MINUTES#Monday, 18 December 2006
Date: 2006-12-23
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: parliamentary debate

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Monday, 18 December 2006

2006 — 2007 SESSION

Sitting of 18 December 2006

BRUSSELS

(2006/C 317 E/05)

MINUTES

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Josep BORRELL FONTELLES

President

1. Resumption of session

The sitting opened at 11.05.

2. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

The following spoke:

— Jean-Marie Cavada (Chairman of

the LIBE Committee), who thanked all

those involved on
14 December 2006 in the adoption of ten proposals for decisions on the financing of the Area of
Freedom, Security and Justice (Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.11, Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.12,
Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.13, Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.15, Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.16,
Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.22, Minutes of 14.12.2005, Item 6.23, Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.26,
Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.27 and Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.28) and added that the texts now
reflected the wishes of the House;

— Richard Corbett (rapporteur on the amendment to Rule 81 of the Rules of Procedure, adopted on
14.12.2006 — Minutes of 14.12.2006, Item 6.20), who asked that the new provisions should be made
available in January 2007 (the President said a new provisional version of the Rules of Procedure would
be distributed for January 2007).

3. Documents received

The following documents had been received from the Commission:

— Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the retrofitting of mirrors to
registered in the Community (COM(2006)0570 — C6-0332/2006 —

heavy goods vehicles
2006/0183(COD))

referred to responsible: TRAN

opinion:

ITRE

4. Welcome

On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed members of a delegation from the Pan-African Parliament
— led by its President, Gertrude Mongella — who had taken their seats in the distinguished visitors' gallery.

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5. Signing of REACH and the seventh framework research programme

Josep Borrell Fontelles (President of the European Parliament) and Matti Vanhanen (President-in-Office of the
Council) made short statements following the adoption of the REACH programme and the seventh frame-
work research programme (Minutes of 13.12.2006, Item 8.1, Minutes of 13.12.2006, Item 8.2, Minutes of
30.11.2006, Item 8.10, Minutes of 30.11.2006, Item 8.11, Minutes of 30.11.2006, Item 8.14, Minutes of
30.11.2006, Item 8.15, Minutes of 30.11.2006, Item 8.16, Minutes of 30.11.2006, Item 8.17, Minutes of
30.11.2006, Item 8.18, Minutes of 30.11.2006, Item 8.19, Minutes of 30.11.2006, Item 8.20 and Minutes of
30.11.2006, Item 8.21).

They then signed the acts, with José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission), Karl-Heinz Florenz
(Chairman of the ENVI Committee), Guido Sacconi (rapporteur on the REACH reports), Miloslav Ransdorf
(Vice-Chairman of the ITRE Committee) and the three rapporteurs on the seventh framework research
programme, Jerzy Buzek, Philippe Busquin and Anne Laperrouze.

6. Meeting of the European Council of 14 and 15 December 2006 — Activities of

the Finnish Presidency (debate)

European Council
report
14 and 15 December 2006

and Commission statement: Meeting of

the

European Council of

Statement by the Presidency-in-Office of the Council: Activities of the Finnish Presidency

Matti Vanhanen (President-in-Office of the Council) introduced the European Council's report and made a
statement on the six months of the Finnish Presidency of the Council.

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

The following spoke: Hans-Gert Poettering, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the
PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group,
the
Monica Frassoni, on behalf of
GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, and Koenraad Dillen, Non-attached
Member.

the Verts/ALE Group, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, on behalf of

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Alexander Stubb, Edite Estrela, Gérard Onesta,
Gunnar Hökmark, Ville Itälä, Lasse Lehtinen, Józef Pinior, Margrietus van den Berg, Françoise Grossetête, Jan
Mulder, Ryszard Czarnecki, Esko Seppänen, Piia-Noora Kauppi,
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Marianne Mikko,
Hannu Takkula, Zbigniew Zaleski, Richard Corbett, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Malcolm Harbour, Zbigniew
Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Simon Busuttil, Alojz Peterle, Tunne Kelam, Avril Doyle, Charles Tannock,
Jacek
Protasiewicz, Zita Pleštinská and Jerzy Buzek.

Matti Vanhanen and José Manuel Barroso replied to points raised by Members.

The debate closed.

7. Dates for next sittings

The next sittings would be held from 15.01.2007 to 18.01.2007.

8. Adjournment of session

The session of the European Parliament was adjourned.

The sitting closed at 13.25.

Julian Priestley

Secretary-General

Josep Borrell Fontelles

President

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The following signed:

ATTENDANCE REGISTER

Agnoletto, Albertini, Andersson, Andrejevs, Arif, Ashworth, Audy, Ayala Sender, Ayuso, Baco, Bauer,
Beaupuy, Becsey, Belet, Belohorská, Bennahmias, Berès, van den Berg, Berman, Blokland, Bonde, Borrell
Fontelles, Bourlanges, Bozkurt, Bradbourn, Brejc, Brepoels, Brunetta, van den Burg, Bushill-Matthews,
Busuttil, Buzek, Carollo, Caspary, Castex, Castiglione, Cavada, Christensen, Coelho, Corbett, Cramer, Crowley,
Ryszard Czarnecki, Daul, De Blasio, De Keyser, Demetriou, Deprez, Descamps, Désir, De Veyrac, De Vits,
Dillen, Doyle, Duff, Duka-Zólyomi, Elles, Estrela, Farage, Fernandes, Elisa Ferreira, Fjellner, Flasarová, Florenz,
Fourtou, Frassoni, Fruteau, Gahler, Gaľa, Gaubert, Geremek, Geringer de Oedenberg, Gewalt, Gibault,
Glattfelder, Gottardi, Gröner, Grossetête, Guardans Cambó, Guellec, Hänsch, Harangozó, Harbour, Hasse
Ferreira, Hassi, Haug, Hegyi, Herczog, Hökmark, Holm, Horáček, Ibrisagic, Isler Béguin, Itälä, Jäätteenmäki,
Janowski, Jeggle, Jöns, Jørgensen, Jordan Cizelj, Kallenbach, Karas, Kaufmann, Kauppi, Tunne Kelam, Klinz,
Koch, Konrad, Krasts, Krupa, Kułakowski, Kusstatscher, Kuźmiuk, Lamassoure, Lambrinidis, Lang, Langen,
Lax, Lehtinen, Libicki, Ludford, Lundgren, Maaten, McDonald, McGuinness, Madeira, Maldeikis, Maňka,
Erika Mann, Markov, Marques, David Martin, Martínez Martínez, Masiel, Mauro, Mavrommatis, Mayer,
Medina Ortega, Meijer, Miguélez Ramos, Mikko, Mikolášik, Millán Mon, Moreno Sánchez, Mulder, Muscat,
Myller, Newton Dunn, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht,
Ó Neachtain, Onesta, Onyszkiewicz, Őry, Oviir, Paasilinna, Pack, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos,
Pęk, Alojz Peterle, Pīks, Pinior, Pirilli, Pleštinská, Podestà, Pöttering, Prets, Protasiewicz, Ransdorf, Rapkay,
Resetarits, Reul, Rivera, Roithová, Rothe, Rouček, Roure, Rutowicz, Sacconi, Saïfi, Sakalas, Saryusz-Wolski,
Schapira, Scheele, Olle Schmidt, Frithjof Schmidt, Schulz, Seeberg, Segelström, Seppänen, Siekierski,
Sifunakis, Silva Peneda, Simpson, Sinnott, Sommer, Spautz, Speroni, Staniszewska, Starkevičiūtė, Sterckx,
Stubb, Sudre, Swoboda, Szájer, Szent-Iványi, Tajani, Takkula, Tannock, Tomczak, Triantaphyllides, Tzampazi,
Vaidere, Van Hecke, Vaugrenard, Veneto, Vlasák, Watson, Henri Weber, Weiler, Westlund, Wieland, Bernard
Piotr Wojciechowski, Janusz Wojciechowski, Wurtz, Yañez-Barnuevo García, Záborská, Zaleski, Zappalà,
Ždanoka, Zvěřina

Observers:

Bărbuleţiu, Cappone, Corlăţean, Coşea, Corina Creţu, Martin Dimitrov, Kazak, Kirilov, Mihalache, Paparizov,
Sofianski, Szabó, Vigenin