  applying  Article  6  of  Council  Regulations  (EC)
Nos 3281/94  and  (EC)  No  1256/96  on  multiannual
generalized  tariff  preferences  schemes  in  respect  of
certain industrial and agricultural products originating
in developing countries, excluding the most advanced
beneficiary countries from entitlement to generalized
tariff  preferences  (COM(97)0533  ›  C4-0594/97  ›
97/0299(CNS))

PROPOSAL  FOR  A  REGULATION  COM(97)0463  ›  C4-
0511/97 › 97/0241(CNS)

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  (Part  II,
Item 4).

(Simple majority)

referred to
responsible: DEVE
opinion: ESOC

11. Agricultural statistics

* (Rule 99) (vote)

Proposal  for  a  Council  Decision  amending  Decision
96/411/EC  on  improving  Community  agricultural  statis-
tics (COM(97)0482 › C4-0536/97 › 97/0245(CNS))
(Simple majority)

referred to
responsible: AGRI

I.  PROPOSAL  FOR  A  REGULATION  COM(97)0534  ›

C4-0593/97 › 97/0293(CNS)

Amendments adopted: 1 to 3 collectively

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  as  amended
(Part II, Item 7).

PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION COM(97)0482 › C4-0536/97
› 97/0245(CNS)

II.  PROPOSAL  FOR  A  REGULATION  COM(97)0533  ›

C4-0594/97 › 97/0299(CNS)

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  (Part  II,
Item 5).

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  (Part  II,
Item 7).

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14. Common fisheries policy * (Rule 99) (vote)
Report by the Committee on Fisheries on the proposal for
a  Council  Regulation  amending  Regulation  (EEC)
No 2847/93 establishing a control system applicable to the
common fisheries policy (COM(97)0341 › C4-0416/97 ›
97/0189(CNS))  (A4-0389/97,  rapporteur:  Mr  Eisma)
(without debate).
(Simple majority)

PROPOSAL  FOR  A  REGULATION  COM(97)0341  ›  C4-
0416/97 › 97/0189(CNS):

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  (Part  II,
Item 8).

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION:

Parliament adopted the legislative resolution (Part II, Item 8).

15. Control  of  Pseudomonas 

solanacearum

(Smith) Smith * (Rule 99) (vote)
Report by on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and
Rural Development on the proposal for a Council Direc-
tive on the control of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith)
Smith  (COM(97)0015  ›  C4-0066/97  ›  97/0025(CNS))
(A4-0370/97, rapporteur: Mrs Redondo Jime·nez) (without
debate).
(Simple majority)

Tuesday 16 December 1997

The different parts of the text were adopted in order (the 2nd
part of para. 15 by EV (391 for, 38 against, 17 abstentions).

Split votes:

recital M (UPE)

1st part: up to (cid:145)working hours(cid:146)
2nd part: remainder

para. 11 (UPE)

1st part: up to (cid:145)essential(cid:146)
2nd part: remainder

para. 12 (UPE)

1st part: text without (cid:145)and European(cid:146)
2nd part: these words

para. 15 (UPE)

1st part: up to (cid:145)as a whole(cid:146)
2nd part: remainder

Parliament adopted the resolution (Part II, Item 10).

17. Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation

(vote)
Waddington report › A4-0372/97
(Simple majority)

PROPOSAL  FOR  A  DIRECTIVE  COM(97)0015  ›  C4-
0066/97 › 97/0025(CNS)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Amendments adopted: 1 to 13 collectively

Parliament  approved  the  Commission  proposal  as  amended
(Part II, Item 9).

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION:

Am. 6 was to para. 31 and not para. 30.

Amendment adopted: 6

Amendments rejected: 4 by EV (202 for, 227 against, 4 absten-
tions);  1;  3;  5  (1st  part);  2  by  EV  (193  for,  243  against,
1 abstention); 7

Parliament adopted the legislative resolution (Part II, Item 9).

Amendment fallen: 5 (2nd part)

The different parts of the text were adopted in order (the 2nd
part of para. 12 by EV (236 for, 187 against, 5 abstentions)

16. Organization of work (vote)
Andersson report › A4-0313/97
(Simple majority)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

The following spoke during the vote:

› Mr Bourlanges on the requests for split votes.

Separate vote: para. 29 (V)

Amendments adopted: 4 by EV (255 for, 187 against, 1 absten-
tion) and 5

Split votes:

Amendments  rejected:  2  by  EV  (196  for,  246  against,  8
abstentions); 6; 3 by EV (204 for, 244 against, 3 abstentions)

Amendment cancelled: 1

para. 12 (UPE, PPE)

1st part: up to (cid:145)crime(cid:146)
2nd part: up to (cid:145)against their will(cid:146)
3rd part: remainder

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para. 14 (UPE, PPE)

1st part: introduction
2nd part: first indent
3rd part: 2nd indent
4th part: remainder of para. without (cid:145)anonymously(cid:146)
5th part: that word

am 5 (UPE)

1st part: text without (cid:145)anonymously(cid:146)
2nd part: that word

para. 26 (V)

1st part: text without (cid:145)the CEEC(cid:146)
2nd part: these words

Parliament adopted the resolution by RCV (PSE)

Members voting:
For:
Against:
Abstentions:

(Part II, Item 11).

447
415
1
31

*

*

*

Explanations of vote were made by the following Members:

Oomen-Ruijten report › A4-0414/97

› in writing: Cushnahan; Be·be·ar

COM in raw tobacco › C4-0568/97

› in  writing:  Holm;  Hulthe·n,  Wibe,  Andersson,  Ahlqvist,
Theorin, Waidelich; Kirsten M. Jensen, Blak, Sindal, Iversen;
Be·be·ar

Redondo Jime·nez report › A4-0370/97

› in writing: Souchet

Andersson report › A4-0313/97

› in writing: Wolf; Lindqvist; Titley; Lis Jensen

Waddington report › A4-0372/97

› orally: Crawley

› in  writing:  Cushnahan;  Kirsten  M.  Jensen,  Blak,  Sindal,
Iversen; Theonas; Lis Jensen, Bonde, Sandb(cid:230)k

*

*

*

Corrections to votes

Waddington report › A4-0372/97

final vote
Mr Carlo Casini had intended to vote in favour
Mrs Stenzel had intended to abstain

END OF VOTING TIME

18. Topical  and  urgent  debate  (list  of  subjects

selected)

The  President  informed  Parliament  that,  in  accordance  with
Rule  47(2),  the  list  of  subjects  for  the  debate  on  topical  and
urgent  subjects  of  major  importance  to  be  held  on  Thursday
had been drawn up.

It  contained  32  motions  for  resolutions  grouped  together  as
follows:

I.  ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES

B4-1042/97 by the PPE Group
B4-1051/97 by the ELDR Group
B4-1059/97 by the GUE/NGL Group
B4-1063/97 by the ARE Group
B4-1072/97 by the PSE Group
B4-1076/97 by the UPE Group
B4-1081/97 by the V Group

II.  BURUNDI

B4-1049/97 by the PPE Group
B4-1052/97 by the ELDR Group
B4-1065/97 by the ARE Group
B4-1075/97 by the PSE Group
B4-1077/97 by the UPE Group
B4-1085/97 by the V Group

III.  HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigeria

B4-1046/97 by the PPE Group
B4-1053/97 by the ELDR Group
B4-1069/97 by the ARE Group
B4-1078/97 by the UPE Group
B4-1088/97 by the V Group

Sierra Leone

B4-1050/97 by the PPE Group
B4-1067/97 by the ARE Group
B4-1073/97 by the PSE Group
B4-1079/97 by the UPE Group
B4-1086/97 by the V Group

Croatia

B4-1038/97 by the ELDR Group
B4-1057/97 by the GUE/NGL Group
B4-1064/97 by the ARE Group
B4-1074/97 by the PSE Group
B4-1089/97 by the V Group

Equatorial Guinea

B4-1039/97 by the ELDR Group
B4-1068/97 by the ARE Group

Djibouti

B4-1066/97 by the ARE Group
B4-1087/97 by the V Group

In accordance with Rule 47(3), the overall speaking time for
Thursday(cid:146)s  debate  had  been  allocated  as  follows,  subject  to
modification of the list:

For one of the authors:
Members:

1 minute
45 minutes in total

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In  accordance  with  Rule  47(2),  second  subparagraph,  any
objections  to  this  list,  which  would  have  to  be  tabled  and
justified in writing by a political group or at least 29 Members,
had  to  be  tabled  by  8  p.m.  that  evening.  The  vote  on  these
objections would be taken without debate at the beginning of
the next day(cid:146)s sitting.

(The sitting was suspended at 12.55 and resumed at 3 p.m.)

Tuesday 16 December 1997

20. Fifth  framework  R&D  programme  ›  Fifth
framework  programme  for  research  (Eura-
tom)

***I/* (debate)

The next item was a joint debate on two reports drawn up by
Mrs  Quisthoudt-Rowohl  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on
Research, Technological Development and Energy, on:

› 

the  proposal  and  amended  proposal  for  a  European
Parliament and Council Decision on the fifth framework
programme  of  the  European  Community  for  research,
technological  development  and  demonstration  activities
and
(1998-2002) 
COM(97)0439  ›  C4-0410/97  ›  97/0119(COD))  (A4-
0396/97).

(COM(97)0142  ›  C4-0186/97 

IN THE CHAIR: Mr COT

Vice-President

and

› 

the proposal for a Council Decision on the fifth framework
programme of the European Atomic Energy Community
(Euratom) for research and training activities (1998-2002)
(COM(97)0142  ›  C4-0234/97  &  COM(97)0439  ›  C4-
0410/97- 97/0120(CNS)) (A4-0395/97).

19. Justice  and  home  affairs  (continuation  of

debate)

The  following  spoke:  Mr  Schulz,  who  began  by  expressing
regret that the debate on such an important subject had been
suspended and that the noise during Mrs Gradin(cid:146)s speech had
prevented  people  from  hearing  her  properly  and  had  not
presented a very flattering image of Parliament, and called on
the political groups to bring their Members to order and for the
Conference  of  Presidents  to  be  asked  to  look  into  these  two
matters (the President replied that these two matters would be
referred to the Conference of Presidents and himself regretted
that  the  debate  had  been  suspended  but  pointed  out  that  this
was partly due to the fact that Members did not respect their
speaking time, but echoed the apologies to Mrs Gradin for the
disturbance  in  the  Chamber  while  she  was  speaking)  and
Mrs  Reding  who,  on  behalf  of  the  PPE  Group,  agreed  with
Mr Schulz.

The  following  spoke:  Mrs  Lindeperg,  on  behalf  of  the  PSE
Group, Mrs Reding, on behalf of the PPE Group, Mr Caccav-
ale, on behalf of the UPE Group, Mr Wiebenga, on behalf of
the ELDR Group, Mr Buffetaut, on behalf of the I-EDN Group,
Mr Schulz, Mrs Cederschio¤ld, Mr Elliott, Mr Pirker, Mr Fisch-
bach,  President-in-Office  of  the  Council,  and  Mrs  Gradin,
Member of the Commission.

The  President  announced  that  he  had  received  the  following
motion for resolution pursuant to Rule 40(5) from:

› Mr  Nassauer,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Civil
Liberties and Internal Affairs, on progress made in 1997 in the
implementation  of  cooperation  in  the  fields  of  justice  and
home  affairs  pursuant  to  Title  VI  of  the  Treaty  on  European
Union (B4-1025/97).

The President closed the debate.

Vote: Minutes of 17.12.1997, Part I, Item 15.

The President announced that, as voting time on Wednesday
would  be  broken  off  for  the  formal  sitting  due  to  be  held  at
12 noon,  the  vote  on  the  first  Quisthoudt-Rowohl  report
(A4-0396/97)  which  included  171  amendments,  would  be
postponed to Thursday.

The deadline for tabling requests for separate and split votes
would remain unchanged at 9 p.m. on Tuesday.

The vote on the other Quisthoudt-Rowohl report (A4-0395/97)
would still take place at voting time on Wednesday.

Mrs McNally pointed out that the amendments from the first
Quisthoudt-Rowohl report (A4-0396/97) were not yet availa-
ble and that it was therefore not possible to prepare requests for
separate and split votes, and asked for everything to be done to
ensure  that  these  amendments  be  distributed  as  quickly  as
possible  (the  President  drew  attention  to  the  technical  con-
straints which were behind this situation and gave an assurance
that the amendments would be ready at 5 p.m.).

Mrs Quisthoudt-Rowohl introduced her reports.

The  following  spoke:  Mrs  Schierhuber,  draftsman  of  the
opinion  of  the  Committee  on  Agriculture,  Mrs  Ghilardotti,
draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on  Budgets,
Mr  Imbeni,  draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on
Economic and Monetary Affairs, Mr Schiedermeier, draftsman
of the opinion of the Committee on Regional Policy, Mr Fer-
ber, draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Transport,
Mr  Kuhne,  draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on
Culture, Mr Adam, draftsman of the opinion of the Committee
on  Fisheries,  Mrs  McNally,  draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the
Committee on Women(cid:146)s Rights, Mrs Ojala, draftsman of the
opinion  of  the  Committee  on  Employment,  Mrs  Marinucci,
draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on  the  Environ-
ment,  Mr  Tannert,  on  behalf  of  the  PSE  Group,  Mrs  Vaz  da
Silva, on behalf of the PPE Group, Mr Scapagnini, chairman of
the  Research  Committee,  on  behalf  of  the  UPE  Group  and
Mrs Plooij-van Gorsel, on behalf of the ELDR Group.

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IN THE CHAIR: Mr PODESTA‘

Vice-President

The  following  spoke:  Mr  Marset  Campos,  on  behalf  of  the
GUE/NGL  Group,  Mrs  Ahern,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,
Mr  Macartney,  on  behalf  of  the  ARE  Group,  Mr  Desama,
Mr W.G. van Velzen, Mr Pompidou, Mr Alavanos, Mr Holm,
Mr Linkohr, Mr Malerba, Mr Lange and Mrs Cresson, Member
of the Commission.

The President closed the debate.

Vote:
Minutes  of  17.12.1997,  Part  I,  Item  11  (A4-0395/97)  and
Minutes of 18.12.1997, Part I, Item 7 (A4-0396/97).

21. Energy policy (debate)

Mr Scapagnini introduced his report, drawn up on behalf of the
Committee  on  Research,  Technological  Development  and
Energy, on the Commission communication (cid:145)An overall view
of energy policy and actions(cid:146) (COM(97)0167 › C4-0205/97)
(A4-0308/97).

Mr Papoutsis, Member of the Commission, spoke.

IN THE CHAIR: Mr GUTIE· RREZ DI·AZ

Vice-President

Question  28  by  Mrs  Van  Putten  lapsed  as  its  author  was
absent.

Question 29 by Mr Fitzsimons: Toy safety

M.Flynn  answered  the  question  and  supplementaries  by
Mr Fitzsimons, Mr Schmid and Mr David W. Martin.

The President reminded Members that a meeting of solidarity
with  the  victims  of  ETA  terrorism  was  taking  place  at  that
moment.

Second part

Question  30  by  Mr  McMahon:  Removal  of  age  limits  in
Commission recruitment

Question  31  by  Mr  Cassidy:  Equal  opportunities  for  older
workers in recruitment to the European Commission

Question 32 by Mrs Plooij-van Gorsel: EU action to remove
age limits in recruitment

Mr  Liikanen,  Member  of  the  Commission,  answered  the
questions and supplementaries by Mr McMahon, Mr Cassidy,
Mrs Plooij-van Gorsel and Mr Truscott.

Question  33  by  Mr  Sjo¤stedt:  Implications  for  the  Member
States of the European Parliament(cid:146)s first reading of the 1998
budget

Mr  Liikanen  answered  the  question  and  supplementaries  by
Mr Sjo¤stedt, Mr Cornelissen and Mr Wibe.

As it was now Question Time the debate was adjourned to the
evening (Item 24).

Mrs  Van  Putten  apologized  for  not  arriving  in  time  for  her
question 28 to be taken.

Question 34 by Mr Truscott: Tachographs in minibuses

22. Question  Time  (questions  to  the  Commis-

sion)

Mr  Kinnock,  Member  of  the  Commission,  answered  the
question and a supplementary by Mr Truscott.

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commis-
sion (B4-1002/97).

Question 35 by Mr Waidelich: Commission document on road
safety

Mr Smith, author of Question 76, spoke on the organization of
Question Time.

Mr  Kinnock  answered  the  question  and  supplementaries  by
Mr Waidelich and Mr Lindqvist.

First part

Question  36  by  Mr  Wijsenbeek:  Rail  shuttle  between  the
Netherlands and Poland

Question  25  by  Mr  Cars:  Application  of  the  law  on  public
procurement

Mr  Kinnock  answered  the  question  and  a  supplementary  by
Mr Wijsenbeek.

Mr Monti, Member of the Commission, answered the question
and supplementaries by Mr Cars, Mr Wijsenbeek and Mr Ru¤-
big.

Question  26  by  Mr  Robles  Piquer  lapsed  as  its  author  was
absent.

Question  27  by  Mrs  Hardstaff:  The  use  of  E111  forms  in
Member States

Mr  Schmid  spoke  on  the  organization  of  Question  Time  and
specifically  on  the  number  of  supplementaries  which  were
authorized which, in his view, meant that there was not enough
time to deal with all the questions tabled.

The President advised him to raise the matter with the Rules
Committee.

Mr Cornelissen put another supplementary which Mr Kinnock
answered.

Mr Flynn, Member of the Commission, answered the question
and supplementaries by Mrs Hardstaff and Mr Truscott.

Questions 37 to 42 would receive written answers.

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Question 43 by Mrs Ahern: Proposed project for the comple-
tion of Khmelnitski 2 and Rovno 4 nuclear reactors (k2/r4) in
the Ukraine

Mr Van den Broek, Member of the Commission, answered the
question and a supplementary by Mrs Ahern.

Question  44  by  Mrs  Hautala:  Proposed  project  for  the
completion  of  Khmelnitski  2  and  Rovno  4  nuclear  reactors
(k2/r4) in the Ukraine

Mr Van den Broek answered the question and a supplementary
by Mrs Hautala.

Tuesday 16 December 1997

25. Aid to shipbuilding * (debate)

Mr  Sindal  introduced  his  report,  drawn  up  on  behalf  of  the
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial
Policy,  on  the  proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  amending
Council  Regulation  3094/95  thereby  further  prolonging  the
relevant provisions of the seventh Council Directive on aid to
shipbuilding (COM(97)0469 › C4-0526/97 › 97/0248(CNS))
(A4-0377/97).

The following spoke: Mr Jarzembowski, on behalf of the PPE
Group,  Mrs  Riis-Jłrgensen,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR  Group,
Mr Querbes, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Mr Sjo¤stedt
and Mr Van Miert, Member of the Commission.

Questions 45 to 90 would receive written answers.

The President closed the debate.

The President closed Question Time to the Commission.

Vote: Minutes of 17.12.1997, Part I, Item 13.

(The sitting was suspended at 7.05 p.m. and resumed at 9 p.m.)

IN THE CHAIR: Mr David W. MARTIN

Vice-President

23. Beef  and  veal  products  (statement  with

debate)

Mr Fischler, Member of the Commission, made a statement on
beef and veal products posing a potential health risk.

The following spoke: Mrs Roth-Behrendt, on behalf of the PSE
Group, Mr Bo¤ge, on behalf of the PPE Group, Mr Santini, on
behalf  of  the  UPE  Group,  Mr  Cox,  on  behalf  of  the  ELDR
Group,  Mr  Graefe  zu  Baringdorf,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,
Mr Macartney, on behalf of the ARE Group, Mr Nicholson, on
behalf  of  the  I-EDN  Group,  Mr  Martinez,  Non-attached
Member,  Mr  Whitehead,  Mr  Gillis,  Mr  Hyland,  Mr  Watson,
Mr Paisley, Mr Sturdy, Mrs Roth-Behrendt, Mr Fischler, and
Mrs Bonino, Member of the Commission.

The President closed the debate.

Mr Hallam and Mrs Jackson spoke (the President cut them off,
as the debate was closed).

26. Services  of  general 

interest 

in  Europe

(debate)

Mrs Billingham introduced her report, drawn up on behalf of
the  Committee  on  Economic  and  Monetary  Affairs  and
Industrial  Policy,  on  the  Commission  communication  (cid:145)Ser-
vices  of  general  interest  in  Europe(cid:146)  (COM(96)0443  ›  C4-
0507/96) (A4-0357/97).

IN THE CHAIR: Mr MARINHO

Vice-President

The following spoke: Mrs Scho¤rling, draftsman of the opinion
of the Committee on Employment, Mrs Ryyna¤nen, draftsman
of  the  opinion  of  the  Regional  Committee,  Mr  Wijsenbeek,
draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on  Transport,
Mr Bowe, draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on the
Environment,  Mr  Rack,  draftsman  of  the  opinion  of  the
Committee on Institutional Affairs, Mr Desama, on behalf of
the  PSE  Group,  Mr  Herman  on  behalf  of  the  PPE  Group,
Mr Cox, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Mr Ribeiro, on behalf
of the GUE/NGL Group, Mr Blokland, on behalf of the I-EDN
Group,  Mrs  Tongue,  Mr  Porto,  Mrs  Moreau,  Mr  Paasilinna,
Mr Konrad, Mrs Torres Marques, Mr Van Miert, Member of
the  Commission,  Mr  Desama,  to  make  a  personal  statement
following Mr Van Miert(cid:146)s remarks, and Mr Alan J. Donnelly,
who  put  a  question  to  the  Commission  which  Mr  Van  Miert
answered.

The President closed the debate.

Vote: Minutes of 17.12.1997, Part I, Item 16.

24. Energy policy (continuation of debate)

The  following  spoke:  Mr  Stockmann,  on  behalf  of  the  PSE
Group, Mr Watson, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Mrs Bloch
von  Blottnitz,  on  behalf  of  the  V  Group,  Mrs  McNally  and
Mr Adam.

The President closed the debate.

Vote: Minutes of 18.12.1997, Part I, Item 10.

27. Denominations of euro coins

**II (debate)

Mrs  Soltwedel-Scha¤fer  introduced  the  recommendation  for
second reading drawn up on behalf of Committee on Economic
and  Monetary  Affairs  and  Industrial  Policy  on  the  common
position  adopted  by  the  Council  with  a  view  to  adopting  a
Council Regulation on denominations and technical specifica-
tions  of  euro  coins  intended  for  circulation  (C4-0598/97  ›
97/0154(SYN)) (A4-0386/97).

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The following spoke: Mr Wibe, on behalf of the PSE Group,
Mr Hoppenstedt, on behalf of the PPE Group, Mr Mezzaroma,
on  behalf  of  the  UPE  Group,  Mrs  Peijs,  Mr  Gallagher
Mr Ru¤big, Mr  de Silguy, Member of the Commission, and the
rapporteur  and  Mr  Ru¤big,  with  questions  to  the  Commissin
which Mr de Silguy answered.

The President closed the debate.

Vote: Minutes 17.12.1997, Part I, Item 12.

28. Agenda for next sitting

The President announced the following agenda for the sitting
of Wednesday 17 December 1997:

9 a.m. › 1 p.m., 3 › 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. › 12 midnight:

9 › 9.15 a.m.:

› 

topical and urgent debate (objections)

9.15 › 11.30 a.m., 3 › 5.30 p.m. and 9 p.m. › 12 midnight:

› 

joint debate on a Council report and two Commission and
Council statements on the European Council meetings in
Luxembourg  and  the  six  months  of  the  Luxembourg
Presidency

›  Cassidy  report  on  capital  adequacy  of 

investment

firms

***I

›  Jove· Peres report on olives and olive oil

›  Valverde  Lo·pez  report  on  combating  tobacco  consump-

tion

›  Pimenta  report  on  humane  trapping  standards  agree-

ment

*

›  Sandb(cid:230)k  recommendation  for  second  reading  on  food-

stuffs for particular nutritional uses

***II

›  Paasio recommendation for second reading on operations
with European non-governmental development organiza-
tions

**II

11.30 a.m. › 12 noon:

›  voting time

12 noon:

›  Formal sitting

12.30 p.m.:

›  continuation of votes

5.30 › 7 p.m.:

›  Question Time to the Council

›  continuation  of  debate  on  the  Commission(cid:146)s  work  pro-

gramme for 1998

(The sitting closed at 12.10 a.m.)

Julian PRIESTLEY
Secretary-General

Jose· Mar(cid:14)·a GIL-ROBLES GIL-DELGADO
President

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PART II

Texts adopted by the European Parliament

1.  Pollutants from internal combustion engines

***III

A4-0413/97

Decision on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a European Parliament and
Council  Directive  on  emission  of  gaseous  and  particulate  pollutants  from  internal  combustion
engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery (C4-0627/97 › 95/0209(COD))

(Codecision procedure: third reading)

The European Parliament,

›  having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee and the relevant Commission

declaration, C4-0627/97 › 95/0209(COD),

›  having regard to its opinion at first reading (1)  on  the  Commission  proposal  to  Parliament  and  the

Council, COM(95)0350 (2),

›  having regard to its decision on the common position (3),

›  having regard to the Commission(cid:146)s opinion on Parliament(cid:146)s amendments to the common position,

COM(97)0354 › C4-0367/97,

›  having regard to Article 189b(5) of the EC Treaty,

›  having regard to Rule 77(2) of its Rules of Procedure,

›  having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A4-0413/97),

1.

Approves the joint text and draws attention to the Commission declaration;

Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, pursuant to Article 191(1) of

2.
the EC Treaty;

Instructs its Secretary-General duly to sign the act and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of

3.
the Council, to have it published in the Official Journal;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission.

(1)  OJ C 308, 20.11.1995, p. 29.
(2)  OJ C 328, 7.12.1995, p. 1.
(3)  OJ C 167, 2.6.1997, p. 22.

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2.  Consumer protection in indication of prices

***III

A4-0414/97

Decision on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a European Parliament and
Council  Directive  on  consumer  protection  in  the  indication  of  the  prices  of  products  offered  to
consumers (C4-0643/97 › 95/0148(COD))

(Codecision procedure: third reading)

The European Parliament,

›  having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee and the relevant Commission

declaration, C4-0643/97 › 95/0148(COD),

›  having regard to its opinion at first reading (1)  on  the  Commission  proposal  to  Parliament  and  the

Council, COM(95)0276 (2),

›  having regard to its decision on the common position (3),

›  having  regard  to  the  Commission’s  opinion  on  Parliament’s  amendments  to  the  common  position,

COM(97)0136 › C4-0164/97,

›  having regard to Article 189b(5) of the EC Treaty,

›  having regard to Rule 77(2) of its Rules of Procedure,

›  having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A4-0414/97),

1.

Approves the joint text and draws attention to the Commission declaration;

Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, pursuant to Article 191(1) of

2.
the EC Treaty;

Instructs its Secretary-General duly to sign the act and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of

3.
the Council, to have it published in the Official Journal;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission.

(1)  OJ C 141, 13.5.1996, p. 191.
(2)  OJ C 260, 5.10.1995, p. 5.
(3)  OJ C 085, 17.3.1997, p. 26.

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3.  Procurement  procedures  in  water,  energy,  transport  and  telecommunica-

tions

***III

A4-0398/97

Decision on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a European Parliament and
Council  Directive  amending  Directive  93/38/EEC  coordinating  the  procurement  procedures  of
entities  operating  in  the  water,  energy,  transport  and  telecommunications  sectors  (C4-0619/97  ›
95/0080(COD))

(Codecision procedure: third reading)

The European Parliament,

›  having  regard  to  the  joint  text  approved  by  the  Conciliation  Committee  and  the  relevant  Council,

Commission and Parliament declarations, C4-0619/97 › 95/0080(COD),

›  having regard to its opinion at first reading (1)  on  the  Commission  proposal  to  Parliament  and  the

Council, COM(95)0107 (2),

›  having regard to its decision on the common position (3),

›  having regard to the Commission(cid:146)s opinion on Parliament(cid:146)s amendments to the common position,

COM(97)0290 › C4-0331/97,

›  having regard to Article 189b(5) of the EC Treaty,

›  having regard to Rule 77(2) of its Rules of Procedure,

›  having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A4-0398/97),

1.

Approves the joint text; confirms its declaration and recalls those of the Council and Commission;

Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, pursuant to Article 191(1) of

2.
the EC Treaty;

Instructs its Secretary-General duly to sign the act and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of

3.
the Council, to have it published in the Official Journal;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission.

(1)  OJ C 347, 18.11.1996, p. 25.
(2)  OJ C 138, 3.6.1995, p. 49.
(3)  OJ C 167, 2.6.1997, p. 53.

4.  Wheat, rye, barley, maize, sorghum and durum wheat

* (Rule 99)

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 fixing standard qualities
for common wheat, rye, barley, maize, sorghum and durum wheat (COM(97)0463 › C4-0511/97 ›
97/0241(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The proposal was approved.

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5.  Agricultural statistics

* (Rule 99)

Proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 96/411/EC on improving Community agricul-
tural statistics (COM(97)0482 › C4-0536/97 › 97/0245(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The proposal was approved.

6.  COM in raw tobacco * (Rule 99)

Proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  amending  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2075/92  on  the  common
organization of the market in raw tobacco (COM(97)0529 › C4-0568/97 › 97/0286(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The proposal was approved.

7.  Generalized tariff preferences

* (Rule 99)

I.

Proposal for a Council Regulation applying the special incentive arrangements concerning labour
rights and environmental protection provided for in Articles 7 and 8 of Council Regulation (EC)
Nos 3281/94 and 1256/96 applying the scheme of generalized tariff preferences in respect of certain
industrial  and  agricultural  products  originating  in  developing  countries  (COM(97)0534  ›  C4-
0593/97 › 97/0293(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The proposal was approved with the following amendments:

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION (*)

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 1)

Recital 6

Whereas the special incentive arrangements concerning labour
rights should primarily be confined to production sectors that
have actually taken steps to comply with the ILO Conventions
in question; whereas provision must therefore be made for the
special  arrangements  to  apply  to  certain  sectors  but  not  to
others;

Whereas the special incentive arrangements concerning labour
rights  should  be  confined  to  production  sectors  that  have
actually  taken  steps  to  comply  with  the  ILO  Conventions  in
question;

(*)  OJ C 360, 26.11.1997, p. 9.

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BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 2)

Recital 16a (new)

Whereas  additional  technical  assistance  requirements
should  be  met  within  the  limits  of  the  annual  budget
available;

(Amendment 3)

Article 15a (new)

Article 15a

The  implementation  of  this  system  for  granting  special
incentive  arrangements  shall  be  subject  to  continuous
development.  The  Commission  shall  submit  a  periodic
assessment  report  to  the  European  Parliament  and  the
Council. The first assessment report shall be submitted by
30 June 2000 at the latest.

The Commission shall inform the budgetary authority each
year, by means of a working document accompanying the
preliminary draft budget, of changes in the financial losses
resulting from the implementation of this system.

II.

Proposal for a Council Regulation applying Article 6 of Council Regulations (EC) Nos 3281/94 and
(EC)  No  1256/96  on  multiannual  generalized  tariff  preferences  schemes  in  respect  of  certain
industrial  and  agricultural  products  originating  in  developing  countries,  excluding  the  most
advanced beneficiary countries from entitlement to generalized tariff preferences (COM(97)0533 ›
C4-0594/97 › 97/0299(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The proposal was approved.

8.  Common fisheries policy * (Rule 99)

A4-0389/97

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 establishing a control
system applicable to the common fisheries policy (COM(97)0341 › C4-0416/97 › 97/0189(CNS))

The proposal was approved.

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Legislative  resolution  embodying  Parliament(cid:146)s  opinion  on  the  proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation
amending  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2847/93  establishing  a  control  system  applicable  to  the  common
fisheries policy (COM(97)0341 › C4-0416/97 › 97/0189(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

›  having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council, COM(97)0341 › 97/0189(CNS) (1),

›  having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 43 of the EC Treaty (C4-0416/97),

›  having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

›  having regard to the report of the Committee on Fisheries (A4-0389/97),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal;

Calls  on  the  Council  to  notify  Parliament  should  it  intend  to  depart  from  the  text  approved  by

2.
Parliament;

Asks  to  be  consulted  again  should  the  Council  intend  to  make  substantial  modifications  to  the

3.
Commission proposal;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.

(1)  OJ C 267, 3.9.1997, p. 62.

9.  Control of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith * (Rule 99)

A4-0370/97

Proposal  for  a  Council  Directive  on  the  control  of  Pseudomonas  solanacearum  (Smith)  Smith
(COM(97)0015 › C4-0066/97 › 97/0025(CNS))

The proposal was approved with the following amendments:

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION (*)

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 1)

Recital 7

Whereas the measures have to take into account that systematic
official surveys are necessary to locate the pathogen; whereas
such surveys should include inspection procedures and, where
appropriate,  given  that  under  certain  environmental  circum-
stances the disease can remain latent and unobserved both in
the growing crop of tomatoes and potatoes and in stored potato
tubers, should include sampling and testing procedures; where-
as spread of the pathogen within the growing crop is not the
most important factor, but whereas the pathogen can spread by
surface water and certain associated wild solanaceous plants,
and therefore the irrigation of potato and tomato crops using

Whereas the measures have to take into account that systematic
official surveys are necessary to locate the pathogen; whereas
such surveys should include inspection procedures and, where
appropriate,  given  that  under  certain  environmental  circum-
stances the disease can remain latent and unobserved both in
the growing crop of tomatoes and potatoes and in stored potato
tubers, should include sampling and testing procedures; where-
as spread of the pathogen within the growing crop is not the
most important factor, but whereas the pathogen can spread by
surface water and certain associated wild solanaceous plants,
and therefore the irrigation of potato and tomato crops using

(*)  OJ C 124, 21.4.1997, p. 12.

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AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

contaminated water appears to pose a risk for infection of such
crops; whereas also the pathogen can exist through the winter
in  self-sown  (volunteer)  potato  and  tomato  plants  and  these
may be a source of infection being carried from one season to
the next; whereas the pathogen is spread also by the contami-
nation of potatoes or  tomatoes  through contact with infected
potatoes  or  tomatoes  and  through  contact  with  planting,
harvesting  and  handling  equipment  or  transport  and  storage
containers which have become contaminated with the organ-
isms by previous contact with infected potatoes or tomatoes;
whereas spread of the pathogen can be reduced or prevented by
decontamination of such objects; whereas any such contami-
nation of seed potatoes poses a major risk for the spread of the
pathogen; similarly the latent infection of seed potatoes poses a
major  risk  for  the  spread  of  the  pathogen  and  this  can  be
prevented  only  by  the  use  of  seed  potatoes  produced  in  an
officially  approved  programme  whereby  seed  potatoes  have
been tested and found free from infection;

contaminated water appears to pose a risk for infection of such
crops; whereas also the pathogen can exist through the winter
in  self-sown  (volunteer)  potato  and  tomato  plants  and  these
may be a source of infection being carried from one season to
the next; whereas the pathogen is spread also by the contami-
nation of potatoes through contact with infected potatoes and
through contact with planting, harvesting and handling equip-
ment or transport and storage containers which have become
contaminated  with  the  organisms  by  previous  contact  with
infected  potatoes;  whereas  spread  of  the  pathogen  can  be
reduced  or  prevented  by  decontamination  of  such  objects;
whereas  any  such  contamination  of  seed  potatoes  poses  a
major risk for the spread of the pathogen; similarly the latent
infection of seed potatoes poses a major risk for the spread of
the pathogen and this can be prevented only by the use of seed
potatoes  produced  in  an  officially  approved  programme
whereby seed potatoes have been tested and found free from
infection;

(Amendment 2)

Article 4(2)(c)

(c)  introduce  appropriate  additional  precautionary  measures
based on the level of estimated risk, particularly in relation
to  production  of  the  listed  plant  material,  in  order  to
prevent any spread of the organism.

(c)  introduce  appropriate  additional  precautionary  measures
based on the level of estimated risk, particularly in relation
to production of the listed plant material and  the  move-
ment of seed potato lots other than those referred to in
subparagraph (a), if produced at the place of produc-
tion  from  which  the  samples  referred  to  in  subpara-
graph (a) have been taken, in order to prevent any spread
of the organism.

(Amendment 3)

Article 4(3)

3.
In those cases of suspected occurrence where there is a
risk  of  contamination  of  the  listed  plant  material  or  surface
water in another Member State(s), the Member State in which
the suspected occurrence has been reported shall immediately
notify, according to the risk identified, the details of the said
suspected occurrence to the other Member State(s) concerned.

3.
In those cases of suspected occurrence where there is a
risk  of  contamination  of  the  listed  plant  material  or  surface
water in another Member State(s), the Member State in which
the suspected occurrence has been reported shall immediately
notify, according to the risk identified, the details of the said
suspected occurrence to the other Member State(s) concerned,
which  shall  cooperate  as  necessary.  Member  States  thus
notified shall take preventive measures in accordance with
paragraph  2(c)  and  any  other  appropriate  measures  in
accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.

(Amendment 4)

Article 5(2), second subparagraph

The details of this notification shall be confidential. They may
be submitted to the Committee.

The details of this notification shall be confidential. They shall
be  submitted  to  the  Committee,  which  shall  treat  them  as
confidential.

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AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 5)

Article 10, second paragraph

The additional measures mentioned in the first subparagraph
may  include  the  prescription  that  only  seed  potatoes  or
tomatoes may be planted that are either officially certified or
officially  inspected  to  meet  the  required  plant  health  stan-
dards.  The  latter  may  apply  in  particular  in  cases  where
farmers  are  authorized  to  use,  on  their  own  holding,  seed
potatoes or tomatoes which they have obtained from their own
harvest and in other cases where own-produced seed potatoes
or tomatoes are planted.

Deleted

(Amendment 6)

Article 12(1), first subparagraph

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and  administrative  provision  necessary  to  comply  with  this
Directive  with  effect  from  1  July  1997.  They  shall  forthwith
inform the Commission thereof.

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and  administrative  provisions  necessary  to  comply  with  this
Directive with effect from 1 March 1998. They shall forthwith
inform the Commission thereof.

(Amendment 7)

Annex I(I), second entry

Plants,  other  than  seeds,  of  Lycopersicon  lycopersicum  (L.)
Karsten ex Farw.

Plants, other than seeds, and fruits of Lycopersicon lycoper-
sicum (L.) Karsten ex Farw.

Tomato

Tomato

(ii)  in the case of tomato:

(ii)  in the case of tomato:

(Amendment 8)

Annex I(II)(1)(ii)

›  visual  inspection  of  the  growing  crop  at  appropriate

times,

and,

› 

in the case of tomato crops grown for seed production
and where appropriate for other tomato crops, sam-
pling  for  official  or  officially  supervised  laboratory
testing,  using  the  method  set  out  in  Annex  II  for  the
diagnosis,  detection  and  identification  of  the  organ-
ism.

›  visual inspection, at appropriate times, of at least the
growing crop of plants to be replanted for commer-
cial uses.

(Amendment 9)

Annex I(II)(2)(ii)

(ii)  in the case of surveys on tomatoes:

›  estimated  total  area  grown,  in  hectares,  of  outdoor

crops and of crops grown under protection,

›  stratification by seed and fruit production and, where

appropriate, region,

(ii)  in  the  case  of  surveys  of  at  least  the  growing  crop  of
tomato plants to be replanted for commercial uses:
›  estimated total quantity of plants,
›  number of visual inspections;

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AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

›  number and timing of samples taken for testing,

›  number of visual inspections in the field,

›  number (and size of sample) of visual inspections;

(Amendment 10)

Annex II

The method for the listed plant material referred to in Articles 4
and  5  shall  be  in  accordance  with  Commission  Decision
97/.../EC  detailing  an  interim  test  scheme  for  the  diagnosis,
detection  and  identification  of  Pseudomonas  solanacearum
(Smith) Smith (not yet adopted by the Commission).

The method for the listed plant material referred to in Articles 4
and  5  shall  be  in  accordance  with  Commission  Decision
97/647/EC (1) detailing an interim test scheme for the diagno-
sis, detection and identification of Pseudomonas solanacearum
(Smith) Smith.

(1)  OJ L 273, 6.10.1997, p. 1.

(Amendment 11)

Annex VI(2)(ii)

(ii)  for tomato fruit,

Deleted

›  use of fruit for industrial processing and intended for
direct  and  immediate  delivery  to  a  processing  plant
with appropriate waste disposal facilities, and dispo-
sal  of  plant  debris  including  seed  by  appropriate
means, or

›  use of fruit for consumption and packed at sites with

appropriate waste disposal facilities,

›  some  other  use  or  disposal,  provided  that  it  is
established  that  thereis  no  identifiable  risk  of  the
organism spreading;

(Amendment 12)

Annex VI(4.1)(a)(ii), first indent, second subindent

› 

the  field  shall  be  established  and  maintained  during  the
first  three  years  either,  in  bare  fallow  or,  in  cereals
excluding  maize  or,  in  permanent  pasture  with  frequent
close  cutting  or  intensive  grazing  or,  as  grass  for  seed
production,  followed  by  planting  in  the  succeeding  two
years with non-host plants of the organism for which there
is no identified risk of the organism surviving or spread-
ing,

› 

the  field  shall  be  established  and  maintained  during  the
first  three  years  either  in  bare  fallow,  or  in  cereals,
depending on such risk as may have been determined,
or  in  permanent  pasture  with  frequent  close  cutting  or
intensive  grazing,  or  as  grass  for  seed  production,  fol-
lowed  by  planting  in  the  succeeding  two  years  with
non-host  plants  of  the  organism  for  which  there  is  no
identified risk of the organism surviving or spreading,

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TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 13)

Annex VI(4.1)(a)(ii), second indent, second subindent

› 

in  the  case  of  tomatoes,  only  tomato  plants  with  an
accompanying plant passport or plants raised from seed
on  the  place  of  production  and  officially  inspected  and
found free from the organism shall be planted,

Deleted

Legislative resolution embodying Parliament(cid:146)s opinion on the proposal for a Council Directive on
the  control  of  Pseudomonas  solanacearum  (Smith)  Smith  (COM(97)0015  ›  C4-0066/97  ›  97/
0025(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

›  having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council, COM(97)0015 › 97/0025(CNS) (1),

›  having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 43 of the EC Treaty (C4-0066/97),

›  having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

›  having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (A4-0370/97),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal, subject to Parliament(cid:146)s amendments;

Calls  on  the  Council  to  notify  Parliament  should  it  intend  to  depart  from  the  text  approved  by

2.
Parliament;

Asks  to  be  consulted  again  should  the  Council  intend  to  make  substantial  modifications  to  the

3.
Commission proposal;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.

(1)  OJ C 124, 21.4.1997, p. 12.

10. Organization of work

A4-0313/97

Resolution  on  the  Commission  Green  Paper  (cid:145)Partnership  for  a  new  organization  of  work(cid:146)
(COM(97)0128 › C4-0187/97)

The European Parliament,

›  having regard to the Commission Green Paper, COM(97)0128 › C4-0187/97,

›  having  regard  to  the  Commission  White  Paper  (cid:145)Growth,  Competitiveness  and  Employment  ›

The Challenges and Ways Forward into the 21st century(cid:146) (COM(93)0700 › C4-0509/93),

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›  having regard to the Commission communication (cid:145)The future of social protection: A framework for a
European debate(cid:146) (COM(95)0466 › C4-0524/95) and the Commission report on social protection in
Europe › 1995 (COM(95)0457 › C4-0518/95),

›  having regard to the Commission White Paper on education and training (cid:145)Teaching and Learning ›

Towards the learning society(cid:146) (COM(95)0590 › C4-0597/95),

›  having regard to the Commission report to the Council and Parliament on the demographic situation

in the European Union › 1995 (COM(96)0060 › C4-0143/96),

›  having regard to the Commission Green Paper (cid:145)Living and working in the information society: people

first(cid:146) (COM(96)0389 › C4-0522/96),

›  having  regard  to  the  Commission  communication  on  equality  of  opportunity  for  people  with

disabilities (COM(96)0406 › C4-0582/96),

›  having regard to its resolution of 13 July 1995 on a coherent employment strategy for the European

Union (1),

›  having  regard  to  its  resolution  of  18  September  1996  on  the  reduction  and  adaptation  of  working

time (2),

›  having  regard  to  its  resolution  of  28  November  1996  on  the  Commission  report  (cid:145)Employment  in
Europe  ›  1996(cid:146)  and  the  Commission  communication  (cid:145)Action  for  Employment  in  Europe  ›
A Confidence Pact(cid:146) (3),

›  having regard to its resolution of 19 February 1997 on the Commission communication (cid:145)The future of
social protection, a framework for a European debate(cid:146) and the Commission report on social protection
in Europe 1995 (4),

›  having  regard  to  its  resolution  of  11  March  1997  on  the  Commission  Green  Paper  (cid:145)Living  and

working in the information society: people first(cid:146) (5),

›  having regard to its resolution of 12 March 1997 on the Commission White Paper on education and

training (cid:145)Teaching and learning › Towards the learning society(cid:146) (6),

›  having regard to its resolution of 14 March 1997 on the Commission report to the Council and the

European Parliament on the demographic situation in the European Union › 1995 (7),

›  having regard to its resolution of 11 April 1997 on the Commission communication on equality of

opportunity for people with handicaps (8),

›  having  regard  to  its  resolution  of  19  November  1997  on  the  proposal  for  a  Council  Directive
concerning  the  framework  agreement  on  part-time  work  concluded  by  UNICE,  CEEP  and  the
ETUC (9),

›  having regard to the report of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the opinion of the

Committee on Women(cid:146)s Rights (A4-0313/97),

A.  whereas  it  welcomes  the  new  Green  Paper  as  an  important  contribution  to  the  European  effort  to

strengthen competitiveness and increase employment,

B.  whereas not only competitiveness but also the European social model is to a large extent the result of
consultation between the two sides of industry, inter alia concerning the organization of work,

(1)  OJ C 249, 25.9.1995, p. 143.
(2)  OJ C 320, 28.10.1996, p. 97.
(3)  OJ C 380, 16.12.1996, p. 84.
(4)  OJ C 85, 17.3.1997, p. 63.
(5)  OJ C 115, 14.4.1997, p. 36.
(6)  OJ C 115, 14.4.1997, p. 85.
(7)  OJ C 115, 14.4.1997, p. 238.
(8)  OJ C 132, 28.4.1997, p. 313.
(9)  Minutes of that Sitting, Part II, Item 6.

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C.  whereas  the  reform  of  the  European  organization  of  work  is  being  driven  by  changes  in  markets,
society,  demographic  trends  and  human  resources,  which  influence  and  are  influenced  by  new
production  technologies,  the  development  of  new  products  and  forms  of  services,  trends  towards
globalization and the completion of the internal market,

D.  whereas it is disturbed to note that the rate of modernization of the organization of work in Europe is

slow, and lags well behind the rate in Japan and the USA,

E.  whereas experience shows that successful reorganization of work calls for a long-term approach and
the creation of an atmosphere of confidence, which underlines the demands on business management
to strike a balance between long- and short-term interests,

F.  whereas  the  reorganization  of  work  calls  for  an  integrated  strategy  in  which  the  coordination  of

efforts, human resources, markets and technology are seen as part of a whole,

G.  whereas  the  reorganization  of  work  should  be  viewed  broadly,  so  as  also  to  take  account  of  the
cultural  and  psychological  dimensions  of  change,  and  the  historical  implications  of  organizational
structures,

H.  whereas  the  (cid:145)best  practices(cid:146)  approach  not  only  has  advantages  for  the  organization  of  the  labour

market but also warrants application to the organization of work,

I.  whereas the responsibility for the reorganization of work must primarily lie in partnership based on
agreements  between  employees,  employers  and  their  representatives;  whereas,  in  this  connection,
Parliament  has  repeatedly  called  on  the  Council  and  Commission  to  ensure  appropriate  SME
representation in the European social dialogue,

J.  whereas  a  partnership  which  includes  public  bodies  is  required  to  create  the  necessary  balance

between flexibility and social security in changes to the organization of work,

K.  whereas work cannot be reorganized with the sole objective of increasing productivity and meeting
employers(cid:146) need for greater flexibility; rather, the reorganization should have the aim of guaranteeing
the rights of workers and increasing or maintaining the level of employment, for which reason it must
always be based on negotiations between the two sides of industry,

L.  whereas a partnership which includes public bodies means seeking solutions involving the adaptation
of tax and social insurance systems, labour law, labour market policy, public social infrastructures, the
education  system,  Community  programmes  and  Community  structural  initiatives  and  helping
increase  knowledge  and  the  dissemination  of  knowledge  with  a  view  to  speeding  up  the
reorganization of work,

M.  having  regard  to  the  importance  of  working  hours  for  the  organization  of  work,  including  that  in
sectors  and  activities  so  far  excluded  from  the  Directive  on  working  hours,  for  which  European
minimum standards should likewise be laid down,

1.

Calls on the Commission, concerning the future effort, to:

(a)  make proposals in the areas relating to the reorganization of work either in a separate White Paper or

in a forthcoming social action programme,

(b)  help to create the conditions for a partnership for the reorganization of work between the two sides of
European industry and in this context also to examine the conditions for partnership at industry or
sectoral levels,

(c)  assess the scope for greater cooperation between the Member States(cid:146) existing bodies for improving
the  organization  of  work,  in  which  the  unofficial  (cid:145)Acteur  Group(cid:146)  network  and  the  European
Foundation for Improving Living and Working Conditions should be regarded as natural components,
as a stage in the process of developing knowledge of the new organization of work and in an increased
exchange of experience between the Member States,

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(d)  submit to the European Parliament a summary of the views expressed during the debate on the Green
Paper, and information as to the form which the Commission considers that further efforts to reform
the organization of work in Europe should take;

2.
Calls  on  the  Member  States  and  the  Commission,  in  their  reports  on  the  implementation  of  the
provisions of Directive 93/104/EC (1) on working hours, provided for by Article 18(5) thereof, to devote
attention to the modernization of the organization of work from the point of view of working hours;

3.
Calls on the Community and the Member States to do more to help stimulate a substantially greater
involvement  of  life-long  learning  under  which  adaptations  to  the  tax  systems,  social  insurance,  labour
market policy and legislation (including the question of entitlement to study leave) should be taken into
account, and to ensure that these adaptations are in line with the priorities needed to reach groups which
are not adequately covered by further training systems;

Calls on the Commission to examine the conditions under which it might, via the social dialogue,

4.
help bring about agreements on life-long learning;

5.
Considers that modification of the Structural Funds should help increase the development of new
growth sectors rather than prop up old structures, and therefore calls on the Commission in the current
review of the Structural Funds to take into account the need for stepped-up life-long learning and the new
organization of work;

6.
Calls  on  the  Commission  and  the  Member  States  to  overhaul  Objective  4  aid,  the  Adapt  and
Leonardo  da  Vinci  programmes,  the  fifth  framework  programme  for  research  and  technological
development and other Community initiatives involved to make them better able to promote development
in the organization of work and life-long learning;

7.
Considers that the Member States should give greater attention to the scope for a new organization of
work in small and medium-sized undertakings, which could be done by partnership between the two sides
of industry, public authorities and research institutes to establish local and regional networks to provide
advice and disseminate knowledge and technology;

8.
Calls  on  the  Commission  to  step  up  its  efforts  to  promote  an  active  labour  market  policy  in  the
Member States, in which a combination of giving employees the opportunity of further training and the
unemployed the chance to enter the labour market via a rotation system should be regarded as a positive
example;

Considers that there should be tax changes, reducing taxes on labour while increasing taxes on for

9.
example capital and environmentally unfriendly activities;

10.
Considers that a differentiation of taxation should be regarded as one way of stimulating in-house
training  in  which  reductions  in  payroll  tax/charges  for  workers  undergoing  training  and  tax  relief  for
resources earmarked for individual or collective training should be considered;

11.
Considers  worker  participation  in  decisions  about  changes  in  the  organization  of  work  to  be
essential;  calls  on  the  Commission  therefore  to  consider  submitting  proposals  for  binding  minimum
standards on workers(cid:146) rights to information, consultation and participation at all levels;

12.
Considers that changes in working time are highly important in the context of the new organization
of work, and that such changes should principally be a matter for collective agreement between the social
partners,  but  that  fundamental  working  time  standards  should  be  governed  by  national  and  European
legislation;

Considers  that  the  changes  to  working  hours  should  be  accompanied  by  the  creation  of  all  the

13.
necessary associated social support infrastructure (training, child care, transport);

(1)  OJ L 307, 13.12.1993, p. 18.

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14.
Notes that organization of family life is often dependent on, and is sometimes disrupted by, the
organization  of  work;  calls  therefore  on  all  parties  concerned,  when  preparing  and  establishing  a
partnership for a new organization of work, to take account of family responsibilities, both of men and of
women, and of care of the sick and elderly;

Reminds  the  Commission  of  the  calls  contained  in  Parliament(cid:146)s  abovementioned  resolution  of

15.
18 September 1996 for further study of reductions in working hours;

16.
Believes that any discussion of a new organisation of work must go hand in hand with a reappraisal
of women(cid:146)s and men(cid:146)s roles both on the labour market and in society as a whole, in order to overcome
gender  segregation  on  the  labour  market  and  the  unequal  division  of  responsibilities  in  the  domestic
sphere;

17.
Notes that an agreement on part-time work has been reached under the social dialogue, but that this
agreement  does  not  cover  other  atypical  forms  of  work  such  as  teleworking,  as  pointed  out  in  its
abovementioned resolution of 19 November 1997; calls therefore once again on the Commission to submit
proposals  for  ways  of  guaranteeing  workers(cid:146)  social  security  and  social  protection  in  the  case  of  other
atypical forms of work;

18.
Emphasizes  the  importance  to  be  given  to  equal  opportunities  considerations  in  the  new
organization of work and considers that greater attention should be paid to equal opportunities in studies
on changes to the organization of work;

19.
Calls on the Commission to take more generally into account the situation of immigrant and ethnic
minorities on the European labour market, and calls on all parties involved in the new organization of
work to seek in their objectives to ensure that increased flexibility does not increase discrimination against
a particular group;

Calls on the Commission to study ways of developing the participation of workers in the profits and

20.
results of enterprises in connection with the new organization of work;

21.
Notes that increasing use is being made of freelance workers in the reorganization of work and in
new enterprises; calls for this phenomenon to be taken into account in developing new forms of social
security;

22.
Stresses the objective set by the Commission in its communication on (cid:145)equality of opportunity for
people with disabilities(cid:146) of developing a uniform strategy for employment of the disabled and stepping up
measures to integrate people with disabilities, and expects the Commission, therefore, in accordance with
this objective, to devote special attention to efforts on behalf of people with disabilities in its future action
with regard to reform of the organization of work;

23.
Calls on the Member States to consider the advantages of requiring employers to bear more of the
costs arising from shortcomings in the working environment, with the aim of demonstrating the benefits to
be  derived  from  an  improved  working  environment,  inter  alia  in  the  form  of  less  absenteeism,  better
quality of work and reduced risks that employees may be compelled to leave enterprises;

24. Warns in particular against the creation of a two-tier society with an unskilled, unprotected, largely
female  workforce  in  atypical  work  such  as  telework  and  homeworking  on  the  one  hand,  and  a  highly
skilled minority benefiting from continuous training in new technologies on the other;

25.
Recalls that Structural Funds used to facilitate the reorganisation of work must, according to the
Regulations reforming the Structural Funds in 1993, apply the principle of equal opportunities between
women and men, and that the guidelines for the Adapt Community Initiative specify that attention will be
given to actions aiming at promoting equal opportunities for women;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Economic and

26.
Social Committee and the two sides of European industry.

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11. Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation

A4-0372/97

Resolution  on  the  Communication  from  the  Commission  to  the  Council  and  the  European
Parliament  on  trafficking  in  women  for  the  purpose  of  sexual  exploitation  (COM(96)0567  ›
C4-0638/96)

The European Parliament,

›  having regard to the Commission Communication (COM(96)0567 › C4-0638/96),

›  having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination

Against Women (CEDAW) of 18 December 1979, and in particular Article 6 thereof,

›  having regard to the Declaration and Programme of Action of the United Nations world conference on

human rights in Vienna in 1993,

›  having regard to the Resolution (49/166) on traffic in women and girls adopted by the United Nations

General Assembly on 23 December 1994,

›  having  regard  to  the  Declaration  and  Platform  for  Action  resulting  from  the  Fourth  UN  World

Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995,

›  having  regard  to  Recommendation  1325  (1997)  of  the  Parliamentary  Assembly  of  the  Council  of

Europe on traffic in women and forced prostitution,

›  having regard to the Joint Actions adopted by the Council on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on

European Union:

›  establishing an incentive and exchange programme for persons responsible for combating trade

in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children (the STOP Programme) (1),

›  concerning the creation and maintenance of a directory of specialised competences, skills and

expertise in the fight against international organized crime (2),

›  extending the mandate given to the Europol Drugs Unit (3),

›  concerning action to combat trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of children (4),

›  having regard to the report of the Conference on Trafficking in Women in Vienna on 10-11 June 1996,

›  having regard to the statement resulting from the NGO conference on the trafficking of women held in

Noordwijkerhout on 5-7 April 1997,

›  having regard to the ministerial declaration on European guidelines for effective measures to prevent
and combat trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation agreed in The Hague on 24-26
April 1997,

›  having regard to the fact that the draft Treaty of Amsterdam contains a provision in its new Article K.1

that also refers to trafficking in persons,

›  having regard to its resolution of 14 April 1989 on the exploitation of prostitution and the traffic in

human beings (5),

›  having regard to its resolution of 16 September 1993 on trade in women (6),

›  having regard to its resolution of 18 January 1996 on trafficking in human beings (7),

›  having regard to the report of the Committee on Women(cid:146)s Rights and the opinions of the Committee
on  Civil  Liberties  and  Internal  Affairs  and  the  Committee  on  Development  and  Cooperation
(A4-0372/97),

(1)  OJ L 322, 12.12.1996, p. 7.
(2)  OJ L 342, 31.12.1996, p. 2.
(3)  OJ L 342, 31.12.1996, p. 4.
(4)  OJ L 63, 4.3.1997, p. 2.
(5)  OJ C 120, 16.5.1989, p. 352.
(6)  OJ C 268, 4.10.1993, p. 141.
(7)  OJ C 32, 5.2.1996, p. 88.

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A.  whereas trafficking in human beings, which is a late twentieth century form of slavery, affects men,
women and children, but most victims are women and the majority of these women are trafficked for
the purpose of sexual exploitation,

B.  whereas trafficking in women is increasing because of the vulnerability, poverty and marginalisation
of women in their countries of origin, the high profits and low risks experienced by traffickers, and the
demand for women for prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation that exists in Europe,

C.  whereas  trafficking  in  women  for  the  purpose  of  sexual  exploitation  involves  not  only  enforced
prostitution  but  forced  or  false  marriages  and  work  situations  which  are  covers  for  and  facilitate
sexual exploitation,

D.  whereas  trafficking  in  women  is  a  global  problem  requiring  international  cooperation  and
multidisciplinary  approaches  focusing  on  prevention,  detection  and  successful  prosecution  of  the
traffickers, protection of the victims and rehabilitation of the survivors,

E.  whereas, in its unanimous resolution of 18 January 1996, mentioned above, on trafficking in human
beings, the European Parliament outlined the objectives of a well-organized multidisciplinary policy
on combating trafficking,

F.  whereas  the  countries  of  Central  and  Eastern  Europe  are  increasingly  countries  of  transit  and
destination as well as of origin of the women concerned; whereas this is due in large part to rising
female poverty and unemployment in those countries alongside crumbling social structures,

G.  whereas trafficking in human beings has largely become the province of organised crime in which
there has been considerable growth particularly in the former eastern bloc countries, one reason for
this being the fact that police and legal services lack manpower, training and equipment and are thus
unable to adequately counter this form of criminality,

H.  whereas  trafficking  in  human  beings  represents  a  lucrative  element  of  the  extensive  activities  of
international  organised  crime  which,  by  laundering  illegal  income  in  so-called  tax  havens,  is
strengthening its grip on the white economy with all the attendant consequences of this,

I.  whereas  non-governmental  organisations  have  a  vital  role  to  play  in  research,  prevention  and  the
protection  of  victims,  particularly  given  that  they  can  more  easily  gain  the  confidence  of  women
victims than the relevant authorities,

1. Welcomes the initiatives taken by the Commission and the interagency approaches it has advocated
in the Communication;

2.
Considers  it  indispensable  for  the  Commission,  acting  independently  or  in  cooperation  with  the
Council, to use a task force to ensure the detailed specification and execution, within the Commission and
elsewhere,  of  the  action  points  included  in  the  Communication  and  asks  for  an  annual  survey  on  the
activities of this task force;

3.
Stresses the need to carry out a coordinated information campaign between the European Union and
third  countries  and  addressed  to  women,  describing  clearly  how  the  networks  trafficking  in  women
operate and the machinery they use to ensnare their victims;

4.
Stresses the need to see trafficking in women first and foremost from the point of view of the victims
and to treat it as a violation of women(cid:146)s fundamental human rights, rather than seeing it exclusively in
terms of the fight against organised crime or illegal immigration; believes that to ignore this aspect risks
marginalising  the  women  concerned  and  sending  them  underground,  where  they  have  no  hope  of
protection from further abuse;

5.
Calls on Member States to implement in full the Joint Action adopted on 24 February 1997 under
Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union concerning action to combat trafficking in human beings and
sexual exploitation of children and to carry through into practice the commitments made in the declaration
following the Ministerial Conference on combating trafficking in women held in The Hague from 24-26
April 1997 and calls on the parliaments of the Member States to draw the attention of their respective
governments to the need to give concrete substance to the joint action and the undertakings made;

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Calls for an active initiating and coordinating policy on the basis, inter alia, of Article 29 (former
6.
Article K.1) in conjunction with Article 34(2) (former Article K.6(2)) of the draft Treaty of Amsterdam;

7.
Calls  on  the  Member  States,  in  the  spirit  of  the  Joint  Action  of  24  February  1997,  to  draft  a
convention  providing  for  common  provisions  for  sanctions  against  trafficking  in  human  beings  with
sentences which reflect the seriousness of the offence;

8.
Calls  on  Member  States  to  adopt  a  multi-disciplinary  approach  to  the  fight  against  trafficking  in
women and recommends that Member States set up an inter-ministerial coordination which would also
provide for NGO participation in coordinated action on trafficking in women;

Calls on all media to renounce advertising of or based on prostitution connected with trafficking in

9.
women;

10.

Calls on Member States to prioritise above all protection of the victims, including access to:

›  adequate income and confidential social, health and psychological care;

›  emergency telephone lines;

› 

legal assistance and the availability of translators for the purposes of bringing a formal complaint;

›  safe houses and temporary residence status pending a decision on whether the woman stays in the

country;

›  advice  on  their  right  of  asylum,  how  to  apply  for  temporary  or  permanent  resident  permits,  and

repatriation to their home country;

› 

the legal possibilities of damage compensation;

›  a work permit and training opportunity for the period the victim spends in the country;

11.
Stresses the need to offer support to all victims and not to restrict this to those women who are
willing to bring a formal case against a trafficker or to those considered to have a good chance of bringing
about a conviction;

12.
Underlines the importance, also from the point of view of prevention, of effective sanctions against
those  individuals  and  organisations  directly  or  indirectly  involved  with  trafficking  in  women  with
penalties  and  measures  commensurate  with  the  severity  of  the  crime,  including  maximum  custodial
sentences  at  least  equal  to  the  maximum  punishment  that  can  be  demanded  for  rape,  punitive  fines,
deprivation of civil rights, including confiscation of passport or other travel documents, restriction on the
exercise of certain professional activities, deportation after serving the sentence, closure of establishments
where victims of trafficking in human beings have been employed against their will, confiscation of the
proceeds of the offence and the moveable or immoveable assets gained thereby, which must a priori be
used to provide financial (cid:145)compensation(cid:146) for the victims;

13.
Recommends  that  further  consideration  be  given  to  the  Regulation,  inspection  and  control  of
cross-border marriage and employment bureaux, and the practices of some labour contracts, which may be
used directly or indirectly for the purpose of trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation;

14.

Asks the Member States to consider taking the following measures where applicable:

› 

› 

› 

to provide the possibility in law that active prosecution of individuals and organisations involved in
the trafficking of women should rely not only on the offence which is the subject of the action but that
other forms of evidence may be capable of leading to a sentence;

to apply the principle of extra-territoriality to individuals and organisations engaged in trafficking in
women;

to  make  the  taking  away  of  travel  documents  a  punishable  offence  and  to  consider  setting  up  an
emergency telephone service where (cid:145)clients(cid:146) can anonymously report cases of enforced prostitution;

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Calls  for  the  STOP  Programme,  in  addition  to  taking  measures  to  improve  detection  and
prosecution of traffickers and the training of operatives, to provide financing and programmes designed to
provide information, prevention and the reintegration of the victims, to give emphasis to victim support,
involving all agencies and authorities coming into contact with victims of trafficking, and to encourage
greater collaboration between official bodies and non-governmental organisations;

16.
Believes  that  funding  for  the  STOP  Programme  should  be  increased,  within  the  limits  of  the
financial perspective mainly in order to extend the programme of reintegration for the victims and that
Parliament must be regularly informed on the criteria used for the selection of projects to permit a proper
evaluation of the programme;

Considers that a balance should be achieved in both the STOP and DAPHNE programmes between

17.
projects dealing with trafficking in women and those concerning the sexual exploitation of children;

Calls on the Commission to ensure the effective coordination and monitoring of measures across
18.
the range of Community programmes, where funds could be used to combat trafficking in women and to
ensure in this respect that trafficking in women is specifically mentioned in all relevant guidelines for
applicants and to make the possibilities of such financing known to the NGOs and institutions concerned;

19.
Believes  in  particular  that  greater  use  could  be  made  of  Community  education,  training  and
employment programmes to assist the victims whether they stay in the EU or return to their country of
origin;

20.
Calls  for  an  increase  in  funds  under  the  PHARE  and  TACIS  Programmes  for  projects  directly
linked to the fight against trafficking in women, given the fact that the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe are now countries of transit and destination as well as countries of origin;

21.
Calls for all EU Member States(cid:146) embassies and EU representations in third countries to be informed
of  the  dangers  of  recruitment  into  the  entertainment  business  and  to  be  sent  multilingual  information
material, and to take an active part in local events to discourage trafficking in women; insists on the need
to support women(cid:146)s organisations in whatever form and to integrate them into the process of information
and opinion-forming;

22.
Calls on the Commission and Member States to make provision for greater support to those women
who  return  to  their  country  of  origin  including  finance  to  return  home,  counselling,  education  and
vocational training, and employment opportunities to assist their rehabilitation: the guiding principle of
every measure should be to support the rehabilitation of the women and their reintegration into society;

23.
Believes that NGOs concerned with trafficking in women both in Member States and in countries of
origin  should  receive  maximum  support  from  Community  programmes  and  Member  States  authorities
given their expertise in prevention (eg information campaigns), support and protection of the victims, and
rehabilitation of returnees;

Considers that the ECU 3 million allocated to the DAPHNE Programme for 1997 is completely

24.
insufficient;

Calls  on  the  Commission  to  accelerate  its  work  in  proposing  a  legal  basis  for  the  DAPHNE
25.
Programme,  which  should  be  expanded  to  include  rehabilitation  and  protection  of  the  victims  of
trafficking given that this is not given adequate attention in other Community programmes;

Calls on the Commission to give priority in EU development aid programmes in the CEEC, Asia,
26.
Latin America, the ACP and Mediterranean area to combating trafficking in women by addressing the
underlying  reasons  why  women  are  vulnerable  to  trafficking  for  the  purposes  of  sexual  exploitation,
including poverty, lack of employment opportunities, low levels of literacy and education and the status of
women in society, in addition to supporting projects designed specifically to address trafficking;

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Calls on the Commission and Member States to give high priority to gender equality and women(cid:146)s
rights in negotiations with applicant countries and to ensure that the legislation and structures in those
countries are sufficient to tackle the problem of trafficking in women and are in line with measures taken
in the Member States;

28.
Urges the Commission, Member States and third countries involved in the negotiations over the
reform of the Lome· Convention to take into account the need to promote women(cid:146)s rights and the fight
against trafficking  in women;  calls  for  all future bilateral agreements with third countries to include a
clause  whereby  such  agreements  should  be  suspended  where  countries  are  found  not  to  have  taken
measures to enhance gender equality and combat trafficking in women;

Calls on the Member States to act as quickly as possible to ratify the Europol Convention, given
29.
that the mandate of the Europol Drugs Unit has recently been extended to the fight against traffic in human
beings and to give Europol or its predecessor all the resources they need to cope with their increased tasks;

30.
Calls  on  the  Council  to  extend  the  scope  of  the  future  European  Information  System  (EIS)  to
combating  trafficking  in  human  beings  by  exchanging  computerized  data  concerning  the  identity  of
traffickers and the international networks for the transit of victims;

31.
Stresses the importance of giving the victims of trafficking confidence in the forces of law and
order,  and  calls  for  the  relevant  police  services  to  be  given  special  training  and  appropriate  linguistic
knowledge  to  enable  them  to  provide  the  requisite  assistance  to  victims  who  will  thereby  be  able  to
cooperate in the fight against trafficking in human beings;

Deems it necessary to nominate, in the framework of the United Nations, a special rapporteur for

32.
trafficking in human beings in order to facilitate international initiatives in this field;

33.
Instructs its President to forward this resolution and the committee(cid:146)s report to NGOs working in the
field of trafficking in women, the Commission, the Council, the governments of the Member States, the
governments of third countries seeking membership of the Union, the governments of the ACP countries,
and other countries of origin.

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ATTENDANCE REGISTER

16 December 1997

The following signed:

d(cid:146)Aboville,  Adam,  Aelvoet,  Ahern,  Ahlqvist,  Ainardi,  Alavanos,  Aldo,  Amadeo,  Anastassopoulos,
d(cid:146)Ancona,  Andersson,  Andre·-Le·onard,  Andrews,  Angelilli,  An(cid:152)overos  Trias  de  Bes,  Antony,  Anttila,
Aparicio  Sa·nchez,  Apolina·rio,  Areitio  Toledo,  Argyros,  Arias  Can(cid:152)ete,  Arroni,  Augias,  Avgerinos,
Azzolini, Baldarelli, Baldi, Balfe, Banotti, Bardong, Baro·n Crespo, Barros Moura, Barthet-Mayer, Barton,
Barzanti, Be·be·ar, Bennasar Tous, Berend, Bere‘s, Bernard-Reymond, Bernardini, Bertens, Berthu, Bianco,
Billingham,  van  Bladel,  Blak,  Bloch  von  Blottnitz,  Blokland,  Blot,  Bo¤ge,  Bo¤sch,  Bonde,  Boniperti,
Bontempi,  Boogerd-Quaak,  Botz,  Bourlanges,  Bowe,  de  Bre·mond  d(cid:146)Ars,  Breyer,  Brinkhorst,  Brok,
Buffetaut, Burenstam Linder, Burtone, Cabezo·n Alonso, Cabrol, Caccavale, Caligaris, Camiso·n Asensio,
Campos,  Campoy  Zueco,  Cardona,  Carlotti,  Carlsson,  Carnero  Gonza·lez,  Carniti,  Carre‘re  d(cid:146)Encausse,
Cars,  Casini  Carlo,  Cassidy,  Castagne‘de,  Castagnetti,  Castellina,  Castricum,  Caudron,  Cederschio¤ld,
Chanterie, Chesa, Chichester, Christodoulou, Coates, Colajanni, Colino Salamanca, Colli, Collins Gerard,
Collins Kenneth D., Colombo Svevo, Colom i Naval, Corbett, Cornelissen, Correia, Corrie, Costa Neves,
Cot, Cottigny, Cox, Crampton, Crawley, Crowley, Cunha, Cunningham, Cushnahan, van Dam, D(cid:146)Andrea,
Danesin,  Dankert,  Dary,  David,  De  Clercq,  De  Coene,  Decourrie‘re,  De  Esteban  Martin,  De  Giovanni,
Dell(cid:146)Alba, De Luca, De Melo, Denys, Deprez, Desama, de Vries, D(cid:14)·ez de Rivera Icaza, van Dijk, Dillen,
Dimitrakopoulos, Di Prima, Donnay, Donnelly Alan John, Donnelly Brendan Patrick, Donner, Du¤hrkop
Du¤hrkop, Duhamel, Dupuis, Dury, Dybkj(cid:230)r, Ebner, Eisma, Elchlepp, Elles, Elliott, Elmalan, Eriksson,
Escudero,  Estevan  Bolea,  Ettl,  Evans,  Ewing,  Fabra  Valle·s,  Fabre-Aubrespy,  Falconer,  Fantuzzi,
Farassino,  Fassa,  Fayot,  Ferber,  Fe·ret,  Ferna·ndez-Albor,  Ferna·ndez  Mart(cid:14)·n,  Filippi,  Fini,  Fitzsimons,
Flemming,  Florenz,  Florio,  Fontaine,  Fontana,  Ford,  Four(cid:231)ans,  Fraga  Este·vez,  Friedrich,
Frischenschlager,  Frutos  Gama,  Funk,  Gahrton,  Galeote  Quecedo,  Gallagher,  Garc(cid:14)·a  Arias,
Garc(cid:14)·a-Margallo  y  Marfil,  Garosci,  Garot,  Garriga  Polledo,  Gaso‘liba  i  Bo¤hm,  de  Gaulle,  Gebhardt,
Ghilardotti, Giansily, Gillis, Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado, Glante, Glase, Goepel, Goerens, Go¤rlach, Gollnisch,
Gomolka,  Gonza·lez  A· lvarez,  Gonza·lez  Trivin(cid:152)o,  Graefe  zu  Baringdorf,  Graenitz,  Graziani,  Gro¤ner,
Grosch,  Grossete(cid:136)te,  Gu¤nther,  Guinebertie‘re,  Gutie·rrez  D(cid:14)·az,  Haarder, 
von  Habsburg,
Habsburg-Lothringen, Ha¤nsch, Hager, Hallam, Happart, Hardstaff, Harrison, Hatzidakis, Haug, Hautala,
Hawlicek,  Heinisch,  Hendrick,  Herman,  Hermange,  Hernandez  Mollar,  Herzog,  Hoff,  Holm,
Hoppenstedt, Hory, Howitt, Hughes, Hulthe·n, Hume, Hyland, Ilaskivi, Imaz San Miguel, Imbeni, Iversen,
Izquierdo Collado, Izquierdo Rojo, Jackson, Janssen van Raay, Jarzembowski, Jean-Pierre, Jensen Kirsten
M., Jensen Lis, Jo¤ns, Jove· Peres, Junker, Kaklamanis, Karamanou, Karoutchi, Katiforis, Kellett-Bowman,
Keppelhoff-Wiechert, Kerr, Kestelijn-Sierens, Killilea, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kittelmann, Kjer Hansen,
Kla(cid:223), Koch, Kofoed, Kokkola, Konrad, Krarup, Kreissl-Do¤rfler, Kristoffersen, Kronberger, Kuckelkorn,
Kuhn, Kuhne, Laignel, Lalumie‘re, La Malfa, Lambraki, Lambrias, Lang, Lange, Langen, Langenhagen,
Lannoye, Larive, de Lassus Saint Genie‘s, Lataillade, Le Gallou, Lehne, Lenz, Le Pen, Leperre-Verrier, Le
Rachinel,  Lienemann,  Liese,  Lindeperg,  Lindholm,  Lindqvist,  Linkohr,  Linser,  Lo¤o¤w,  Lomas,  Lu¤ttge,
Lukas,  Lulling,  Macartney,  McCarthy,  McCartin,  McGowan,  McIntosh,  McKenna,  McMahon,
McMillan-Scott,  McNally,  Maij-Weggen,  Malangre·,  Malerba,  Manisco,  Mann  Erika,  Mann  Thomas,
Manzella,  Marin,  Marinho,  Marinucci,  Marset  Campos,  Martens,  Martin  David  W.,  Martin
Philippe-Armand,  Martinez,  Mather,  Mayer,  Medina  Ortega,  Megahy,  Me·gret,  Me·ndez  de  Vigo,
Mendiluce  Pereiro,  Mendon(cid:231)a,  Menrad,  Metten,  Mezzaroma,  Miller,  Miranda,  Miranda  de  Lage,
Mohamed Ali, Mombaur, Monfils, Moniz, Moorhouse, Mora·n Lo·pez, Moreau, Moretti, Morgan, Morris,
Mosiek-Urbahn, Mouskouri, Mu¤ller, Mulder, Murphy, Musumeci, Mutin, Myller, Napoletano, Nassauer,
Needle, Nencini, Newens, Newman, Nicholson, Nordmann, Novo, Novo Belenguer, Oddy, Ojala, Olsson,
Oomen-Ruijten,  Orlando,  Otila,  Paasilinna,  Paasio,  Pack,  Paisley,  Papayannakis,  Parigi,  Parodi,  Pasty,
Peijs, Pe·rez Royo, Perry, Peter, Pettinari, Pex, Piecyk, Piha, Pimenta, Pinel, Pirker, des Places, Plooij-van
Gorsel,  Plumb,  Podesta‘,  Poettering,  Poggiolini,  Poisson,  Pollack,  Pome·s  Ruiz,  Pompidou,  Pons  Grau,
Porto,  Posselt,  Pronk,  Provan,  Puerta,  van  Putten,  Querbes,  Quisthoudt-Rowohl,  Rack,  Randzio-Plath,
Rapkay, Raschhofer, Rauti, Read, Reding, Redondo Jime·nez, Rehder, Ribeiro, Riis-Jłrgensen, Rinsche,
Ripa  di  Meana,  Robles  Piquer,  Rocard,  Rosado  Fernandes,  de  Rose,  Roth-Behrendt,  Rothe,  Rothley,
Roubatis,  Rovsing,  Ru¤big,  Ruffolo,  Ryyna¤nen,  Sainjon,  Saint-Pierre,  Sakellariou,  Salafranca
Sa·nchez-Neyra,  Samland,  Sandb(cid:230)k,  Santini,  Sanz  Ferna·ndez,  Sarlis,  Scapagnini,  Scha¤fer,  Schaffner,
Schiedermeier,  Schierhuber,  Schlechter,  Schleicher,  Schlu¤ter,  Schmid,  Schmidbauer,  Schnellhardt,
Scho¤rling,  Schro¤der,  Schroedter,  Schulz,  Schwaiger,  Seal,  Secchi,  Seillier,  Seppa¤nen,  Sichrovsky,
Simpson,  Sindal,  Siso· Cruellas,  Sjo¤stedt,  Skinner,  Smith,  Soltwedel-Scha¤fer,  Sonneveld,  Sornosa
Mart(cid:14)·nez,  Souchet,  Soulier,  Spaak,  Speciale,  Spencer,  Spiers,  Stasi,  Stenmarck,  Stenzel,  Stevens,
Stewart-Clark,  Stirbois,  Stockmann,  Striby,  Sturdy,  Svensson,  Swoboda,  Tajani,  Tamino,  Tannert,
Tappin,  Tatarella,  Taubira-Delannon,  Telka¤mper,  Terro·n  i  Cus(cid:14)·,  Teverson,  Theato,  Theonas,  Theorin,
Thomas, Thors, Thyssen, Tillich, Tindemans, Titley, Tomlinson, Tongue, Torres Couto, Torres Marques,
Trakatellis,  Truscott,  Tsatsos,  Ullmann,  Va¤yrynen,  Valdivielso  de  Cue·,  Vallve·,  Valverde  Lo·pez,
Vandemeulebroucke,  Vanhecke,  Van  Lancker,  Varela  Suanzes-Carpegna,  Vaz  da  Silva,  Vecchi,  van
Velzen W.G., van Velzen Wim, Verde i Aldea, Verwaerde, Viceconte, Vinci, Viola, Virgin, Virrankoski,

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Voggenhuber, Waddington, Waidelich, Walter, Watson, Watts, Weber, Weiler, Wemheuer, West, White,
Whitehead,  Wibe,  Wiebenga,  Wieland,  Wiersma,  Wijsenbeek,  Willockx,  Wilson,  von  Wogau,  Wolf,
Wurtz, Wynn, Zimmermann.

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(+) = For

(›) = Against

(O) = Abstention

ANNEX

Result of roll-call votes

1. Waddington report A4-0372/97

Resolution

(+)

ARE: Barthet-Mayer, Castagne‘de,  De  Lassus,  Ewing,  Gonza·lez Trivin(cid:152)o,  Hory,  Lalumie‘re, Macartney,
Saint-Pierre, Vandemeulebroucke

ELDR: Andre·-Le·onard, Anttila, Bertens, Boogerd-Quaak, Brinkhorst, Cars, Cox, Dybkj(cid:230)r, Eisma, Fassa,
Gaso‘liba  i  Bo¤hm,  Haarder,  Kjer  Hansen,  Larive,  Lindqvist,  Mulder,  Olsson,  Plooij-van  Gorsel,
Riis-Jłrgensen, Ryyna¤nen, Spaak, Teverson, Thors, Vallve·, Virrankoski, Va¤yrynen, Watson, Wiebenga,
Wijsenbeek

GUE/NGL: Eriksson, Gonza·lez A· lvarez, Herzog, Jove· Peres, Manisco, Mohamed Ali, Ojala, Pettinari,
Puerta, Querbes, Ribeiro, Seppa¤nen, Sjo¤stedt, Svensson, Theonas, Wurtz

I-EDN: Blokland, Bonde, Buffetaut, van Dam, de Gaulle, Jensen Lis, Nicholson, Sandb(cid:230)k

NI:  Dillen,  Fe·ret,  Fini,  Hager,  Kronberger,  Lang  Carl,  Le  Rachinel,  Lukas,  Muscardini,  Parigi,
Raschhofer, Sichrovsky, Vanhecke

PPE: Anastassopoulos, An(cid:152)overos Trias de Bes, Areitio Toledo, Argyros, Arias Can(cid:152)ete, Banotti, Bardong,
Be·be·ar,  Bennasar  Tous,  Berend,  Bernard-Reymond,  Bo¤ge,  Bourlanges,  de  Bre·mond  d(cid:146)Ars,  Brok,
Burenstam  Linder,  Camiso·n  Asensio,  Carlsson,  Cassidy,  Castagnetti,  Cederschio¤ld,  Chanterie,
Chichester, Christodoulou, Colombo Svevo, Cornelissen, Corrie, Cunha, Cushnahan, De Esteban Martin,
Deprez,  Dimitrakopoulos,  Donnelly  Brendan,  Ebner,  Elles,  Escudero,  Estevan  Bolea,  Fabra  Valle·s,
Ferber, Ferna·ndez-Albor, Fernandez Mart(cid:14)·n, Ferrer, Filippi, Florenz, Fontaine, Four(cid:231)ans, Fraga Estevez,
Friedrich, Galeote Quecedo, Garc(cid:14)·a-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Gillis, Glase, Goepel, Gomolka,
Graziani, Grossete(cid:136)te, Gu¤nther, Hatzidakis, Heinisch, Herman, Hernandez Mollar, Hoppenstedt, Ilaskivi,
Imaz San Miguel, Jackson, Jarzembowski, Kellett-Bowman, Keppelhoff-Wiechert, Kla(cid:223), Koch, Konrad,
Kristoffersen, Lambrias, Langen, Langenhagen, Lehne, Lenz, Liese, Lulling, McCartin, McMillan-Scott,
Maij-Weggen, Malangre·, Mann Thomas, Martens, Mather, Mayer, Me·ndez de Vigo, Mendon(cid:231)a, Menrad,
Mombaur,  Mosiek-Urbahn,  Mouskouri,  Nassauer,  Oomen-Ruijten,  Otila,  Pack,  Peijs,  Perry,  Piha,
Pimenta,  Pirker,  Plumb,  Poettering,  Poggiolini,  Posselt,  Pronk,  Provan,  Quisthoudt-Rowohl,  Reding,
Redondo  Jime·nez,  Rinsche,  Robles  Piquer,  Ru¤big,  Salafranca  Sa·nchez-Neyra,  Sarlis,  Schiedermeier,
Schierhuber,  Schnellhardt,  Schro¤der,  Schwaiger,  Secchi,  Siso· Cruellas,  Sonneveld,  Soulier,  Spencer,
Stasi,  Stenmarck,  Stenzel,  Stevens,  Stewart-Clark,  Sturdy,  Theato,  Thyssen,  Tillich,  Tindemans,
Trakatellis, Valdivielso de Cue·, Valverde Lo·pez, Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Vaz Da Silva, van Velzen
W.G., Virgin, Wieland, von Wogau

PSE:  Adam,  Ahlqvist,  d(cid:146)Ancona,  Andersson  Jan,  Aparicio  Sa·nchez,  Apolina·rio,  Augias,  Avgerinos,
Baldarelli,  Balfe,  Baro·n  Crespo,  Barton,  Barzanti,  Billingham,  Blak,  Bontempi,  Botz,  Bowe,  Bo¤sch,
Cabezo·n Alonso, Campos, Carlotti, Carniti, Castricum, Caudron, Colajanni, Colino Salamanca, Colom i
Naval, Corbett, Correia, Cot, Cottigny, Crampton, Crawley, Cunningham, Dankert, David, De Coene, De
Giovanni,  Denys,  Desama,  D(cid:14)·ez  de  Rivera  Icaza,  Donnelly  Alan  John,  Donner,  Du¤hrkop  Du¤hrkop,
Duhamel,  Dury,  Elchlepp,  Elliott,  Ettl,  Evans,  Falconer,  Fantuzzi,  Fayot,  Ford,  Garot,  Gebhardt,
Ghilardotti, Glante, Graenitz, Gro¤ner, Ha¤nsch, Hallam, Hardstaff, Harrison, Haug, Hawlicek, Hendrick,
Hoff,  Howitt,  Hughes,  Hulthe·n,  Imbeni,  Izquierdo  Rojo,  Jensen  Kirsten,  Jo¤ns,  Junker,  Karamanou,
Katiforis, Kerr, Kindermann, Kinnock, Kokkola, Kuckelkorn, Kuhn, Kuhne, Laignel, Lambraki, Lange,
Lindeperg, Linkohr, Lo¤o¤w, McCarthy, McGowan, McNally, Mann Erika, Manzella, Marinucci, Martin
David  W.,  Medina  Ortega,  Megahy,  Mendiluce  Pereiro,  Metten,  Miller,  Miranda  de  Lage,  Morgan,
Morris, Murphy, Mutin, Myller, Napoletano, Needle, Newens, Newman, Paasilinna, Paasio, Papakyriazis,
Pe·rez  Royo,  Peter,  Piecyk,  Pollack,  van  Putten,  Randzio-Plath,  Rapkay,  Read,  Rehder,  Rocard,  Rothe,
Rothley,  Roubatis,  Ruffolo,  Sakellariou,  Samland,  Scha¤fer,  Schlechter,  Schmid,  Schmidbauer,  Schulz,
Seal,  Simpson,  Sindal,  Skinner,  Smith,  Spiers,  Stockmann,  Swoboda,  Tannert,  Tappin,  Terro·n  i  Cus(cid:14)·,
Theorin, Thomas, Titley, Tomlinson, Tongue, Truscott, Tsatsos, Van Lancker, van Velzen Wim, Verde i
Aldea, Waddington, Waidelich, Walter, Weiler, Wemheuer, White, Whitehead, Wibe, Willockx, Wilson,
Wynn, Zimmermann

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UPE: Caccavale, Kaklamanis

V:  Aelvoet,  Ahern,  Bloch  von  Blottnitz,  van  Dijk,  Gahrton,  Graefe  zu  Baringdorf,  Hautala,  Holm,
Kreissl-Do¤rfler,  Lannoye,  Lindholm,  McKenna,  Mu¤ller,  Ripa  di  Meana,  Schroedter,  Scho¤rling,
Soltwedel-Scha¤fer, Tamino, Ullmann, Wolf

UPE: Poisson

(›)

(O)

I-EDN: Berthu, des Places

PPE: von Habsburg, Habsburg-Lothringen, Rack, Verwaerde

UPE:  d(cid:146)Aboville,  Arroni,  Azzolini,  Baldi,  van  Bladel,  Carre‘re  d(cid:146)Encausse,  Chesa,  Collins  Gerard,
Donnay, Fitzsimons, Gallagher, Garosci, Hermange, Hyland, Karoutchi, Malerba, Parodi, Pasty, Podesta‘,
Pompidou, Rosado Fernandes, Santini, Schaffner, Tajani, Viceconte