ACTA#Miércoles, 11 de febrero de 2004

• Jurisdiction: European Union
• Published date: 07 May 2007
• Celex Number: C2004/097E/03

22.4.2004 EN Official Journal of the European Union CE 97/134

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MINUTES

(2004/C 97 E/03)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SITTING

IN THE CHAIR: Renzo IMBENI

Vice-President

1. Opening of sitting

The sitting opened at 9.00.

2. Annual debate — Progress in implementing the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) in 2003 (debate)

Oral question by José Ribeiro e Castro on behalf of the LIBE Committee to the Council:Progress in implementing the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) in 2003 (B5-0005/2004)

Oral question by José Ribeiro e Castro on behalf of the LIBE Committee to the Commission: Annual debate 2003 on progress in implementing the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) in the EU (Articles 2 and 39 TEU) (B5-0006/2004)

José Ribeiro e Castro introduced the annual debate and moved the oral questions.

Michael McDowell (President-in-Office of the Council) and António Vitorino (Member of the Commission) answered the questions.

The following spoke: Hubert Pirker, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Elena Ornella Paciotti, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Alima Boumediene-Thiery, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Gerard Collins, on behalf of the UEN Group, Johannes (Hans) Blokland, on behalf of the EDD Group, Maurizio Turco, Non-attached Member, Carlos Coelho, Anna Terrón i Cusí, Ole B. Sørensen, Ole Krarup, Hélène Flautre, Philip Claeys and Jorge Salvador Hernández Mollar.

IN THE CHAIR: Giorgos DIMITRAKOPOULOS

Vice-President

The following spoke: Robert J.E. Evans, Giorgio Calò, Georges Berthu, Giacomo Santini, Anna Karamanou, Ward Beysen, Marjo Matikainen-Kallström, Luís Marinho, Marcelino Oreja Arburúa, Ozan Ceyhun, Mary Elizabeth Banotti and Fernando Fernández Martín.

IN THE CHAIR: Joan COLOM I NAVAL

Vice-President

The following spoke: Michael McDowell, José Ribeiro e Castro, Michael McDowell who spoke in reply, and António Vitorino.

The debate closed.

Vote: March II.

3. Nuclear disarmament (Oral questions with debate)

Oral question by Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jillian Evans, Nelly Maes, Patricia McKenna, Elisabeth Schroedter, Caroline Lucas, Jean Lambert, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Johan Van Hecke, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Pernille Frahm, Luisa Morgantini, Pedro Marset Campos, Salvador Jové Peres, Emmanouil Bakopoulos, Erik Meijer, Lucio Manisco, Hans Modrow, Luigi Vinci, Gérard Caudron, María Luisa Bergaz Conesa, Freddy Blak, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk, to the Council: Nuclear Disarmament: Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2005 — EU preparation of third NPT Prepcom (New York, 26 April — 7 May 2004) (B5-0008/2004)

Oral question by Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jillian Evans, Nelly Maes, Patricia McKenna, Elisabeth Schroedter, Caroline Lucas, Jean Lambert, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Johan Van Hecke, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Pernille Frahm, Luisa Morgantini, Pedro Marset Campos, Salvador Jové Peres, Emmanouil Bakopoulos, Erik Meijer, Lucio Manisco, Hans Modrow, Luigi Vinci, Gérard Caudron, María Luisa Bergaz Conesa, Freddy Blak, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk, to the Commission: Nuclear Disarmament: Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2005 — EU preparation of third NPT Prepcom (New York, 26 April — 7 May 2004) (B5-0013/2004)

Jan Marinus Wiersma and Jillian Evans moved the oral questions.

Dick Roche (President-in-Office of the Council) and Christopher Patten (Member of the Commission) answered the questions.

The following spoke: Maj Britt Theorin, on behalf of the PSE Group, Johan Van Hecke, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Pernille Frahm, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Patricia McKenna, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Nelly Maes and Caroline Lucas.

The debate closed.

Vote: Thursday 26 February 2004.

4. Official welcome

On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed members of a delegation of members of parliament and senators representing the Mercosur countries, led by Mr Alfredo Atanasof, Chairman of the Mercosur Joint Parliamentary Committee, who had taken their seats in the official gallery.

IN THE CHAIR: Pat COX

President

5. Voting time

Details of voting (amendments, separate and split votes, etc.) appear in Annex 1 to the Minutes.

5.1. Agricultural incomes in the EU (Rule 110a) (vote)

Report on the development of agricultural incomes in the European Union [2002/2258(INI)] — Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Georges Garot (A5-0022/2004).

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 1)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P5_TA(2004)0084)

5.2. Agricultural research (Rule 110a) (vote)

Report on agriculture and agricultural research in the framework of CAP reform [2003/2052(INI)] — Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Rapporteur: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (A5-0018/2004).

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 2)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P5_TA(2004)0085)

5.3. Recognition of professional qualifications ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive on the recognition of professional qualifications [COM(2002) 119 — C5-0113/2002 — 2002/0061(COD)] — Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. Rapporteur: Stefano Zappalà (A5-0470/2003).

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 3)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P5_TA(2004)0086)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P5_TA(2004)0086)

The following spoke:

The rapporteur moved an oral amendment to amendment 20 which was not agreed to.

5.4. Approval of motor vehicles and their trailers ***I (vote)

Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles [COM(2003) 418 — C5-0320/2003 — 2003/0153(COD)] — Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. Rapporteur: Giuseppe Gargani (A5-0025/2004).

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 4)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P5_TA(2004)0087)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P5_TA(2004)0087)

5.5. Recovery of the Northern hake stock * (vote)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation establishing measures for the recovery of the Northern hake stock [COM(2003) 374 — C5-0314/2003 — 2003/0137(CNS)] — Committee on Fisheries. Rapporteur: Dominique F.C. Souchet (A5-0024/2004).

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 5)

COMMISSION PROPOSAL

Approved as amended (P5_TA(2004)0088)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted (P5_TA(2004)0088)

5.6. Organisation of working time (vote)

Report on the organisation of working time (revision of Directive 93/104/EEC) [2003/2165(INI)] — Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Alejandro Cercas (A5-0026/2004).

(Simple majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 6)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P5_TA(2004)0089)

The following spoke:

On behalf of the PSE Group, the rapporteur moved an oral amendment to paragraph 12, which was agreed to, and asked for a split vote on that paragraph. Elizabeth Lynne and Brian Crowley then objected to the order of vote of the amendments to that paragraph.

José Ribeiro e Castro and Luigi Cocilovo deplored the confusion surrounding the vote on this paragraph.

6. Explanations of vote

Written explanations of vote:

Explanations of vote submitted in writing under Rule 137(3) appear in the verbatim report of proceedings for this sitting.

Oral explanations of vote:

Report Garot — A5-0022/2004

— Carlo Fatuzzo

Report Graefe zu Baringdorf — A5-0018/2004

— Carlo Fatuzzo

Report Zappalà — A5-0470/2003

— Carlo Fatuzzo

Report Gargani — A5-0025/2004

— Carlo Fatuzzo

Report Cercas — A5-0026/2004

— Carlo Fatuzzo and Brian Crowley

Brian Crowley queried the wisdom of allowing the oral amendment to paragraph 12 (the President took note of his remarks).

7. Corrections to votes

Corrections to votes were submitted by the following Members:

Report Garot — A5-0022/2004

— single vote for: José Ribeiro e Castro, Eurig Wyn against: Avril Doyle

Report Zappalà — A5-0470/2003

— amendment 8 for: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— amendment 20 for: Enrico Ferri abstentions: Avril Doyle

— amendment 23 for: Enrico Ferri against: Hans-Peter Martin, Emmanouil Mastorakis

— amendment 62 for: Ilda Figueiredo, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— amendment 63 for: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— amendment 72 against: Marie Anne Isler Béguin

— amendment 121 for: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— block 2 for: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— amendment 131 for: Patricia McKenna

— amendment 68 cp second part against: Arlene McCarthy

— amendment 68 cp against: Claude Turmes

— amendment 73 for: Paolo Costa, Avril Doyle, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— amendment 208 for: Christopher J.P. Beazley, Paolo Costa, John Walls Cushnahan, Konstantinos Hatzidakis, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Dana Rosemary Scallon

— amendment 212 for: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou

— amendment 197 for: Paolo Costa against: Rainer Wieland

Report Gargani —...