10. EU-Switzerland agreement on the protection of designations of origin and geographical indications for agricultural products and foodstuffs (


1. Specific measures for agriculture in favour of the smaller Aegean islands (


23. Cross-border implications of the legal protection of adults (


Opening of the sitting


9. Adaptation of the Rules of Procedure to the Treaty of Lisbon (
- Before the vote:
(FR) Mr President, I see that unlike President Buzek, you do not suffer from poor lateral vision and you were able to see me.
Mr President, I have a very short point of order. Mr Martin's report is intended to sort out problems concerning adaptation to the Treaty of Lisbon, but among the different amendments that we are required to vote on, there is one that is not related in any way to the Treaty of Lisbon and, as I see it, goes against the general principles of Parliamentary procedure. It is the amendment that deprives non-attached Members of the power to appoint their own representatives.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very serious matter regardless of your political opinions. To hand responsibility over to the President of Parliament, however impartial he may be, for selecting a Member to represent the non-attached Members at the Conference of Presidents, based on goodness only knows what criteria, instead of to the non-attached Members themselves, I truly think goes against the general principles of law and against the case-law of the European Court of Justice.
For this reason, Mr President, I consider that this amendment should be withdrawn from the list of amendments we are voting on today.
Thank you, Mr Gollnisch. You may recall that for several months I sat as a non-attached Member and, if I may say so, my political views are so divergent from yours that it merely proves the point that the non-attached section is not a group, and never can be.
- At the end of the vote:
rapporteur. - Mr President, I do not want to delay the House, but before we conclude this item, there are two technical points to be dealt with.
As you know, this process started last November. We need to add a new citation to link last November's vote with this vote, and I would ask the House to agree that we add the words 'having regard to its decision of 25 November 2009 on the adaptation of Parliament's Rules of Procedure to the Lisbon Treaty'. This is just, as I said, a technical point.
The second such point is that we currently say that these rules should come into force on 1 December 2009. Clearly, that is not possible, and therefore I ask that we apply the normal Rule 212(3), which means that the rules would come into force on the first day of the next part-session.
Mr Martin, thank you for all your work on this and other things.


Corrections to votes and voting intentions: see Minutes
(The sitting was suspended at 12.45 p.m. and resumed at 3.00 p.m.)


Decisions concerning certain documents: see Minutes


Adjournment of the session
I declare the session of the European Parliament adjourned.
(The sitting was closed at 12.25)


Agenda for next sitting: see Minutes


Resumption of the session
I declare resumed the session of the European Parliament adjourned on Thursday, 25 February 2010.


6. EC-Armenia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (vote)
Report: Jacek Saryusz-Wolski


Announcement by the President
First of all, I would like to read out an important piece of information. On 2 December, I received a Communication from the Commission, addressed to the European Parliament and the Council, concerning the consequences of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon for ongoing interinstitutional decision-making procedures. By virtue of this communication, Parliament as an institution deems that all the proposals listed in the communication for which the Treaty of Lisbon granted it competence have been resubmitted to Parliament. Parliament has also taken note of the fact that, by virtue of the communication, the European Commission has withdrawn certain proposals.
In the case of legislative proposals pending as at 1 December 2009, the date on which the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force, the President of the Commission has invited the parliamentary committees to which proposals have already been submitted in the current legislative term, as recorded in the minutes of the part-sessions, to verify the legal bases and procedural modifications proposed by the Commission, along with any other amendments to be made in the light of the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon, and to decide whether they intend to adjudge positions already adopted under the consultation procedure to be ordinary legislative procedure first readings or to constitute approvals.
It is understood that Parliament reserves the right, in all cases, to request that the Commission submit a new proposal. In the case of proposals on which Parliament had not been consulted prior to entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, it falls to the Commission to forward new proposals under the ordinary legislative procedure or other appropriate procedure.
It is a communication about our legislative activities in the near future - a communication concerning mutual relations between the European Commission and the European Parliament in the legislative process. As you know, we are in a transition period - we are moving from the Treaty of Nice to the Treaty of Lisbon and, at the same time, we are beginning a new Parliamentary term. The new Commission still has not been approved. This all requires rather arduous work, which must be carried out in accordance with the law, between the Commission and Parliament, and this is the subject of the communication.


8. Common organisation of the market in wine (vote)