Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 7 June 2005 - Strasbourg

19. Combating terrorist financing

- Following the vote on Amendment 1

  Giusto Catania (GUE/NGL). – (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wished to speak before the vote on this amendment, which in fact repeats the paragraph that has already been approved. This Parliament has condemned preventative war twice over, which strikes me as being a positive sign.

  President. – Amendment 1 has been put to the vote and has been adopted.

– Before the vote on the modified Amendment 4

  Sarah Ludford (ALDE). – Mr President, I should like to propose, in agreement with Mr Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, who is the author of this amendment, and being aware that the Socialist Group also has a similar oral amendment, that at the end, after the words ‘trafficking in drugs, arms and human beings’, it should read: ‘and financing through extortion, including the so-called revolutionary tax’.

  Rosa Díez González (PSE). – (ES) Mr President, I would simply like to say that we accept Baroness Ludford's amendment and we will not therefore present any other oral Amendment. We believe that amendment to be perfect and we will support it.

  President. – This amendment will therefore be inserted into Amendment 4, and that amendment, which has been modified twice, will be put to the vote.