13. ERDF, ESF and Cohesion Fund *** - Cohesion Fund *** - ERDF ***I - European grouping of cross-border cooperation ***I - ESF ***I - European Fisheries Fund * (debate)

Report (interim) on the proposal for a Council regulation laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund (COM(2004)0492 - 2004/0163(AVC)) - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Konstantinos Hatzidakis (A6-0177/2005)

Report (interim) on the proposal for a Council regulation establishing a Cohesion Fund (COM(2004)0494 - 2004/0166(AVC)) - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Alfonso Andria (A6-0178/2005)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund (COM(2004)0495 - C6-0089/2004 - 2004/0167(COD)) - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Giovanni Claudio Fava (A6-0184/2005)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European grouping of cross-border cooperation (EGCC) (COM(2004)0496 - C6-0091/2004 - 2004/0168(COD)) - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Jan Olbrycht (A6-0206/2005)

Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund (COM(2004)0493 - C6-0090/2004 - 2004/0165(COD)) - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: José Albino Silva Peneda (A6-0216/2005)

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation: European Fisheries Fund (COM(2004)0497 - C6-0212/2004 - 2004/0169(CNS)) - Committee on Fisheries. Rapporteur: David Casa (A6-0217/2005)

Konstantinos Hatzidakis introduced the report (A6-0177/2005).

Alfonso Andria introduced the report (A6-0178/2005).

Giovanni Claudio Fava introduced the report (A6-0184/2005).

Jan Olbrycht introduced the report (A6-0206/2005).

José Albino Silva Peneda introduced the report (A6-0216/2005).

David Casa introduced the report (A6-0217/2005).

Alun Michael (President-in-Office of the Council) spoke.

The following spoke: Danuta Hübner (Member of the Commission), Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) and Joe Borg (Member of the Commission).

IN THE CHAIR: Luigi COCILOVO
Vice-President

The following spoke: Nathalie Griesbeck (draftsman of the opinion of the BUDG Committee) on reports A6-0177/2005, A6-0178/2005, A6-0184/2005, A6-0216/2005 and A6-0217/2005 , Tadeusz Zwiefka (draftsman of the opinion of the EMPL Committee) on report A6-0177/2005, Bogusław Sonik (draftsman of the opinion of the ENVI Committee) on reports A6-0177/2005 and A6-0184/2005, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee) on reports A6-0177/2005 and A6-0216/2005, Josu Ortuondo Larrea (draftsman of the opinion of the TRAN Committee) on report A6-0178/2005, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin (draftsman of the opinion of the EMPL Committee) on report A6-0184/2005, Lambert van Nistelrooij (draftsman of the opinion of the ITRE Committee) on report A6-0184/2005, Gábor Harangozó (draftsman of the opinion of the AGRI Committee) on report A6-0184/2005, Marta Vincenzi (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee) on report A6-0184/2005, Elisabeth Schroedter (draftsman of the opinion of the REGI Committee) on report A6-0216/2005, Jim Higgins (draftsman of the opinion of the REGI Committee) on report A6-0217/2005, Gerardo Galeote Quecedo, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Constanze Angela Krehl, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jean Marie Beaupuy, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Gisela Kallenbach, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Vladimír Železný, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Adam Jerzy Bielan, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, Rolf Berend, Iratxe García Pérez, Paavo Väyrynen, Alyn Smith, Bairbre de Brún, Graham Booth, Seán Ó Neachtain, Peter Baco, István Pálfi, Zita Gurmai, Mojca Drčar Murko, Marie-Hélène Aubert, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Bastiaan Belder and Salvatore Tatarella.

IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS
Vice-President

The following spoke: James Hugh Allister, Miroslav Mikolášik, Udo Bullmann, Elspeth Attwooll, Ian Hudghton, Giusto Catania, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Carmen Fraga Estévez, Catherine Stihler, Alfonso Andria, Georgios Karatzaferis, Alun Michael, Guntars Krasts, Francesco Musotto, Jan Andersson, Grażyna Staniszewska, Ioannis Gklavakis, Richard Falbr, Markus Pieper, Inés Ayala Sender, Jan Březina, Stavros Arnaoutakis, László Surján, Jamila Madeira, Sérgio Marques, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Margie Sudre, Bernadette Bourzai, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Eluned Morgan, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Ewa Hedkvist Petersen, Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Duarte Freitas, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Ivo Belet, Paulo Casaca, Thomas Mann, Richard Seeber, James Nicholson, Danuta Hübner, Vladimír Špidla and Joe Borg.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 06.07.2005, Item 4.5, Minutes of 06.07.2005, Item 4.6, Minutes of 06.07.2005, Item 4.7, Minutes of 06.07.2005, Item 4.8, Minutes of 06.07.2005, Item 4.9 and Minutes of 06.07.2005, Item 4.10.

(The sitting was suspended at 19.15 and resumed at 21.00.)