Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 11 July 2007 - Strasbourg

7. Voting time

  President. The next item is voting time.

(For results of the vote and other voting information: see Minutes)

  Robert Atkins (PPE-DE). – Mr President, it is a ludicrous state of affairs to commence voting at 12.40 on 48 pages of votes. You, Sir, have been doing remarkably well in organising Parliament so that we vote at proper times in order to deal with these large voting lists. We should have started at 11.00, not at 12.40. I urge you to revert to type and ensure we do not do this again.

(Applause)