12. Question Time (Council)

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0339/2005).

Question 1 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Restructuring forecasts.

Douglas Alexander (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and a supplementary by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou.

Question 2 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Taxation of passenger air traffic.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Joseph Muscat and Philip Bradbourn.

Question 3 (Sarah Ludford): Council of Europe Trafficking Convention.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by Sarah Ludford and Elizabeth Lynne.

Question 4 (John Purvis): Excise duties on tobacco and alcohol.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by John Purvis and David Martin.

Question 5 (Elspeth Attwooll): Brides Without Borders.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by Elspeth Attwooll and Sarah Ludford.

Question 6 (Frank Vanhecke): Internet censorship in China.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and a supplementary by Frank Vanhecke.

Question 7 (Richard James Ashworth): Court of Auditors Annual Report.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by Philip Bushill-Matthews (deputising for the author), David Martin and Christopher Beazley.

Question 8 (Richard Corbett): Comitology.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and a supplementary by Richard Corbett.

Question 9 (Sajjad Karim): Inconsistency in Ministers' approaches to the balance between security and human rights.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and a supplementary by Sajjad Karim.

Question 10 (Hélène Goudin): Member States' defence budgets.

Douglas Alexander answered the question.

Question 11 (Dimitrios Papadimoulis): Agreement on the 2007-2013 financial perspective.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by Dimitrios Papadimoulis and Esko Seppänen.

Question 12 (Nils Lundgren): Due process of law within the EU.

Douglas Alexander answered the question.

Question 13 (Chris Davies): Transparency and openness.

Question 14 (Timothy Kirkhope): Council transparency.

Douglas Alexander answered the questions and supplementaries by Chris Davies, James Hugh Allister, Richard Corbett and Timothy Kirkhope.

Question 15 (Jonas Sjöstedt): Fisheries agreement with Morocco and Council's UN support.

Douglas Alexander answered the question and supplementaries by Jonas Sjöstedt and Bernd Posselt.

Questions 16 to 36 would receive written answers.

Council Question Time closed.