18. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0013/2006).

Carlos Carnero González protested that his Question 48 had been declared inadmissible (the President undertook to pass on his protest to those responsible and reminded the House of the provisions of Annex II to the Rules of Procedure).

Part one

Question 43 lapsed as its author was absent.

Question 44 (Bill Newton Dunn): Budget for the Trans Crime project.

Franco Frattini (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Bill Newton Dunn.

Question 45 (Cristobal Montoro Romero): The economic situation in Europe.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Cristobal Montoro Romero, Paul Rübig and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

Part two

Question 46 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Education and training programmes and European identity.

Ján Figeľ (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Josu Ortuondo Larrea and Richard Seeber.

Question 47 (Maria Badia I Cutchet): Plan for fostering entrepreneurship via education.

Ján Figeľ answered the question and supplementaries by Maria Badia I Cutchet and Paul Rübig.

Question 48 had been declared inadmissible (Annex II, part A, point 3, to the Rules of Procedure).

Question 49 (Andreas Mölzer): Turkish lira coin.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the question and a supplementary by Andreas Mölzer.

Question 50 (Enrico Letta): Brussels II European School - transfer of sections.

Question 51 (Richard Seeber): Transfer of the German-language section.

Siim Kallas (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the questions and supplementaries by Enrico Letta, Richard Seeber, Luigi Cocilovo and Alfonso Andria.

Question 52 would receive a written answer.

Question 53 (Manuel Medina Ortega): EU enlargement to include Bulgaria and Romania and adoptions.

Olli Rehn (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega and Alessandro Battilocchio.

Question 54 (Mairead McGuinness): Romania's accession to the European Union.

Olli Rehn answered the question and supplementaries by Mairead McGuinness, Panagiotis Beglitis and John Bowis.

Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Commission Question Time closed.