Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 5 July 2006 - Strasbourg

4.4. Shipments of radioactive waste and nuclear spent fuel (vote)

Before the vote on Amendment 23:

  Carl Schlyter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group I should like to request a roll-call vote on this one.

(The House agreed to the request for a roll-call vote)

After the vote:

  Bruno Gollnisch (NI). – (FR) Mr President, unless I am mistaken, according to Rule 153(3) of our Rules of Procedure, the share of the vote just now should have led to rejection. That is how it appears to me, though I could be wrong.

  President. We are applying Rule 153(2) of the Rules of Procedure, which reads: ‘In the event of a tied vote on the agenda as a whole (Rule 132) or the Minutes as a whole (Rule 172), or on a text put to a split vote under Rule 157, the text shall be deemed adopted’.

Thank you for your remarks.

  Rebecca Harms (Verts/ALE). – (DE) Mr President, I regret that the Commission did not take the floor. The decision we have just taken on nuclear exports is relevant to the forthcoming G8 Summit. Based on this morning’s debate, I expect the Commission to raise the issues of human rights and the environmental situation in the Urals in relation to the Mayak and Chelyabinsk reprocessing plants with President Putin on site.

(Applause)

  President. The rapporteur could have indicated that he wanted the Commission to reply, but that was not the case. Therefore that was in order.