14. Question Time (Commission)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Commission (B6-0017/2006).

Part one

Question 40 (Sarah Ludford): Money-laundering directive.

Charlie McCreevy (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Sarah Ludford and James Hugh Allister.

Question 41 (Philip Bushill-Matthews): Protectionism amongst EU Member States.

Charlie McCreevy answered the question and a supplementary by Philip Bushill-Matthews.

Question 42 (Harlem Désir): 'First job contract' (contrat première embauche): violation or non-violation of Directive 2000/78/EC.

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Harlem Désir and Andreas Mölzer.

Part two

Question 43 (Bart Staes): Evaluation of Regulation (EC) n° 485/2005 - Transfer of European vessels to the Indian Ocean.

Joe Borg (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Bart Staes and Reinhard Rack.

Question 44 (Rosa Miguélez Ramos): Ban on deep water gillnets.

Joe Borg answered the question and supplementaries by Rosa Miguélez Ramos and John Purvis.

Question 45 (Pedro Guerreiro): Fisheries agreement with Morocco and protection of the Sarawi people's legitimate rights.

Joe Borg answered the question and supplementaries by Pedro Guerreiro and Manuel Medina Ortega.

Question 46 (Manuel Medina Ortega): Financial perspective and regional development for the outermost regions.

Danuta Hübner (Member of the Commission) answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega, Piia-Noora Kauppi and Richard Seeber.

Question 47 (Dimitrios Papadimoulis): Take-up of Community funding and the n+2 rule.

Danuta Hübner answered the question and a supplementary by Dimitrios Papadimoulis.

Questions 48 to 59 would receive written answers.

Question 60 (Bernd Posselt): Introduction of the euro in the ten new Member States.

Question 61 (Justas Vincas Paleckis): Accession of new EU Member States to the euro zone.

Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) answered the questions and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Gábor Harangozó, Reinhard Rack and Danutė Budreikaitė.

Question 62 (Brian Crowley): Growth and Stability Pact.

Joaquín Almunia answered the question and supplementaries by Brian Crowley, Piia-Noora Kauppi and Gay Mitchell.

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.